[NSRCA-discussion] St. Clairesville Contest and "Grow Pattern" thought

[Atwood, Mark]

First I want to thank Rick Cilles and his family and club members for putting on an absolutely fabulous contest this weekend.   This contest gets better and better each year with better attendance, a focus on good flying, good fun and GREAT food!!

But during this contest we had some conversations about all the "how do we grow pattern" discussions and I came to the conclusion the one of the EASIEST ways, and one that we can completely control, is for those that are already IN pattern...to support pattern.  GO TO CONTESTS!!!!!   Seriously.    If we could get the people that already FLY pattern to just attend their local (regional) contests, the positive impacts would be huge and would go a long way to promote and encourage others to try it.

Head count at local contests would go up helping them financially, reducing the amount of judging load on the participants (increasing their enjoyment and improving the diversity of scoring), and new sportsman pilots would feel like they attended a contest, not a local gathering.

So how do we get all the people on this list to commit to 3 or 4 contests a season??  Or maybe just increase the number they normally go to by 1??   If we all went to 1 more contest the impact would be huge I think.

Thoughts???

PS, A big thank you and congrats to Dave Johnstone our D4 VP for agreeing to fly P-11 at the last minute and flying it with only 1 day of practice.  Great job!!
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