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

[mike mueller]

 Very good points Mark.
 I think we need for the exisiting pilots to take someone who has potential under their wing. If half the existing guys could find 1 guy then we would be pretty healthy and grow.
                          Mike

--- On Sun, 8/30/09, Atwood, Mark <atwoodm at paragon-inc.com> wrote:

> From: Atwood, Mark <atwoodm at paragon-inc.com>
> Subject: [NSRCA-discussion] St. Clairesville Contest and "Grow Pattern" thought
> To: "General pattern discussion" <nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org>
> Date: Sunday, August 30, 2009, 6:33 PM
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> 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!! 
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> But during this contest we had some
> conversations about all
> the “how do we grow pattern” discussions and I
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> 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.  
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> Head count at local contests would go
> up helping them financially,
> reducing the amount of judging load on the participants
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> enjoyment and improving the diversity of scoring), and new
> sportsman pilots
> would feel like they attended a contest, not a local
> gathering.   
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> 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
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> 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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