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

[Bob Wilson]

Hi Mike,
I really wanted to attend the St. Louis event, but family events wouldn't
allow it.  Glad to hear you guys had a great time.
Look forward to seeing you all at St. Charles next weekend.

Bob

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 10:19 AM, mike mueller <mups1953 at yahoo.com> wrote:

>  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
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> --- On Sun, 8/30/09, Atwood, Mark <atwoodm at paragon-inc.com> wrote:
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> > 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
> > 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.
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> > 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.
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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
> > the impact would be
> > huge I think.
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> > Thoughts???
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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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