[NSRCA-discussion] Why I Fly Pattern

[Anthony Frackowiak]

I do it for the groupies.

Tony

On Oct 21, 2009, at 4:40 PM, Ron Hansen wrote:

> I must admit, I joined NSRCA about 2 years before I started  
> competing because of the Buyers Guide.  It was a great source of  
> information on top quality RC equipment.  I started competing due to  
> the prompting of Bob Schofield and Ken Alexander.  I always had an  
> interest in competition but never met anyone that was into it.   
> Prior to Bob Schofield joining our club, no one in my previous 2  
> clubs competed in anything.
>
> Other than health or finances I don’t think I’ll ever quit.  I fly  
> more now than I did as a sport pilot because I now have a motivation  
> to get my butt to the field even when the weather sucks.  My flying  
> skills were stagnating as I tried to bore holes in the sky as a  
> sport pilot.  I wanted to learn how to fly the plane rather than  
> have the plane fly me.  Competition especially pattern was and is  
> the ticket.  Also by competing you learn an awful lot about how to  
> properly build, trim, program and setup any airplane.  You even  
> learn how to tune and maintain the most advanced engines/motors  
> around.  I’ve learned more about this hobby in my 5 years in pattern  
> than I would have learned in a lifetime otherwise.
>
> And to top it all off, the people that I’ve met in pattern are top  
> notch.
>
> Why do you fly pattern?
> _______________________________________________
> NSRCA-discussion mailing list
> NSRCA-discussion at lists.nsrca.org
> http://lists.nsrca.org/mailman/listinfo/nsrca-discussion

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.nsrca.org/pipermail/nsrca-discussion/attachments/20091022/57532cb5/attachment.html>