[NSRCA-discussion] Why I Fly Pattern

[Chad Northeast]

I am with Tony....the chic's dig pattern flyers, I can't keep em off me!

Chad

----- Original Message -----
From: Mike Howard <1shinden at att.net>
Date: Thursday, October 22, 2009 1:52 pm
Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Why I Fly Pattern
To: General pattern discussion <nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org>

> How about the money? Yeah I think it;s for the money.  I found a 
> quarter down in Broken Arrow and no one claimed it.  Ha:-)
>  
>  
> Mike
> 
> --- On Thu, 10/22/09, Anthony Frackowiak 
> <frackowiak at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> From: Anthony Frackowiak <frackowiak at sbcglobal.net>
> Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Why I Fly Pattern
> To: "General pattern discussion" <nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org>
> Date: Thursday, October 22, 2009, 3:32 AM
> 
> 
> I do it for the groupies.
> 
> 
> Tony
> 
> 
> 
> On Oct 21, 2009, at 4:40 PM, Ron Hansen wrote:
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> 
> 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.
>  
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