[NSRCA-discussion] Why I Fly Pattern

[Ron Van Putte]

Lots of guys join the Air Force so they can fly remotely piloted  
vehicles.  Their motto, "We can do it all night and never get caught"

Ron VP

On Oct 22, 2009, at 6:50 PM, Todd Schmidt wrote:

> Chad,
> Chicks dig pattern flyers because "Pattern flyers do it with  
> precision"!
> Todd
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Mike Howard
> To: General pattern discussion
> Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 12:51 PM
> Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Why I Fly Pattern
>
> 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:
>
>> 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?
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