[NSRCA-discussion] Quick ping for interest...

Mon Jul 31 20:28:22 AKDT 2017

Peter, it is a great idea..if Barb and I are invited to come again next
year, I should be fully recuperated by then J.. I'll try and do without her
and get her to help with the scoring she was a great scribe for my pics
record keeping...Jay

From: Peter Vogel [mailto:vogel.peter at gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, July 31, 2017 6:17 PM
To: Ronald Van Putte; Jay Gerber; General pattern discussion
Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Quick ping for interest...

Is that +1 to Jay's kind words or +1 to interest in my idea?

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of Ronald Van Putte via NSRCA-discussion <nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org>
Sent: Monday, July 31, 2017 3:02:01 PM
To: Jay Gerber; General pattern discussion
Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Quick ping for interest... 

+1 

On Jul 31, 2017, at 5:01 PM, Jay Gerber via NSRCA-discussion
<nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org> wrote:

Regarding Peter, I have to chime in again as I was in a rather unique
position to witness so much behind the scenes activity.  Remarkably, as I
traveled between any of the 3 flying sites taking pictures morning or
afternoon it seemed like Peter "was always there" making sure all was going
well.and except for the small glitch he mentions below it was.  Some of my
close friends had score sheets in their hand "almost" by the time they got
their plane of the runway...and he flew in the competition as well.  What an
amazing bundle of brilliant energy, NSRCA is lucky to have so much talent in
its midst.

Jay

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mailto:nsrca-discussion-bounces at lists.nsrca.org] On Behalf Of Peter Vogel
via NSRCA-discussion
Sent: Monday, July 31, 2017 1:44 PM
To: General pattern discussion
Subject: [NSRCA-discussion] Quick ping for interest...

Hey folks!  

After running the NATS scoring solo this past week, I think we have the
basic ongoing use of the system at a contest pretty clean, the minor issues
we had were due to some of the special conditions of the NATS (8 rounds of
Masters, divided A/B flight groups and resulting inconsistencies between
prelims and finals flight groups causing import errors, that sort of thing)
and one weird windows user profile glitch that deleted master scoring from a
laptop and took about 45 minutes to resolve one morning.  Running the system
comes down to this:

1.  Getting it to a contest

2.  Setting it up (<1 hour)

3.  Making sure scoresheets don't blow away when they print

4.  Tearing the system down (<30 minutes), possibly both days, depending on
security at the site and expected overnight weather.

But I don't really want to run another NATS solo!  ~4 hours sleep per night
is something I could do easily when I was 20, but not so easy now!  I
realize the pilots here all want to focus on their NATS experience and the
flying...

But there were a lot of wives there!  And many seem to be involved with the
scoring at your local contests on a regular basis (thanks again to Tim
Pritchett's wife and Anne <last name forgotten in my fatigue) who helped
with score entry due to the aforementioned windows glitch.

So I'm considering making the following offer:

For any district that has a system (or chooses to buy one), I'll come out to
the city of your choice for a few days to treat any wives/GFs/etc. who are
willing to commit to helping out with scoring in your district and/or the
NATS next year to a spa day (massage and mani-pedi at a recommended spa in
the area) and a 1/2-1 day of training on the setup and use of the scoring
system. 

Districts, this would be, ideally, combined with perhaps a pattern clinic or
judging seminar though that's not strictly necessary for the training...

Wives on the list, respond with +1 if you would be interested.

Husbands on the list, check with your wives/Girlfriends and respond with a
+1 if they would be interested.

Thanks!

Peter+

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