<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Mar 2, 2006, at 9:45 PM, David Lockhart wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">RVP,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">Does that mean all two-plankers are pattern pilots?? Or just me??</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>Definitely not. You've got to understand that not all Pattern pilots like snow. I love snow: on TV, in movies and on postcards.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Ron Van Putte</DIV><DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"><DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title="vanputte@cox.net" href="mailto:vanputte@cox.net">Ron Van Putte</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title="nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org" href="mailto:nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org">NSRCA Mailing List</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, March 02, 2006 8:02 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [NSRCA-discussion] IMAC Vs PatternParticipation?Does the DogHunt on points made?</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV><BR> <DIV> <DIV>On Mar 2, 2006, at 6:23 PM, Ed Alt wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">Several sites formerly used for SA contests have been lost here in the NE due to noise / neighbor complaints during contests. I heard that another contest went away due to liability concerns after a severe injury involving a contestant and his own airplane, then there's another which very sadly is going away because of real estate development (PGRC field). There's a lot of history at that field. Anyway, the noise footprint concern is huge. We had a request for our club to host a 2nd SA contest this year because of the loss of so many other sites. We turned it down in part because of the fact that the noise rules are now ignored, the box boundaries went away and the sequences are insane, making the noise footprint problem worse than it's ever been. Even as wide open as we think our contest field is, we've had complaints and we didn't want to increase the exposure and risk. They better figure out what is plainly obvious to at least some of us, because the current profile of the event is fairly obnoxious to alot of people. The hovering next to the pits also has the club member volunteers pretty darned annoyed and with them as well as being concerned with liability, but the attitude by some is that it's their right - to paraphrase - "it's IMAC, it's what we do".</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV> <DIV>IMACers, the snowboarders of R/C aerobatics. <VBG></DIV> <DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV> <DIV>BTW, I have some history with the PGRC field; I was a member back in 1969 to 1972 and flew at "the Pea Patch" across from Silver Hill, the old Croom airport and the Bowie flying fields.</DIV> <DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV> <DIV>Ron Van Putte</DIV><DIV> <BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><HR><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>_______________________________________________<BR>NSRCA-discussion mailing list<BR><A href="mailto:NSRCA-discussion@lists.nsrca.org">NSRCA-discussion@lists.nsrca.org</A><BR>http://lists.nsrca.org/mailman/listinfo/nsrca-discussion</BLOCKQUOTE><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">NSRCA-discussion mailing list</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:NSRCA-discussion@lists.nsrca.org">NSRCA-discussion@lists.nsrca.org</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://lists.nsrca.org/mailman/listinfo/nsrca-discussion">http://lists.nsrca.org/mailman/listinfo/nsrca-discussion</A></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>