<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">I'm getting fed up with the people who claim that the NSRCA board does whatever it pleases, damn the constituents. There might be those who would try to placate those who complain, but I've never been politically correct and not about to start now. </SPAN><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">What "current political climate" is being referred to here? Let's get it out in the open so we can talk about it like big boys.</SPAN></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">Also, what's with this "NSRCA just decides what it wants to do and does it"? Who is being referred to? Be specific.</SPAN></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">And what's with "Wasn't the idea of filling out a survey with 2007 and 2009 masters sequences on it the idea to jump ahead of the cycle and get it done way before hand." I assume the writer wants us to propose a maneuver sequence that is impossible to perform. Or maybe he'd like to show us how it's done the way it's written.</SPAN></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>The comment, "Apparently the work done last time once praised as good is now old news and the powers that be need to make a new legacy for themselves." I think it's time that the writer run for district VP and show the rest of the board how it's supposed to be done.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>End of rant for now.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Ron Van Putte</DIV><DIV>NSRCA VP</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span"><BR><DIV><DIV>On Jul 26, 2007, at 5:41 PM, Wayne wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <DIV><FONT size="2">John,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size="2"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size="2">there seems to be a tone to the current political climate. NSRCA management determined they know better than the membership who voted for something. And then there is the other issues regarding the NSRCA's high road, holy above all sanctioning activities.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size="2"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size="2">Obviously history is written by the winners. Its too bad that NSRCA just decides what it wants to do and does it. I thought it used to be a democratic society. A vote of the membership meant this was direction the Board should take. Apparently when you don't like the vote you just take another one. After all this is what the dems tried to do in Florida.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size="2"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size="2">Wasn't the idea of filling out a survey with 2007 and 2009 masters sequences on it the idea to jump ahead of the cycle and get it done way before hand. Yet it seems the NSRCA management has undermined the work of a few in order to write history in favor of another few who complain loudly enough. Funny how the majority of people writing the new sequence are all from the same area of the country. This is fair and balanced.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size="2"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size="2">I think you are right John. Pattern in the NSRCA has reached critical mass why would anyone want to come play with us. Having known people involved and in this case Troy, I doubt seriously he stopped working on this do to not having 100% of his time available for the re-write. I bet the real story will come out someday. Some people have morals and ethics and others well they write the history books.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size="2"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size="2">Apparently the work done last time once praised as good is now old news and the powers that be need to make a new legacy for themselves.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size="2"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size="2">Wayne</FONT></DIV> <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="johnferrell@earthlink.net" href="mailto:johnferrell@earthlink.net">John Ferrell</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, July 26, 2007 3:15 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Proposed Masters Sequence for 2009/2010</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">I (and others I think) got pretty bored with practicing the same old stuff. While I took a break I developed enough minor health problems to keep me side lined indefinitely. Others found other things to do. D2 attendance is now below critical mass. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">If the choice is to hurry to Masters or quit playing then I suppose I need to just do the best I can with Masters and let it go at that!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">It really doesn't matter, the rules are made by individuals who have the political clout not the governing committees. Whoever controls the agenda has veto power and anonymity. </FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>John Ferrell W8CCW<BR>"Life is easier if you learn to plow <BR> around the stumps"<BR><A href="http://DixieNC.US">http://DixieNC.US</A><BR></DIV> <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="atwoodm@paragon-inc.com" href="mailto:atwoodm@paragon-inc.com">Mark Atwood</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, July 26, 2007 8:45 AM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Proposed Masters Sequence for 2009/2010</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV><FONT face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12px">Hear hear.<BR><BR>I’m not generally a proponent of changing the lower classes all the time (the intent is that they not be destination classes...I also know the reality of that so please, no hate mail) But I’m a HUGE HUGE HUGE fan of being ABLE to change them every year...i.e. Removing the patterns from the AMA rulebook and allowing the Sig to post the schedules that will be in effect in a given year.<BR><BR>I think you’ll find ALL of the contest board members would vote “Yea” for that if they ever got the chance to...<BR><BR>The advantages are so many I can’t even begin to list them.<BR><BR>-M<BR><BR><BR>On 7/26/07 8:37 AM, "John Ferrell" <<A href="mailto:johnferrell@earthlink.net">johnferrell@earthlink.net</A>> wrote:<BR><BR></SPAN></FONT> <BLOCKQUOTE><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"><FONT face="Arial">Are you certain that you really can change the schedule without waiting out the rules cycle?<BR></FONT><FONT face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><BR></FONT><FONT face="Arial">The lower classes had to endure 6 years of the same schedule because the Contest Board refused to act on anything other than emergency proposals in the interim. Many of the Advanced flyers elected just to stand down. <BR></FONT><FONT face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><BR></FONT><FONT face="Arial">You have just pointed to advantage the IMAC discipline has over Pattern with AMA...<BR></FONT><FONT face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><BR></FONT><FONT face="Arial">I hope you can pull it off because the existing conditions are detrimental to the game.<BR></FONT><FONT face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><BR>John Ferrell W8CCW<BR>"Life is easier if you learn to plow <BR> around the stumps"<BR><A href="http://DixieNC.US">http://DixieNC.US</A><BR></FONT></SPAN> <BLOCKQUOTE><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"><FONT face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><BR>----- Original Message ----- <BR> <BR><B>From:</B> Derek Koopowitz <A href="mailto:derekkoopowitz@gmail.com"><mailto:derekkoopowitz@gmail.com></A> <BR> <BR><B>To:</B> 'NSRCA Mailing List' <A href="mailto:nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org"><mailto:nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org></A> <BR> <BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, July 25, 2007 11:26 PM<BR> <BR><B>Subject:</B> [NSRCA-discussion] Proposed Masters Sequence for 2009/2010<BR> <BR><BR> <BR><BR></FONT><FONT face="Arial">Over the past couple of months we (the NSRCA board) have received a number of comments about the Masters sequence that was selected in 2005. We heard that the sequence had too many snaps, turnaround maneuvers did not allow positioning of the plane (in or out) after the 5th maneuver, and that the difficulty level from Advanced to Masters was further increased. There was also an error in the schedule in that one would come out of the Double Immelman (#10) inverted and head into the Humpty Bump (pull-push-pull) and head into the ground based on the description. The Masters schedule was published in the July 2005 issue of the K-Factor (Option A on page 25) - in </FONT><FONT face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial">lists.nsrca.org/mailman/listinfo/nsrca-discussion<BR></FONT></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"><FONT face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><BR> <HR align="center" width="95%" size="3"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT size="2"><FONT face="Monaco, Courier New"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10px">_______________________________________________<BR>NSRCA-discussion mailing list<BR><A href="mailto:NSRCA-discussion@lists.nsrca.org">NSRCA-discussion@lists.nsrca.org</A><BR><A href="http://lists.nsrca.org/mailman/listinfo/nsrca-discussion">http://lists.nsrca.org/mailman/listinfo/nsrca-discussion</A><BR></SPAN></FONT></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT size="2"><FONT face="Monaco, Courier New"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10px"><BR></SPAN></FONT></FONT><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> <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></SPAN></DIV></BODY></HTML>