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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><STRONG>Hi
Ken...</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT color=#0000ff><STRONG> I
also feel as you do but, for all my years of belonging to the NSRCA and my
attempts to make others aware of the dangers of just plowing ahead with business
as usual, mostly falls on deaf ears. Contests have shrunk. Attendance has
shrunk. The choice of continuing when the lower classes should be getting
the attention, casual fliers need to be encouraged - not discouraged
to participate, then the trend will not change as far as I've been seeing.
Many "Hot shot" local fliers get a real awakening when they attend the Nat's and
discover they haven't mastered the sequence as well as they thought they
had.</STRONG></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> <FONT
color=#0000ff><EM>Del</EM></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<A title=mrandmrst@comcast.net href="mailto:mrandmrst@comcast.net">Ken
Thompson</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, July 26, 2007 6:24
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Proposed
Masters Sequence for 2009/2010</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Personally I don't get bored with a sequence
until I think I've perfected it. Once I get that feeling, it get's
quickly erased as soon as I fly in front of the judges.</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=johnferrell@earthlink.net
href="mailto:johnferrell@earthlink.net">John Ferrell</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, July 26, 2007 5:15
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [NSRCA-discussion]
Proposed Masters Sequence for 2009/2010</DIV>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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" <johnferrell@earthlink.net>
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>
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<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
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<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
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