<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>Pete</div><div><br></div><div>If you and Rick pick a date, i'll be happy to help with a primer. </div><div><br></div><div>Arch<br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On Aug 31, 2009, at 11:51 AM, Bob Wilson <<a href="mailto:wilsorc@gmail.com">wilsorc@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hi Mike,<br>I really wanted to attend the St. Louis event, but family events wouldn't allow it. Glad to hear you guys had a great time.<br>Look forward to seeing you all at St. Charles next weekend.<br><br>Bob<br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 10:19 AM, mike mueller <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mups1953@yahoo.com"><a href="mailto:mups1953@yahoo.com">mups1953@yahoo.com</a></a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Very good points Mark.<br>
I think we need for the exisiting pilots to take someone who has potential under their wing. If half the existing guys could find 1 guy then we would be pretty healthy and grow.<br>
Mike<br>
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--- On Sun, 8/30/09, Atwood, Mark <<a href="mailto:atwoodm@paragon-inc.com"><a href="mailto:atwoodm@paragon-inc.com">atwoodm@paragon-inc.com</a></a>> wrote:<br>
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> From: Atwood, Mark <<a href="mailto:atwoodm@paragon-inc.com"><a href="mailto:atwoodm@paragon-inc.com">atwoodm@paragon-inc.com</a></a>><br>
> Subject: [NSRCA-discussion] St. Clairesville Contest and "Grow Pattern" thought<br>
> To: "General pattern discussion" <<a href="mailto:nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org"><a href="mailto:nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org">nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org</a></a>><br>
> Date: Sunday, August 30, 2009, 6:33 PM<br>
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> First I want to thank Rick Cilles and<br>
> his family and club members<br>
> for putting on an absolutely fabulous contest this<br>
> weekend. This<br>
> contest gets better and better each year with better<br>
> attendance, a focus on good<br>
> flying, good fun and GREAT food!!<br>
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> But during this contest we had some<br>
> conversations about all<br>
> the “how do we grow pattern” discussions and I<br>
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> conclusion the one of the EASIEST ways, and one that we can<br>
> completely control,<br>
> is for those that are already IN pattern…to support<br>
> pattern. GO TO<br>
> CONTESTS!!!!! Seriously. If<br>
> we could get the<br>
> people that already FLY pattern to just attend their local<br>
> (regional) contests,<br>
> the positive impacts would be huge and would go a long way<br>
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> encourage others to try it.<br>
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> Head count at local contests would go<br>
> up helping them financially,<br>
> reducing the amount of judging load on the participants<br>
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> enjoyment and improving the diversity of scoring), and new<br>
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> would feel like they attended a contest, not a local<br>
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> So how do we get all the people on<br>
> this list to commit to 3<br>
> or 4 contests a season?? Or maybe just increase the<br>
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> go to by 1?? If we all went to 1 more contest<br>
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> PS, A big thank you and congrats to<br>
> Dave Johnstone our D4 VP<br>
> for agreeing to fly P-11 at the last minute and flying it<br>
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> practice. Great job!!<br>
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