<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt">I third Mark and Pete's comments, it was a fun weekend. Refreshing to see the number Sportsman pilots competing.<br><br>Rick, does the "Chicken Man" deliver to Michigan?<br><div> </div>Bob Kane<br>getterflash@yahoo.com<div><br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> "Atwood, Mark" <atwoodm@paragon-inc.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> General pattern discussion <nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sunday, August 30, 2009 7:33:25 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight:
bold;">Subject:</span></b> [NSRCA-discussion] St. Clairesville Contest and "Grow Pattern" thought<br></font><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">First I want to thank Rick Cilles and his family and club members
for putting on an absolutely fabulous contest this weekend. This
contest gets better and better each year with better attendance, a focus on good
flying, good fun and GREAT food!!</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">But during this contest we had some conversations about all
the “how do we grow pattern” discussions and I came to the
conclusion the one of the EASIEST ways, and one that we can completely control,
is for those that are already IN pattern…to support pattern. GO TO
CONTESTS!!!!! Seriously. If we could get the
people that already FLY pattern to just attend their local (regional) contests,
the positive impacts would be huge and would go a long way to promote and
encourage others to try it. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Head count at local contests would go up helping them financially,
reducing the amount of judging load on the participants (increasing their
enjoyment and improving the diversity of scoring), and new sportsman pilots
would feel like they attended a contest, not a local gathering. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">So how do we get all the people on this list to commit to 3
or 4 contests a season?? Or maybe just increase the number they normally
go to by 1?? If we all went to 1 more contest the impact would be
huge I think.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thoughts???</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">PS, A big thank you and congrats to Dave Johnstone our D4 VP
for agreeing to fly P-11 at the last minute and flying it with only 1 day of
practice. Great job!!</p>
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