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<DIV>I agree with you to a large extent. I was helping my son recently, where he flew Sportsman at his very first contest. The biggest problem I saw with Sportsman was the half Cuban into the Cobra. Very difficult to do a decent half Cuban and still have room to center the Cobra, unless you had a 2m plane and flew at 150m distance. He was flying a 48" Vanquish (very well, I might add). </DIV>
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<DIV>I like the idea of exiting/entering the box in Sportsman, but I do think there should be some turnaround maneuvers thrown in.</DIV>
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<DIV>Bob R.</DIV>
<DIV><BR><BR>--- On <B>Tue, 10/20/09, John Gayer <I><jgghome@comcast.net></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
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<DIV id=yiv1483170782>I feel that the sportsman pattern should have turnaround maneuvers removed completely allowing our entry level pilots to focus on presenting the center maneuvers both centered and parallel to the runway<BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></td></tr></table>