<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><BR>--- On <B>Tue, 3/13/12, Pete Cosky <I><pcosky@comcast.net></I></B> wrote:<BR>
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<DIV>If it truely is cost that is the issue, don't buy the biggest and the best. This is supposed to be about the best pilot not the best gear which is sadly lost in the ambient room noise.</DIV></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV class=plainMail>Absolutely. We used to have a rather eccentric pattern flyer in this district that competed in the Masters class with a Great Planes Cap21. He won more than he lost, and took a certain amount of pride in being able to do so with a sport model. He does not fly pattern anymore, but it was not because of cost - life just happens and sometimes gets in the way. He is still flying, and rumor is that he is now flying a leaf blower with wings. </DIV>
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