<div dir="ltr"><div>Thoughts on King Steve's thoughts. :) </div><div><br></div>1. Eliminate rules of advancement.. I'd be fine with this, but we already added rules to prevent this from causing issues. Effectively you can camp out in a class if you wish.<div><br></div><div>2. Strongly disagree. Turn around makes the game much more fun and is needed in lower classes to prepare for the upper classes. I've helped numerous sport fliers fly the sportsman pattern and though it's initially a challenge I've not found the turn arounds to be the gating factor. Quite the opposite, it teaches pilots to stay online. Also, Sportsman already has "out of box" breaks. </div><div><br></div><div>Regarding the 2-meter limitation in Sportsman, I've never seen a sportsman pilot not fly because there was someone else with a 2-meter plane that showed up. BTW, in sportsman I could fly a trainer and beat a newbie with a 2-meter plane, it's really not about the plane in sportsman. It's about flying straight lines.</div><div><br></div><div>3. Advanced is a launch pad to Masters, having only 50% turn around is a terrible idea IMO, it's already a big jump to Masters. By Advanced most guys are pretty darn good pilots.</div><div><br></div><div>4. I personally would have no objections to Masters flying P. Do consider however that this prevents us from controlling the difficulty of Masters. We could end up having a pattern that is too difficult or too easy. I can see the discussion list now with people screaming that Masters has been ruined or it has "plane killers" (remember the Reverse Avalanche?). Then everyone will be demanding their independence from FAI. ;)</div><div><br></div><div>5. No opinion.</div><div><br></div><div>Keith Black</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 5, 2016 at 11:11 AM, Snaproll4--- via NSRCA-discussion <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org" target="_blank">nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
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<div>I do not want to be NSRCA president, but If I were NSRCA King, this is what
I would do:</div>
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<div> 1. Eliminate ALL mandatory advancement rules. In fact,
as King, I would ban all conversation about advancement. I've been
saying this for 20 years, but every time this gets voted on, the proposal gets
soundly defeated. Can't we all name a pilot who moved up to Masters and
then dropped out? We should never have rules that discourage
participation. This includes the rule about trying higher
classes and not being able to move back down.</div>
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<div>2. Sportsman and Intermediate should be
non-turnaround. Turnaround was the death of the casual competitor. No
2 meter planes will be allowed in Sportsman. You're not going to get
a club flyer to compete when there are 4 Allures and a Proteus in his
class. This is not supposed to be a money competition. </div>
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<div>3. Advanced should be 50% turn-around and somewhat less difficult than
it is today. The emphasis here should be on the slightly more
committed pilot and NOT as a building block for Masters. This should
become the new destination class.</div>
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<div>4. Masters should fly all rounds of FAI P, but not compete directly
against FAI pilots. I can put up a respectable P, but I don't want to fly
against Team members. (besides, who would judge?) The sequence would
still change every 2 years. Think of the advantages in judging as FAI
pilots and Masters usually judge each other. This would eliminate the need
for development of a new Masters schedule and let the sequence committee
concentrate on the other 3 classes.</div>
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<div>5. It would be nice if we could make Sportsman two 1 day contests,
consisting of 4 rounds each day. Perhaps they could fly two rounds
within each flight. Yes, that would mean 3 more awards,
but you can't expect Sportsman pilots to spend the time and money to go to
2 day contests. This way, a pilot could do family stuff on
Saturday and compete on Sunday.</div>
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<div>Steve Miller, NSRCA #673</div>
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