<div dir="ltr">+1! <div><br></div><div>When I started in Sportsman I never expected to be competitive in Intermediate, I took 3rd at the NATS last year and won the D7 championship, but still feel that Intermediate has a lot to teach me but I'm pretty sure I'll move up within the next 2 years to Advanced and I still feel Masters is way out of my reach, let alone FAI. But I'm not here to win trophies, I'm here to have fun, compete, and try to make every flight better than the last one in similar conditions (but fail at that pretty often!)...</div><div><br></div><div>Peter+</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 9:06 AM, Charlie Barrera 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"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Hear, Hear! I agree totally. I’ll never be a FAI pilot…I’m having enough trouble putting up a good Advanced round! LOL! But I won’t stop trying to put up my best flight! …Charlie<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div class="h5"><div>On Jul 13, 2017, at 10:04 AM, Anthony Romano via NSRCA-discussion <<a href="mailto:nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org" target="_blank">nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.<wbr>org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="m_-4950208832099194249Apple-interchange-newline"></div></div><div><div><div class="h5"><div id="m_-4950208832099194249divtagdefaultwrapper" dir="ltr" style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><br class="m_-4950208832099194249Apple-interchange-newline">It has been said many times but you can't teach desire. Reread the last paragraph of Jason's post.</div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><br></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><i><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal,'Segoe UI','Segoe WP',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont;font-size:15px">Having flown Pattern for so long now I've realized something. Pattern is a passion, a want. You can't 'make' someone a pattern pilot, they have to be one and not know it yet. Yes pattern makes most of the Worlds best pilots, but you can't take a pilot and make them a pattern pilot. If there isn't a drive to become better, not the best (that's the 2% of us), you'll only have a casual or short term pattern pilot at best. At my age I know my time is probably limited as far as being competitive or even having a chance at winning big events anymore, but my drive to be better and push myself is still there. So I will continue to learn new F patterns that will drain me every day I practice because I am a Pattern pilot 😁</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal,'Segoe UI','Segoe WP',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont;font-size:15px"><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal,'Segoe UI','Segoe WP',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont;font-size:15px"></i><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal,'Segoe UI','Segoe WP',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont;font-size:15px"><i>Jas i</i><i>P</i></span><br></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal,'Segoe UI','Segoe WP',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont;font-size:15px"><i><br></i></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal,'Segoe UI','Segoe WP',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont;font-size:15px">When do people leave when the top of mountain is insurmountable and the effort greatly out weighs the benefit. I have heard hundreds of pilots say "this has become too much work" and can't recall one who said this is too easy.</span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal,'Segoe UI','Segoe WP',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont;font-size:15px"><br></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal,'Segoe UI','Segoe WP',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont;font-size:15px">Anthony</span></div></div></div></div><span class=""><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline!important">______________________________<wbr>_________________</span><br style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline!important">NSRCA-discussion mailing list</span><br style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><a href="mailto:NSRCA-discussion@lists.nsrca.org" style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" target="_blank">NSRCA-discussion@lists.nsrca.<wbr>org</a><br style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><a href="http://lists.nsrca.org/mailman/listinfo/nsrca-discussion" style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" target="_blank">http://lists.nsrca.org/<wbr>mailman/listinfo/nsrca-<wbr>discussion</a></span></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div><br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
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