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<div>Well said Mark </div>
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<div>From: "Atwood, Mark via NSRCA-discussion" <nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org>
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<div>Date: 7/13/17 1:54 PM (GMT-05:00) </div>
<div>To: Miller Steve <Snaproll4@aol.com>, General pattern discussion <nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org>
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<div>Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] The most important thing to understand about pattern
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<div>At least 20 years.
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<div class="">And we JUST lost a very active (came to 9-10 contests a year) Intermediate pilot because the box is too much for him. Flying Sportsman was no good because he was usually the only one, and he wanted competition rather than a participation award.
I’ve said for many years the we lost a lot of non-traveling, club participants when we went to turn-around. But that ship has sailed and we won’t realistically be going back. </div>
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<div class="">One thing I’d like to see at local contests is more attention and more flights for Sportsman pilots. We have to make their contest experience a great one. All too often they pay full price and get short shrift on flying and attention. That
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<div class="">On Jul 13, 2017, at 1:34 PM, Snaproll4--- via NSRCA-discussion <<a href="mailto:nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org" class="">nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div class="">Mark, Is it 20 years ago already? That's when I started pushing for unhindered movement between classes. As I came up through the classes I saw many people drop out because they were "sick of finishing last". Of course, if they moved back and
consistently finished #1-#3, they would be shamed. Every year that proposal would set people's hair on fire. Why have rules that discourage participation? On another matter, Turnaround was the death of the casual competitor. It takes a lot of practice to
learn to keep a whole sequence in the box. I think that Intermediate should have some breaks in the sequence.</div>
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