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<p><font size="+1"><font face="Arial">Here's my 2-cents of comments:</font></font></p>
<p><font size="+1"><font face="Arial"> The web site notes dates as
POSSIBLE start dates in 5 stages. Adverse news in any one
stage will most likely result in delays for the remaining
stages. With not guarantees to sticking to dates, that still
places our pattern NATS with many potential challenges to deal
with. I am hoping this is not the case because we do need
get back to reasonably normal conditions as soon as possible;
otherwise other larger society adverse effects will occur as
well. <br>
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<p><font size="+1"><font face="Arial"> Have any local pattern
contests been successfully run since the covid-19 essentially
shut down operations in mid March? Folks that are still
planning to hold local 2-day pattern contests need to chime in
on how they are doing it, with an emphasis on multi-day
contests, along with noting how many participants, additional
support personnel, hotel and restaurant situation.
Furthermore, some districts are already projecting to have
their first contest as early as August. This spring, and
probably early summer contest schedule has been devastated by
Covid-19 adverse impacts.<br>
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<p><font size="+1"><font face="Arial"> The Team Trials event was
not cancelled by the NSRCA board. This year, the original
plan was for the NATS to dual-hat-hold the team trials event,
which is now no longer the plan with the pattern portion of
the NATS being cancelled. The NSRCA personnel runs the
brunt-work of the NATS contest, with AMA supporting
miscellaneous site issues, meaning AMA would be challenged to
run a pattern nats without our support. As of the moment,
I've heard Scale (which historically has a small group of
35ish contestants annually) , Control Line, and Pattern
sections of the NATS has been cancelled by each SIG. I am
surprised the scale community has already elected to cancel
because that community would have the least difficulty
managing covid-19 related challenges due to size alone. The
Team Trials event can once again be a separate event from the
NATS and held at a later time in the year, if that time-slot
is still possible to hold a medium-sized event.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/15/2020 9:46 AM, John Fuqua via
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<p class="MsoNormal">here is an article from Indiana on when
Indiana is reopening. It indicates that July 4 is the full
reopening target. A full 2 weeks before we would have had
the Nats. We have had so many arguments over Nats weeks in
the past that I cannot envision any other time frame as being
any better. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Also as an aside and please tell me if I am
wrong but I thought it was the Team Selection Committee that
ultimately decided on how to pick the Team and when and where
to have the contest and not NSRCA. <o:p></o:p></p>
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Behalf Of </b>Don Ramsey via NSRCA-discussion<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, May 15, 2020 8:23 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'General pattern discussion'
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [NSRCA-discussion] 2020 NATS
Canceled<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">I’m
told by a reliable source that AMA was kept in the loop on
this decision.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Stephen Franc via NSRCA-discussion<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, May 14, 2020 7:29 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Atwood, Mark; General pattern discussion<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [NSRCA-discussion] 2020 NATS Canceled<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%">So I guess
the same rationale applies to the Free Flight and Control
line and RC Scale competitions which have been canceled?
I certainly understand the concerns for the World
Selection process... But it sort of raises the question
of why have/support the NSRCA? If the leadership of our
organization, after much discussion and consideration of
current and projected limitations imposed upon us by the
Coronavirus and mandated restrictions, came to the
difficult decision of not participating in the NATS this
year due to what hardships will be associated with
attending (anticipated cost of putting on a poorly
attended contest, lack of accommodations, lack of
restaurants, anticipated judging difficulties and
participation issues due to mandated social distancing,
extremely late decision by the AMA to even host the
outdoor NATS, etc.) and this decision is just ignored by
the AMA.... Then it must be time to disband the NSRCA due
to its lack of recognition as a special interest group.
We've had districts leave the fold of the NSRCA in the
past and they have survived... holding the same amount of
contests, doing judging, giving out awards, etc. Add to
that the fact that you don't even need to be a NSRCA
member to participate in NATS (only AMA) then why are all
these District VPs and elected officials of the NSRCA
bothering to put in a lot of time and effort supporting
the hobby of RC Precision Aerobatic flying. To put on the
NATS it still takes a lot of volunteers for event CD,
judges, score keeping, line bosses, etc. Is the AMA
planning on providing personnel to do all these functions?
Unfortunately not all districts have had adequate
practice times for pilots to become proficient with the
new sequences due to field closures, social districting,
and localize executive orders by governors. So in reality
what level of competition will even be present if the AMA
decides to proceed with this event. The 2020 Pandemic
NATS will need to have an asterix next to the Class
winners to signify insignificant competition due to lack
of participation. I believe everyone in the NSRCA has
always promoted and supported the AMA. Now its time for
the AMA to recognize the NSRCA and get behind the NSRCA
recommendation.<o:p></o:p></p>
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14, 2020 at 7:35 PM Atwood, Mark via NSRCA-discussion <<a
href="mailto:nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org"
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style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%">I hate to
provide shallow hope, but I have it from the AMA that
this is a bit of a mis-statement. The NSRCA has elected
not to participate in running the <b><i>AMA</i></b>
Nationals, but the <b><i>AMA</i></b> has yet to cancel
the <b><i>AMA</i></b> Nationals. They are well aware
of the effort involved to run one without the NSRCA, but
as of now are seriously considering doing so. If
Indiana will permit it, they would prefer not to cancel
their event. <o:p></o:p></p>
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(AMA) still plan to make a decision on June 10th.
This clearly adds a strong data point in their
considerations, but I strongly hesitate to say it’s
cancelled. Moreover, if the AMA continues to go
forward with the Nats in July, I would strongly
suspect that the FAI Team selection committee would
push to utilize that event for the F3A team selection.
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THE 2020 PRECISION AEROBATICS NATS HAS
BEEN CANCELLED. From Archie Stafford :
The board members and officers of NSRCA
have unanimously voted to cancel the
2020 Precision Aerobatics Nationals.
This decision was made because of the
uncertainty and risk of the COVID-19
pandemic as well as time and financial
constraints brought on by the virus to
competitors and support staff. We
believe that this is both a logical and
safe decision. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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