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color:#1F497D'>I co-CD’d a Pattern Primer with Ed Alt at my club field (The
Balsa Bugs) in CT few years ago. A lot of guys came all the way from New Jersey
to support me but in spite of announcing the contest at meetings for several
months AND offering to help people trim out their planes and practice every Sunday
only one actually showed up to “compete”. I did get support from
the club officials and a few dedicated members to help with food, field chores,
etc. but it was kind of disappointing. That was the first and only contest we
had in CT in quite some time. Sadly, I remember the Balsa Bugs <i>used to</i> be
full of Pattern guys. I don’t know where they all went but they’re
not part of the club anymore.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> NSRCA-dist1
[mailto:nsrca-dist1-bounces@lists.nsrca.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>learn2turn via
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color:black'>It sure would be nice if at least one New England club could get
something going with pattern. It may be that the deal up here is that
most fields just aren't suitable. I don't think our field (MMAC) would be
suitable for a contest. To date I've met in person only one pattern flyer from
New England and heard from only one or two others on the net. With so few
pattern fliers, maybe it's also that there just isn't critical mass to get a
club to hold an event. If one or two guys in a club fly pattern, I could
see why all the other club members might not want to give up the field for a
weekend, or even a Saturday, for an event.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:black'>-Ken K.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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...<br>
One thing that might make pattern more interesting is if some of the top
flyers talk to D1 RC club presidents and offer to go to the fields that
have no pattern flyers and no contests and do some pattern
demos. Give the club some time to drum up interest in advance of the
date and let the club members try to fly the sportsman sequence with the
help of our traveling experienced pattern flyer; ie, a grass roots
effort. Even talk to the club presidents about hosting a pattern
contest even if they have no active flyers just to throw that out there if
the club has the facilities to support such an event. This type of stuff
has probably been discussed before but in my club of 100 members, it'd be
all new to them. My sportsman flying is hardly motivating, ;-)<br>
...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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