<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I love IMAC. Besides being a lot of fun and a break from pattern, it helps pattern appeal to more people. Now Pattern is the low cost way to enter precision aerobatics!!</font>
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<td><font size=1 face="sans-serif"><b>"Tomanek, Wojtek" <tomanekw@saic-abingdon.com></b></font>
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<p><font size=1 face="sans-serif">11/11/2002 09:33 AM</font>
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<br><font size=2><tt>Completely agree with you. Cost is just an excuse that is a convenient one<br>
because no one will ever question that. The true cause for not wanting to<br>
join pattern is lack of discipline it takes to practice to be proficient and<br>
competitive. For instance a lot of people joined IMAC because it was fun<br>
and even though they have similar judging rules they were not implemented as<br>
strict as we do in pattern. The IMAC rules are changing and their judging<br>
is getting a lot stricter than it used to be. Lets see how many people will<br>
stick with it since it is getting to be a lot more proficient flying type as<br>
opposed to just dong snaps and waterfalls. Until now it has been a lot of<br>
fun and games. On the other hand yesterday I went to a combat contest -<br>
and yes it was fun to watch but that is as far as it goes. But for a lot of<br>
RC'ers it has a lot of appeal because it does not take that much skill to<br>
participate - you just boring holes in the sky.<br>
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<br><font size=2><tt> -----Original Message-----<br>
From: Anthony Romano [SMTP:anthonyr105@hotmail.com]<br>
Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 10:18 AM<br>
To: discussion@nsrca.org<br>
Subject: Weight Limit problem long<br>
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<br><font size=2><tt> Hi Buddy,<br>
Here is my view. Just finished a new plane around $2000. Now, being<br>
a<br>
competitor, I build a new more complicated, larger, more expensive<br>
plane to<br>
take advantage of the rule change and replace my now obsolete plane.<br>
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<br><font size=2><tt> Ignoring issue of gas such as smell, which now means I can't store<br>
planes in<br>
the house and the wife won't come to the field, struggle with the<br>
sound<br>
rule, can't fly at local field, etc.<br>
Now I am just a mediocre competitor and if I get a lot of time I fly<br>
my<br>
pattern plane 200 times a year. Using your figures, maybe luck but I<br>
never<br>
pay that much for fuel, I save $350 dollars. My new plane will be<br>
paid for<br>
in around FIVE years on the savings. Add in the cost of new field<br>
supplies,<br>
fire extinguisher, radio upgrade to run two elevator servos, farther<br>
drive<br>
to field without noise limit, etc. Where is the savings?<br>
If this is the direction of pattern I am not interested and don't<br>
see how<br>
bigger more expensive planes will help anything. You guys are all<br>
killing me<br>
with the cost issue. The average guy at my local club has three or<br>
four 1.20<br>
size arfs with $1000 to $1200 dollars in each one. Look around on<br>
some of<br>
the message boards and see the number of people that are flying and<br>
entering<br>
giant scale. The number of people looking to spend $3000 and up on a<br>
bigger<br>
planes is astounding.<br>
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<br><font size=2><tt> >From: "Buddy Brammer" <buddybrammer35@hotmail.com><br>
>Reply-To: discussion@nsrca.org<br>
>To: discussion@nsrca.org<br>
>Subject: Re: Weight Limit<br>
>Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 10:53:03 -0600<br>
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