<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">In a message dated 6/10/03 9:19:27 AM Pacific Daylight Time, Eric.Henderson@gartner.com writes:<BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000ff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">In the last couple of months I have had the chance to watch Dave Lockhart, Don Szczur and Kirk Gray.</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000ff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">What most of us don't see is the practice that these guys put in. I have seen Dave preparing to fly when we were all going home because it was raining. I have watched Don driving around to "interstate" business meetings with his plane in the car and taking any lunch time opportunity at any flying field, to practice and get feedback. </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000ff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">Kirk I flew against and only broke 900 once.. "A league of their own", comes to mind..</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000ff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">The desire to make the team, the desire to win, the desire to compete, that these and the other guys have, only makes the resulting selection even more impressive.</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000ff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">I wish all of the contestants in the team selection contest the very best of luck and weather...</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000ff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">Regards,</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000ff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">Eric.</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000ff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">P.S. Would have loved to have been there - only six more weddings and 5 graduations to go!!!!!!</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Tahoma" LANG="0">-----Original Message-----<BR>
<B>From:</B> discussion-request@nsrca.org [mailto:discussion-request@nsrca.org]<B>On Behalf Of </B>T&C Brown<BR>
<B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, June 10, 2003 12:41 PM<BR>
<B>To:</B> NSRCA<BR>
<B>Subject:</B> Team Selection Update<BR>
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I'll reiterate that, I've recently spent a couple of months with Troy Newman, preparing for the team trials and he is out every day and where I might fly 3-4 times he will fly 6-10 times on each of two airplanes 4-8 hours at the field almost every day, wore me out just watching. So when you watch these guys fly and wish you could fly like that, remember "THEY EARNED IT". I'm sure most of us don't have the talent to fly at that level, but most of us also don't work at it as hard either. Another thing I noticed, as Eric pointed out, these guys "seek out" input on how their flying is viewed and they seek it out from any available source. <BR>
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Good luck guys<BR>
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Bob </FONT></HTML>