<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Geeze Jon ...please lighten up! I think what you are reading is what you want to read. It is real easy to take all this the wrong way if you want to. The people on this list are not what you think. Did you not stop and talk to anyone while you where at the Nats?<br>
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I know this post is in vain, and I really am trying to igonore you in particular, but concerning your last statements, you are just plain wrong. I hope you have the chance to find out for yourself.</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Why don't you go to the next contest and ask ANYONE in Intermediate or above for help-on any subject. I do not know where you are but I will be in Lubbock this weekend....You can see my semi-straight lines that earned me 22nd place in Advanced this year at the Nats...yeah thats right 22 outta 26! Im am so elite! Those 4 guys below me regret the day I showed up. Now...do you think I am serious? I promise I am done!<br>
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<td><font size=1 face="sans-serif"><b>Jon Uhler <juhler@bellsouth.net></b></font>
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<p><font size=1 face="sans-serif">07/30/2003 02:15 PM</font>
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<br><font size=1 face="sans-serif"> Subject: re: FAI F3AL---Pattern IMAC combined</font></table>
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<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">>I've yet to see an IMAC'er have a good landing<br>
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Wow, now IMAC'ers (I am assuming you are not limiting your bias to just IMAC'ers, cause really, how can you tell us apart? so you must mean scale aerobatic plane flyers) can't land or fly straight lines. I wonder why we even bother to get our planes out of the car. <br>
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I am truly amazed that you guys, sorry, we are still discussing why pattern can't attract new blood. Look back over some of the messages that you seasoned pattern pilots have made during this discussion. The answers are all right there.<br>
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>From what I am reading, you guys really don't want new blood in the sport, because that brings new ideas in, brings in unworthy club schmoes, brings in the IMAC'ers, and brings in rookies that you don't want to deal with.<br>
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I think what you really want, is a system to weed out the cream of the crop so they can learn the secret handshake and become one of the SKILLED. <br>
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The problem is, we all have to start some place. Not a single guy on this list started out as a Advance winning NATS pilot. It is so funny how when people make it to the top, they forget how they got there.<br>
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Pattern is an old AMA tradition that is still living by old tradition values and goals. I've been flying since 78 and still remember looking at the pattern planes and pilots in the AMA magazine, hoping to achieve that level of skill some day. Planes have changed and so have the names.....time for an attitude change I think.<br>
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