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<DIV><FONT size=2>Nicely put Ron, I agree.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><BR> </DIV><BR>First, I don't know who said
there 'was no time' to change the 401 - 403 maneuver schedules. I never
did. There's always time. What there's a shortage of is people to
volunteer to act on committees to come up with new maneuver schedules. I
was on the committee which came up with all the current schedules and didn't
care to do it twice in a row, especially when the biggest whiners are often
the ones who wouldn't serve on a committee if asked. If people want
change, they need to volunteer. It takes less effort to get a job done
than to complain that someone else won't do it for you. Only the guilty should
feel offended.<BR><BR>Second, 401 - 403 have sequences which are made up of
maneuvers of increasing complexity. There are only so many ways these
maneuvers can be put together without the resulting maneuver schedule looking
very similar to the one which preceeded it. I think 401 and 402 should
stay very much the same, partly because of what I just wrote and partly
because many competitors go through the schedules and advance to the followon
(new to them) maneuver schedules in a year or two. Just because they
advance, they see new maneuver schedules every other year or so. The
pilots who sit in these classes for years are really the only ones who notice
that the maneuver schedules haven't changed. I think that 403 is the
only class which should change much and that's only because it is the terminal
class for many pilots who have reached the pinnacle of their piloting
ability. <BR><BR>Ron Van Putte<BR>
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