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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Terry,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>There are rules proposals in the survey that cover your
situation. Many of them make a lot of sense, at least to me. You can find them
as well as the proposed schedules on the NSRCA site. It's a little tricky, but
we have to deal with the fact that there are a lot of guys who just love to fly
pattern, support our contests and are our friends that won't make it to the top.
The reasons can be job/family demands, financial, skill or deteriorating skill
with age, or any number of other factors. The trick is to adopt rules that
accommodate those things while still preventing the trophy hog from laying
around in a class year after year. Some of the proposals address those things
and merit all of our attention. If we ignore them, we'll find our
already-shrinking local contests reduced to a "why-bother" level.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Verne</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=amad2terry@juno.com href="mailto:amad2terry@juno.com">Terry
Terrenoire</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=discussion@nsrca.org
href="mailto:discussion@nsrca.org">discussion@nsrca.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Cc:</B> <A title=discussion@nsrca.org
href="mailto:discussion@nsrca.org">discussion@nsrca.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, June 09, 2005 6:37
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [SPAM] Re: New
Sequences</DIV>
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<DIV>Just another comment. Keep in mind that I have not seen the new sequence
yet.</DIV>
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<DIV>I have been flying Advance since 1989, before turnaround. I don't believe
I have won a contest in that time, and have had only a couple of 2nds. Right
now, I am looking at the jump to Masters as being too big for me. I have
learned to handle the current schedule, maybe not as smoothly as most, but I
can get thru the sequence without embarresing myself.</DIV>
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<DIV>If the new sequence is "easier", I can see myself in a position where I
could be winning some contests, and would be forced out of the class, again
with a much bigger leap to a class I feel is already beyond my abilities.
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<DIV>At my age, learning new tricks, when the old have not been perfected, may
just push some of us in similar situations completely out of the mix.</DIV>
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<DIV>Terry T.</DIV>
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<DIV>On Wed, 8 Jun 2005 21:40:24 -0700 (PDT) Rodney Tanner <<A
href="mailto:rodney19821982@yahoo.com">rodney19821982@yahoo.com</A>>
writes:</DIV>
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<DIV>Bill, Mike: </DIV>
<DIV>I see the argument for a smoother transition between 402 and 403 and in
the context of the overall progression through the classes it is probably a
valid one, especially for the Intermediate guy coming up. Personally,
though, I am glad for the leap I am going through in the current
403 - Advanced and canīt wait to go up to Masters, which I now see as
more of a logical step up, rather than the big, intentional, leap it will be
in the future. </DIV>
<DIV>Good job guys.</DIV>
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<DIV>Rodney <BR><BR><B><I>Mike Hester
<kerlock@comcast.net></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
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Bill said.<BR><BR>We had 2 choices to smooth out that huge leap between
402 and 403: make 402 <BR>tougher or make 403 slightly easier. The
overwhelming majority was against <BR>making 402 any tougher, so we went
this way. Like Bill said, look at the <BR>schedules in relation to each
other and consider that carefully before <BR>anyone votes on them. There
are a couple of ways we could end up with a <BR>worse problem than we
currently have. My hope is everyone will put a lot of <BR>thought into
their choices. I'm reminded of teh old knight at the end of <BR>Indiana
Jones and the Last Crusade....."choose wisely". Look what happened <BR>to
the guy that picked the wrong one. Eek.<BR><BR>-Mike<BR>----- Original
Message ----- <BR>From: "Bill Pritchett" <PHELPS15@COMCAST.NET><BR>To:
<DISCUSSION@NSRCA.ORG><BR>Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 8:03
PM<BR>Subject: New Sequences<BR><BR><BR>> Rodney:<BR>> Both proposed
Advanced schedules are "easier" than the current Advanced <BR>>
schedule. This was one of the criteria that we worked with, based upon
<BR>> overwhelming opinion that the jump to Advanced is currently too
much. I <BR>> like both schedules (not because I'm on the
committee...hehe), but what <BR>> this WILL do is make the jump to
Masters much bigger for the guys that <BR>> will come through these
schedules. I am sort of a victim of having made <BR>> the current jump,
and now that I've made it, felt that I could objectively <BR>> help
others coming up in seasons to come not deal with some of the issues
<BR>> current Advanced flyers have had to handle. Our current schedule
calls <BR>> for 10 maneuvers prior to a cross box turnaround. Although
there is <BR>> discussion on the list right now about being on that
"line", and a cross <BR>> box being a bother, let's face it, most
Advanced flyers need to adjust <BR>> in/out earlier than 10 maneuvers
in. Lots of thought and discussion went <BR>> into these, and I'm sure
that everyone on the committee hopes that the <BR>> NSRCA membership
takes a deep collective breath before making any <BR>> judgments. One
thing we all tried to do is make it more even in jumps <BR>> between
classes, up to Masters. We all seemed to agree that Masters <BR>>
should be the "big" jump, and a jump that provides a class of <BR>>
"Destination" for some, and FAI prep for others. I hope that you, and
<BR>> others, will look at the proposed Advanced schedule as a part of
the <BR>> whole, and not a direct comparison to the present.<BR>>
Thanks<BR>> Bill<BR>><BR>><BR>> Bill Pritchett<BR>>
765-744-9322<BR>><BR>>
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