I will be happy to join the helium club. I will be traveling in a van and will probably be on site for the last 3 days if any pick up of helium tanks is needed.
----- Original Message -----
From: John Kagan
To: Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 12:20 PM
Subject: [Indoor_Construction] Re: Helium at USIC
--- In Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com, "Bill Gowen"
<b.gowen_at_...> wrote:
>
> I feel like there is no organization in the United States that is
interested in indoor freeflight at this point in time.
Having been 1/3 of the USIC operation team for the last three years,
I can attest that the interest in the Indoor FF Nats goes something
like this:
- The AMA relegates the operation of the Indoor FF Nats to our
SIG, NFFS (which really isn't a bad thing at all)
- NFFS procures a rube (or three, in our case) to spend a lot
of time making sure the event goes smoothly instead of getting to fly
themselves.
- The rube, er.Event Director makes the choices that he or she
feels is best
In our case, we automated the scoring system, created a time-
proportional schedule chart, eliminated the fill-in-your-times-
yourself easels, adjusted the table layout to ease the pain of the
scoreboard, announced awards over the PA without stopping the
activities, included some new events, figured out how to legally
allow an Event Director to fly some events, ran a fundraising raffle,
etc. Hopefully people liked more of the decisions than they hated.
Most things went right. Some things didn't. Last year Romash's job
situation kept him from attending, and Tony's job required him to
arrive a little late. Some people graciously stepped up and covered
the gaps. Due to a hand-off snafu, the NFFS awards never got ordered
last year. Ray Harlan generously took care of them post-contest.
Some people still aren't convinced that Nats Event Directors should
be allowed to fly if they have a backup Event Director, despite all
evidence and logic to the contrary. Etc.
This year, NFFS pres Phil Sullivan decided that Van Dover should run
USIC again. I don't know much of the reason why - we just got a
single line email stating the fact. But I can't say that I really
mind much, because I definitely enjoy flying more than managing.
So, the issues we are seeing are mostly related to the re-hand-off
back to Van Dover. I think we should simultaneously give him a
little slack for the errors of omission, and give him a little
constructive grief over the changes that don't make sense.
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