Re: A - 6 National Rules

From: jabiruchick <jabiruchick_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 20:17:49 -0000

Competition and exploring the outer limits of performance and design is wonderful, but again-- there are other events for all that stuff. Why leave the door open for gadgetry and design elements that make placing in a beginner-type event an unobtainable goal for the beginner!

Last year, the A6 rules gave average people the chance to have fun, gain skills and confidence, and add to the dwindling population of people who enter Indoor contests and help pay the light bills at our treasured, expensive Indoor sites. To me, that defines success of an event much more than being able to set a new world record.

I just can't see how a community of fliers can worry and wonder about the hobby's future, and yet those same people allow this distortion of proven and successful beginner events!!

UGGH!!!

Am I way off base here? If so, somebody please smack me off this soapbox before I blow a gasket.
Katie


--- In Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com, "Don DeLoach" <ddeloach@...> wrote:
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> Subject: Re: [Indoor_Construction] Re: A - 6 National Rules
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> Just to clarify - when the cross proposal was voted on it was accepted by a
> majority of the indoor board and replaced the original proposal. In the
> final vote there was only the option of voting for the cross proposal or
> voting to not have A6 become an AMA event.
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> So I voted AGAINST it before I voted FOR it.
> (waiting for the inevitable............................)
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> On 5/18/2011 2:40 PM, Don DeLoach wrote:
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> Katie,
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> The AMA rules for Indoor FF are wholly governed by the eleven-person Indoor
> Contest Board. They vote on all new rules, as well as rule changes. So they
> deserve all the blame for this.
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> Sad indeed. This is not the way to encourage beginners to compete. If this
> happens, AMA has simply ruined A6.
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> There is already a class for people who like gadgets and biplanes. It's
> called Pennyplane. But, that event was supposed to be "simple" too! Why does
> this keep happening?
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> Katie
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Received on Wed May 18 2011 - 13:17:57 CEST