Don, why are you not flying F1Ds? Maybe if you explain what your barriers
to entry are, we would have a better idea.
There are also two teams, Argentina and Australia competing at the wc this
year, that have not sent teams in over 20 years. I think there are actually
more people flying them now than when I started in 2002.
Lastly, cost is not an issue, access to flying sites remains the issue.
Outdoor sites are essentially infinite for practice and competing.
There is no money for the Ama, suppliers, sponsors, spectators to be
generated by indoor. The money comes from the other segments of the hobby,
which explains the support they get.
Indoor is a passion, not a business.
On Apr 19, 2012 10:20 PM, "Don DeLoach" <ddeloach_at_comcast.net> wrote:
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> Interesting points Jimmy.
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> Bottom line though: why aren't more people flying F1D?
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> Don DeLoach
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Apr 19, 2012, at 6:36 PM, "jim" <glider902003_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
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>> Don to Brett:
>> "Economical? How many hours have you spent to become proficient at the
WC level in F1D?"
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>> True, but lets face it most of us have more time then dollars...or will
at some point in our life unless we are lucky enough to be very successful
at our day job. If that were the case for me I'd be joyously wasting that
money racing *inside* of something!
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>> I consider a hobby as simply something to occupy my "free time" as I
find it (which is not often at the current stage of life). There are times
that I evaluate my many hobbies for the best value in the class of dollars
spent/hour of enjoyment. Indoor flying is practically untouchable in this
category, which is one reason I stay involved.
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>> (I think about this at times because I actually work with people near
retirement age who are financially able to retire, but complain that they
have no idea how they will occupy their time so they are afraid to retire.
We have regular debates regarding this and it irritates the heck out of
me!!!)
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>> Sure the members of the current F1D have copious amounts of time
invested in learning their craft, but is it really any more than the
members of the current F1 outdoor team? To fly at that level is a huge
investment of time no matter what the discipline. Indoor however does have
a very attractive jumping in price, and a heck of allot less support
equipment.
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>> Now if only I could learn how to steer overnight...
>> ~Jim
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