At 05:50 AM 9/17/2006, you wrote:
The contests were definitely more attainable then. My first CASA
Open contest at the Polo Field had over 100 pilots. That was only
10 years ago. I got many of my contest points at the monthly CASA
contest at Manassas Battlefield. Now finding even 10 pilots for a
monthly contest anywhere in VA is nearly impossible. Winning a
monthly club contest was a lot easier than the ESL or a NATS.
T
Don't forget that the LSF was formed in the late 60's and there were
fewer real experts back then. We were all beginners. I was
thinking of the slope and cross country tasks. All were definitely
doable in the East but would the members of the ECSS have set a
different set of tasks more suited to East coast conditions there
rather than slope sites like Tory Pines and the wide open spaces of
much of California? Much of what is now Silicon Valley was still
farms and orchards as late as 1970. I remember flying pattern ships
on a model field near the Lockheed Missile Plant there.
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