David, Thank you for your candor, your understanding and your reply. I am but one person, and as many will tell you, it takes a team...Not a village... 8-) I am fortunate to be part of a really good team. Thanks !!!
Jack Strother [EMAIL PROTECTED] LSF President LSF Level IV Loveland, OH >From: "David J. Schat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] >CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [RCSE] Nats..reply >Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 14:37:05 -0800 > >Jack, > >Although I wish I could go to the NATS, work and family preclude it. The >format and location is not keeping me away. I'm just throwing out ideas. >Someday, when my kids have left the nest I'll go (or if they learn to and >like to fly models maybe sooner). I appreciate your hard work and the work >of the volunteers though. Remembering back to the posts after the NATS I >seem to remember only good postings. > >When I mention running them concurrently I did not mean run separate rounds >for each class. I meant that if you fly two different classes you have to >fly twice in each round. Still a lot of launches but it can be done. >Visalia probably does 300 launches per round on 5 winches and gets 5 rounds >in on the first day. > >Did I read correctly earlier and the winch lines are retrieved by golf >cart... no regular style retrievers? If this is the case this is one area >where time can be gained if retrievers could be used (I don't know if they >could). > >As far as getting hosed by the folks who attend the NATS when you suggest >changes, this is to be expected. They like it the way it is and that's why >they're there. There's no doubt the attendance has improved from the past. > >Jack, I consider it your contest as we (LSF members) chose you to do our >bidding. If you want to see an aspect changed to improve our SIG then do >it. I'm sure you'll take a hosing no matter what is done, hell you've taken >a hosing already and you haven't done anything. Look in any Presidential >job description and "taking a hosing" (and worse) is in it ;- ) > >I think moving it is not a good idea. I think making changes to draw more >folks is a good idea. Having the/some classes compete for two days would do >this. > >At 05:03 PM 12/10/01 -0500, Jack Strother wrote: >>David,Spud, et all; >>we currently run RES and NOS concurrently, sometimes its tuff to get 3 >>rounds each in, some years. >>We will have a min of 3 rounds, perferably 5, in the contest. (snip) > >RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and >"unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

