If you read Dave Brown's column about a year ago he does explain that
the locals were upset about not being able to fly.
He says we need to work out something.
I disagree. This is a national site, the locals have a great field all
year round, this is not their private field.
My feeling was... too bad. This is a national site.
I also got first hand knowledge from someone in the AMA I wish to keep
his anonymity. He echoed Dave's statement.
This actually created a problem for us when we had the F3B TEAM
Selection. Kaluf was going to allow them to fly while we were there. I
passed it on to the locals that it would be closed during Team
Selections. Word got out quickly. But the practice day we were forced to
fly by the runway. Dennis Phelan and I were nearly hit by an out of
control 1/4 scale ship going in at full bore. We were missed by 20 feet.
Would have been nice if Kaluf hadn't forced us to fly in such a
dangerous area. I don't know why he wouldn't let us fly in the soaring
area. We had a building to impede distance and speed practice, and the
gravel and paved runway to avoid when landing out in distance.
Ray Hayes wrote:
Primarily, the AMA field is the home to several free flight contests each
year. Check the 2005 AMA on line calendar for specific usage, I'm thinking
the club sanctioned FF events add up to about a month. I have not heard
the Muncie guys complaining about the AMA field, they have their own flying
site where they hold most of their monthlies. Outside of the Nats, the
field is basically open during the week days all year and is used by the
locals for FF, power and sailplane flying as well as visitors from around
the country arriving in motor homes.
I have seen large groups of youth being taught power flying by AMA
employees, so as far as the field is concerned, AMA is on the right track in
trying to promote the hobby. There are just a few sailplane clubs that do a
bang up job of helping beginners.
Tom, from my Sky Bench experience, I can tell you there are more guys flying
sailplanes that don't belong to clubs than do belong.
Ray Hayes
http://www.skybench.com
Home of Wood Crafters
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Kitching" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "RCSE" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 7:51 PM
Subject: Re: [RCSE] Nats Issue and AMA ED
Well sure, they shouldn't have a problem giving up their flying site for
whole month.
Seeing how Indiana has a nice and warm year 'round flying season, an
entire month shouldn't be an issue at all.
Dan
TJB wrote:
Are there really that many pilots in Muncie that they can't spare a
month out of the year for competition? And one issue a year about
competition shouldn't be such a big deal. How are people going to
learn about it and become interested? I guess it won't be long before
AMA becomes the AEA (All Electric Association), like many of the
soaring clubs. Heck, the majority of the soaring pilots in our area
don't even want to have a club. They just get together at a field and
fly, no club, no dues, no contests, no hassle.
T
T&G
32 Mount View Dr
Afton, VA 22920
540 943-3356
fax 943-4178
----- Original Message ----- From: "James V. Bacus"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 6:22 PM
Subject: Re: [RCSE] Nats Issue and AMA ED
That's not what I heard from the editor of the mag. I heard that the
AMA received numerous letters from members that were tired of seeing
an entire issue about competition. There is a similar issue with
members not liking the AMA facilities and grounds being used for an
entire month for competition which they supposedly received letters
about. So a number of days was cut from Nats this year.
So in one year we almost lost a day at Nats, but shifted to starting
on Friday to keep all the dates and we have lost the magazine
coverage for the Nats.
It seems a growing number of modelers are not interested in contest
flying.
I think that's unfortunate because that's my favorite part about
soaring. And the Nats issue was my favorite issue for the entire
year, now it's just a Christmas catalog of advertisements.
At 08:32 PM 10/30/2005, ROBERT M GELLART wrote:
Just for the record,
from what I know, it was the Model Aviation staff that generated
this idea,
not AMA staff.
Jim
Downers Grove, IL
Member of the Chicago SOAR club, and Team JR
AMA 592537 LSF 7560 Level IV R/C Soaring blog at www.jimbacus.net
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