Yes, the world outside of RC soaring is very different. The soaring world is pushed by technology and competition, while the typical power club is based on sport/fun flying. Take a Paragon from the late 1970's, a state of the art TD plane and compare that to the state of the art today. Night and day differences. (although many of the tasks are the same...argggg!) Now look at what a typical glow sport plane, etc. looked like 30 years ago compared to today. Not much has changed here, but the guys still have fun making them fly. There are groups that pylon race Quickees and F1, and fly pattern, etc. but it's only a small percentage compared to all the sport, non-competitive flyers out there.
It sounds like someone should did up the facts from the AMA on who is flying what so a constructive conversation can continue on. I personally will always be classified as a soaring pilot, although I started as a very little kid flying CL & FF, and now fly glow, gasoline, electric, turbine, and gravity powered models. And sometimes I even get paid to fly them. ;-) Norm PBSS -----Original Message----- From: John Erickson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 2:15 PM To: Jim Deck; Soaring List Subject: Re: [RCSE] Model Aviation Editor's reply Wow, less than 5%? Sure isn't that number in our club, or the soaring clubs around Southern California. More like 50%, and in our club that number is higher. We use competitions as one way to fly together. These are not cut throat, yet they are competitive. I must be really out of touch with the rest of the AMA world, because less than 5% is a really small number. So for every twenty modelers only one flies competitively? JE -- Erickson Architects John R. Erickson, AIA > The competitor is now in the minority in AMA. In fact, less than 5 percent > of our membership compete in any manner at all. RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
