Bob Hunt is a nice guy, and a real good guy to work
for... BUT... interesting he should say that. In this very Nats issue he
still managed to get 8 pages of detailed CL competition with full color
pictures.
CL is always going to get main stream coverage because he likes CL. Life
is not fair, and that's the way it is.
The problem for the way they want to cover the Nats is that there is no
time for a soaring pilot to do that type of coverage. I don't know how it
is for the other events, but we get there early, fly all day, catch some
dinner with a group of friends, and you are too tired to do anything
else. Try reviewing all the days pictures, pick the 4 or 5 best, and try
to write something positive after having very intense contest days. It's
hard to reflect that much each night after the intense contest mindset all
day, I tried it... I'll never do that again. My contest scores also
reflected this schedule, repeat, I'll never do that again. I can write an
excellent article after I get home, unwind, look at all the pix, and think
about all the good things that we experienced together, but not "johnny on
the spot" in Muncie.
Good Luck to anyone that wants to try that next year.
At 03:17 PM 11/1/2005, Jim Deck wrote:
"The competitor is now in the minority in AMA. In fact, less than 5 percent
of our membership compete in any manner at all. We simply cannot justify
devoting all of 1/12 of our yearly editorial pages to just one meet - even
if it is the Nats. The daily reporting concept gives up to the minute news
and it will continue to be how we report on the Nats. Hopefully next year's
Nats overview in Model Aviation will be written from a more acceptable
perspective. We are trying to adjust our magazine coverage to reflect the
actual membership and their interests. Tough job..."
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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