I don't know how long the success of my Wood Crafters event will last, next year will be the 5th consecutive year I have put this event on at the AMA flying site. The high price of travel is a huge consideration by many. The Muncie Motels cost approximately $55. a night for AMA members which I consider to be a bargain, especially if I compare it to the prices I paid during my trip out west this summer.
Previously I announced a couple of open ch for WC 06, they have been taken and at the moment, all that is available is CH 42 for Saturday and Sunday's Grand Championship contest. This will change after last years entrants have a chance to register for WC 06. Who would have believed that a contest could be set up with one entry per freq ( with team entry on the same ch) and have 60 - 70 entries. I was considering using the Soaring field at AMA next year, but decided to stick to our usual location. We are very fortunate to have the availability of the AMA flying site. The new events for WC 06 will be a Cross Country Race for woody Scale sailplanes Thursday or Friday. This is a first for me, we'll see how it goes. Also, Speed 400 will be flown Thursday and Friday. Ray Hayes http://www.skybench.com Home of Wood Crafters ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 8:36 AM Subject: [RCSE] Nats & contest issue > In a message dated 10/31/2005 11:36:06 PM Eastern Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I can understand why many sailplane fliers don't want anything to do > with contest the way most of them are conducted today. We seem to > have two types of sailplane fliers. Those who only want to fly MOM > and those who want nothing to do with contests. How about a contest > somewhere in between MOM and fun flying. Used to be a lot of them > but not any more. :-( > > Chuck Anderson > > Chuck, I have to agree. Lots of us have gone to flying "woody" events with > competition on a lighter side, putting the fun back into contests. We draw > flyers from 500+ miles away, and those flyers won't drive across town to fly MOM. > Those of us who still have some molded planes, only fly them on the slopes. It > has put the fun back into flying for a bunch of us. Ray Hayes holds the > Woodcrafters at Muncie each year, and the 60-70 flyers who go there have nothing > but fun, along with competition plus scale,on a different lighter format based > on a good time. We are slowly pulling the non-competition fun flyers out to > fly with us at our events. More and more clubs are turning to more relaxed types > of event formats. At most of our local events, for $5 during the events, we > let you fly off our winches with us, and help/teach you to use them, while the > rest are "competing" . Our PA gang, typically drives over PA, and to MD,VA, > WV, OH, IN, MI, to fly these events, and it's well worth it. Bill G. > > Bill Grenoble > LSF 7558 IV > Hawksnest Soaring > Shermans Dale, PA > 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
