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01-08-2013 07:19 PM 8 years ago

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2013 nats

See the dates this year are

7/27-7/30, check in on the 26th.

Isn't that about the same time as the worlds? Should be interesting.

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01-08-2013 07:55 PM 8 years ago

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DHiatt

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Yep

Right at the tail end of the WC dates.

Don't think I'll be able to attend both events.

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01-09-2013 04:23 AM 8 years ago

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Cygnet

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Thats a bit of a pain.
We brought our nats forward this year, so its basically a practice session for us on the team, before we head to the worlds!

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01-15-2013 04:51 PM 8 years ago

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Salesmanheliboy

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Well...

We have a pretty good "practice" contest in June to get ready. Nashville TN.

Tim DiPeri

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01-20-2013 01:49 AM 8 years ago

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Santiago P

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I am concerned, without the bulk of the FAI guys, there will be almost nobody this year, unless new folks flying flybarless decide to join.

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01-23-2013 02:13 AM 8 years ago

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George Matthews

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Well Chago this may be the best thing that could happen for the AMA classes.
You shouldn't need the FAI guys to hold a AMA NATS. But if you find that you do, you may then understand that the emphasis at the NATS. has been misdirected for far too many years.George Matthews

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01-23-2013 03:08 AM 8 years ago

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Santiago P

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You shouldn't need the FAI guys to hold a AMA NATS

George,
YOU know well I totally agree, but as you also know, they are still the ones that end up staffing and working the lower classes.

Nothing has changed. Wish I was wrong.

Chago

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01-23-2013 02:43 PM 8 years ago

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Sherman89

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MPV,
As a suggestion would it not make sense in order to encourage entry's you must concentrate on your entry level participation in order to build future #'s. I have spent the last few weeks practicing the sportsman sequence and I must say I would be more enthused with more FF maneuvers and less hovering maneuvers. I would suggest dropping hover 2 and hover 3 and adding 2 more FF maneuvers to the sequence. Get your beginners in the door then ratchet up the hover maneuvers.

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01-23-2013 03:09 PM 8 years ago

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Santiago P

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I have a long story to tell you, but I'll save it for when we meet.

keep practicing

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01-27-2013 12:47 PM 8 years ago

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Sherman89

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In the IMAC game we keep a very careful eye on our Basic class simply because that is our Bellwether to the future of the competition. The interest is developed in this class. If your #'ers are going down then I suggest that you look at your entry class very carefully to see if there is anything that can be done to increase participation.

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07-25-2013 05:11 PM 8 years ago

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Santiago P

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SCHEDULE UPDATE !!!

The Nats dates have been shifted one day to begin (check in) on Saturday July 26,
NOT TOMOROW FRIDAY

Saturday, 1st Day, check in, practice and madatory pilots meeting.
Sunday-Tuesday, flying rounds.

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07-26-2013 07:07 PM 8 years ago

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Vector3

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How sad.
Five total entries for the three standard AMA classes.
Good for you five flyers, but AMA continually drops the ball when it comes to the AMA Nats.

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07-27-2013 03:28 AM 8 years ago

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Santiago P

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Yes, numbers are low.

There are 14 pilots with 17 entries including F3C and scale and AMA precision.

We WILL have a good time.

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07-27-2013 07:40 AM 8 years ago

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RogerRabbit62

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That is the point people miss.
We allways had a great time at the competitions.

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07-29-2013 02:16 AM 8 years ago

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Ace Dude

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How sad.
Five total entries for the three standard AMA classes.
Good for you five flyers, but AMA continually drops the ball when it comes to the AMA Nats.

I don't where the AMA continually drops the ball when it comes to the Nats.

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07-29-2013 02:43 AM 8 years ago

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In general people don't have the time, desire, or discipline to put in what is required for contest flying. You see tons of people flipping and flopping their helis and most barely under control. But try to hold a precise hover over a flag and realize how tough it is, most people will go back to flippity floping

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07-29-2013 04:16 AM 8 years ago

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Vector3

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Well Ace Dude. if you have been paying attention over the last several years you would have an idea of what I am speaking.
If not then I guess ignorance is bliss.

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07-29-2013 02:03 PM 8 years ago

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FireNWater

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Well Ace Dude. if you have been paying attention over the last several years you would have an idea of what I am speaking.
If not then I guess ignorance is bliss.

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If you knew of what you were speaking about then you wouldn't make statements like this. If not, then you would.
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07-29-2013 05:22 PM 8 years ago

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Wayne Mann

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I have to agree. I have been to every helicopter Nats since we had the first one there in 1994, I think that was the first year and I can't see where AMA has dropped the ball. They provide a fantastic facility in which to hold the National Championships. I loved it back when the Nats used to travel around the country, but I hated, just like everyone else, not knowing what kind of crappy field we were going to get stuck with.

Poor turn out and the decline of F3C and the lower classes has nothing to do with AMA.

Wayne Mann

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07-31-2013 02:48 AM 8 years ago

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Dwight

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Where did AMA drop the ball?

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