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RE: NON CD AMA/IMAA Event!! - 5/10/2008 9:07:58 PM   
combatpigg



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Status: offline 		A good CD will address past problems with the participants at the next pilots meeting to resolve differences and lay down the law. Sometimes it takes a consensus opinion from the participants to clarify gray areas and come up with solutions to procedural problems.
As a C/L combat flyer [which can be as out for blood as any event known to the AMA] I have seen some of the most difficult situations handled very smoothly by CDs who could think very quickly on their feet. It doesn't hurt that these men possess 150 IQs to begin with. Some guys just aren't cut-out to be CDs, no matter how well intentioned they might be.
When it comes to being a good CD, there is also no substitute for experience. The best CDs have solutions to most common problems already well rehearsed in advance.

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RE: NON CD AMA/IMAA Event!! - 5/23/2008 1:54:24 AM   
rnav



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Status: offline 		Our club is having a vary large event this fall. It will not be sanctioned with the AMA. Or the IMAA. That sanction doesn’t mean anything. Pilots will have to have a current AMA card.

That is all.


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RE: NON CD AMA/IMAA Event!! - 5/23/2008 3:24:12 AM   
rcflyertim



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Status: offline 		Sorry for the long delay. I went to the Joe Nall for a week and just getting back home. The CD had his hands full with over 600+ pilots on the flight line. I never got a chance to ask him after it was over..how did it go?

Good post while I was absent. LIttlecrankshaf....I liked your comments on experience and maybe you are correct. I guess in my years of CD'ing events I had never expereince anything like this. I will be prepared next time that is for sure.
Hossfly makes a good point too. Maybe I am approaching this from the wrong point of view. Maybe I am sore and have a bitter taster in my mouth about the whole thing and not thinking of the group for the actions of one.
Combatpigg has made me realize that there is always something that hasn't been thought out. I try ...but even I didn't plan for this type of behavoir. Maybe I need to go to a WWF meet!!!!

Has anyone ever had to ask someone to leave an event due to their behavior?

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RE: NON CD AMA/IMAA Event!! - 5/23/2008 4:51:23 AM   
Hossfly



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Sorry for the long delay. I went to the Joe Nall for a week and just getting back home. The CD had his hands full with over 600+ pilots on the flight line. I never got a chance to ask him after it was over..how did it go?


Great. Hope you had an equally great good time.

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Has anyone ever had to ask someone to leave an event due to their behavior?


In all these years I don't recall such. From my early CD days for FF and CL down in Laredo TX on up to Chicago, Il area, modelers were all pretty much gentlemen. It was not until the late '70s and past into the '80s that the first contraries began to show up.
Still I think a well prepared CD can just set an air around the troops at the start that will hold back bad behaviour. Doesn't mean discussions cannot be had. Always keep them easy and light and ONE on ONE at first. Seems to work for me.

edited: of vice if.


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