ORIGINAL: MTK
ORIGINAL: Mastertech
The result we've seen over the last 20 years, remember I was out of pattern for ten of those years coming back into it was a shock of major proportion, is the difficulty creep in the lower classes. This is directly attributable to FAI necessarily getting more difficult to keep those guys interested and weed out the also-rans from the guys who really can fly on the world stage. The rest rolled downhill right into ''Masters'' Heck Masters today is far harder than FAI was back then by a fair amount.
Killing off Expert was a mistake and disrupted the natural flow we had at the time. One can look at it two different ways I suppose.............
Tim
The FAI/CIAM put together F3A schedules with the sole purpose of picking a World's Champ. Has nothing to do with maintaining guys interest. The people who fly the top World class, have interest galore.
On this point I understand completelty and agree.
What this led to was the trickle down into the AMA classes. No denying it. This is also a perfect point to the airplanes we fly, and all improvements, coming directly from FAI. (Hint that was a weight elimination jab).[8D]
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Adding Expert to AMA ''might'' divide Masters up a little, you may have a small point there. The logistics involved, from shcedule picking, to managing the events to filling the judge chairs, to me, is hardly worth the trouble.
But that's my opinion. YMMV[/quote]
Yes there will be added work, I think it's worth it. We did it before, we can do it again. I'm not as worried about "Breaking up Masters as I am working the flow from the bottom to the top to make it better.
I know I'm tilting at a huge wind mill here but I'm bored today as work has dried up around the shop, normal for this time of year.
Tim