DM,

Thanks for that. I still think I personally like the idea. I wasn't thinking when I associated it with classic "pattern flying" though. There is a difference. However, if a meet was put together with the understanding that there will be classic pattern flying broken up with artistic segments, it may not be so bad. ...so long as everyone knew what it was about- to begin with (no surprises). Hopefully those that aren't into the "artsy" part of it could endure until the next round starts. It would be something to see/do while points get tallied, if an event would so choose to do it this way, or to break up the events. It adds the old with the new. It is a way to interrest new blood as well.

The reason I put the 2 together originally is only because of the aircraft involved.