Thanks guys. I'll sit down and play with some of these ideas over xmas. 

John I don't know the pattern people at all, as I mostly fly F5B /glider for comps and freestyle aero for fun.  However I have 2 metre Vanquish that should get finished up over the next week or two. So I'll be out at Blacktown doing the odd sequence next year.

You definitely see the country travelling to comps. I've been to Kiev, Pitesti (Romania) and Muncie flying F5B and  had fun at all of it.