Dana,

We long timers in the sport have tried to get AMA to help us...AMA has consistently rejected such involvement. They have pushed pretty much all of the administraton of pattern matters to the NSRCA with the exception of the contest board and collection of fees from Nats participation (in exchange for using the site and a few resources). They have also relegated all competitive endeavors to much lower importance than they deserve, in favor of the small toy park flying currently showing up all over their MA pages. The guise is that their membership is better served. We can understand some of that but not all.....Truth is that the competition piece is occupied by no more than 5% of the membership; but the developments we all enjoy generally come from competition types....go figure!

I came close last year, as I mentioned earlier, to get some stuff in the AMA website through Bill Pritchett who luckily is also involved in pattern. Somebody should pick that effort back up and push it...

Some of our leader members have put quite an effort in creating schedules through flight simulation video format. As a start, at minimum, placing these vids on the NSRCA website may serve noobies, I agree