Personally I don't think the sequences are going to have a real effect either way. While it is a good thing that the two of you guys are concerned with keeping pattern alive and increasing participation, IMO if a guy ways to give pattern a try he will. What we need to do and I think Chip is doing a great job at is to be an ambassador of our sport. Take time to encourage and help guys that may have interest. When they do make it to a contest, support them and MAKEDARNEDSURETHEYHAVEFUN. At Bakersfield that is exactly what Chip and a few other geys were doing. I saw Mike Caglia calling for a couple sportsman pilots. Verano and Rusty were taking to to guys with questons, The Kimbros are always approachable. These are the guys who have been playing this game for a long time and have seen the waves of participants come and go.

Peter, please by no means take this as a jab. What I see at Tomcats is the pattern group taking over a corner of the pit area and not interacting with the sport flyers. These are the clubs pattern prospects. There are a ton of guys flying scale aerobats that could be approached. Ask them to call your sequence for you or maybe just spot for you while you fly the sequence. You may get their interest that way. Once you show them a few setup tricks on their airplanes, offer to call them through the sequence. This is what I did when I was flying alot of IMAC. It worked and at one point IMAC pilots were plentiful at Tomcats. The wave rolled out and now IMAC is dead at Tomcats, thats the way it workes. Something is popular for a while and then something else gains popularity. Right now we have more pattern pilots since Bob Whitachre was promoting pattern but nobody is reaching out to the club members to recruit new piolts.