Bill, looking at the SCAT schedules, it’s hard to believe scheduling is driven at the club level based on the regular rolling 6 week period between the SCAT events posted on your web site. July is the only apparent outlier due to reasons we all understand. (In AZ it’s air conditioning!). With excuses and blame put aside from either “org” or who was first to place the date, and with web sites and e-mail open to the world, is there any respect or compromise left for exploitation based on just the past years events? Last year’s Tucson Spring IMAC was held April 26-27, 2003. Your 2003 Phoenix SCAT contest was weeks earlier. Out of 365 days per year, did a Phoenix club invite a 2004 SCAT contest in place of the only 2004 Arizona spring contest here on the exact 6-week mark? If you only have 6 SCAT contests per year, in just a handful of states, it would be too easy to see possible conflicts with today’s technology. If you need the help for this, I will volunteer. Steam-rolling an IMAC event is putting us in a “corner” practice-wise and hotel-wise no matter who throws excuses first. If SCAT is attracting more pilots in Arizona, why not make sure it is done in “admirable” fashion with good date separations? Otherwise, my thinking will rack up the “roving CD” as the major limiter for SCAT. If you can make SCAT a plus to the any state’s competition trail, and not a substitute, everyone will benefit.

(All mention of “benefit” regarding Contest Directors (CD’s) is exclusively denied based on form, fit and function of the term “everyone” when an RC transmitter is not in the actual presence of a CD’s bodily controlling influence.)