ORIGINAL: Doug Cronkhite
As for the NATS, I truly wonder how many Basic pilots would travel to Muncie to compete? If you could demonstrate the numbers, then yeah, I'd include it, but I'd hate to have the class and then have 6 people show up, all local.
Perhaps this rule should be applied to all classes. As I recall a couple of years ago there were very few pilots in Advanced at the NATS. Should we set a minimum number of attendance for a class and if it is not reached, then cancel the class?? That is the logic that flows from the above.