ORIGINAL: multicasting
ORIGINAL: 8178
The good news is if you want to fly you get to build! What could be better than that?
A lot of people, old timers included, would beg to differ. It's a shame that something as prestigious as classic pattern flying will be restricted to thoses who can either afford the time to build or the money to buy a specialty aircraft. I don't care a lick about 3-D aerobatics. I really wantedt o get more involved with classic pattern.
However, it seems if you have an ARF, 'Your kind ain't welcome here...'
Bob
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I have earned the right to fly classic pattern ARFs if I choose to do so. I don't need anyone elses approval. It would be nice, but it isn't mandatory.
I have built my share of Kaos, Dirty Birdy, Deception, Phoenix 8, Tiporare and many others that I have forgotten about. Being a geezer with bad diabetes and PAD, I feel that I can participate using an ARF without any apologies. Sure, I wish I could build straight enough and comfortably enough to fly my own renditions. And I'm not saying that I won't sneak in a home built here and there, but I give myself permission to fly ARFs. Everyone else should give themselves permission too. After all, that is the only permission and approval that you truly need - your own.
I had a couple of my own older pattern designs that I scratched up. I have been thinking about building those, just for hoots. Now that would really put me into the fringes of classic pattern, but it has never stopped me in the past. I doubt that it will stop me now. Arthritis and poor vision might, but not the lack of others' approval. A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do. You can come fly with me if the purists reject you. <G>