Why is it so hard to have a pattern contest the way we did before turnaround ??
Who cares if it's BPA, SPA or whatever. Everyone who was flying back then should
remember the rules that were in place. There were no exclusions for any airplane
design, retracts, or whatever , just the .60 engine size restriction. We shouldn't even
need a new organization. Why couldn't we add another classic pattern class to the
contests we already have ? We keep starting new organizations and no one is going
to go to any of them. I personally like both styles and if one of the old patterns was added
to one of our current contests I would probably fly both classes , and don't say there aren't
enough contest quality .60 two-strokes around because that is simply not true, one of our local
hobby shops has a display case full of them and probably a hundred used ones for sale.

tommy s