Again, I do not have a issue with it, its others around me, as said I will never be serious serious about the SPA, I will fly in local events but I do not have the means to travel to all the events and even if i did i wouldn't. I enjoy flying more then 4 times in a day at the Field lol.
but as some see it they are getting beat by guys flying non Patterns planes in novice, these guys are not good enough to move up in class but they complain about getting beat by a novice just because hes novice never flew in SPA but has flown in FAI or IMAC or whatever.
I agree with ED I think said it, a 3D guy wouldn't be very good at SPA but a IMAC guy could be. i will admit if I had not flown some IMAC i had not been as good as I was at the SPA. I think its good to have a class that allows other planes then SPA planes. I know they have limited in size what you can fly cause last year from what I hear they were getting beat by huge IMAC type planes.
Me personally I feel now with the new rules no plane over what 72 inches or whatever and with motor size that it does not matter, i think if you get beat by a IMAC guy so what, hes better then you or he got lucky (unless same guy beats you more then one time)
deal with it its competition it is not supposed to be easy. I just wondered how everyone else felt.
ORIGINAL: rainedave
I think the system is set up for those who are serious about competition and work hard to win on a consistent basis by going to as many contests as they can. They get moved up automatically by mastering their current class (winning three contests, for example). In theory, this is the way it should work.
But, I'm interested in hearing more about the problem you've raised, Night_prowler26. It's possible that an SPA member could go to every contest in a given season and get beat every time by a different local pilot who only enters that one contest. How do you work around that? Maybe it's just something that is inherent to Novice, and goes away in the higher classes.
Any other thoughts?
David