FWIW:

I 'm planning on attending my second pattern contest in a week.

I have had some previous (either on RCU or the pattern list) discussion about avoidance being allowed in IMAC but not in pattern and have been told that the concern is that flyers could call an avoidance when they don't need it if they felt they needed a break or to get back on line. I will tell you that I have been to many IMAC contests (10+ years worth) and have never run into this concern.

I can honestly tell you that pattern not allowing avoidance is a discouragement to me to fly pattern and I'd really like to see it be allowed.

Dave Michael