ORIGINAL: 8178
But if the engine quit after the landing, roll out and stop and it could not taxi back to the hanger didn’t that impact the score? Seems like I remember that but it was a long time ago. There was also a starting box, and then taxi to the end of the runway for takeoff, right?
8178 you are correct, that was a part of the early to mid 60's patterns. I wrote the pattern sequences currently used for the VRCS back in 2001 by studying AMA rule books from 1959, 1965 and 1969. The earlier two were used to develop the Class 1 and Class 2 sequences and the '69 used to create the Class 3 sequence. In VRCS there is only one skill level per class, ie no sportsman, advanced, masters, etc. Pattern in VRCS is pretty informal so there was a need to have enough maneuvers to make it interesting but not too challenging or nobody would enter...
Those sequences give the flavor of 1960's AMA events but are not direct copies of any one complete sequence.