ORIGINAL: Hossfly

RCPAUL, would you please advise me, (KEN, I'm asking for whatever he wishes to say I really LOVE a HOT Kitchen. ) concerning my tone and attitude. All my life I may have built sloppy models, but perfection in my work was always a definite goal. Far two many years watching non-caring individuals perform sloppy work, which only increased the loads on their peers, endowed me with about the same attitude against the non-performers as Thomas Jefferson had against tyrants.
As a youngster I was most fortunate in being allowed to help in the fields from age 6 to 14. At 14, I was working in the log-woods of East Texas. By 15 I was working on right-of-way crews. By 16 I was working as a welder's helper on pipelines, where detailed performance was a requirement. At 19 and 4 months, I entered the USAF Aviation Cadet program and I assure you sloppy performance was NOT tolerated there. I credit my Avn-Cdt success, because as a teen-ager I learned to be more attentive to what I was doing due to my work ethic and such provided me skills not learned in a class room or long summer vacations doing nothing but vacation. Not having a silver spoon in my mouth at birth was a real gift.

The tone of the volunteer that bemoans performing to his/her best because he/she receives no compensation is the tone I have a grudge for. If you volunteer to do something, then do it as well as you can or get out of the way of those that can and will.

Therefore I do have a grudge against the C-Restricted item because not ONE INCH of sanction protection is afforded the C-R sanction. Regular "C" is allowed 100 miles between "C" events.
This item is the killing factor as far as IMAA events go. As I stated neither the IMAA Board or the AMA EC will address this situation. As a long time IMAA supporter, a very much longer AMA member and one who has written several letters about this inequity and dereliction of duty for the membership being second place to a few EGOS in the hierarchy, with no response, yes I do have an attitude there.

The very last experience was when my club planned an IMAA (IMAA Charter 148) two day event. We had the IMAA/AMA Sanction 9 mo. before the event. Over 6 months we worked up a great event. 2 months before our event a nearby club, better situated than our facility, applied and was issued an AMA Sanction for a Big Bird 2 day Event on our date. Since our IMAA event was restricted to IMAA only and theirs was not, they blew us out of the water. While the local RCCC had tried to intervene, the DVP and the AMA Pres. both stood and upheld for the other club. Needless to say that never again have I, and will not again attend a Houston area Barnstormer's event if I was paid to. Before that I attended all that I possibly could.

BTW, over the years I learned to research for truth and not depend on someone else. When in USAF pilot training, and had a solo scheduled, I quickly "researched" where the instructors would be flying, so I could sneek out somewhere else and chase the trucks on the highway. Knowledge can provide fun as well as labor.

Now RCPAUL I failed to get elected simply because I did not get enough votes. Fortunately some 5% of AMA's elgible voters figured one that performs for the betterment of the unit rather than their own ego and self-gratification was worth voting for. IMO, when one has to compromise standards of decency to get elected, then getting elected isn't worth being elected. If I have to kiss your rear to work FOR YOU, then, simply, I don't have to work for you. [sm=49_49.gif]

So again I request YOUR explanation of my tone and attitude.

edited; spelling typo