This has been mentioned in the K Factor, but to be sure nobody misses it, I'll post it here as well. In an attempt to spur some fence sitters into attending a pattern competition and competing for the district championship, Mike Hester has graciously offered to award the champion of the 2006 District 3 sportsman class with an ARC Black Magic v-2. This is a full tilt 2 meter custom built widebody plane proven in competition. The 2nd and 3rd place winner will get a nice surprise as well.

This plane will have all the options, carbon canopy, wing and stab tubes, fixed C/F landing gear and pants, ready to paint and cover. To see more info, visit Mike's page at www.customairframes.com and have a look at the V2. It's a great plane and will provide a new intermediate pilot with a really valuable tool for the future.

Note that the winner must attend and compete in the district championship contest to receive the plane.

This will only work if we ALL work very hard to get the word out. So please, if you have some potential new competitors in mind, let them know about this and hopefully we can draw a few new pilots into our fold.

Thanks, Emory Schroeter.

This would be great if all the districts adopted the same offering. Since I am a fledgling Sportsman flyer, I would definitely be interested in competing!!

DS.

I'm sure most of the guys who flew pattern in the "old days" can remember that prizes
of this sort were given out at nearly all the pattern meets. It was normal to see fuel,
engines, kits, radios and all sorts of great prizes given away.

tommy s

Emory:

Fantastic incentive for a beginner on a budget. Kudo's to Mike on his generosity.

To clarify, is the offer available only to "fence sitters" who join as new NSRCA members for 2006, who may compete in the Sportsman Class ?

Steve

Yes Steve, you have to be an NSRCA member to win the championship. It seems that hasn't been clear in the past........and I'm sorry about that.

I'll also up the Autie and say that I'll also paint and monokote the plane at cost, owners paint scheme (within reason).

-Mike

Although the offer is for whoever is eligible and wins the sportsman class championship, not just the undecided.....heh.

-Mike

D7............We should adopt something similar.


Great idea for those guys who fly pattern with sport aircraft, just to see if they like the flying.

i hope a younger flyer wins d3 next year nothing like the face of a kid when they are given there first pattern plane . good deal mike


gary

The sportsman winner is just lucky I'm not building their plane. By the time they got it, they would be flying masters. We hope to see lots of faces flying sportsman this season!

Emory.

And Emory, even though you have a couple of Black Shadows in the works, there will be no dropping down in classes. BTW since I saw you flying FAI sequences at the districts in 2005 I assume that's what you will be flying all 2006.

Thanks to both you and Mike for the good work

Best regards and good flying,
mike

Hey Mike,

I will most likely stick with Masters. However, the FAI sequences are lots of fun to practice. And, I already thought about going back down to Sportsman, but decided against it =)

Thanks,
Emory.