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Thread: [Acro] Re: WAC/AWAC - Are you interested
Message: [Acro] Re: WAC/AWAC - Are you interested
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From: "Louis Rutledge" <louisrutledge at hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 23:10:50 UTC
If by chance you happen to be a female all you have to do is show up and you make the team. The IAC is more interested in sending as many people as possible to have fun in Europe rather than sending fewer more qualified pilots who have a chance to win. >From: "Gregory Inman" <grinman at nortelnetworks.com> >To: IAC List <acro at gf24.de> >Subject: [Acro] WAC/AWAC - Are you interested >Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 17:52:12 -0400 > > >For what its worth... I've competed in the past at the Sportsman level, but >for the last couple of years have been out building a more competitive >airplane. I plan on working my up the levels, but can't really forsee >having >the time necessary to devote to practice to really make the "team". Oh, I >think about it every know and then, but it's a pretty distant goal, and >calling it a goal is a bit of a stretch. > >I think the point I'm trying to make is that if suddenly I had the time and >the airplane, as things stand now, I have the impression that all I would >have to do is practice and compete ( and win, of course) in order to make >the team. If the selection process is changed to be based on something >other >then competition, that would add another factor or roadblock to my goal. >One >that I might not be either willing or able to address in order to be >selected. > >Because selection by competition has this egalitarian "air" about it, I >feel >a closer kinship to the people on the team and am more willing to support >them. If they were to be selected by some process based on criteria other >then the ability to win in contests, then I would probably feel the same >way as I feel about the Olympics right now: great little diversion, but >doesn't have anything to do with me or the aerobatics that I fly. > >Greg Inman _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
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