On Aug 28, 4:36*pm, Ron Gleason wrote:
Just saw on the SSA website that the R12 contest has been cancelled.
Anyone know the story and reason(s)? *Just curious as I was thinking
of attending at one point but could not rearrange my schedule

Ron Gleason

Mainly canceled for lack of participation. My opinion is R12 has lost
the "contest culture" with OLC filling the need for both up coming and
older contest pilots. The learning benefit from getting 25 pilots in a
room breaking bread together for 5 days of shared tasks has been
forgotten by the old...to the decrement of the new contest pilot. I
tend to reject the "bad location" argument as Warner Springs/Sky
Sailing gave R12 a strong push for two years in a very family friendly
location with no better attendance results than we projected for IYK.
For flying, IYK is fantastic, just look at OLC.

Perhaps the best idea is to hold non-sanctioned 1-2 day contests at
the various R12 sites until a new region wide group of pilots emerges
who would be interested in feeding into a bigger event. Avenal and
the DDD are good local examples of well attended low cost events which
can be replicated at other locations.

If you live in R12, you may have to travel far to experience a good
contest...and it is worth it.

Larry Tuohino
IYK Contest Organizer