On Saturday, August 30, 2014 6:32:28 PM UTC-4, Retting wrote:
In Response to UH above, I for one was planning on attending both 18m and the Sports. And if you are correct with only 2-3 pilots in both 18m and Club Class, that would be a loss of approx. $6,000 for Hobbs and $3,000 for CCSC understanding of course that this money is spread around.

This difference could be a contest breaking even or in the Red, which really ****es the organizers off, I can only imagine. All because of scheduling that was decided over a year in advance, and that I can only imagine goes a long way to escalating the pondering by many as to what possess the SSA to **** off many when perhaps it was not even necessary.

But hey...maybe there was a reason...UH....???

UH????Was it necessary to anger the membership?

Rolf??? There should be an answer as to why. Did they not provide you with a reason? After all...CCSC and the contest Organizers are entitled to an answer.

They will be losing the money.

Unbelievable.

Hey!!! Lets have some feedback...anyone else hoping to attend both???

R

I think R overstates things a bit. It is true that participation is very important but the numbers thrown about are way off. In a VERY well run contest the organizers MIGHT clear $100/ per pilot. CCSC tends to do better than this because of their low cost of tows by virtue of using their tugs and pilots which is financially very beneficial.
The "SSA" is a group of volunteers who have no desire to **** anyone off. They put together the best schedule they can based upon what organizers offer to run, part of which is organizers preferred schedule.
Club just broke free this year and I suspect Hobbs picked up because they were the only viable group that could add it for 2015.
MNLou says pull Club for Hobbs and reschedule. Where would he propose to put Club? It is the express intent to break Club away from Sports and 2015 is the first year it will be apart.
The kind of nastiness that comes from some of these exchanges, including the implication that some evil plan might be behind these decisions, is what has caused our SSA contest leadership to lose a number of key long term volunteers over the last 2 years. My rough estimate is a loss of about 70 years of aggregate experience lost during this time.
I have been planning to go to CCSC, but think maybe I'll reconsider.
How about we play nice kids.
UH