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| You very well could be right. Watching pattern in not very appealing to many people. In fact neither is IMAC, but like you said, IMAC has 3D/Freestyle. That is what people want to see. On the other hand actually flying pattern is very fun in my opinion, and is the same as IMAC minus the 3D/Freestyle part of it. I don't know the answer to this, so I am asking. How many local IMAC contests have Freestyle? Of the ones that do, what percentage of pilots compete in the Freestyle? Is this really a factor? I believe that IMAC planes are just more appealing, and everywhere. If you go to a local club you will see a lot of pilots flying planes that could be flown in an IMAC contest, even if that pilot doesn't compete. You don't see too many pilots with pattern planes if they don't actually compete in pattern. Since I am a diehard pattern pilot I wish is wasn't this way, but we (pattern pilots) just have to accept it for what it is. | |
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I think IMAC is more popular for the reasons you mentioned. One other reason is that I don't think much is done to promote pattern. I couldn't tell you where the nearest pattern contest is to where I live. I rarely see true pattern planes at the local flying fields either. I know some areas are more active than others but either they don't have many contests near me or I just don't hear about them.