noel.wade wrote:
Just to put a bug in people's ear:

There appear to be MANY good presentations scheduled for this year.

Rather than a single "wrap-up" issue of SOARING that covers the
covention, can we maybe try to entice some of the presenters to
convert their materials into articles for SOARING? If 1 - 3 articles
per issue of SOARING were based on these convention presentations, the
convention-based content could last quite awhile, too!

--Noel
(Who's really regretting his workload and inability to attend this
year)



This is a good idea. However, if the SOARING editor reads RAS, he is
keeping a very low profile, so he won't see this post unless it is sent
to his email address, not RAS.

One of the mysteries of SOARING is why it has never used the material
presented at conventions as ideas for articles. Perhaps the reason is
that in recent years the editors have just looked in the mailbag to see
what people have sent in, rather than actively approaching people about
writing articles. I do wish that the current editor was an enthusiastic
and active cross-country soaring pilot with connections throughout the
soaring community -- that would greatly help with the quality of the
magazine.

I must say that the January issue was quite good, with several
interesting articles.