Tom Helvey wrote:Are there any alternative locations for SDCCU?
Nothing local. Closest alternatives are Fontana, Lake Elsinore (now used by SCCA San Diego), and El Toro (used by PCA OCR).
Tom Helvey wrote:How about the MCAS Miramar tarmac? Maybe give military deeply discounted AX and PDS registrations?
MCAS Miramar doesn't really have space. Even if they
were amenable to letting us in (which they're not, see the east gate traffic jams during the recent Iran dustup?), I'm afraid we don't share the same value system. Free AX for service members isn't nearly enough of a carrot to get over the work of hosting us on a Saturday. We're asking them to do extra work (clearing folks for base entry) on a day that most of the base is taking a day off.
We face the same problem at other military bases, e.g Coronado or
NOLF, which is really quiet on weekends. Our programs don't provide enough value for the COs to take on the extra work, extra
risk.
Military tarmac is, for the forseeable future, not in our future.
Tom Helvey wrote:PCASDR AX events are really great, great people, fun courses, not to mention really close.
I'm going to miss them if they have to go, but if they have to move, just tell me where and I'll be there.
Yes, we're possibly witnessing the end of an era. We've been racing in Jack Murphy Stadium for some 40 years!
Our best hope for local action is probably the Otay EVOC, but that's slow going (in more ways than one).