ILWG Folks: Inexpensive Hotels in West Chicago?

[Eclipse]

Glad to hear it!
It sounds like you had many good people there!

We did, but we could have used a lot more.

[CAP4117]

  Low turnout?

[Eclipse]

Sadly yes, and at least partially due to calendar deconfliction issues.  Many people at the C&C level, and others all over the flow chart, had been nearly "active duty" CAP since June.

An encampment, two flight academies, NESA, national boards, and the prep missions leading up to the eval. Not to mention "regular" CAP stuff like meetings, staff jobs, and similar.

At some point a lot of people just ran out of kitchen passes.  We had serious resource constraints all weekend, especially on the ground side.  Ultimately that makes the end result all the more impressive, but it doesn't need to be as hard as it was.

The eval cycle is going to change, so we'll have another full eval next year, and probably fairly early, so we'll get another at bat sooner than most people
would expect, and certainly while lessons learned are fresh.

[CAP4117]

That's unfortunate. But, it's good to know that the EVAL will be earlier next year - I hope we can have a higher turnout (including myself)!

[Spaceman3750]

Sadly yes, and at least partially due to calendar deconfliction issues.  Many people at the C&C level, and others all over the flow chart, had been nearly "active duty" CAP since June.

An encampment, two flight academies, NESA, national boards, and the prep missions leading up to the eval. Not to mention "regular" CAP stuff like meetings, staff jobs, and similar.

At some point a lot of people just ran out of kitchen passes.  We had serious resource constraints all weekend, especially on the ground side.  Ultimately that makes the end result all the more impressive, but it doesn't need to be as hard as it was.

The eval cycle is going to change, so we'll have another full eval next year, and probably fairly early, so we'll get another at bat sooner than most people
would expect, and certainly while lessons learned are fresh.

You guys did a good job of working with RUL to get a third team out the door. Unfortunately it meant you had to pull people from other jobs but the bottom line was that we had taskings to conduct and not enough people.

BTW - Normally it's the ground ops grotto... The only reason it was a bistro is because you brought a coffee maker and Starbucks!

[Eclipse]

BTW - Normally it's the ground ops grotto... The only reason it was a bistro is because you brought a coffee maker and Starbucks!

Don't forget the Smooth Jazz!

[Spaceman3750]

BTW - Normally it's the ground ops grotto... The only reason it was a bistro is because you brought a coffee maker and Starbucks!

Don't forget the Smooth Jazz!

Heh - next time we'll bring scones and make it a party .

[ol'fido]

I'll bring Moonpies and RC Cola, ya'all. Can we play some Hank?

[SAR-EMT1]

Sadly yes, and at least partially due to calendar deconfliction issues.  Many people at the C&C level, and others all over the flow chart, had been nearly "active duty" CAP since June.

An encampment, two flight academies, NESA, national boards, and the prep missions leading up to the eval. Not to mention "regular" CAP stuff like meetings, staff jobs, and similar.

At some point a lot of people just ran out of kitchen passes.  We had serious resource constraints all weekend, especially on the ground side.  Ultimately that makes the end result all the more impressive, but it doesn't need to be as hard as it was.

The eval cycle is going to change, so we'll have another full eval next year, and probably fairly early, so we'll get another at bat sooner than most people
would expect, and certainly while lessons learned are fresh.

Would have liked to have played a part but work commitments prevented it. Do we know yet when next years activities will be ?

[Eclipse]

Would have liked to have played a part but work commitments prevented it. Do we know yet when next years activities will be ?

Nothing has been announced, officially, they haven't even published the scores from this one yet, publicly.
Word is it will likely be very early in 2012.