| MAY 6, 2006 GDSHS CLUB CONTEST | |||||||||||||
| CD - Steve Martinez | |||||||||||||
| We had a comfortable sunny day with light winds of 5 - 10 mph. The lift was challenging early, but did become more predictable | |||||||||||||
| as the afternoon progressed. Still, if you didn't pay attention to the cycles you got burned! We had 10 fliers and a few | |||||||||||||
| spectators | (Roger,Sergi & Jim). Although I didn't realize it, I was the designated CD for this contest. Since I hadn't put much thought | ||||||||||||
| into it, I decide to have a straight forward 'open window' four round contest with tasks of 6, 8, 10, 10, minutes respectively | |||||||||||||
| with a 100 point graduated landing tape. Some interesting stats from the day, no flier maxed all four rounds. | |||||||||||||
| Of the 40 landings possible, collectively we only hit 17 for a 42.5 percent success rate and only one pilot hit all 4 landings, | |||||||||||||
| ( we know where the other 9 need to work! ) The average score on landings was 27 points. So, as a group not only | |||||||||||||
| did we miss a lot of landings but our scores were low, PRACTICE! PRACTICE! PRACTICE!!! | |||||||||||||
| All that said, we still had a lot of fun with the usual jokes and cajoling! Several guys were setting up new ships for the season, | |||||||||||||
| John Ferguson and Dennis Kozak had some new two meters they working on. Corven(ski) had his new 'Supra' flying quite nicely | |||||||||||||
| (WAY to nice a ship for Dave, I think he should let Hutch fly it!) Jerry Marcicki was flying his' AVA' and it looked nice in the air! | |||||||||||||
| I'm still working on the new 'DUCK' , but it's going to be a winner! We were missing a couple of our regulars, Ken Rogus -still up north, | |||||||||||||
| Hutch - well, who knows what Hutch does?, and Mike Wade who took a nap all afternoon in his van because he forgot his wing rod! | |||||||||||||
| As you can see from this months results Jimmy is "the man in the bull's eye" and is setting the bar high so far this season. | |||||||||||||
| 1) | Jim Marcicki | 2026 | |||||||||||
| 2) | Dave Corven | 1936 | |||||||||||
| 3) | Alex Straub | 1849 | |||||||||||
| 4) | John Ferguson | 1764 | |||||||||||
| 5) | Jack Iafret | 1556 | |||||||||||
| 6) | Greg Nilsen | 1383 | |||||||||||
| 7) | Gerry Marcicki | 1245 | |||||||||||
| 8) | Dick Stratton | 1202 | |||||||||||
| 9) | Steve Martinez | 884 | |||||||||||
| 10) | Dennis Kozak | 771 | |||||||||||