Greater Detroit Soaring & Hiking Society

Michigan Soaring League Final

2006

Contest Director Report-W. Hutchings

The Addison Oaks GDSHS field was ready for action, thanks to Rob Coffee and his staff.

The winches and retrievers/lines were checked, and double-checked by Richard Stratton, Mike Wade, and Ken Rogus.

The shed was cleaned and checked by Joe Schnur and Mike Holmes.

“Wolf,” ordered food: Wolfgang Ludwig.

Safety was assured by Steve Martinez.

Scoring equipment (batteries and pencils) readied by Rodger Van Elslander.

All we needed was RC Sailplane pilots on Saturday, September 16, 2006.

And they came.

Nineteen pilots were present to end the MSL season at our home field at Addison Oaks. Team GDSHS were present at 8:00 AM to set winches in the direction of the wind.

No Wind! Cool and overcast, low level soup. We decided on a South setup, with landings a little cross wind, but with no wind, and excellent pilots, Steve felt it would be safe.

Pilots were arriving. Harry DeBoer and Larry Jeffries were there, practicing for the next weekend in the Masters of Soaring in Muncie. Cal Posthuma was unable to attend and defend his position for 2006, assuring Mike Stump the MSL 1^st place.

Three classes were flown: Unlimited (16 flyers), Two meter (10) and RES (11).

A four round contest, with tasks of 4-6-8-10 minutes and LARGE landing tapes to 60 points. Later, pilots were asked if they wanted a 5^th round, it being only 2:30 PM. No 5^th round was flown.

Wolf and Don prepped the Brauts with chips, pickles and sauerkraut for lunch. John Ferguson and Wolf put on a Patriotic flying routine, a favorite of mine and I think all of the flyers enjoyed it. That Stryker, by the way, can go vertical to 1000 feet in 15 seconds.

It was a difficult day to fly. The sun, predicted to appear at 1:00 PM, never came. It was even soupy in the early afternoon for high launches. Clearly, the big AVA’s of Dennis Hoyle and Harry (a Super) were at an advantage. Launch high, fly smooth, range to good air, and get lucky. Conditions could have been worse, as you will remember past years were cold, windy, and just unpleasant.

John Winstanley (Downwindstanley) had the unfortunate luck of loosing site of his plane for a moment, low and far away, downwind. Ken Shaw had a receiver battery short in the ZOOM at launch. Bill Pates went into the pocket deep with an older Oly II on a Wade winch. Steve timed Bill’s Monokote at 10 minutes; Mike Holmes had the stab at 3 minutes. Lou was a player, but on landing, hit himself for a 0 in that round.

Nice pilots, good help, good equipment, and nice field, filling lunch and drinks, decent weather: Can’t find a better way to spend the day. Thanks for coming and enjoying our contest.

Wilbert Hutchings, CD

RESULTS

	2 METER SCORES
	2006 MSL FINALS
	16SE06		ROUND NO. 4
No	Last Name	First Name	Total	Percent of Total
1	Ferguson	John	1572	100.00
2	Robinson	Bob	1540	97.96
3	Martinez	Steve	1518	96.56
4	Jeffery	Larry	1485	94.47
5	Gliniecki	Jim	1460	92.88
6	Marcicki	Gerry	1178	74.94
7	Kozak	Dennis	1048	66.67
8	Winstanley	John	920	58.52
9	Rogus	Ken	762	48.47
10	Milio	Ray	436	27.74

	RES SCORES
	2006 MSL FINALS
	16SE06		ROUND NO. 4
No	Last Name	First Name	Total	Percent of Total
1	Hoyle	Dennis	1904	100.00
2	DeBoer	Harry	1786	93.80
3	Robinson	Bob	1596	83.82
4	Milio	Ray	1442	75.74
5	Marcicki	Gerry	1419	74.53
6	Kozak	Dennis	1270	66.70
7	Shaw	Ken	1233	64.76
8	Hutch		1108	58.19
9	Gliniecki	Jim	1072	56.30
10	Shaw	Dave	854	44.85

	UNLIMITED SCORES
	2006 MSL FINALS
	16SE06		ROUND NO. 4
No	Last Name	First Name	Total	Percent of Total
1	DeBoer	Harry	1877	100.00
2	Hoyle	Dennis	1832	97.60
3	Robinson	Bob	1804	96.11
4	Jeffery	Larry	1650	87.91
5	Martinez	Steve	1638	87.27
6	Straub	Alex	1556	82.90
7	Sorensen	Al	1532	81.62
8	Shaw	Dave	1523	81.14
9	Wade	Mike	1521	81.03
10	Hutch		1325	70.59
11	Rogus	Ken	1093	58.23
12	Winstanley	John	1075	57.27
13	Pates	Bob	901	48.00
14	Shaw	Ken	810	43.15
15	Milio	Ray	688	36.65
16	Kozak	Dennis	602	32.07