GDS&HS
2007 ONE-DESIGN POSTAL CONTEST
04NO07
CD REPORT
NOTE: We also ran a club contest this day but it will be
handled on a separate report.
It was all Ray DiNoble’s idea!
It seems that even though Ray moved away to the far off land of one-armed-bandits he keeps remembering his old flying buddies. Ray suggested that the LVSC, TOSS and GDS&HS clubs have a postal contest using the “MPX Easy Glider” (aka the “Beer Cooler”) this weekend, and we did.
Ray requested Mike Reagan and myself get our clubs set up and we gladly pitched in.
We are sure glad he made the suggestion because we had a ball today in what for Michigan is really nice weather, maybe our last for some time. It was in the 40’s with minimal wind and a lot of sun early in the day. The overcast rolled in around 1:00 and the light spotty lift that we did have went down the porcelain convenience, but it was still a nice day to be out with the fall colors and crunchy leaves.
An hour after the contest was over a front moved through and the clouds parted and bigger lift/sink cycles came. The pilots that stayed had a great time specking out for a while. It got so quite and hour later that I flew my indoor 3D ship if that gives you a perspective on the late afternoon wind.
As you will see from the score sheet we had 11 players and this is really great as more than half of them are still learning winch launch techniques and several are really beginners on the sticks, it was a great to see them participate and pick up their skills. We allowed high start launches but all the participants decided to stay with the winch as the low wind made the winch a better option. Some of us are starting to stress the little chunks of foam using zooms. Boy do those wings bend a bunch.
I allowed an open winch from 11:00 to 2:00 and Hutch did the same for the four round club contest so the pilots flying both got in seven flights plus fun flying later.
Hutch put us all away with a perfect on time but the real cheers go to Jim Fetterly who told Hutch which way to go and when to turn, too bad none of us can land or Hutch may have had a chance at the “US Beer Cooler” title rather than just the GDSHS title. It was not even close at our field as Hutch picked a couple of good chunks of air to win over a 13:26 second place and 9:43 third place.
The joke about Jim and Hutch is that Hutch did not know his target time for the last flight so while Jim was timing, Hutch sent him over to the score sheet to calculate how long he had to fly. Good going both of you.
I can’t give you a blow-by-blow of the contest as I was busy timing and flying, but it was a very good contest for a lottery style contest (not MOM) because none of the flights were easy in the spotty air (sandbagging helped only a little). Even if you were in what you thought was good air, it would just go away. No one specked out in the contest meaning it required moving around and finding little chunks of lift to keep you up for a few more seconds. In other words a real sailplaners contest.
It was fun for all of us and brought out pilots who would normally not fly in a club contest so it was really great and I hope we do it again next year.
Jack Iafret
NAME
|
SCORE |
PLACE |
|
Hutch |
910 |
1 |
|
Jack Iafret |
806 |
2 |
|
Rick Waitulionis |
767 |
3 |
|
Dave Corven |
749 |
4 |
|
Mike Wade |
658 |
5 |
|
John Ferguson |
602 |
6 |
|
Jim Fetterly |
583 |
7 |
|
Barney Bauer |
345 |
8 |
|
Wolfgang Ludwig |
330 |
9 |
|
John White |
275 |
10 |
|
Dennis Kozak |
208 |
11 |