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What a great competition
Santa Cruz Flats Race 2021
(Francisco Grande, Casa Grande, AZ, USA)
Almost every one had an extremely fun time flying in Casa Grande last week. Six days out of seven were flown. It was great that we didn't fly the one day that we didn't. Rain on the day after. Rain on the day before.
Really enjoyed the day that we flew in the weakest conditions. Really enjoyed the day Zac and I climbed so high and just finished much faster than anyone else.
Task calls were very appropriate for the limited number of hours of daylight in late September.
We had great support from the volunteers especially at the launch. Launch conditions were excellent.
Scoring was very rapid and it was taking place remotely in Colombia. The trackers worked great after the first day (don't know what caused the problem on the first day).
You can review the races here: https://airtribune.com/santa-cruz-flats-race-2021/blog__day_7 with Replay.
Day seven is quite interesting: https://airtribune.com/play/5526/2d
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Day 7, task 6, narrative
Santa Cruz Flats Race 2021
(Francisco Grande, Casa Grande, AZ, USA)
The task:
My flight:
I hang on this time behind Bobby Bailey and he finally flies straight and to a turning pilot. I join up and there is a reasonable amount of lift around (less than 200 fpm). The pilots climb up together and we get to 6,300' a couple of times before taking the second clock at 2:15 PM. We are all outside the start cylinder and have to go back to get the second start time.
We all head out together and there are little bits of lift here and there but not much worth turning in. I make a few turns then head for Casa Grande Mountain and not finding anything there keep going east to the spot where I found good lift before when I came in second for the day. We've got an north northwest wind, the same as on that previous day, and I'm looking to get away from the hill, sort of in the lee and over some clear looking field.
At 1,600' AGL I find the lift and climb to 6,600' drifting in a 9 mph north northwest wind toward the first turnpoint. I nick the turnpoint and head southwest toward the Baker turnpoint. The few pilots that I see are quite a ways below me.
I quickly find more lift and climb to 6,500' before it gives out. I find good lift again and climb to 6,700' in a 15 mph northwest wind. The lift has been easy to find and the climbs, while not great, are plenty strong enough. I want to be high going into the hills before Baker.
I can see three gliders ahead lower than me but near the turnpoint and climbing, or at least circling. At the base of the hills I stop to get as high as possible climbing to 6,100' before heading into the turnpoint. A few pilots in front are turning a bit lower than I. I don't see Robin higher.
I hit the turnpoint and climb to 5,800' and then head north with Pete Lehmann just to my west. I had seen two pilots heading north very low as I came into the turnpoint. Probably Zac and Phil.
I'm heading into a 9 mph north northwest wind but it looks good ahead with wide open fields that look like they are hot. But, the sink is bad, averaging 400 fpm down, with spots of 900 fpm down.
I turn east to get out of the sink and out of Indian territory, but it does no good. I'm looking all over but soon find myself on the ground with Tyler right behind me.
Robin got to 7,600' at the second turnpoint and was down to 1,500' AGL heading north. He didn't get any substantial lift until he got to Arizona City. He was the only one to make it to goal.
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Day 7, task 6 results
(Francisco Grande, Casa Grande, AZ, USA)
Bill Soderquist|Butch Peachy|competition|Davis Straub|Greg Kendall|J.D. Guillemette|Jason Boehm|John Simon|Konstantin Lukyanov|Lawrence "Pete" Lehmann|Phill Bloom|Ric Caylor|Robin Hamilton|Santa Cruz Flats Race 2021|Tyler Borradaile|Willy Dydo|Zac Majors
https://airtribune.com/santa-cruz-flats-race-2021/results
Task 6 (open):
# | Name | Glider | Time (h:m:s) |
Distance (km) |
Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Robin Hamilton | Aeros Combat 13 | 03:01:54 | 81.73 | 1000.0 |
2 | Bill Soderquist | Ww T3 | 63.95 | 764.9 | |
3 | Jason Boehm | Wills Wing T3 | 60.35 | 736.1 | |
4 | Konstantin Lukyanov | Moyes Litespeed RX | 59.67 | 731.2 | |
5 | Jd Guillemette | Moyes RX3.5 | 57.07 | 704.1 | |
6 | Willy Dydo | Wills Wing T3 136 | 55.26 | 686.4 | |
7 | Butch Peachy | Moyes RX 3.5/S4 | 54.55 | 677.8 | |
8 | Lawrence "Pete" Lehmann | Wills Wing T2C-154 | 53.06 | 655.4 | |
9 | Ric Caylor | Moyes RX5 Pro | 52.78 | 649.9 | |
10 | Tyler Borradaile | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 52.13 | 641.8 | |
11 | Davis Straub | Wills Wing T3 144 | 52.25 | 640.3 |
Final:
# | Name | Glider | T 1 | T 2 | T 3 | T 4 | T 5 | T 6 | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Zac Majors | Wills Wing T3 144 | 977.8 | 988.7 | 927.1 | 820.1 | 77.7 | 420.0 | 4211 |
2 | Phill Bloom | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 766.7 | 930.0 | 573.5 | 699.5 | 117.2 | 466.4 | 3553 |
3 | John Simon | Aeros Combat C 12.7 | 843.0 | 917.0 | 776.6 | 423.9 | 45.5 | 470.9 | 3477 |
4 | Konstantin Lukyanov | Moyes Litespeed RX | 672.5 | 832.3 | 763.4 | 211.0 | 102.2 | 731.2 | 3313 |
5 | Robin Hamilton | Aeros Combat 13 | 295.2 | 510.0 | 795.3 | 514.6 | 117.9 | 1000.0 | 3233 |
6 | Lawrence "Pete" Lehmann | Wills Wing T2C-154 | 739.6 | 566.6 | 732.3 | 410.5 | 0.0 | 655.4 | 3104 |
7 | Tyler Borradaile | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 984.8 | 200.1 | 577.8 | 512.0 | 145.4 | 641.9 | 3062 |
8 | Greg Kendall | Moyes RX 3.5 | 457.5 | 489.0 | 845.1 | 702.6 | 75.8 | 451.5 | 3022 |
9 | Willy Dydo | Wills Wing T3 136 | 792.2 | 243.0 | 378.3 | 680.6 | 162.0 | 686.4 | 2943 |
10 | Davis Straub | Wills Wing T3 144 | 794.9 | 253.3 | 886.8 | 226.0 | 117.6 | 640.4 | 2919 |
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Day 6, task 5 results
(Francisco Grande, Casa Grande, AZ, USA)
Bill Soderquist|competition|Davis Straub|Greg Kendall|Jeff Chipman|John Simon|Konstantin Lukyanov|Lawrence "Pete" Lehmann|Owen Morse|Phill Bloom|Rob Cooper|Robin Hamilton|Santa Cruz Flats Race 2021|Tyler Borradaile|Willy Dydo|Zac Majors
https://airtribune.com/santa-cruz-flats-race-2021/results
Task 5 (open):
# | Name | Glider | Distance (km) |
Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Willy Dydo | Wills Wing T3 136 | 34.30 | 162.0 |
2 | Tyler Borradaile | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 29.85 | 145.4 |
3 | Robin Hamilton | Aeros Combat 13 | 19.44 | 117.9 |
4 | Davis Straub | Wills Wing T3 144 | 19.36 | 117.6 |
5 | Phill Bloom | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 19.24 | 117.2 |
6 | Bill Soderquest | Ww T3 | 18.23 | 112.6 |
7 | Jeff Chipman | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 18.17 | 112.3 |
8 | Konstantin Lukyanov | Moyes Litespeed RX | 16.53 | 102.2 |
9 | Rob Cooper | Wills Wing T2C | 15.97 | 98.3 |
10 | Owen Morse | Wills Wing T3 154 | 12.29 | 78.7 |
Cumulative:
# | Name | Glider | T 1 | T 2 | T 3 | T 4 | T 5 | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Zac Majors | Wills Wing T3 144 | 977.8 | 988.7 | 927.1 | 820.1 | 77.7 | 3791 |
2 | Phill Bloom | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 766.7 | 930.0 | 573.5 | 699.5 | 117.2 | 3087 |
3 | John Simon | Aeros Combat C 12.7 | 843.0 | 917.0 | 776.6 | 423.9 | 45.5 | 3006 |
4 | Konstantin Lukyanov | Moyes Litespeed RX | 672.5 | 832.3 | 763.4 | 211.0 | 102.2 | 2581 |
5 | Greg Kendall | Moyes RX 3.5 | 457.5 | 489.0 | 845.1 | 702.6 | 75.8 | 2570 |
6 | Lawrence "Pete" Lehmann | Wills Wing T2C-154 | 739.6 | 566.6 | 732.3 | 410.5 | 0.0 | 2449 |
7 | Tyler Borradaile | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 984.8 | 200.1 | 577.8 | 512.0 | 145.4 | 2420 |
8 | Davis Straub | Wills Wing T3 144 | 794.9 | 253.3 | 886.8 | 226.0 | 117.6 | 2279 |
9 | Willy Dydo | Wills Wing T3 136 | 792.2 | 243.0 | 378.3 | 680.6 | 162.0 | 2256 |
10 | Robin Hamilton | Aeros Combat 13 | 295.2 | 510.0 | 795.3 | 514.6 | 117.9 | 2233 |
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Day 6, task 5
Fri, Sep 24 2021, 9:14:50 pm MDTSanta Cruz Flats Race 2021
(Francisco Grande, Casa Grande, AZ, USA)
After the gust, the upper level clouds covered the sky. The pilot briefing was postponed twice to 12:30 PM from 10:30 AM. The clouds were still there but there was a little bit of blue way off to the east.
The task committee has tasks for both classes and after significant discussion about whether there would be any lift, Jamie says the task is on with a late launch. I have to setup my glider and get out there quickly.
The Sport Class launches first and soon they are all on the ground. Open class pilots are reluctant to launch once again after they see no one sticking.
A few of us get in line and I line up behind Robin Hamilton. It is already after the first start clock at 3:30 PM.
Bobby Bailey pulls me up and find lift just to the west. He makes some quick turns, the line goes slack and then the quick link breaks when the line goes tight again. I'm off at 844' AGL on a very weak day.
But, Bobby had been turning because there was lift there so I went to find it right away and starting climbing at 63 fpm with a 10 mph wind out of the west pushing me down the course line.
Went back up wind after climbing to 1,250' AGL drifting toward the resort. Found nothing but sink, went back east to get in the same line I had been in and found 6 fpm. Five minutes later I was able to move a little to the south and found 50 fpm climbing to 1,600' AGL
By now a few other pilots came and joined me and we just circled and circled drifting down the course line. We continue circling and climb to 1,900' AGL. We drift 9.5 km and take 50 minutes. It's 4:31 PM and the sun is getting close to the clouds in the west.
With the wind blowing at 10 mph out of the west northwest another pilot, likely to be Konstantin, and I head out. I'm able to find 100 fpm and four pilots join me. Heading out again I find 20 fpm to 1,800' AGL with the pilots still following.
After that there is not much as we stretch it out past the intersection of I8 and I10. Robin, Phil and I land in the same field.
Willie Dydo went out earlier and got the furthest on his own. Tyler got to ten kilometers past us. The sun was behind the clouds at this point.
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Gust front in the morning on Friday
(Francisco Grande, Casa Grande, AZ, USA)
Santa Cruz Flats Race 2021|weather
Five of us were out by the launch area standing by our gliders as the gust front came through. Lasted probably fifteen minutes.
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Day five, no task, day is cancelled
competition|Greg Kendall|Santa Cruz Flats Race 2021|video
(Francisco Grande, Casa Grande, AZ, USA)
https://airtribune.com/santa-cruz-flats-race-2021/results
JD was measuring the south wind at 14 mph gusting to 22 mph. Lots of blowing dust in the field, which is quite discouraging. No pilots were willing to launch (other than Bill Bennett). Lots of task and launch time changes to no avail. That doesn't even count the cu-nimb that was forming over the second turnpoint (which the task and safety committees weren't noticing).
Meet director cancels the day as it gets later and later.
Bill Bennett launches after the day is canceled.
Note about the third task.
Replay, https://airtribune.com/santa-cruz-flats-race-2021/blog__day_3, shows that it was the fact that Zac and I climbed to over 9,000' that determined the outcome for that day.
Zac left a gaggle east of Casa Grande mountain where he was at the bottom to come joined Pete Lehmann and I climbing faster to his south. Four pilots (excluding Greg Kendall, who took an earlier clock) were out ahead of us and high and doing well. While they got to the turnpoint first and headed back before we did, we were able to climb the highest 4 km before the turnpoint. This gave us a big advantage.
Phil and Tyler got stuck low coming back. We were 500 to 1000 meters higher than Simon and Hamilton. Soon only Simon was ahead and he got a bit low east of the mountain coming back. We came into the south end of the mountain high and quickly climbed. Robin was just to our east but not climbing nearly as well.
We climbed to over 2,500 meters and went on final glide to goal while everyone else was working to get up or stay up.
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Day four, task four, results
(Francisco Grande, Casa Grande, AZ, USA)
Santa Cruz Flats Race 2021
Greg Kendall|Santa Cruz Flats Race 2021
Greg Kendall|Santa Cruz Flats Race 2021|Zac Majors
Greg Kendall|John Simon|Santa Cruz Flats Race 2021|Zac Majors
competition|Greg Kendall|John Simon|Santa Cruz Flats Race 2021|Zac Majors
competition|Greg Kendall|John Simon|Santa Cruz Flats Race 2021|Zac Majors
https://airtribune.com/santa-cruz-flats-race-2021/results
Task 4 (open):
# | Name | Glider | Distance (km) |
Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Zac Majors | Wills Wing T3 144 | 70.89 | 820.1 |
2 | Greg Kendall | Moyes RX 3.5 | 54.69 | 702.6 |
3 | Phill Bloom | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 54.10 | 699.5 |
4 | Ric Caylor | Moyes RX5 Pro | 54.13 | 698.4 |
5 | Gary Anderson | Wills Wing T3 144 | 54.02 | 697.2 |
6 | Willy Dydo | Wills Wing T3 136 | 52.75 | 680.6 |
7 | Jd Guillemette | Moyes RX3.5 | 51.60 | 662.1 |
8 | Ian Snowball | Moyes RS4.5 | 47.64 | 592.9 |
9 | Rob Cooper | Wills Wing T2C | 40.79 | 518.7 |
10 | Robin Hamilton | Aeros Combat 13 | 40.06 | 514.6 |
Cumulative:
# | Name | Glider | T 1 | T 2 | T 3 | T 4 | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Zac Majors | Wills Wing T3 144 | 977.8 | 988.7 | 927.1 | 820.1 | 3714 |
2 | Phill Bloom | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 766.7 | 930.0 | 573.5 | 699.5 | 2970 |
3 | John Simon | Aeros Combat C 12.7 | 843.0 | 917.0 | 776.6 | 423.9 | 2961 |
4 | Greg Kendall | Moyes RX 3.5 | 457.5 | 489.0 | 845.1 | 702.6 | 2494 |
5 | Konstantin Lukyanov | Moyes Litespeed RX | 672.5 | 832.3 | 763.4 | 211.0 | 2479 |
6 | Lawrence "Pete" Lehmann | Wills Wing T2C-154 | 739.6 | 566.6 | 732.3 | 410.5 | 2449 |
7 | Tyler Borradaile | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 984.8 | 200.1 | 577.8 | 512.0 | 2275 |
8 | Davis Straub | Wills Wing T3 144 | 794.9 | 253.3 | 886.8 | 226.0 | 2161 |
9 | Gary Anderson | Wills Wing T3 144 | 727.3 | 568.6 | 139.8 | 697.2 | 2133 |
10 | Robin Hamilton | Aeros Combat 13 | 295.2 | 510.0 | 795.3 | 514.6 | 2115 |
Neither Sport or Open Class pilots make goal.
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Day four, task four, narrative
John Simon|Santa Cruz Flats Race 2021
(Francisco Grande, Casa Grande, AZ, USA)
The Task:
With the wind blowing 11 mph out of the south southeast at launch the task committee, at the last minute, changes the task to first send us out to the northwest to the edge of the mountains north of the sailplane port at Estrella, west of Maricopa and then back to the hotel when the winds are forecasted to lighten up.
Having learned their lesson the Sport Class pilots are happy to let us Open Class pilots go first and check out whether there is any lift or not. I launched sixth and Jim Prahl drug me around the sky not finding much and I worked -30 pm after pinning off at 2000' AGL. I leave that to find actual lift that overcomes my sink rate downwind to just south of the launch. 132 fpm is what I'm happy to be in.
Most of the thermals over the next hour in the start cylinder average less than 100 fpm, but I'm finally able to climb to 6,000' along with John Simon and Zac. Half a dozen pilots are near the top of the low stack and a few more are scrounging down below. Pilots are spread out looking around for better lift but little is to be found.
Unfortunately I was at 6,000' four minutes before the first start clock and lose 800' before the start gate opens and I head out. I'm following three pilots so it looks okay. I quickly find 100 fpm and climb to 5,500' before it peters out.
Heading to the northwest with John Simon and Jeff Galvin nearby I keep searching and not finding anything. Down to 300' AGL west of the stock yards I hit some lift and start turning. Jeff lands below me and John Simon is just as low in the next field to the north.
A few turns and the lift goes away no doubt pushed to the northwest toward the power lines at the edge of the field. I don't see John working his way up in the field on the other side of the power lines. Soon I have to land making a safe and graceful return to earth.
It isn't long before we see a gaggle of four pilots circling right up over us. Another pilot lands with us and then Willie Dydo comes in at 300' and proceeds to climb up and out. Another pilot lands in the field to our north.
Looking from our balcony on the sixth floor of the hotel I don't see anyone at goal. The Sport Class also had an out and return task to the southeast. I saw one Swift that looks like it made it back.
So close (this is where the guys out front get low for the first time):
I'm at 280' AGL finding lift, but not enough. Zac and John find lift north of the highway and climb up.
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Day three, task 3, Results
(Francisco Grande, Casa Grande, AZ, USA)
Santa Cruz Flats Race 2021
Robin Hamilton|Santa Cruz Flats Race 2021
Greg Dinauer|Robin Hamilton|Santa Cruz Flats Race 2021
Greg Dinauer|Greg Kendall|Robin Hamilton|Santa Cruz Flats Race 2021
Greg Dinauer|Greg Kendall|Robin Hamilton|Santa Cruz Flats Race 2021|Zac Majors
Greg Dinauer|Greg Kendall|John Simon|Robin Hamilton|Santa Cruz Flats Race 2021|Zac Majors
Cumulative:
# | Name | Glider | T 1 | T 2 | T 3 | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Zac Majors | Wills Wing T3 144 | 977.8 | 988.7 | 927.1 | 2894 |
2 | John Simon | Aeros Combat C 12.7 | 843.0 | 917.0 | 776.6 | 2537 |
3 | Phill Bloom | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 766.7 | 930.0 | 573.5 | 2270 |
4 | Konstantin Lukyanov | Moyes Litespeed RX | 672.5 | 832.3 | 763.4 | 2268 |
5 | Lawrence "Pete" Lehmann | Wills Wing T2C-154 | 739.6 | 566.6 | 732.3 | 2039 |
6 | Davis Straub | Wills Wing T3 144 | 794.9 | 253.3 | 886.8 | 1935 |
7 | Greg Kendall | Moyes RX 3.5 | 457.5 | 489.0 | 845.1 | 1792 |
8 | Tyler Borradaile | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 984.8 | 200.1 | 577.8 | 1763 |
9 | Greg Dinauer | Aeros Combat 12 | 722.1 | 509.3 | 470.1 | 1702 |
10 | Robin Hamilton | Aeros Combat 13 | 295.2 | 510.0 | 795.3 | 1601 |
Four Sport Class pilots make it back to the hotel, Leonardo, Tim, LJ, and Sujeta, her first competition and first goal.
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Day three, task 3, preliminary results
(Francisco Grande, Casa Grande, AZ, USA)
Santa Cruz Flats Race 2021
Robin Hamilton|Santa Cruz Flats Race 2021
Greg Kendall|Robin Hamilton|Santa Cruz Flats Race 2021
Greg Kendall|Robin Hamilton|Santa Cruz Flats Race 2021|Zac Majors
Greg Kendall|John Simon|Robin Hamilton|Santa Cruz Flats Race 2021|Zac Majors
Cumulative:
# | Name | Glider | Time (h:m:s) |
Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Zac Majors | Wills Wing T3 144 | 01:32:06 | 927.1 |
2 | Davis Straub | Wills Wing T3 144 | 01:35:23 | 886.8 |
3 | Greg Kendall | Moyes RX 3.5 | 01:58:12 | 845.1 |
4 | Robin Hamilton | Aeros Combat 13 | 01:50:27 | 795.3 |
5 | John Simon | Aeros Combat C 12.7 | 01:52:52 | 776.6 |
6 | Konstantin Lukyanov | Moyes Litespeed RX | 01:53:26 | 763.4 |
7 | Lawrence "Pete" Lehmann | Wills Wing T2C-154 | 01:57:24 | 732.3 |
8 | Tyler Borradaile | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 02:30:05 | 577.8 |
9 | Phill Bloom | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 02:30:39 | 573.5 |
10 | Gennadiy Khramov | Wills Wing T2C | 02:54:01 | 484.1 |
Four Sport Class pilots make it back to the hotel, Leonardo, Tim, LJ, and Sujeta, her first competition and first goal.
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Day three, task 3, narrative and preliminary results
competition|Greg Kendall|John Simon|Robin Hamilton|Santa Cruz Flats Race 2021|Zac Majors
(Francisco Grande, Casa Grande, AZ, USA)
The Task:
The Sport Class wanted to go before the Open Class today and they had a 12:30 PM launch time with the first start clock at 1 PM and a total of six start clocks. The Swifts would launch first before the Sport Class and the Open Class would launch after the Sport Class.
The Swifts and the Sport Class pilots were all towed up and they promptly all landed back at the launch area. This set the tone for the next couple of hours. Only a few Sport Class pilots wanted to relaunch right away and the Open Class pilots were reluctant to get going after seeing how no one was sticking.
The task committee shortened the Open Class task given that no one was launching and pushed back the start time fifteen minutes to 2:15 PM with four start times. The launch cylinder had been reduced to 3 km given the forecast for light winds. This proved not be that great an idea, at least for some of us.
The Open Class launch was open starting at 1 PM (or maybe 1:15) but only a couple of Sport Class pilots were willing to be towed. They quickly landed back at launch. Finally around 2 PM, Bill Bennett launched in Open Class and that finally got other pilots to consider the possibility. With an open launch and many pilots still reluctant to go, I launched third or fourth with Bobby Bailey towing. One tug, the 914 tug from Whitewater with Johnny Thompson towing, was out of commission.
Bobby tried his tight spiral (not that tight) on me and then must have seen some pilots thermaling up a few kilometers to the southeast and drug me over to them. It was nice to see pilots actually climbing. Bobby had reported earlier that no one was getting above their tow height.
The four of us climbed to 4,400' before the lift gave out and Greg Kendal, at least, headed out on the course. He might have the second clock as I was on tow at the first start clock at 2:15 pm.
A few of us went back to the northwest and hooked up with some light lift and a couple of extra pilots at about 1,300' AGL just southwest of the launch. It averaged less than 100 fpm.
With a 9 mph northwest wind we drifted back to the southeast as the third start time approached. At 2:45 PM (the third clock) I was still at less than 4,000' and getting close to the edge of the start cylinder. A few pilots had already drifted outside the cylinder. I was with two other pilots.
I moved over and was working 50 fpm as I crossed the start cylinder still drifting. Still at less than 4,000' I moved east half a kilometer, one kilometer outside the 3 km start cylinder and found 330 fpm, the best lift so far by a wide margin. Three of us worked it.
I was able to climb to 6,700' with two pilots just below me, 2.34 km outside the 3 km start cylinder. I sure was wishing we had a 5 km start cylinder at that point as I didn't want to go back to take the last clock from that far out. I took off at 15:02 for the Casa Grande Mountain.
Stopped for a few turns in 230 fpm as I passed three pilots who had been out ahead and then out to the mountain after a 13 km glide and a lot of sink right along its western edge. Found rough lift on the eastern side of the mountain that was rough at first with a north northwest wind at 5 mph.
At 300+ fpm I climbed up to 8,000' with Zac coming in below me, but climbing up to me. We headed out to the east southeast toward the turnpoint. I had only two very light layers on, a thin thermal shirt and speed sleeves, but the air was quite pleasant if a bit cool.
We quickly found more lift and then climbed at over 350 fpm to 9,100' just 4 km from the turnpoint. We turned back into the head wind (10 mph) found a little bit of lift then found 400 fpm again on the east side of Casa Grande mountain to 7,900' which made of a safe and easy glide 20 kilometers into goal even against a 10 mph north northwest head wind.
https://airtribune.com/santa-cruz-flats-race-2021/results
Task 3: open:
# | Name | Glider | SS | Time (h:m:s) |
Lead. Points |
Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Zac Majors | Wills Wing T3 144 | 14:45:00 | 01:32:06 | 33.0 | 927.1 |
2 | Davis Straub | Wills Wing T3 144 | 14:45:00 | 01:35:23 | 31.0 | 886.8 |
3 | Greg Kendall | Moyes RX 3.5 | 14:15:00 | 01:58:12 | 92.7 | 845.1 |
4 | Robin Hamilton | Aeros Combat 13 | 14:45:00 | 01:50:27 | 36.2 | 795.3 |
5 | John Simon | Aeros Combat C 12.7 | 14:45:00 | 01:52:52 | 36.6 | 776.6 |
6 | Konstantin Lukyanov | Moyes Litespeed RX | 14:45:00 | 01:53:26 | 31.4 | 763.4 |
7 | Lawrence "Pete" Lehmann | Wills Wing T2C-154 | 14:45:00 | 01:57:24 | 23.8 | 732.3 |
8 | Tyler Borradaile | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 14:45:00 | 02:30:05 | 22.1 | 577.8 |
9 | Phill Bloom | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 14:45:00 | 02:30:39 | 21.7 | 573.5 |
10 | Gennadiy Khramov | Wills Wing T2C | 15:00:00 | 02:54:01 | 484.1 |
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Day three, task 3
(Francisco Grande, Casa Grande, AZ, USA)
Santa Cruz Flats Race 2021
Live Tracking: https://lt.flymaster.net/bs.php?grp=4085
Replay: https://airtribune.com/santa-cruz-flats-race-2021/blog__day_3
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Day two, task two
Butch Peachy|competition|Greg Dinauer|John Simon|Santa Cruz Flats Race 2021|Zac Majors
(Francisco Grande, Casa Grande, AZ, USA)
Play Back: https://airtribune.com/santa-cruz-flats-race-2021/blog__day_2
Open class task:
Not much of a flight:
Johnny Thompson tows me up again right after the Swifts and a couple of early birds at 12:37 PM. The lift is still weak near the hotel so I have to go west to hook up with the Swifts and other pilots and even there it's less than 200 fpm to 5,700' MSL. Lots of thermaling in little more than zero.
At about 7 or 8 minutes before the second clock at 1:45 PM the pilots around me northeast of the hotel head toward the edge of the start cylinder I'm thinking that it's too early and head the other direction to find much better lift than the zero we were giving up on. I climb to 5,800' and then head for the northeast edge of the cylinder.
As I fly to get out of the start cylinder I see a few pilots flying back, some of them quite low, so it looks like they are going back for the third or fourth clock. I keep going and find about eight pilots a thousand feet below me trying to get up three kilometers outside the start cylonder. Now I have a quandary.
I'm high with one other pilot who left the start cylinder with me. My desire is to just forget these guys down low cause I'm positive that there is much better lift just a few kilometers further along. But do I really want to leave eight other thermal finders and go out alone? I spend 10 minutes not climbing circling over these guys who aren't climbing either. Then we find 95 fpm and climb to 4,900'.
Finally, as I watch the pilots from the third clock come in low under us, I've had it and head out leading toward where I had previously thought there was much better lift. The pilots I'm with are not helping at all.
I find 267 fpm near the northeast end of the Casa Grande air field and climb to 5,400'. Of course, the other pilots joined me.
I lead out again and find over 300 fpm to 5,100' just before the first turnpoint at Signal Peak. My hangers ons join me.
I lead out again taking the turnpoint and heading for the foothills to the south. I've got a 6 mph head wind and I go for the hill sides that should gather the thermals. I stop for 100 fpm for one turn but I'm thinking that there is better lift a bit further in. I'm wrong.
Got fooled by the 300+ fpm lift in the previous thermal so I was not ready to take 100 fpm.
It's all sink the rest of the way down the hills to the flats and a premature landing.
Zac took the fourth clock and he was first to goal. Phil Bloom and John Simon who took the third clock came in right behind him. Konstantin Lukyanov from Russia was the last pilot into goal.
https://airtribune.com/santa-cruz-flats-race-2021/results
Task 2
# | Name | Glider | Time (h:m:s) |
Distance (km) |
Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Zac Majors | Wills Wing T3 144 | 02:31:02 | 83.71 | 988.7 |
2 | Phill Bloom | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 02:46:53 | 83.71 | 930.0 |
3 | John Simon | Aeros Combat C 12.7 | 02:47:39 | 83.71 | 917.0 |
4 | Konstantin Lukyanov | Moyes Litespeed RX | 03:19:26 | 83.71 | 832.3 |
5 | Jeff Chipman | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 80.73 | 725.7 | |
6 | Butch Peachy | Moyes RX 3.5/S4 | 78.36 | 701.1 | |
7 | Ian Brubaker | Wills Wing T2C | 67.85 | 632.6 | |
8 | Gary Anderson | Wills Wing T3 144 | 58.29 | 568.6 | |
9 | Lawrence "Pete" Lehmann | Wills Wing T2C 154 | 58.10 | 566.6 | |
10 | Jason Boehm | Wills Wing T3 | 56.71 | 561.5 |
Cumulative:
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Zac Majors | Wills Wing T3 144 | 1967 |
2 | John Simon | Aeros Combat C 12.7 | 1760 |
3 | Phill Bloom | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 1697 |
4 | Konstantin Lukyanov | Moyes Litespeed RX | 1505 |
5 | Lawrence "Pete" Lehmann | Wills Wing T2C 154 | 1306 |
6 | Gary Anderson | Wills Wing T3 144 | 1296 |
7 | Greg Dinauer | Aeros Combat 12 | 1231 |
8 | Tyler Borradaile | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 1185 |
9 | Jeff Galvin | Wills Wing T3 154 | 1181 |
10 | Davis Straub | Wills Wing T3 144 | 1048 |
Leonardo Ortiz was the only Sport Class pilot at goal on day one. Leonardo and Tim Delaney were the only two Sport Class pilots at goal on day two.
Chris Zimmerman is out with a blown motor on his Swift, so only two Swifts left. Greg Chastain won day two and is in the lead overall.
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First Task Play Back
(Francisco Grande, Casa Grande, AZ, USA)
Santa Cruz Flats Race 2021
Day One Play Back:
https://airtribune.com/santa-cruz-flats-race-2021/blog__day_1
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First Task Results
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Santa Cruz Flats Race 2021|Zac Majors
John Simon|Santa Cruz Flats Race 2021|Zac Majors
competition|John Simon|Santa Cruz Flats Race 2021|Zac Majors
competition|John Simon|Santa Cruz Flats Race 2021|Zac Majors
https://airtribune.com/santa-cruz-flats-race-2021/results
Task 1 (open class):
# | Name | Glider | SS | Time (h:m:s) |
Lead. Points |
Time Points |
Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Tyler Borradaile | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 14:30:00 | 01:41:41 | 87.0 | 409.6 | 984.6 |
2 | Zac Majors | Wills Wing T3 144 | 14:30:00 | 01:41:42 | 91.7 | 409.2 | 977.4 |
3 | John Simon | Aeros Combat C 12.7 | 14:15:00 | 02:01:06 | 93.1 | 281.2 | 841.0 |
4 | Jeff Galvin | Ww T3 154 | 14:30:00 | 01:58:41 | 72.3 | 294.7 | 812.6 |
5 | Davis Straub | Wills Wing T3 144 | 14:15:00 | 02:09:06 | 102.4 | 238.4 | 792.1 |
6 | Willy Dydo | Wills Wing T3 136 | 14:15:00 | 02:08:29 | 89.5 | 241.6 | 789.4 |
7 | Phill Bloom | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 14:30:00 | 02:05:30 | 68.9 | 257.4 | 763.7 |
8 | Ian Snowball | Moyes RS4.5 | 14:30:00 | 02:05:27 | 39.5 | 257.6 | 738.1 |
9 | Lawrence "Pete" Lehmann | Wills Wing T2C-154 | 14:30:00 | 02:08:34 | 63.8 | 241.2 | 736.2 |
10 | Gary Anderson | Wills Wing T3 144 | 14:30:00 | 02:08:55 | 54.1 | 239.4 | 723.8 |
No results for sport class yet.
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Day 1, task 1
Brian Porter|John Simon|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Robin Hamilton|Santa Cruz Flats Race 2021|Zac Majors
The task and my flight:
There is a 5 km start cylinder around the launch at the Francisco Grande Hotel airfield (desert). The first leg is about over the Casa Grande airfield to a 2 km cylinder around Signal Peak. Signal Peak is under the 8,000' bottom of the Phoenix Sky Harbor Class B air space, so you don't want to be too high.
The second leg is to the tiny paved airfield at Sarita to the east southeast out in the flats, 400 meter cylinder. Next head north over a bit of no man's land to the intersection at Magma, which is also under the Phoenix airspace. Finally back to a sort of empty field that might have had a dirt air field years ago at Valley.
The forecast was for strong southwest winds aloft which might make getting back to Valley a bit of trouble. Forecast also said no cu's , but there are plenty around. I'm assuming that the heavy rain yesterday softened the lift near the hotel.
Robin Hamilton decides to launch later so I'm first to launch in order but behind two early birds and three Swifts. Two Swift pilots (Brian Porter and Steve Morris) are in France for the new Swift 3 so we don't have our five Swift Pilots. Chris Zimmerman is flying a motorized Swift with a gas motor.
Jonny Thompson tows me up to 2,000' AGL on the four stroke Dragonfly and there is light lift around. I'm able to climb to 4,500' (3,200' AGL) but not more than that. Others seem to be able to get higher but that's as high as I get over the next hour.
Towed up at 1:15 PM, I take the second clock at 2:15 PM at 2300' AGL and head northwest toward the Casa Grande airfield. I'm basically alone.
I quickly find the best lift so far at 270 fpm and climb up to 5,000' MSL. Heading to the cu's to the north of the airfield I find 370 fpm and climb to 7,000'. I'm almost 3 km north of the course line (going for the clouds) and heading for Phoenix airspace.
I nick the turnpoint at Signal Mountain below the airspace and head down south along the foothills toward more cu's. Finally I hit the lift at 1,300' AGL over the hillsides and climb at over 400 fpm to 7,900' (way out from under the airspace) with JD hanging around.
No more mountains to fly as we head off toward Sarita to the east. I'm 2km south of the course line now. There are some cu's out there so it doesn't look so bad, but I'm not expecting at much as I just got at the west facing hill sides with a westerly 5 mph wind.
I take 100 fpm just before Sarita and nick it at 3,300' AGL before heading north toward Magma. There are bigger cu's over Coolidge a little west of the course line, but smaller cu's ahead to the north. I see Zac Majors from the third clock catch up with me as I pass by Coolidge. A few other pilots also. John Simon who started at the second clock also is just a few hundred feet below.
I work 200 fpm east of Coolidge and then head off north to the east of Zac at his elevation at 5,500'. It's a ten kilometer glide before we find 150 fpm with Zac just above me and I'm down to 1,000' AGL.
Zac and Tyler Borradaile work better lift just to my east as I work 150 fpm to 4,700'. I made an attempt to find better lift on the peak just to the northwest given the west wind but that didn't work out as Tyler and Zac found better lift drifting to the east under the same cu that I was under. They just hung there as Zac (at least) knew that they were in first place and didn't need to take any chances or rush out ahead as goal wasn't that far away).
I quit the 150 fpm and headed north seeing that there were cu's and sunlight ahead. Nothing seemed to work whenever I turned in lift so I got to the Magma turnpoint at 2,200' AGL and headed south, with a line of cu's ahead of me.
Finally I hit 260 fpm just south of the cotton fields (I thought that they didn't have any water this year as the Colorado River is so far down and they are the least senior water rights holders) around the turnpoint. That lift got me to 5,200' about 4,000' AGL and with 13 km to goal the race was on.
Arrived with three pilots on the ground. Looks like thirteen pilots made goal.
Results should be out soon. Daniel Velez in Colombia is doing the scoring remotely.
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Are the monsoons still here?
(Francisco Grande, Casa Grande, AZ, USA)
Santa Cruz Flats Race 2021|photo
Jamie Shelden|photo|Santa Cruz Flats Race 2021
Photo by Jamie Shelden
Heavy rains today, the day before the start of the SCFR. Rain in the desert. Will the field be passable?
https://airtribune.com/santa-cruz-flats-race-2021/pilots
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Number of pilots allowed has risen from 24 to 45
(Francisco Grande, Casa Grande, AZ, USA)
https://airtribune.com/santa-cruz-flats-race-2021/pilots
Looks like that means that Bobby's and April's tugs are coming out with Jim Prahl from Wilotree Park.
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Forty one pilots registered and paid
(Francisco Grande, Casa Grande, AZ, USA)
Gregg "Kim" Ludwig|Santa Cruz Flats Race 2021
2021 Santa Cruz Flats Race
https://airtribune.com/santa-cruz-flats-race-2021/pilots
Looks like we'll have enough pilots to have the tugs brought out from Wilotree Park. Likely we'll also have Gregg Ludwig and his super trike also.
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Forty five pilots have registered
(Francisco Grande, Casa Grande, AZ, USA)
https://airtribune.com/santa-cruz-flats-race-2021/pilots
Thirty eight have paid (and I assume committed to coming to the competition). With four more paid (and committed), then the tugs are going to be coming out from Wilotree Park. If all forty five want to come there will need to be an additional tug, which is very possible.
All thirteen of the Sport pilots have paid. Twenty three of the twenty seven registered open class pilots have paid. It sure looks like there will be forty two at least that will pay and commit to coming to the competition.
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Five Swift pilots have registered
(Francisco Grande, Casa Grande, AZ, USA)
https://airtribune.com/santa-cruz-flats-race-2021/pilots
Two have paid and committed. What's up with the other three?
If they all come I think that that would be the biggest Swift competition in the US ever.
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42 pilots have registered
(Francisco Grande, Casa Grande, AZ, USA)
Jamie Shelden|Santa Cruz Flats Race 2021
https://airtribune.com/santa-cruz-flats-race-2021/pilots
Now, forty two pilots have registered for the SCFR including four Swift pilots, thirteen sport class pilots and twenty five open class pilots. To bring out two tugs from Wilotree Park, Jamie says that she needs to have forty two pilots registered and paid.
Thirty one pilots have paid. Eleven pilots haven't paid.
Jamie writes:
Entry Fees: The entry fee for the competition is $275 (does not include tow fees) if paid by August 1st. After August 1st, $375. Entry fees are required in full to complete your registration and to secure your entry.
So we'll probably know by August 1st who is committed to coming to the SCFR. You might also want to make your room reservations.
She also writes:
We will initially accept only 24 pilots and they will be accepted in the order of payment of registration fees. If we fill up with 24 paid participants, additional pilots will only be accepted after we have at least 18 more (for a total of 42) confirmed. Once a total of 42 pilots have registered, we can then accept all 42 and confirm the tugs from Florida once all 42 pilots have paid their registration fees.
Personally I think that there is a bit more flexibility and we could do okay with thirty or so pilots and actually with more than forty two, but those arrangements haven't been finalized yet. It depends, again, on how many pilots commit to coming and the tugs from Wilotree Park will definitely not come out unless forty two have committed.
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Race to Register and Pay
(Francisco Grande, Casa Grande, AZ, USA)
Jamie Shelden|Santa Cruz Flats Race 2021
https://airtribune.com/santa-cruz-flats-race-2021/pilots
To secure your slot in the SCFR you need to register and pay Jamie Shelden at <<jamie>>. Just like the race for the first twenty four slots, there is now a race for the next eighteen with two pilots already secured and ten on the waiting list. But being on the waiting list means nothing. Crossing the finish line before others means getting in your payment of $275 before the number of pilots goes to eighteen paid in addition to the twenty four already confirmed.
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Francisco Grande reservations
(Francisco Grande, Casa Grande, AZ, USA)
https://airtribune.com/santa-cruz-flats-race-2021/blog/accommodation-at-the-francisco-grande-resort
Accommodation at the Francisco Grande Resort
Please make sure to reserve your room at the Francisco Grande as soon as possible. Individual reservations must be made as follows: Individuals must identify themselves as part of Santa Cruz Flats Race, and provide us with guest name, type of room, check-in and check-out dates. Any requests for special arrangements must be made at the time of this call. The Francisco Grande Hotel and Golf Resort toll free reservations line is 1-800-237-4238.
After August 1, the resort releases any unused rooms in our block, so if you wait until after that date, there may not be anything left.
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24 pilots confirmed, 25 pilots paid.
(Francisco Grande, Casa Grande, AZ, USA)
Jamie Shelden|Santa Cruz Flats Race 2021
https://airtribune.com/santa-cruz-flats-race-2021/pilots
Jamie has written previously:
We will initially accept only 24 pilots and they will be accepted in the order of payment of registration fees. If we fill up with 24 paid participants, additional pilots will only be accepted after we have at least 18 more (for a total of 42) confirmed. Once a total of 42 pilots have registered, we can then accept all 42 and confirm the tugs from Florida once all 42 pilots have paid their registration fees.
I take that to mean that 18 (now 17) additional pilots need to register and pay before Jamie will call for the tugs from Wilotree Park. You pay by sending $275 to <<jamie>> after you register.
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Register and pay the entry fee ASAP
(Francisco Grande, Casa Grande, AZ, USA)
Jamie Shelden|Santa Cruz Flats Race 2021
https://airtribune.com/santa-cruz-flats-race-2021/pilots
Check and see how many pilots are confirmed. On Monday morning there were 31 registered, but 42 need to be registered and paid to bring the tugs from Florida. Twenty two pilots were confirmed on Monday morning, so two "open" slots left.
See Jamie's requirements re registration and payment here: https://airtribune.com/santa-cruz-flats-race-2021/info/details
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Registration to open on Friday
Jamie Shelden|Santa Cruz Flats Race 2021
https://airtribune.com/santa-cruz-flats-race-2021/info/details
Jamie says that registration will open on Friday, June 11th at noon Pacific Daylight Time.
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Register and pay next week
April Mackin|COVID|Jamie Shelden|Santa Cruz Flats Race 2021
"Jamie Shelden" <naughtylawyer> writes:
We're really happy to be organizing the Santa Cruz Flats Race again this September after a year off due to COVID. But, I wanted to explain the tug situation so everyone understands how registration and payment will work this year. Thanks to Sonora Wings, we have two dragonflies in Casa Grande. If we have no more than 22-24 pilots, we’ll be covered with these local dragonflies. However, if we have more than 24 pilots register, we will need to bring tugs from out of the area. This is where the issues start. Bob Bailey and April Mackin are able to transport two dragonflies from Florida via trailer. This requires removing the wings and carefully packing them into a trailer and driving them across the country to Casa Grande. Bob and April have done this nearly every year that we have held the event and we are eternally grateful. Here’s the hitch though: the cost of driving the trailer out to Arizona is the same if we put one tug or two tugs in it and that cost is extremely high. What this means is that it is only cost effective to pack up the trailer and bring 2 dragonflies. Bringing just one would make towing very very expensive.
So, we are in a situation where we can have either two or four dragonflies at the Santa Cruz Flats Race, but not three. If we have 42 people register, pay and commit to attend, all is great. But, if we have only 30, the tow fees to each pilot would be prohibitively expensive. With this in mind, it is critical that pilots register, pay registration fees and commit to participate no later than one month before the start of the competition.
When registration opens in about a week, we will initially accept only 24 pilots and they will be accepted in the order of payment of registration fees. If we fill up with 24 paid participants, additional pilots will only be accepted after we have at least 18 more (for a total of 42) confirmed. Once a total of 42 pilots have registered, we can then accept all 42 and confirm the tugs from Florida once all 42 pilots have paid their registration fees.
I realize this is complicated, but we don’t want to wait until the week before the competition starts to determine how much tow fees will be and we don’t want to risk having more than 24, but fewer than 42 pilots because that would make tow fees in excess of $550/person.
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Why did it suck so bad on Airtribune?
Crestline XC Classic 2021|Jamie Shelden
«Jamie Shelden» asked Brett at Airtribune:
I wonder if you were able to look into the trackers we were using last weekend? We had a lot of issues with them, but they were strange ones. On each of the three days of the event, Airtribune showed incorrect and inconsistent information. For example, on day one, for the entire task all pilots were listed as “landed”, despite the “distance to goal” decreasing as they flew.
On day three, the two leading pilots showed at the bottom of the leader board as if they hadn’t left the start for the entire task. However, when you clicked on the track for either of those pilots, you could see that they were flying the course. By the time I thought to actually check their tracks, it showed their breadcrumb trails for the entire course, hitting all the waypoints, etc., but at the same time, it still showed them in last place on the leader board. So, while the trackers seemed to work ok for scoring purposes, they were kind of useless for spectator or monitoring purposes. Any thoughts on what went wrong or how we can fix this? We’re hoping to run the same event again in September, but I want to be sure the trackers will work properly before we commit to using them again.
Brett responds:
I just watched the replay, and it all looks correct to me. Zac and Bruce are showing as in goal.
The fact that the trackers worked for the scoring shows that there is nothing wrong with the trackers. The problem is with Airtribune, and how a leader board is created.
Leader boards are only an indication. They will never be accurate. Ever. You need to understand how the technology works to see why.
Firstly, the trackers are just mobile phones. They only work when they have phone signal. At cloudbase they rarely work. To help with this, Flymaster add a 4 minute delay before releasing the data, to give the trackers a chance to forward the data, if the pilot re-acquires signal in the meantime. Airtribune then adds a further 2 minutes, for a similar issue, but also related to data being taken from multiple sources and needing mixing. So everything is delayed by 6 minutes. (Unless you use XCguide, where things are live. But that is for organisers to run safety, not for spectators.)
Next you have the issue of scoring formulas. Airtribune cannot hope to replicate all the formulas. And the very first one it falls foul of is the tolerance. What tolerance did the scoring software have? 0.5%? So maybe those two pilots jumped the gun. Scoring would allow this if it is within the tolerance, Airtribune would not as it has no tolerencing. You could teach Airtribune this by altering the cylinder sizes, but that requires maths. But in this instance, I don't think it was that. But there are numerous other reasons why it could have failed in the moment. Maybe Airtribune received data that indicated they had taken off, then landed, then taken off again. Maybe the trackers were still obtaining GPS lock. Hard to say without some detailed research. But the data is not available to me to do that any more because after the scoring was done, the scorer, rightly, uploaded the Scored tracklogs to Airtribune, as created by the Scoring software (FScomp?). This is the correct thing to do because the Scoring software cleans up the tracks, and clips them to only the relevant lengths, ie from SSS to LandByTime/Goal/Landing. When these are uploaded to Airtribune, post task, then Airtribune removes the live data and puts the scored data in its place and recreates the replay. In this case, it seems to have resolved whatever the issue is/was.
Next year we plan on integrating the new Live Scoring system, Airscore or similar, so this will become a whole lot better. For the moment, I can't hope to invest the time that it takes to make Airtribune a live scoring system. This is why for my own events I rely on the PWC's Leader board, as Ulric created an excellent output from the scoring system to create a live leader board that is truly live (it even uses a back door to the Flymaster server to bypass the 6 minute data delays). But this isn't something we can recommend as it also needs a lot of management.
So for the moment, all I can say is the Trackers appear to have worked perfect. Airtribune handled it as best it could, and the uploading of the tracks after the task created the correct replay.
What you can do, to help reduce the clutter from multiple servers trying to process and display live data is give a link to the Flymaster leaderboard instead of the Airtribune one. It often does a little better as it works exclusively from the trackers, whereas Airtribune also refers to iOS, Android, Spots etc, and mixes that data in. It helps in some places, but can cause problems in other areas.
I hope there is something in that to help.
My response:
Do not use Airtribune for Live Tracking. The problem here is that Jamie wasn't able to connect the FlyMaster trackers with the FlyMaster Live Tracking web site. I am unaware of what the problem was for her, but have again pointed out that this is the solution.
Use Airtribune for replay (Not Live Tracking) as the FlyMaster tracking web site is terrible for replay.
Jamie has an iPhone, so she is not familiar with XCGuide. XCGuide is by far the best app to use if you are the meet director and want to keep track of your pilots during the task.
We never use the Leader Board for the reasons that Brett points out.
Setting up Live Tracking for a competition is not a trivial exercise and I'm sure that it was not clear to Jamie that Airtribune is not to be used for Live Tracking, but using Airtribune to set the trackers to each pilot is an immense help in scoring.
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Jamie Shelden Rebuts my Article on the 2021 Crestline XC Classic
Had a great time
Jamie Shelden|Crestline XC Classic 2021
https://OzReport.com/1622565472
«Jamie Shelden» writes:
Well, I’m really sorry to hear you didn’t enjoy the Crestline XC Classic. Those of us who were actually there, very much did enjoy it, so much so that we will likely do it again in September. With the tremendous support and sponsorship of the Crestline Soaring Society, Cross Country Ranch and Hangar 24 Brewery, we all thought it was a great time…great enough to do again soon. Of course, conditions were not as good as any of us would have hoped for, but as you know, we can’t control the weather and we can’t even always count on an incredibly consistent flying site to deliver perfect weather. We could only work with what we were given and what we were given was challenging conditions that tested different flying skills than you are probably accustomed to.
As for the trackers, I’m trying to find out from Airtribune what went wrong with them. I know the cell coverage in that area isn’t fantastic, but that doesn’t account for the strange inaccuracies and inconsistencies of the Leader board and other aspects of the tracking interface we all saw on Airtribune.
Just for your amusement, I’ve attached a really cool photo of Rob & Diane McKenzie.Rob was the launch director at the Crestline XC Classic. This is a fun shot of them doing a tandem above the “Regionals” launch. The reason they call is “Regionals” is because for years they held regional competitions there - that’s where we got the Crestline XC Classic name from.
Finally, I have been on the fence about organizing the Santa Cruz Flats Race again this year. No one knows better than you what a huge and time consuming job it is to organize hang gliding competitions that are not just unremunerated, but often end up costing me money. As for your comment “maybe this is why we don’t have competitions in the west anymore”, I have to say that the lack of competitions in the west and elsewhere is not the result of a weekend of less than ideal weather conditions at Crestline. It could more likely be the result of stories like the one you just published. With respect to the Santa Cruz Flats Race, you may have just tipped the scales for me.
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2021 Crestline XC Classic »
A fishbowl of frustration
competition|Crestline XC Classic 2021
https://airtribune.com/crestline-xc-classic/results
First, the live tracking was anything but live. It not only barely worked but also gave a distorted picture of what was actually happening. The trackers have been fantastic in other competitions and perhaps they gave the scorekeeper the results that allowed them to score so quickly. That seems to be the case.
It is not at all clear why the trackers behaved so poorly in San Bernardino. It make have something to do with the phone system. It may be the mountains. The trackers only work on a G3 system, not G2, nor G4.
Second, the conditions absolutely sucked. I don't recall if the pilots ever got above the Crestline launch altitude. No one at goal on the last two days and only a few on the first day. This despite the statement in the web site blog, "It’s looking like a classic Crestline day - really nice conditions for racing…." Well if that is a classic Crestline day, there is no good reason to go there.
I felt that the conditions in Florida for the competition this year were poor, but nothing like this.
Maybe this is why we don't have competitions in the West any more, except in Casa Grande.
It was great to see a few pilots like Zac, Bruce, and Owen, hang in there when the lift was so very poor. But like a baseball game that is a no hitter, it is only a pleasure for those who like that sort of thing.
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2021 Santa Cruz Flats Race »
Jamie Shelden is going back to Casa Grande
Jamie Shelden|Risk Retention Group|Santa Cruz Flats Race 2021|USHPA
The competition will be held September 19th through the 25th. The USHPA and the RRRG consider Jamie to be a worthy and reliable meet organizer.
Be prepared for high rental car rates and airlines making up for pandemic era loses.
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2021 Crestline XC Classic, last day »
Launching from Crestline
Butch Peachy|competition|Crestline XC Classic 2021|Gary Anderson|Jason Boehm|Jeff Chipman|Moyes Litespeed RX|Owen Morse|Sara Weaver|Wills Wing T3|Zac Majors
https://airtribune.com/play/5075/2d
https://airtribune.com/crestline-xc-classic/blog__day_3
Looks to be a good day with a 73 km task.
Results:
https://airtribune.com/crestline-xc-classic/results
Task 3:
# | Name | Glider | Distance | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Bruce Barmakian | Aeros Combat-C 12.7 | 41.11 | 895.6 |
2 | Zac Majors | Wills WINGT3 144 | 41.17 | 893.6 |
3 | Butch Peachy | Moyes-RX 3.5/S4 | 40.60 | 874.7 |
4 | Owen Morse | Wills Wing T3 154 | 33.17 | 709.0 |
5 | Gavin Fridlund | Ozone X-Apls | 29.90 | 660.7 |
6 | Jeff Chipman | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 28.43 | 635.8 |
7 | Gary Anderson | Wills Wing T3 144 | 26.89 | 599.5 |
8 | Jason Boehm | Wills Wing T3 | 26.77 | 598.6 |
9 | Kenneth Andrews | Wills Wing T2C-144 | 26.13 | 578.9 |
10 | Sara Weaver | Wills Wing SPORT3 135 | 24.53 | 530.2 |
Final:
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Zac Majors | Wills WINGT3 144 | 2250 |
2 | Bruce Barmakian | Aeros Combat-C 12.7 | 1949 |
3 | Owen Morse | Wills Wing T3 154 | 1610 |
4 | Gavin Fridlund | Ozone X-Apls | 1444 |
5 | Kenneth Andrews | Wills Wing T2C-144 | 1433 |
6 | Gary Anderson | Wills Wing T3 144 | 1243 |
7 | Sara Weaver | Wills Wing SPORT3 135 | 1166 |
8 | Butch Peachy | Moyes-RX 3.5/S4 | 1096 |
9 | Jason Boehm | Wills Wing T3 | 1076 |
10 | Jeff Chipman | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 835 |
11 topics in this article: Butch Peachy, competition, Crestline XC Classic 2021, Gary Anderson, Jason Boehm, Jeff Chipman, Moyes Litespeed RX, Owen Morse, Sara Weaver, Wills Wing T3, Zac Majors
2021 Crestline XC Classic, day 2 »
Like day one
Butch Peachy|competition|Crestline XC Classic 2021|Gary Anderson|Jason Boehm|Jeff Chipman|Jeff Galvin|Moyes Litespeed RX|Owen Morse|PG|Sara Weaver|Wills Wing T3|Zac Majors
https://airtribune.com/crestline-xc-classic/blog__day_2
Very weak conditions. Terrible GPS tracking. Don't know what is with the trackers.
Zac won the day but he was not too far ahead of Gavin Fridlund, flying a paraglider in second place. Given that Zac was averaging about 13 mph, this is a perfect competition for a paraglider pilot.
Results:
https://airtribune.com/crestline-xc-classic/results
Task 2:
# | Name | Glider | Distance | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Zac Majors | Wills WINGT3 144 | 41.47 | 363.8 |
2 | Gavin Fridlund | Ozone X-Apls | 39.85 | 348.3 |
3 | Butch Peachy | Moyes-RX 3.5/S4 | 16.15 | 220.8 |
4 | Owen Morse | Wills Wing T3 154 | 16.13 | 220.7 |
5 | Jeff Chipman | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 13.39 | 199.5 |
6 | Kenneth Andrews | Wills Wing T2C-144 | 13.13 | 197.2 |
7 | Jason Glade | Wills Wing Sport 3 155 | 11.10 | 174.4 |
8 | Jason Boehm | Wills Wing T3 | 7.10 | 126.5 |
9 | Edward Wiggins | Wills Wing-T2C | 5.00 | 104.4 |
9 | Jeff Galvin | Moyes Litespeed S 4.5 | 5.00 | 104.4 |
9 | Nathan Hallahan | Moyes Gecko 155 | 5.00 | 104.4 |
9 | Gary Anderson | Wills Wing T3 144 | 5.00 | 104.4 |
9 | Sara Weaver | Wills Wing SPORT3 135 | 5.00 | 104.4 |
9 | Jon Irlbeck | Wills Wing-Sport 2 155 | 5.00 | 104.4 |
9 | Bruce Barmakian | Aeros Combat-C 12.7 | 5.00 | 104.4 |
9 | Mitchell Mcaleer | Icaro 13.7 MR700 2002 | 5.00 | 104.4 |
Cumulative:
Name | Glider | Total | |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Zac Majors | Wills WINGT3 144 | 1356 |
2 | Bruce Barmakian | Aeros Combat-C 12.7 | 1053 |
3 | Owen Morse | Wills Wing T3 154 | 901 |
4 | Kenneth Andrews | Wills Wing T2C-144 | 854 |
5 | Gavin Fridlund | Ozone X-Apls | 783 |
6 | Gary Anderson | Wills Wing T3 144 | 644 |
7 | Sara Weaver | Wills Wing SPORT3 135 | 636 |
8 | Jason Glade | Wills Wing Sport 3 155 | 482 |
9 | Jason Boehm | Wills Wing T3 | 477 |
10 | Jeff Galvin | Moyes Litespeed S 4.5 | 412 |
13 topics in this article: Butch Peachy, competition, Crestline XC Classic 2021, Gary Anderson, Jason Boehm, Jeff Chipman, Jeff Galvin, Moyes Litespeed RX, Owen Morse, PG, Sara Weaver, Wills Wing T3, Zac Majors
2021 Crestline XC Classic⁣ Not Exactly Classic »
Were there previous Classics?
competition|Crestline XC Classic 2021|Gary Anderson|Owen Morse|PG|Sara Weaver|Wills Wing T3|Zac Majors
https://airtribune.com/crestline-xc-classic/info/details
https://airtribune.com/play/5068/2d
Three at goal:
1 | Z. Majors (1) | 01:24:47 |
2 | O. Morse (22) | 02:02:15 |
3 | K. Andrews (25) | 02:02:28 |
https://airtribune.com/crestline-xc-classic/results/task5068/day/class-1-open
Kingposted and paraglider in the mix at goal.
# | Name | Glider | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Zac Majors | Wills WINGT3 144 | 01:24:47 | 992.4 |
2 | Bruce Barmakian | Aeros Combat-C 12.7 | 01:25:47 | 948.5 |
3 | Owen Morse | Wills Wing T3 154 | 02:02:14 | 680.3 |
4 | Kenneth Andrews | Wills Wing T2C-144 | 02:02:30 | 656.9 |
5 | Gary Anderson | Wills Wing T3 144 | 02:12:37 | 539.1 |
6 | Sara Weaver | Wills Wing SPORT3 135 | 02:19:31 | 531.7 |
7 | Gavin Fridlund | Ozone X-Apls | 02:33:11 | 434.9 |
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2021 Crestline XC Classic⁣ Hang Gliding Competition »
How can it be a classic if it is the first one?
CIVL|Crestline XC Classic 2021|USHPA|World Pilot Ranking Scheme
https://crestlinesoaring.org/topic/crestline-xc-classic-hang-gliding-competition/
Come join us for this first USHPA sanctioned race-to-goal hang gliding competition at Crestline, California! This will be a CIVL category 2 competition with both WPRS and NTSS points. We’re planning for three days of racing at this legendary Southern California site on Saturday, Sunday and Monday May 29-31, 2021.
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2021 Paradise Airsports Nationals - day 7 »
2021 Paradise Airsports Nationals - day 7
Cancelled
The southwest wind was too strong. If the wind direction had been south, southeast, south southeast, west, east, northeast, northwest, or north, the speed would have been fine. The results at the end of day 6 are the final results.
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2021 Paradise Airsports Nationals - day 6 »
2021 Paradise Airsports Nationals - day 6
Results
competition|Davis Straub|Filippo Oppici|Konrad Heilmann|Moyes Litespeed RX|Paradise Airsports Nationals 2021|Phill Bloom|Tyler Borradaile|Wills Wing T3|Willy Dydo|Zac Majors
https://airtribune.com/2021-paradise-airsports-nationals/results
# | Id | Name | Glider | Time | Distance (km) | Total | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 948 | Zac Majors | Wills Wing T3 144 | 02:56:52 | 57.74 | 342.0 | |
2 | 973 | Phill Bloom | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 02:57:35 | 57.74 | 334.7 | |
3 | 979 | Filippo Oppici | Wills Wing T3 144 | 02:57:36 | 57.74 | 332.4 | |
4 | 978 | Tyler Borradaile | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 02:58:22 | 57.74 | 329.8 | |
5 | 974 | Konrad Heilmann | Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 Technora | 23.20 | 168.4 | ||
6 | 985 | Davis Straub | Wills Wing T3 144 | 19.23 | 152.8 | ||
7 | 957 | Willy Dydo | Wills Wing T3 136 | 12.96 | 132.0 | ||
8 | 969 | Pedro L. Garcia | Wills Wing T3 144 | 12.90 | 131.8 | ||
9 | 946 | Kevin Dutt | Aeros Combat C 13.5 | 12.68 | 130.8 | ||
10 | 967 | Bruce Barmakian | Aeros Combat | 12.11 | 127.9 |
11 topics in this article: competition, Davis Straub, Filippo Oppici, Konrad Heilmann, Moyes Litespeed RX, Paradise Airsports Nationals 2021, Phill Bloom, Tyler Borradaile, Wills Wing T3, Willy Dydo, Zac Majors
2021 Paradise Airsports Nationals - day 6 »
2021 Paradise Airsports Nationals - day 6
Blue Sky|Paradise Airsports Nationals 2021|PG|Wallaby Ranch
You know, every now and then
I think you might like to hear something from us
Nice and easy but there's just one thing
You see, we never ever do nothing nice and easy
We always do it nice and rough
The forecast:
NWS:
Today
A slight chance of showers, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 8am. Partly sunny, with a high near 82. West wind around 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%.
Hourly in the afternoon: 6 mph west wind at 1 pm increasing to 8 mph west northwest by 4 PM, cloud cover 64%. Hourly and daily forecast do not agree on high temperature with hourly displaying 78 degrees.
RAP
1 PM:
Southwest surface wind at 1 PM: 6 mph, 2000' 8 mph , 4,000' 14 mph
TOL at 1 PM: 5,100'
Updraft Velocity at 1 pm: 600 fpm
CB at 1 PM: 4,000'
B/S at 1 PM: 8.0
4 PM:
West southwest surface wind at 4 PM: 10 mph, 2,000' 14 mh, 4,000' 14 mph
TOL at 4 PM: 6,100'
Updraft Velocity at 4 PM: 620 fpm
CB at 4 PM: 5,100'
B/S at 4 PM: 7.0
This is what it looks like most of the day:
Every once in a while it will open up and there will be sunshine on the ground., Cu's form under the high level clouds and there are spots of rain here and there.
We've got a hell of a task:
Wilotree Park to Gore and then back to Wallaby Ranch.
There is some reluctance to launch given how dark the sky looks at times. They delay the launch by 40 minutes so it's not until 1:20 that pilots start launching. Kasey pulls me up at 1:40 above everyone else but two pilots at 2,100' (2,000' AGL). I'm right under those two pilots that are off by themselves and under a weak looking cu. Everything looks weak under the high level clouds.
I climb to 2,800' but fifteen minutes after I pinned off I'm back down to where I started. Despite unrelenting circling and joisting with one pilot after another, half an hour after I launched I'm down to 800' AGL at the south end of the field. I climb at 6.6 fpm until I find 160 fpm west of Wilotree Park and climb to 2,200'. I was previously very concerned about how all of us would land at the same time at the park, which it looked like we were going to do. There were many relights.
After a few different thermals and lift at around 130 fpm I'm able to climb to 3,200'. I'm only 2.5 kilometers from Wilotree, but hanging with four or five other pilots downwind to the east.
I follow the pilots I'm near to the southeast to where just outside the 5 km start cylinder they find 144 fpm and I join in. Pilots are landing every where behind us.
It is all dark and shaded to the south along our course line. We get to 2,900' and then the six of us head south into the darkness. For over 6 km we glide and it looks like we are going to land (as two pilots already did) just north of the mines. Down to 900' AGL I spot Zac below us just north of the mines and to our east when he begins to turn. We come over him and start turning in lift that averages 134 fpm. I'm on top of him for at least 5 minutes when I lose my focus for a second and suddenly I'm on the bottom and out of contact. I see the five pilots I was with climb up faster and get away from me.
I head southeast to get under where they have stopped for lift but it takes me nine minutes to get back up to 3,000' and I can no longer see the other pilots.
I'm just east of the mines but in an area where retrieval will not be easy unless I drop straight down. I've got to go south following where they went to get south of highway 474. I head for the best looking patch of cumulus cloud but there is no lift there. I'm down to 1,400' at 474.
South of this east west road there are very limited access possibilities for quite a ways. I feel that I need 3,000' to chance going out south of the highway. I can see to the south that there is blue sky and lots of cumulus clouds that look so much better than anything that we have been flying in., but they are too far away for a pilot who is as low as I am.
I search around near the highway but not finding any lift land in a field just to the north of the road.
The pilots I was with are able to make it to the cu's and then complete the task.
https://www.xcontest.org/world/en/flights/detail:davisstraub/16.4.2021/17:40
https://www.paraglidingforum.com/leonardo/flight/2763323
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2021 Paradise Airsports Nationals - day 5 »
2021 Paradise Airsports Nationals - day 5
Very windy and overcast
Bobby Bailey|competition|Davis Straub|Filippo Oppici|John Simon|Kevin Carter|Konrad Heilmann|Moyes Litespeed RX|Paradise Airsports Nationals 2021|PG|Raul Guerra|Robin Hamilton|Tyler Borradaile|Wills Wing T3|Zac Majors
Replay: https://airtribune.com/play/5009/2d
Forecast:
There is a large mass of clouds moving from west to east in the northern Gulf. We saw a bit of this on Wednesday in the morning before the clouds to the north and west disappeared.
NWS:
Thursday
Increasing clouds, with a high near 87. South wind 5 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
Hourly in the afternoon: 11 mph southwest wind at noon increasing to 15 mph by 5 PM and turning west, cloud cover going from 19% to 50% then 71% at 5 PM
HRRR
1 PM:
Southwest surface wind at 1 PM: 14 mph, 2000' 21 mph, 4000' 22 mph
TOL at 1 PM: 4,800'
Updraft Velocity at 1 pm: 500 fpm
CB at 1 PM: 4600'
B/S at 1 PM: 4.3
4 PM:
West southwest surface wind at 4 PM: 13 mph, 4,000' 21 mph
TOL at 4 PM: 3,900'
Updraft Velocity at 4 PM: 400 fpm
CB at 4 PM: 0'
B/S at 4 PM: 1.4
So we expect a windy and gusty day with the upper level clouds coming completely over us, but letting in filter sunlight. With the southwest direction we first look at a task to the northeast but conclude that with the high winds the safety factor finding landable areas would be very narrow. I propose a cross wind task to the north hoping that we will get lighter winds and it will be soarable.
Results: https://airtribune.com/2021-paradise-airsports-nationals/results
Task 4: https://airtribune.com/2021-paradise-airsports-nationals/results/task5009/day/open-class
# | Name | Glider | Distance | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | JD Guillemette | Moyes RX3.5 | 26.72 | 192.0 |
2 | Raul Guerra | Icaro Laminar 14.7 | 23.65 | 177.4 |
3 | Filippo Oppici | Wills Wing T3 144 | 23.67 | 177.3 |
4 | Tyler Borradaile | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 23.59 | 176.8 |
5 | Bruce Barmakian | Aeros Combat | 23.54 | 176.2 |
6 | Kevin Dutt | Aeros Combat C 13.5 | 23.12 | 173.4 |
7 | Konrad Heilmann | Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 Technora | 22.75 | 169.0 |
8 | Zac Majors | Wills Wing T3 144 | 22.40 | 165.1 |
9 | Austin Marshall | Wills Wing T3 154 | 18.32 | 122.0 |
10 | Davis Straub | Wills Wing T3 144 | 18.07 | 120.7 |
Cumulative: https://airtribune.com/2021-paradise-airsports-nationals/results/task5009/comp/open-class
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Zac Majors | Wills Wing T3 144 | 2972 |
2 | Filippo Oppici | Wills Wing T3 144 | 2936 |
3 | Tyler Borradaile | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 2916 |
4 | Kevin Dutt | Aeros Combat C 13.5 | 2845 |
5 | Pedro L. Garcia | Wills Wing T3 144 | 2844 |
6 | Robin Hamilton | Aeros Combat 13 | 2599 |
6 | Raul Guerra | Icaro Laminar 14.7 | 2599 |
8 | Kevin Carter | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 2541 |
9 | John Simon | Aeros Combat C 12.7 | 2283 |
10 | Bruce Barmakian | Aeros Combat | 2220 |
There was no Sport Class task today given the high winds forecasted.
The winds at launch were within our pre assigned parameters (20 mph south and 10 mph west - so 15 mph southwest). The safety and meet director were monitoring the winds at launch and their criteria was 10 - 15 mph with no gusts over 5 mph. That's what they got.
The high level clouds from the north came near us but there were plenty of cu's underneath them. When I got pulled up after not choosing to go in the first round I pinned off in lift at 1,500' behind Bobby Bailey. I quickly climbed to 5,200' at 335 fpm despite all the upper level clouds. I was drifting at 12 mph out of the west southwest. I wanted to get to the west side of the 5 km start cylinder, which was not all that easy to do.
Heading west and then climbing back to 5,000' it was time to go to get the first start clock.
After the task opened we all raced to the northwest and found lift west of Groveland again back to 5,000'. I followed three pilots ahead and over me and found 350 fpm to 4,500' behind them and they had to come back to me.
As we went further north under the upper level clouds, but still toward cumulus clouds, the lift deteriorated. As we came over Grass Root airfield at a little less than 3,000' we spotted Zac Majors circling low on the north side. We climbed at 140 fpm to 3,300'. Zac headed off to the northwest low and we all lost track of him, except maybe Austin.
I'm only able to climb to 2,800' in the next thermal at 124 fpm. Others get higher. We are all being pushed to the east northeast and there is a small gaggle northeast of the Turnpike. I don't find any lift under them at 2,600' and head west toward the open fields on the south side of the Turnpike and near highway33. I note that the wind is 22 mph out of the west.
Making very slow progress against the head wind, down to 1,200', and not being able to make it to my preferred field to the west I turn east to be able to land near highway 27. There is a huge field there and I come in at 500' and stay prone and on the base tube all the way to the ground not wanting to get turned. My ground speed is less than 5 mph when I land in a nice soft field. It is very turbulent.
Kevin Carter measures 30 mph when he is coming in to land, hits 1,500 fpm low, and just keeps heading into the wind and landing. J.D. gets out ahead of everyone and wins the day.
https://www.xcontest.org/world/en/flights/detail:davisstraub/15.4.2021/17:34
https://www.paraglidingforum.com/leonardo/flight/2762660
15 topics in this article: Bobby Bailey, competition, Davis Straub, Filippo Oppici, John Simon, Kevin Carter, Konrad Heilmann, Moyes Litespeed RX, Paradise Airsports Nationals 2021, PG, Raul Guerra, Robin Hamilton, Tyler Borradaile, Wills Wing T3, Zac Majors
2021 Paradise Airsports Nationals - day 4 »
2021 Paradise Airsports Nationals - day 4
Task 3, more blue then a few cu's
Attila Plasch|competition|Filippo Oppici|John Simon|Kevin Carter|Paradise Airsports Nationals 2021|Phill Bloom|Raul Guerra|Robin Hamilton|Tim Delaney|Tyler Borradaile|Wills Wing T3|Willy Dydo|Zac Majors
The forecast:
NWS:
Wednesday
Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with a high near 88. Light southeast wind becoming south southeast 5 to 10 mph in the morning.
Hourly in the afternoon: 7 mph south southeast wind , 38% decreasing to 23% cloud cover
RAP
1 PM:
South surface wind at 1 PM: 6 mph, 2000' 7 mph, 4000' south southeast 6 mph
TOL at 1 PM: 4,400'
Updraft Velocity at 1 pm: 580 fpm
CB at 1 PM: none (with south southeast there is almost always cu's)
B/S at 1 PM: 9.7
4 PM:
South surface wind at 4 PM: 6 mph, 6,000' 6 mph
TOL at 4 PM: 7,700'
Updraft Velocity at 4 PM: 720 fpm
CB at 4 PM: 7,500'
B/S at 4 PM: 10.0
The Task:
Quest 3 km
Turn33 3 km (Intersection of the Florida Turnpike and highway 33)
T33D 3 km (Intersection of Dean Still Road and highway 33)
Quest 400 m
Results for Open and Sport classes: https://airtribune.com/2021-paradise-airsports-nationals/results
Task 3 Open: https://airtribune.com/2021-paradise-airsports-nationals/results/task5007/day/open-class
# | Name | Glider | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Tyler Borradaile | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 02:24:22 | 991.2 |
2 | Filippo Oppici | Wills Wing T3 144 | 02:24:24 | 981.9 |
3 | Pedro L. Garcia | Wills Wing T3 144 | 02:24:32 | 973.1 |
4 | Robin Hamilton | Aeros Combat 13 | 02:25:03 | 963.5 |
5 | John Simon | Aeros Combat C 12.7 | 02:25:27 | 958.0 |
6 | Phill Bloom | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 02:26:24 | 931.8 |
7 | Kevin Carter | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 02:27:05 | 920.9 |
8 | Kevin Dutt | Aeros Combat C 13.5 | 02:30:02 | 900.3 |
9 | Zac Majors | Wills Wing T3 144 | 02:30:47 | 898.2 |
10 | Bruce Barmakian | Aeros Combat | 02:39:58 | 838.2 |
Cumulative:
# | Name | Glider | T 1 | T 2 | T 3 | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Zac Majors | Wills Wing T3 144 | 928.2 | 980.4 | 898.2 | 2807 |
2 | Filippo Oppici | Wills Wing T3 144 | 822.3 | 954.9 | 981.9 | 2759 |
3 | Tyler Borradaile | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 806.6 | 941.6 | 991.2 | 2739 |
4 | Pedro L. Garcia | Wills Wing T3 144 | 815.0 | 945.7 | 973.1 | 2734 |
5 | Kevin Dutt | Aeros Combat C 13.5 | 779.4 | 991.7 | 900.3 | 2671 |
6 | Robin Hamilton | Aeros Combat 13 | 650.1 | 961.5 | 963.5 | 2575 |
7 | Kevin Carter | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 655.4 | 865.4 | 920.9 | 2442 |
8 | Raul Guerra | Icaro Laminar 14.7 | 754.7 | 832.7 | 834.4 | 2422 |
9 | John Simon | Aeros Combat C 12.7 | 634.3 | 580.8 | 958.0 | 2173 |
10 | Willy Dydo | Wills Wing T3 136 | 787.1 | 503.1 | 804.5 | 2095 |
Sport Cumulative:
# | Name | Glider | T 1 | T 2 | T 3 | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Tim Delaney | Wills Wing Sport 3 135 | 828.3 | 954.8 | 504.2 | 2287 |
2 | Ken Millard | Moyes Gecko 155 | 624.4 | 598.6 | 986.6 | 2210 |
3 | Douglas Hale | Moyes Gecko | 328.3 | 581.1 | 772.6 | 1682 |
4 | Ric Caylor | Moyes Gecko 170 | 137.6 | 989.3 | 475.5 | 1602 |
5 | Abishek Sethi | Wills Wing U2 145 | 563.4 | 547.4 | 462.5 | 1573 |
6 | Richard Milla | Wills Wing U2 145 | 624.4 | 533.6 | 411.9 | 1570 |
7 | Attila Plasch | WillsWing U2 | 285.5 | 479.2 | 704.7 | 1469 |
8 | Soham Mehta | Wills Wing U2 145 | 327.7 | 581.6 | 524.1 | 1433 |
9 | Richard Sibley | WW T2 144 | 450.6 | 361.3 | 350.6 | 1163 |
10 | David Hayner | Wills Wing Sport 3 155 | 247.0 | 438.6 | 475.1 | 1161 |
14 topics in this article: Attila Plasch, competition, Filippo Oppici, John Simon, Kevin Carter, Paradise Airsports Nationals 2021, Phill Bloom, Raul Guerra, Robin Hamilton, Tim Delaney, Tyler Borradaile, Wills Wing T3, Willy Dydo, Zac Majors
2021 Paradise Airsports Nationals - day 3 »
2021 Paradise Airsports Nationals - day 3
Task 2, in the blue
competition|Filippo Oppici|Gary Anderson|John Simon|Kevin Carter|Paradise Airsports Nationals 2021|Raul Guerra|Robin Hamilton|Tyler Borradaile|Wills Wing T3|Zac Majors
Live and Replay Open task: https://airtribune.com/play/5004/2d
Results for Open and Sport classes:
https://airtribune.com/2021-paradise-airsports-nationals/results
Task 2 Open: https://airtribune.com/2021-paradise-airsports-nationals/results/task5004/day/open-class
# | Name | Glider | Time | Distance (km) | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Kevin Dutt | Aeros Combat C 13.5 | 02:55:37 | 90.70 | 991.7 |
2 | Zac Majors | Wills Wing T3 144 | 02:56:25 | 90.70 | 980.4 |
3 | Robin Hamilton | Aeros Combat 13 | 02:56:36 | 90.70 | 961.5 |
4 | Filippo Oppici | Wills Wing T3 144 | 02:56:48 | 90.70 | 954.9 |
5 | Pedro L. Garcia | Wills Wing T3 144 | 02:56:55 | 90.70 | 945.7 |
6 | Tyler Borradaile | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 02:56:58 | 90.70 | 941.6 |
7 | Kevin Carter | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 03:15:26 | 90.70 | 865.4 |
8 | Raul Guerra | Icaro Laminar 14.7 | 03:22:46 | 90.70 | 832.7 |
9 | Gary Anderson | Wills Wing T3 144 | 85.53 | 591.0 | |
10 | John Simon | Aeros Combat C 12.7 | 82.16 | 586.8 |
A blue day with a north wind and a mixed forecast that made us unsure if we would have a lot of lift or just a little. Later the day turned out very well with climbs to 6,000' and sustained 500 fpm.
11 topics in this article: competition, Filippo Oppici, Gary Anderson, John Simon, Kevin Carter, Paradise Airsports Nationals 2021, Raul Guerra, Robin Hamilton, Tyler Borradaile, Wills Wing T3, Zac Majors
The Sky Wants Us to Return
The forecast was an utter failure
competition|Davis Straub|Filippo Oppici|Kevin Carter|Larry Bunner|Paradise Airsports Nationals 2021|PG|Phill Bloom|Tyler Borradaile|Wills Wing T3|Willy Dydo|Zac Majors
We were confronted with a forecast that said we were going to get to only 3,000' and have really light lift. None of that was true but it made life difficult for the task committee. None the less with Larry Bunner's guidance we called a great task that took advantage of the superb conditions and got most of us back to Wilotree Park.
Now we have to be concerned about why the forecast was so wrong and how to deal with the fact that the forecast for Tuesday is similar. Likely we'll just grab another forecast from our set of models and also go with whatever Skew-T brews up for us.
Given our great uncertainty about the forecast we called for an elapsed task with no leading or arrival points. We were concerned that it would be difficult for pilots to hang around for an hour in poor conditions. As it turned out there was no reason for that.
I was about the third pilot to get hauled up as a few pilots in front of me backed out and went to the end. Phill Bloom was first off and I was hauled up right under him. We climbed right to cloud base at 4,100' and then sampled nearby clouds wondering who would go first. Raul left early.
Larry and I left a gaggle of about half a dozen of the top pilots to go to the next cloud just outside the start cylinder and got up back to cloud base. When they came to join us in the lift we headed back and got a later start time by about three minutes. We then caught back up with them.
The task was a bit complex:
There were cu's around and we just hopped from cu to cu, which is why we didn't follow straight along the course lines:
There was plenty of lift under most of the cu's and at one point it averaged 500 fpm for 3,500'.
The results can be found here: https://airtribune.com/2021-paradise-airsports-nationals/results/task5003/day/open-class
# | Name | Glider | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Zac Majors | Wills Wing T3 144 | 01:46:52 | 981.2 |
2 | Kevin Dutt | Aeros Combat C 13.5 | 02:04:54 | 804.8 |
3 | Willy Dydo | Wills Wing T3 136 | 02:05:27 | 800.3 |
4 | Pedro L. garcia | Wills Wing T3 144 | 02:06:40 | 790.5 |
5 | Filippo Oppici | Wills Wing T3 144 | 02:06:47 | 789.6 |
6 | Tyler Borradaile | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 02:06:48 | 789.4 |
7 | Austin Marshall | Wills Wing T3 154 | 02:08:55 | 772.6 |
8 | Larry Bunner | Wills Wing T3 144 | 02:11:43 | 750.8 |
9 | Davis Straub | Wills Wing T3 144 | 02:13:13 | 739.2 |
10 | Kevin Carter | Tbd | 02:15:57 | 718.5 |
Sport Class results here: https://airtribune.com/2021-paradise-airsports-nationals/results/task5002/day/sport-class
https://www.xcontest.org/world/en/flights/detail:davisstraub/12.4.2021/17:08
https://www.xcontest.org/world/en/ranking-hg-national:US
https://www.xcontest.org/world/en/ranking-hg-open/
https://www.paraglidingforum.com/leonardo/flight/2761334
http://wxc.fai.org/module.php?id=22&date=20210405&gliderclass=hg1
12 topics in this article: competition, Davis Straub, Filippo Oppici, Kevin Carter, Larry Bunner, Paradise Airsports Nationals 2021, PG, Phill Bloom, Tyler Borradaile, Wills Wing T3, Willy Dydo, Zac Majors
2021 Paradise Airsports Nationals - day 1 »
2021 Paradise Airsports Nationals - day 1
We have crushed the drought
Belinda Boulter|Paradise Airsports Nationals 2021|video
It's hard to believe that it will only be from one to two inches of rain today (Sunday).
We have not had anything like this in the five months that Belinda and I have been here:
Those folks staying in tents will be most unhappy. Looks like a warm day tomorrow, sunny, with a north wind.
The Sandhill Cranes can eat and drink at the same time:
https://vimeo.com/535653182 by Randee Azzar.
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3 topics in this article: Belinda Boulter, Paradise Airsports Nationals 2021, video
Pilot Entry Fee Goes Up March 10th
Pilot Entry Fee Goes Up March 10th
$100 per competition
Paradise Airsports Nationals 2021
https://airtribune.com/2021-paradise-airsports-nationals/info/details__info
https://airtribune.com/2021-wilotree-park-nationals/info/details__info
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1 topic in this article: Paradise Airsports Nationals 2021
A Near Cyber Death Experience
We almost lost it
COVID|Facebook|Oz Report|Paradise Airsports Nationals 2021|Wilotree Park|Wilotree Park Nationals 2021
You might have noticed that it's been a tough year for most of us. Hang gliding continued without many competitions which would have lead to gatherings which were either frowned upon or completely forbidden by the authorities. Here in Florida we continued life outside where it is is 19 times safer (https://bestlifeonline.com/coronavirus-indoors/). Due to travel restrictions we canceled the Sport Class, Rigid Wing and Women's Worlds as well as all the Nationals competitions. Same for Big Spring.
Now a year later we are planning for the 2021 Paradise Airsports and Wilotree Park Nationals in April to be run under COVID protocols with continued international travel restrictions: https://airtribune.com/2021-paradise-airsports-nationals/info and https://airtribune.com/2021-wilotree-park-nationals/info.
During the year of crises mode we also decided to move to a new web server to reduce our costs. This transition has not been without numerous glitches as the Oz Report is a complex web site. For example, yesterday the host automatically updated PHP which caused all sorts of problems for Scare. Hopefully over time the situation will stabilize.
At one point we considered just going strictly on Facebook which would relieve us of all the web hosting issues (the high cost being the primary concern). We also were getting most of our content via Facebook posts, so it made sense to go to our Facebook version of the Oz Report.
This would mean that we would drop our email push of Oz Report issues. Also, those who find Facebook objectionable would no longer get to see our content. After a few disappointing experiments we decided to leave well enough alone. There is a Facebook version of the Oz Report and a stand-alone version. Sometimes content from the Facebook version comes over to the stand-alone version.
You can just go to the Oz Report on Facebook and ignore your news feed: https://www.facebook.com/ozreport
We don't know where things stand with our readers. We've decided not to publish every weekday unless there is news every weekday. Before it was publish or perish five days a week for 24 years. Now we are taking a bit more relaxed attitude and publishing when something interesting is happening, and hopefully with a new year and good changes to our pandemic situation coming, there will be more interesting things happening.
Thanks to all the Oz Report readers for their support over the years.
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6 topics in this article: COVID, Facebook, Oz Report, Paradise Airsports Nationals 2021, Wilotree Park, Wilotree Park Nationals 2021
The Florida 2021 Spring Competitions
The Florida 2021 Spring Competitions
They are happening
Paradise Airsports Nationals 2021
https://airtribune.com/2021-paradise-airsports-nationals/info/details__info
April 10th through the 17th.
Competition flying 11th through the 17th.
https://airtribune.com/2021-wilotree-park-nationals/info/details__info
April 18th through the 25th.
Competition flying April 19th through the 25th.
There will be plenty of social distancing and everything will take place outside.
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1 topic in this article: Paradise Airsports Nationals 2021
The Florida Competitions in 2021
The Florida Competitions in 2021
The new meet organizer
Belinda Boulter|Ben Dunn|COVID|Paradise Airsports Nationals 2021|Risk Retention Group|USHPA|Wilotree Park
Stephan Mentler <team> writes:
To my fellow competition pilots, the Florida based hang gliding competitions - in April of next year - are moving forward pending official USHPA re-sanctioning. This includes the Paradise Airports Nationals, Wilotree Park Nationals, and the 2nd FAI Sport Class World Championship. The respective competition dates along with registration process is provided on the Airtribune sites.
https://airtribune.com/2021-wilotree-park-nationals/info
https://airtribune.com/2021-sport-world-championships/info
https://airtribune.com/2021-paradise-airsports-nationals/info
The competition organization understands that there will remain many unknowns
regarding COVID-19, even with the development and distribution of a vaccine.
Pilots who sign-up for a competition and submit payment will be entitled to a
full refund of entry fees minus $3.00 (three dollars) or the foreign equivalent
if they are unable to attend due to impacts of COVID-19. This includes
government-imposed travel restrictions, government-imposed restrictions on
sporting events, surges in cases, pilot illness, pilot family member illness,
etc. The $3.00 (three dollars) is retained to pay for anticipated
non-refundable Organizer competition expenses.
There are a couple of changes - other than the impacts of COVID-19 – from
previous years of Florida hang gliding competitions. The first and most
impactful is the retirement of Davis and Belinda from official Organizing and
Meet Directing duties. As competition pilots, we owe them an enormous debt of
gratitude for their personal sacrifice and doing what can be a thankless
job. Without their commitment to organizing the Spring Florida competitions
from the Green Swamp Klassic to the Nationals series, I suspect that the Florida
and Big Spring competitions would have died-out a long time ago. Thankfully,
they have volunteered to help the new organization team, as needed to get things
going for next year.
This gets us to our second change. In my role as the primary Organizer for next
year’s Florida competitions and also considering the long-term prospects for
U.S. based race-to-goal competitions – I along with two other competition pilots
founded a hang gliding competition specific non-profit organization - the Hang
Glider Racing Association Corp (HGRAC), a registered Florida non-profit
corporation. This was done upon the advice of past and potentially future
organizers and several attorneys.
A little background - some of the requirements enacted by the Risk Retention
Group (RRG), for a competition to be insured, transfers a substantial level of
risk to competition organizers. This includes the potential for the RRG to
refuse coverage for incidents that would be beyond the control of the
organizer. Without the creation of a competition specific organization as an
additional protection for organizers, it is unlikely that anyone would have
stepped in to organize another hang gliding race-to-goal competition in the
U.S. To be fair, the RRG has been made aware of the concerns and their
leadership is working to resolve them – but in the interim - the HGRAC will be
the entity under which I along with one or two other potential hang gliding
competition organizers will organize U.S. based race-to-goal hang gliding
competitions.
The HGRAC is currently composed of a president and two Directors. The two
Directors are Ben Dunn and Cory Barnwell. Ben is a former multi-year Open Class
U.S. National Team member and Cory is an experienced Open and Sport Class
competition pilot. We will be looking to appoint additional Directors if and as
the HGRAC evolves.
The comp organization email address is <team>.
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7 topics in this article: Belinda Boulter, Ben Dunn, COVID, Paradise Airsports Nationals 2021, Risk Retention Group, USHPA, Wilotree Park
Alfapilot
Alfapilot
Backup for Navigation
Phill Bloom
Phill Bloom <<phillipbloom>> writes:
Your recent articles inspired me to send this picture.
I purchased this vario as a back up for navigation. The screen is the best I’ve seen so far. It is also totally customizable and can automatically switch between three screens in flight. The only bummer is no air speed but it still isn’t bad on final glide info.
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1 topic in this article: Phill Bloom
2019 Santa Cruz Flats Race »
2019 Santa Cruz Flats Race
A win by one point
Bill Soderquist|Brian Porter|Chris Zimmerman|competition|Davis Straub|Facebook|Glen Volk|Greg Chastain|Greg Kendall|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Kevin Carter|Kraig Coomber|Phill Bloom|photo|Santa Cruz Flats Race 2019|Tim Delaney|Tyler Borradaile|Wills Wing T3|Zac Majors
https://airtribune.com/santa-cruz-flats-race-mark-knight-memorial-2019/results
Tyler Borradaile wins the 2019 Santa Cruz Flats Race.
Fourth task:
# | Name | Glider | Time | Distance | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Kraig Coomber | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 01:55:45 | 74.63 | 925 |
2 | Tyler Borradaile | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 01:55:46 | 74.63 | 912 |
3 | Olav Opsanger | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 01:56:00 | 74.63 | 896 |
4 | Jonny Durand | Moyes RX 4 Pro | 01:56:49 | 74.63 | 876 |
5 | Bill Soderquist | ? ? | 02:08:42 | 74.63 | 861 |
6 | Guilherme Sandoli | WillsWing T3 144 | 01:57:23 | 74.63 | 860 |
7 | Bruno Sandoli | Wills Wing T3 144 | 02:00:46 | 74.63 | 822 |
8 | Phill Bloom | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 02:02:49 | 74.63 | 794 |
9 | Kevin Carter | Wills Wing T3 | 02:18:45 | 74.63 | 733 |
10 | Philippe Michaud | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 02:19:07 | 74.63 | 708 |
11 | Glen Volk | Moyes RX 3.5 | 72.35 | 502 | |
12 | Greg Kendall | Moyes RX 3.5 | 67.07 | 489 | |
13 | Kevin Dutt | Aeros Combat C 13.5 | 69.56 | 488 | |
14 | Zac Majors | Wills Wing T3 | 66.48 | 445 | |
15 | Davis Straub | Wills Wing T3 144 | 71.81 | 441 |
Cumulative:
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Tyler Borradaile | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 3364 |
2 | Jonny Durand | Moyes RX 4 Pro | 3363 |
3 | Olav Opsanger | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 3337 |
4 | Kraig Coomber | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 3268 |
5 | Phill Bloom | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 3146 |
6 | Zac Majors | Wills Wing T3 | 2992 |
7 | Kevin Carter | Wills Wing T3 | 2904 |
8 | Bruno Sandoli | Wills Wing T3 144 | 2526 |
9 | Davis Straub | Wills Wing T3 144 | 2476 |
10 | Philippe Michaud | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 2373 |
Sport Class:
# | Name | Glider | Time | Distance | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Tim Delaney | Wills Wing Sport 3 135 | 01:14:07 | 45.19 | 1000 |
2 | Hugh Glenn | Moyes Gecko 170 | 01:15:01 | 45.19 | 977 |
3 | L.J. Omara | Wills Wing Sport 3 155 | 01:56:46 | 45.19 | 703 |
4 | Ken Millard | Wills Wing Sport 3 155 | 43.56 | 589 | |
5 | Richard Westmoreland | Wills Wing U2 145 | 35.98 | 518 |
Cumulative:
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Tim Delaney | Wills Wing Sport 3 135 | 3187 |
2 | Hugh Glenn | Moyes Gecko 170 | 2447 |
3 | Richard Westmoreland | Wills Wing U2 145 | 2142 |
4 | Ken Millard | Wills Wing Sport 3 155 | 2027 |
5 | L.J. Omara | Wills Wing Sport 3 155 | 1962 |
Swift Class:
# | Name | Glider | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Chris Zimmerman | Aeriane Swift'Light | 01:51:21 | 1000 |
2 | Brian Porter | Aeriane Swift | 02:07:01 | 778 |
3 | greg chastain | Moyes or Brightstar Litespeed 5 or Swift | 02:13:27 | 726 |
Cumulative:
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | greg chastain | Moyes or Brightstar Litespeed 5 or Swift | 3070 |
2 | Brian Porter | Aeriane Swift | 3047 |
3 | Chris Zimmerman | Aeriane Swift'Light | 2858 |
4 | Stephen Morris | Bright Star Millennium | 1316 |
5 | Bruce Barmakian | Aeriane Swift | 1131 |
19 topics in this article: Bill Soderquist, Brian Porter, Chris Zimmerman, competition, Davis Straub, Facebook, Glen Volk, Greg Chastain, Greg Kendall, Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr, Kevin Carter, Kraig Coomber, Phill Bloom, photo, Santa Cruz Flats Race 2019, Tim Delaney, Tyler Borradaile, Wills Wing T3, Zac Majors
2019 Santa Cruz Flats Race »
2019 Santa Cruz Flats Race
A too short task - the results
Brian Porter|Chris Zimmerman|competition|Davis Straub|Greg Chastain|Greg Kendall|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Kevin Carter|Kraig Coomber|Phill Bloom|Santa Cruz Flats Race 2019|Tim Delaney|Tyler Borradaile|Wills Wing T3|Willy Dydo|Zac Majors
https://airtribune.com/santa-cruz-flats-race-mark-knight-memorial-2019/results
Task 3:
# | Name | Glider | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Tyler Borradaile | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 00:59:06 | 864 |
2 | Jonny Durand | Moyes RX 4 Pro | 00:59:57 | 835 |
3 | Zac Majors | Wills Wing T3 | 01:08:21 | 721 |
4 | Olav Opsanger | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 01:09:21 | 704 |
5 | Phill Bloom | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 01:13:57 | 657 |
6 | Davis Straub | Wills Wing T3 144 | 01:16:04 | 632 |
7 | Bruno Sandoli | Wills Wing T3 144 | 01:17:48 | 622 |
8 | Greg Kendall | Moyes RX 3.5 | 01:18:33 | 599 |
9 | Guilherme Sandoli | WillsWing T3 144 | 01:21:51 | 577 |
10 | Willy Dydo | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 01:19:17 | 570 |
Cumulative:
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Zac Majors | Wills Wing T3 | 2547 |
2 | Jonny Durand | Moyes RX 4 Pro | 2487 |
3 | Tyler Borradaile | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 2452 |
4 | Olav Opsanger | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 2441 |
5 | Phill Bloom | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 2352 |
6 | Kraig Coomber | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 2343 |
7 | Kevin Carter | Wills Wing T3 | 2171 |
8 | Marcelo Alexandre Menin | Wills Wing T2C 154 | 2167 |
9 | Davis Straub | Wills Wing T3 144 | 2035 |
10 | Bruno Sandoli | Wills Wing T3 144 | 1704 |
Sport Class:
# | Name | Glider | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Rick Warner | Wills Wing Sport 2 155 | 00:30:35 | 729 |
2 | Tim Delaney | Wills Wing Sport 3 135 | 00:33:29 | 657 |
3 | L.J. Omara | Wills Wing Sport 3 155 | 00:41:03 | 560 |
4 | Richard Caylor | Moyes Gecko 170 | 00:44:33 | 525 |
5 | Richard Westmoreland | Wills Wing U2 145 | 00:49:01 | 483 |
Cumulative:
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Tim Delaney | Wills Wing Sport 3 135 | 2187 |
2 | Richard Westmoreland | Wills Wing U2 145 | 1624 |
3 | Hugh Glenn | Moyes Gecko 170 | 1479 |
4 | Ken Millard | Wills Wing Sport 3 155 | 1401 |
5 | Rick Warner | Wills Wing Sport 2 155 | 1314 |
Swifts:
# | Name | Glider | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Brian Porter | Aeriane Swift | 01:55:19 | 998 |
2 | greg chastain | Swift | 01:55:17 | 993 |
3 | Chris Zimmerman | Aeriane Swift'Light | 01:55:48 | 974 |
Cumulative:
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | greg chastain | Swift | 2344 |
2 | Brian Porter | Aeriane Swift | 2269 |
3 | Chris Zimmerman | Aeriane Swift'Light | 1858 |
4 | Stephen Morris | Swift | 1015 |
5 | Bruce Barmakian | Aeriane Swift | 903 |
16 topics in this article: Brian Porter, Chris Zimmerman, competition, Davis Straub, Greg Chastain, Greg Kendall, Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr, Kevin Carter, Kraig Coomber, Phill Bloom, Santa Cruz Flats Race 2019, Tim Delaney, Tyler Borradaile, Wills Wing T3, Willy Dydo, Zac Majors
2019 Santa Cruz Flats Race »
2019 Santa Cruz Flats Race
Task Two Results
Brian Porter|Chris Zimmerman|competition|Davis Straub|Greg Chastain|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Kevin Carter|Kraig Coomber|Phill Bloom|Santa Cruz Flats Race 2019|Tim Delaney|Tyler Borradaile|Wills Wing T3|Zac Majors
https://airtribune.com/santa-cruz-flats-race-mark-knight-memorial-2019/results
# | Name | Glider | Time | Distance | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Jonny Durand | Moyes RX 4 Pro | 01:47:15 | 67.83 | 1000 |
2 | Zac Majors | Wills Wing T3 | 01:52:59 | 67.83 | 862 |
3 | Kraig Coomber | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 01:55:37 | 67.83 | 828 |
4 | Olav Opsanger | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 01:58:21 | 67.83 | 797 |
5 | Phill Bloom | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 02:10:28 | 67.83 | 762 |
6 | Marcelo Alexandre Menin | Wills Wing T2C 154 | 02:05:02 | 67.83 | 755 |
7 | Kevin Carter | Wills Wing T3 | 02:07:21 | 67.83 | 734 |
8 | Tyler Borradaile | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 02:31:54 | 67.83 | 629 |
9 | Davis Straub | Wills Wing T3 144 | 66.16 | 497 | |
10 | Kevin Dutt | Aeros Combat C 13.5 | 57.06 | 445 |
Cumulative:
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Zac Majors | Wills Wing T3 | 1826 |
2 | Kraig Coomber | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 1785 |
3 | Olav Opsanger | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 1737 |
4 | Phill Bloom | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 1695 |
5 | Kevin Carter | Wills Wing T3 | 1665 |
6 | Jonny Durand | Moyes RX 4 Pro | 1652 |
7 | Marcelo Alexandre Menin | Wills Wing T2C 154 | 1613 |
8 | Tyler Borradaile | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 1588 |
9 | Davis Straub | Wills Wing T3 144 | 1403 |
10 | Philippe Michaud | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 1116 |
Sport Class:
# | Name | Glider | T 1 | T 2 | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Tim Delaney | Wills Wing Sport 3 135 | 653 | 877 | 1530 |
2 | Hugh Glenn | Moyes Gecko 170 | 356 | 872 | 1228 |
3 | Ken Millard | Wills Wing Sport 3 155 | 328 | 815 | 1143 |
4 | Richard Westmoreland | Wills Wing U2 145 | 141 | 1000 | 1141 |
5 | Bill Snyder | Wills Wing U2 145 | 209 | 525 | 734 |
Swifts:
# | Name | Glider | T 1 | T 2 | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | greg chastain | Moyes or Brightstar Litespeed 5 or Swift | 1000 | 351 | 1351 |
2 | Brian Porter | Aeriane Swift | 464 | 807 | 1271 |
3 | Chris Zimmerman | Aeriane Swift'Light | 716 | 168 | 884 |
4 | Bruce Barmakian | Aeriane Swift | 415 | 347 | 762 |
5 | Stephen Morris | Bright Star Millennium | 361 | 275 | 636 |
14 topics in this article: Brian Porter, Chris Zimmerman, competition, Davis Straub, Greg Chastain, Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr, Kevin Carter, Kraig Coomber, Phill Bloom, Santa Cruz Flats Race 2019, Tim Delaney, Tyler Borradaile, Wills Wing T3, Zac Majors
2019 Santa Cruz Flats Race »
2019 Santa Cruz Flats Race
Results from the first day
Davis Straub|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Kevin Carter|Kraig Coomber|Phill Bloom|Santa Cruz Flats Race 2019|Tyler Borradaile|Wills Wing T3|Zac Majors
# | Name | Glider | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Zac Majors | Wills Wing T3 | 02:11:32 | 963 |
2 | Tyler Borradaile | Moyes Rx Pro 3.5 | 02:11:25 | 959 |
3 | Kraig Coomber | Moyes RX3.5 Pro | 02:11:15 | 958 |
4 | Olav Opsanger | Moyes LSRX3.5 PRO | 02:11:39 | 938 |
5 | Phill Bloom | Moyes RX 3.5 | 02:11:43 | 931 |
6 | Kevin Carter | Wills Wing T3 | 02:11:45 | 929 |
7 | Philippe Michaud | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 02:13:10 | 914 |
8 | Davis Straub | Wills Wing T3 144 | 02:12:48 | 904 |
9 | Bruno Sandoli | Wills Wing T2C | 02:13:21 | 881 |
10 | Marcelo Alexandre Menin | Wills Wing T2C 154 | 02:17:31 | 859 |
11 | Patrick Pannese | Wills Wing T2C | 02:29:10 | 767 |
12 | Jonny Durand | Moyes RX 4 PRO | 02:52:44 | 660 |
13 | Cory Barnwell | ? ? | 02:55:11 | 599 |
9 topics in this article: Davis Straub, Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr, Kevin Carter, Kraig Coomber, Phill Bloom, Santa Cruz Flats Race 2019, Tyler Borradaile, Wills Wing T3, Zac Majors
WPRS Ranking US pilots
WPRS Ranking US pilots
As of September 1st
Davis Straub|Glen Volk|Kevin Carter|Larry Bunner|Patrick Kruse|World Pilot Ranking Scheme|Zac Majors
Davis Straub|Glen Volk|John Simon|Kevin Carter|Larry Bunner|Patrick Kruse|World Pilot Ranking Scheme|Zac Majors
Davis Straub|Glen Volk|John Simon|Kevin Carter|Larry Bunner|Patrick Kruse|Willy Dydo|World Pilot Ranking Scheme|Zac Majors
Davis Straub|Glen Volk|John Simon|Kevin Carter|Larry Bunner|Patrick Kruse|Phill Bloom|Willy Dydo|World Pilot Ranking Scheme|Zac Majors
Davis Straub|Gary Anderson|Glen Volk|John Simon|Kevin Carter|Larry Bunner|Patrick Kruse|Phill Bloom|Willy Dydo|World Pilot Ranking Scheme|Zac Majors
Davis Straub|Gary Anderson|Glen Volk|Jeff Chipman|John Simon|Kevin Carter|Larry Bunner|Patrick Kruse|Phill Bloom|Willy Dydo|World Pilot Ranking Scheme|Zac Majors
Davis Straub|Gary Anderson|Glen Volk|Jeff Chipman|John Simon|Kevin Carter|Larry Bunner|Patrick Kruse|Phill Bloom|Robin Hamilton|Willy Dydo|World Pilot Ranking Scheme|Zac Majors
Davis Straub|Gary Anderson|Glen Volk|Jeff Chipman|John Simon|Kevin Carter|Larry Bunner|Patrick Kruse|Phill Bloom|Robin Hamilton|Willy Dydo|World Pilot Ranking Scheme|Zac Majors
Rank | Name | Points |
---|---|---|
1 | Pedro L. Garcia | 253.5 |
2 | Zac Majors | 215.6 |
3 | Davis Straub | 168.1 |
4 | John Simon | 163.3 |
5 | Bruce Barmakian | 162.7 |
6 | Kevin Dutt | 155.5 |
7 | Kevin Carter | 144.9 |
8 | Phill Bloom | 142 |
9 | Larry Bunner | 135.4 |
10 | Patrick Pannese | 104.6 |
11 | Glen Volk | 101.2 |
12 | Robin Hamilton | 97.7 |
13 | JD Guillemette | 75.8 |
14 | Kip Stone | 65.2 |
15 | Gary Anderson | 59.1 |
16 | Willy Dydo | 58.3 |
17 | Jeff Chipman | 57.3 |
18 | mick howard | 53.5 |
19 | Patrick Kruse | 51.1 |
20 | Derreck Turner | 49.3 |
Discuss "WPRS Ranking US pilots" at the Oz Report forum link»
7 topics in this article: Davis Straub, Glen Volk, Kevin Carter, Larry Bunner, Patrick Kruse, World Pilot Ranking Scheme, Zac Majors
CIVL WPRS ranking, for the USA
Updated after week 2
Bruce Barmakian|CIVL|Davis Straub|John Simon|Kevin Carter|Larry Bunner|Phill Bloom|Quest Air|Robin Hamilton|World Pilot Ranking Scheme|Worlds 2017 Class 1|Zac Majors
CIVL WPRS ranking, for the USA
http://civlrankings.fai.org/?a=326&ladder_id=1&nation_id=235&
12 topics in this article: Bruce Barmakian, CIVL, Davis Straub, John Simon, Kevin Carter, Larry Bunner, Phill Bloom, Quest Air, Robin Hamilton, World Pilot Ranking Scheme, Worlds 2017 Class 1, Zac Majors
CIVL WPRS ranking, for the USA
After the 2019 Nationals week 1
Bruce Barmakian|CIVL|Davis Straub|John Simon|Kevin Carter|Larry Bunner|Phill Bloom|Quest Air|Robin Hamilton|World Pilot Ranking Scheme|Worlds 2017 Class 1|Zac Majors
CIVL WPRS ranking, for the USA
http://civlrankings.fai.org/?a=326&ladder_id=1&nation_id=235&
12 topics in this article: Bruce Barmakian, CIVL, Davis Straub, John Simon, Kevin Carter, Larry Bunner, Phill Bloom, Quest Air, Robin Hamilton, World Pilot Ranking Scheme, Worlds 2017 Class 1, Zac Majors
2019 Nationals (week 2)
2019 Nationals (week 2)
Results for day 7, task 6
Bruce Barmakian|competition|Corinna Schwiegershausen|Davis Straub|John Simon|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Phill Bloom|Raul Guerra|Tim Delaney|US Nationals 2019|Wills Wing T3|Zac Majors
https://airtribune.com/2019-quest-air-nationals-week-2/results
Task 6:
# | Name | Glider | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Jonny Durand | Moyes RX 4 Pro | 03:00:56 | 993 |
2 | Zac Majors | Wills Wing T3 144 | 03:00:36 | 989 |
3 | Pedro L. Garcia | Wills Wing T3 144 | 03:01:12 | 987 |
4 | Nene Rotor | Wills Wing T3 144 | 03:01:13 | 985 |
5 | John Simon | Aeros Combat C 12.7 | 03:02:08 | 971 |
6 | Akira Nagusa | Wills Wing T23144 | 03:01:58 | 970 |
7 | Marcelo Alexandre Menin | Wills Wing T2C 154 | 03:02:28 | 969 |
8 | Corinna Schwiegershausen | Moyes RX 3 Pro | 03:04:59 | 945 |
9 | Giovani Tagliari | Wills Wing T2C 154 | 03:05:28 | 943 |
10 | Raul Guerra | Aeros Combat C 12.7 | 03:47:06 | 758 |
Final:
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Nene Rotor | Wills Wing T3 144 | 5614 |
2 | Pedro L. Garcia | Wills Wing T3 144 | 5426 |
3 | Zac Majors | Wills Wing T3 144 | 5266 |
4 | Jonny Durand | Moyes RX 4 Pro | 5153 |
5 | Marcelo Alexandre Menin | Wills Wing T2C 154 | 5005 |
6 | John Simon | Aeros Combat C 12.7 | 4827 |
7 | Kevin Dutt | Aeros Combat 13.5 | 4635 |
8 | Akira Nagusa | Wills Wing T23144 | 4620 |
9 | Phill Bloom | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 4430 |
10 | Bruce Barmakian | Aeros Combat 12.7 | 4242 |
11 | Davis Straub | Wills Wing T3 144 | 3956 |
12 | Corinna Schwiegershausen | Moyes RX 3 Pro | 3911 |
13 | Guilherme Sandoli | WillsWing T2C 136 | 3875 |
14 | Patrick Pannese | Wills Wing T3 144 | 3770 |
15 | Raul Guerra | Aeros Combat C 12.7 | 3747 |
Sport Task 6:
# | Name | Glider | Distance | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Knut Ryerson | Aeros Discus C | 48.36 | 900 |
2 | Mitch Sorby | Wills Wing U2 145 | 44.29 | 847 |
3 | Rod Regier | Moyes Litesport 4 | 42.30 | 813 |
4 | Richard Westmoreland | Wills Wing U2 145 | 26.41 | 528 |
5 | Tim Delaney | Wills Wing Sport 3 135 | 22.35 | 475 |
6 | Richard Milla | Wills Wing U2 145 | 19.75 | 431 |
7 | Attila Plasch | Moyes Litesport 4 | 16.77 | 369 |
8 | Danilo Lohse De Stefani | Wills Wing U2 160 | 5.00 | 116 |
8 | Phil Siscoe | Wills Wing U2 | 5.00 | 116 |
8 | Richard Caylor | Moyes Gecko 170 | 5.00 | 116 |
Final:
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Rod Regier | Moyes Litesport 4 | 4531 |
2 | Richard Westmoreland | Wills Wing U2 145 | 4217 |
3 | Tim Delaney | Wills Wing Sport 3 135 | 3462 |
4 | Richard Milla | Wills Wing U2 145 | 3063 |
5 | Mitch Sorby | Wills Wing U2 145 | 2987 |
6 | Knut Ryerson | Aeros Discus C | 2716 |
7 | Richard Caylor | Moyes Gecko 170 | 2226 |
8 | Ken Millard | Moyes Gecko 155 | 1541 |
9 | Danilo Lohse De Stefani | Wills Wing U2 160 | 1490 |
10 | Attila Plasch | Moyes Litesport 4 | 1287 |
11 | Phil Siscoe | Wills Wing U2 | 625 |
12 topics in this article: Bruce Barmakian, competition, Corinna Schwiegershausen, Davis Straub, John Simon, Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr, Phill Bloom, Raul Guerra, Tim Delaney, US Nationals 2019, Wills Wing T3, Zac Majors
2019 Nationals (week 2)
2019 Nationals (week 2)
Preliminary Results for day 5, task 5 (Kevin Dutt not scored yet)
Bruce Barmakian|competition|Corinna Schwiegershausen|Davis Straub|Glen Volk|John Simon|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Larry Bunner|Phill Bloom|Raul Guerra|Tim Delaney|US Nationals 2019|Wills Wing T3|Zac Majors
https://airtribune.com/2019-quest-air-nationals-week-2/results
Task 5:
# | Name | Glider | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Zac Majors | Wills Wing T3 144 | 02:28:56 | 987 |
2 | Alvaro Figueiredo Sandoli | Wills Wing T3 144 | 02:29:51 | 968 |
3 | John Simon | Aeros Combat C 12.7 | 02:30:59 | 953 |
4 | Pedro L. Garcia | Wills Wing T3 144 | 02:43:59 | 845 |
5 | Marcelo Alexandre Menin | Wills Wing T2C 154 | 02:44:41 | 839 |
6 | Akira Nagusa | Wills Wing T23144 | 02:51:41 | 798 |
7 | Raul Guerra | Aeros Combat C 12.7 | 03:09:40 | 709 |
8 | Corinna Schwiegershausen | Moyes RX 3 Pro | 03:21:44 | 647 |
9 | Wolfgang Siess | Wills Wing T3 154 | 03:23:50 | 641 |
10 | Larry Bunner | Wills Wing T2C144 | 03:20:34 | 636 |
11 | Davis Straub | Wills Wing T3 144 | 03:39:55 | 631 |
Cumulative:
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Alvaro Figueiredo Sandoli | Wills Wing T3 144 | 4634 |
2 | Pedro L. Garcia | Wills Wing T3 144 | 4445 |
3 | Zac Majors | Wills Wing T3 144 | 4283 |
4 | Jonny Durand | Moyes RX 4 Pro | 4121 |
5 | Marcelo Alexandre Menin | Wills Wing T2C 154 | 4042 |
6 | Phill Bloom | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 3978 |
7 | John Simon | Aeros Combat C 12.7 | 3861 |
8 | Akira Nagusa | Wills Wing T23144 | 3655 |
9 | Bruce Barmakian | Aeros Combat 12.7 | 3641 |
10 | Kevin Dutt | Aeros Combat 13.5 | 3631 |
11 | Guilherme Sandoli | WillsWing T2C 136 | 3415 |
12 | Davis Straub | Wills Wing T3 144 | 3393 |
13 | Glen Volk | Moyes RX 3.5 | 3364 |
14 | Philippe Michaud | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 3236 |
15 | Patrick Pannese | Wills Wing T3 144 | 3227 |
Sport task:
Name | Glider | Time | Distance | Total | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Rod Regier | Moyes Litesport 4 | 02:23:18 | 51.30 | 1000 |
2 | Richard Westmoreland | Wills Wing U2 145 | 31.46 | 615 | |
3 | Mitch Sorby | Wills Wing U2 145 | 28.50 | 584 | |
4 | Richard Milla | Wills Wing U2 145 | 26.15 | 552 | |
5 | Richard Caylor | Moyes Gecko 170 | 24.28 | 522 | |
6 | Knut Ryerson | Aeros Discus C | 19.19 | 422 | |
7 | Attila Plasch | Moyes Litesport 4 | 17.67 | 388 | |
8 | Tim Delaney | Wills Wing Sport 3 135 | 17.38 | 381 | |
9 | Danilo Lohse De Stefani | Wills Wing U2 160 | 7.53 | 155 | |
10 | Phil Siscoe | Wills Wing U2 | 5.00 | 105 | |
10 | Ken Millard | Moyes Gecko 155 | 5.00 | 105 |
Sport cumulative:
Name | Glider | Total | |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Rod Regier | Moyes Litesport 4 | 3718 |
2 | Richard Westmoreland | Wills Wing U2 145 | 3689 |
3 | Tim Delaney | Wills Wing Sport 3 135 | 2987 |
4 | Richard Milla | Wills Wing U2 145 | 2632 |
5 | Mitch Sorby | Wills Wing U2 145 | 2140 |
6 | Richard Caylor | Moyes Gecko 170 | 2110 |
7 | Knut Ryerson | Aeros Discus C | 1816 |
8 | Ken Millard | Moyes Gecko 155 | 1541 |
9 | Danilo Lohse De Stefani | Wills Wing U2 160 | 1374 |
10 | Attila Plasch | Moyes Litesport 4 | 918 |
11 | Phil Siscoe | Wills Wing U2 | 509 |
14 topics in this article: Bruce Barmakian, competition, Corinna Schwiegershausen, Davis Straub, Glen Volk, John Simon, Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr, Larry Bunner, Phill Bloom, Raul Guerra, Tim Delaney, US Nationals 2019, Wills Wing T3, Zac Majors
2019 Nationals (week 2)
2019 Nationals (week 2)
Results for day 4, task 4
Bruce Barmakian|competition|Jeff Chipman|John Simon|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Phill Bloom|Tim Delaney|US Nationals 2019|Wills Wing T3|Zac Majors
https://airtribune.com/2019-quest-air-nationals-week-2/results
Task 4:
# | Name | Glider | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Jonny Durand | Moyes RX 4 Pro | 02:43:32 | 987 |
2 | Marcelo Alexandre Menin | Wills Wing T2C 154 | 02:47:40 | 922 |
3 | Zac Majors | Wills Wing T3 144 | 02:51:00 | 917 |
4 | Philippe Michaud | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 02:47:56 | 915 |
5 | Alvaro Figueiredo Sandoli | Wills Wing T3 144 | 02:51:18 | 912 |
6 | Bruce Barmakian | Aeros Combat 12.7 | 02:51:02 | 882 |
7 | Jeff Chipman | Moyes RX 3.5 | 02:53:35 | 863 |
8 | John Simon | Aeros Combat C 12.7 | 02:56:40 | 847 |
9 | Wolfgang Siess | Wills Wing T3 154 | 03:03:09 | 804 |
10 | Kevin Dutt | Aeros Combat 13.5 | 03:11:24 | 801 |
Cumulative:
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Alvaro Figueiredo Sandoli | Wills Wing T3 144 | 3666 |
2 | Jonny Durand | Moyes RX 4 Pro | 3647 |
3 | Kevin Dutt | Aeros Combat 13.5 | 3631 |
4 | Pedro L. Garcia | Wills Wing T3 144 | 3600 |
5 | Phill Bloom | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 3360 |
6 | Zac Majors | Wills Wing T3 144 | 3296 |
7 | Bruce Barmakian | Aeros Combat 12.7 | 3276 |
8 | Guilherme Sandoli | WillsWing T2C 136 | 3207 |
9 | Marcelo Alexandre Menin | Wills Wing T2C 154 | 3203 |
10 | John Simon | Aeros Combat C 12.7 | 2908 |
Sport task 4:
# | Name | Glider | Time | Distance | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Tim Delaney | Wills Wing Sport 3 135 | 01:34:28 | 38.23 | 1000 |
2 | Richard Westmoreland | Wills Wing U2 145 | 01:35:11 | 38.23 | 979 |
3 | Rod Regier | Moyes Litesport 4 | 01:38:31 | 38.23 | 934 |
4 | Ken Millard | Moyes Gecko 155 | 35.24 | 518 | |
5 | Knut Ryerson | Aeros Discus C | 27.66 | 441 | |
6 | Richard Milla | Wills Wing U2 145 | 26.35 | 424 | |
7 | Richard Caylor | Moyes Gecko 170 | 25.02 | 402 | |
8 | Danilo Lohse De Stefani | Wills Wing U2 160 | 11.06 | 156 | |
9 | Mitch Sorby | Wills Wing U2 145 | 5.38 | 87 | |
10 | Attila Plasch | Moyes Litesport 4 | 5.00 | 83 |
Sport Cumulative:
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Richard Westmoreland | Wills Wing U2 145 | 3074 |
2 | Rod Regier | Moyes Litesport 4 | 2718 |
3 | Tim Delaney | Wills Wing Sport 3 135 | 2606 |
4 | Richard Milla | Wills Wing U2 145 | 2080 |
5 | Richard Caylor | Moyes Gecko 170 | 1588 |
6 | Mitch Sorby | Wills Wing U2 145 | 1556 |
7 | Ken Millard | Moyes Gecko 155 | 1436 |
8 | Knut Ryerson | Aeros Discus C | 1394 |
9 | Danilo Lohse De Stefani | Wills Wing U2 160 | 1219 |
10 | Attila Plasch | Moyes Litesport 4 | 530 |
10 topics in this article: Bruce Barmakian, competition, Jeff Chipman, John Simon, Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr, Phill Bloom, Tim Delaney, US Nationals 2019, Wills Wing T3, Zac Majors
2019 Nationals (week 2)
2019 Nationals (week 2)
The preliminary results for day 3, task 3
Bruce Barmakian|competition|Corinna Schwiegershausen|Davis Straub|Fabiano Nahoum|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Konstantin Lukyanov|Phill Bloom|Raul Guerra|Roger Irby|Tim Delaney|US Nationals 2019|Wills Wing T3|Zac Majors
https://airtribune.com/2019-quest-air-nationals-week-2/results
Task 3:
# | Name | Glider | SS | Time | Distance | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Zac Majors | Wills Wing T3 144 | 14:35:00 | 02:40:29 | 88.43 | 958 |
2 | Pedro L. Garcia | Wills Wing T3 144 | 14:35:00 | 02:40:45 | 88.43 | 944 |
2 | Alvaro Figueiredo Sandoli | Wills Wing T3 144 | 14:35:00 | 02:40:46 | 88.43 | 944 |
4 | Kevin Dutt | Aeros Combat 13.5 | 15:15:00 | 02:35:04 | 88.43 | 901 |
5 | Jonny Durand | Moyes RX 4 Pro | 14:35:00 | 02:56:35 | 88.43 | 862 |
6 | Phill Bloom | Moyes RX 3.5 | 14:35:00 | 02:58:54 | 88.43 | 852 |
7 | Corinna Schwiegershausen | Moyes RX 3 Pro | 14:35:00 | 02:59:28 | 88.43 | 846 |
8 | Guilherme Sandoli | WillsWing T2C 136 | 14:35:00 | 03:15:02 | 88.43 | 782 |
9 | Roger Irby | Wills Wing T2C 154 | 14:15:00 | 03:29:18 | 88.43 | 778 |
10 | Konstantin Lukyanov | Moyes RX 3.5 | 14:15:00 | 81.69 | 622 |
Cumulative:
Name | Glider | Total | |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Kevin Dutt | Aeros Combat 13.5 | 2836 |
2 | Pedro L. Garcia | Wills Wing T3 144 | 2827 |
3 | Alvaro Figueiredo Sandoli | Wills Wing T3 144 | 2758 |
4 | Jonny Durand | Moyes RX 4 Pro | 2669 |
5 | Phill Bloom | Moyes RX 3.5 | 2654 |
6 | Guilherme Sandoli | WillsWing T2C 136 | 2422 |
7 | Bruce Barmakian | Aeros Combat 12.7 | 2416 |
8 | Zac Majors | Wills Wing T3 144 | 2382 |
9 | Marcelo Alexandre Menin | Wills Wing T2C 154 | 2301 |
10 | Patrick Pannese | Wills Wing T3 144 | 2297 |
11 | Akira Nagusa | Wills Wing T23144 | 2175 |
12 | Konstantin Lukyanov | Moyes RX 3.5 | 2137 |
13 | Fabiano Nahoum | Icaro Laminar 14.1 | 2119 |
14 | Raul Guerra | Aeros Combat C 12.7 | 2118 |
15 | Davis Straub | Wills Wing T3 144 | 2047 |
Sport Task 3:
# | Name | Glider | Distance | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Rod Regier | Moyes Litesport 4 | 19.58 | 257 |
2 | Mitch Sorby | Wills Wing U2 145 | 15.34 | 219 |
3 | Ken Millard | Moyes Gecko 155 | 6.77 | 145 |
4 | Richard Westmoreland | Wills Wing U2 145 | 5.00 | 129 |
4 | Tim Delaney | Wills Wing Sport 3 135 | 5.00 | 129 |
4 | Attila Plasch | Moyes Litesport 4 | 5.00 | 129 |
4 | Knut Ryerson | Aeros Discus C | 5.00 | 129 |
4 | Danilo Lohse De Stefani | Wills Wing U2 160 | 5.00 | 129 |
4 | Richard Milla | Wills Wing U2 145 | 5.00 | 129 |
4 | Richard Caylor | Moyes Gecko 170 | 5.00 | 129 |
Sport Cumulative:
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Richard Westmoreland | Wills Wing U2 145 | 1853 |
2 | Rod Regier | Moyes Litesport 4 | 1660 |
3 | Richard Milla | Wills Wing U2 145 | 1614 |
4 | Tim Delaney | Wills Wing Sport 3 135 | 1564 |
5 | Mitch Sorby | Wills Wing U2 145 | 1375 |
6 | Richard Caylor | Moyes Gecko 170 | 1144 |
7 | Danilo Lohse De Stefani | Wills Wing U2 160 | 1021 |
8 | Knut Ryerson | Aeros Discus C | 911 |
9 | Ken Millard | Moyes Gecko 155 | 869 |
10 | Attila Plasch | Moyes Litesport 4 | 405 |
11 | Phil Siscoe | Wills Wing U2 | 404 |
14 topics in this article: Bruce Barmakian, competition, Corinna Schwiegershausen, Davis Straub, Fabiano Nahoum, Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr, Konstantin Lukyanov, Phill Bloom, Raul Guerra, Roger Irby, Tim Delaney, US Nationals 2019, Wills Wing T3, Zac Majors
2019 Nationals (week 2)
2019 Nationals (week 2)
The preliminary results for day 2, task 2
Bruce Barmakian|competition|Fabiano Nahoum|Glen Volk|Jeff Chipman|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Phill Bloom|Tim Delaney|US Nationals 2019|Wills Wing T3
https://airtribune.com/2019-quest-air-nationals-week-2/results
Task 2:
# | Name | Glider | SS | ES | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Kevin Dutt | Aeros Combat 13.5 | 14:30:00 | 17:44:36 | 03:14:36 | 947 |
2 | Glen Volk | Moyes RX 3.5 | 14:50:00 | 17:59:14 | 03:09:14 | 926 |
3 | Jeff Chipman | Moyes RX 3.5 | 14:50:00 | 17:59:23 | 03:09:23 | 918 |
4 | Jonny Durand | Moyes RX 4 Pro | 14:30:00 | 17:49:30 | 03:19:30 | 905 |
5 | Pedro L. Garcia | Wills Wing T3 144 | 14:30:00 | 17:49:50 | 03:19:50 | 896 |
6 | Bruce Barmakian | Aeros Combat 12.7 | 14:30:00 | 17:49:55 | 03:19:55 | 886 |
7 | Marcelo Alexandre Menin | Wills Wing T2C 154 | 14:50:00 | 18:04:05 | 03:14:05 | 864 |
8 | Alvaro Figueiredo Sandoli | Wills Wing T3 144 | 14:30:00 | 17:55:56 | 03:25:56 | 861 |
9 | Phill Bloom | Moyes RX 3.5 | 14:50:00 | 18:05:51 | 03:15:51 | 857 |
10 | Fabiano Nahoum | Icaro Laminar 14.1 | 14:50:00 | 18:06:43 | 03:16:43 | 845 |
Cumulative:
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Kevin Dutt | Aeros Combat 13.5 | 1935 |
2 | Pedro L. Garcia | Wills Wing T3 144 | 1883 |
3 | Bruce Barmakian | Aeros Combat 12.7 | 1843 |
4 | Marcelo Alexandre Menin | Wills Wing T2C 154 | 1818 |
5 | Alvaro Figueiredo Sandoli | Wills Wing T3 144 | 1814 |
6 | Jonny Durand | Moyes RX 4 Pro | 1807 |
7 | Phill Bloom | Moyes RX 3.5 | 1802 |
8 | Akira Nagusa | Wills Wing T23144 | 1800 |
9 | Glen Volk | Moyes RX 3.5 | 1771 |
10 | Patrick Pannese | Wills Wing T3 144 | 1748 |
Sport task 2:
# | Name | Glider | Distance | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Tim Delaney | Wills Wing Sport 3 135 | 27.06 | 900 |
2 | Richard Milla | Wills Wing U2 145 | 22.70 | 803 |
3 | Richard Caylor | Moyes Gecko 170 | 20.80 | 749 |
4 | Rod Regier | Moyes Litesport 4 | 20.11 | 726 |
5 | Richard Westmoreland | Wills Wing U2 145 | 20.07 | 724 |
6 | Danilo Lohse De Stefani | Wills Wing U2 160 | 17.60 | 624 |
7 | Mitch Sorby | Wills Wing U2 145 | 17.54 | 621 |
8 | Knut Ryerson | Aeros Discus C | 16.19 | 553 |
9 | Ken Millard | Moyes Gecko 155 | 15.07 | 491 |
10 | Phil Siscoe | Wills Wing U2 | 6.59 | 177 |
11 | Attila Plasch | Moyes Litesport 4 | 5.00 | 142 |
Sport Cumulative:
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Richard Westmoreland | Wills Wing U2 145 | 1724 |
2 | Richard Milla | Wills Wing U2 145 | 1485 |
3 | Tim Delaney | Wills Wing Sport 3 135 | 1435 |
4 | Rod Regier | Moyes Litesport 4 | 1403 |
5 | Mitch Sorby | Wills Wing U2 145 | 1156 |
6 | Richard Caylor | Moyes Gecko 170 | 1015 |
7 | Danilo Lohse De Stefani | Wills Wing U2 160 | 892 |
8 | Knut Ryerson | Aeros Discus C | 782 |
9 | Ken Millard | Moyes Gecko 155 | 724 |
10 | Phil Siscoe | Wills Wing U2 | 404 |
11 | Attila Plasch | Moyes Litesport 4 | 276 |
10 topics in this article: Bruce Barmakian, competition, Fabiano Nahoum, Glen Volk, Jeff Chipman, Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr, Phill Bloom, Tim Delaney, US Nationals 2019, Wills Wing T3
Styling at the 2019 Nationals
Styling at the 2019 Nationals
We have accommodations at the Swiss Ski school
Jeff Chipman|Phill Bloom
Jeff Chipman writes:
California Sylmar Pilots (Phill Bloom and Jeff Chipman) are in need of a couple of roommates for the house that we rented for the 2nd week of the 2019 Nationals in Florida. The house is 5 miles from Wilotree , even closer as the crow flies but there are no roads directly there so you have to go around a little.
Here's the link to our rental and a link to the location. Wilotree is basically on the west side of Olsen Lake.
The current cost breakdown is 1820 / 4 = $455 per person for the week we're there. When you look at us staying there 8 days (April 20 - April 28th) that breaks it down to $56.87 / day. Not too shabby for not sleeping on the ground. We had a fellow pilot back out because of health reasons, so we'd like at least one, but preferably two more pilots. First come first serve. I'll be arriving in Florida at 7am'ish on Saturday morning. Our gliders are on a truck coming from California.
We'll be renting a car but it's an economy so not a lot of extra room for transporting other folks.
We also have a need for a driver for this California crew or room for up to 3 pilots on your vehicle.
3.6 miles via Red Wing Road.
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Phil Bloom on the XXII Open de Canarias
Phil Bloom on the XXII Open de Canarias
And landing with a drogue chute
Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Manfred Ruhmer|Phill Bloom|record|Thomas Weissenberger|video
Phill Bloom <<phillipbloom>> writes:
Kip Stone and I were the American team, with people from nine different countries, they also had a sport class, maybe 50 pilots total. It was great fun, and so nice to travel and rent a glider take your harness only. Tom Weissenberger rented to us both, RX 3.5 for me and RX 4 for Kip. Great gliders vary competitive, mine was like new. Also Jonny Nilssen has a variety of gliders to choose from beginner to intermediate. And a supper nice guy.
It was a relatively safe comp but it was a comp so you never know what you will get. One pilot had a little issue with full VG near the hill and actually flew into the mountain, ended up knocked out for a few minutes but is totally fine and back flying the next day. Also at least 2 other pilots flew under power lines, which seemed a little crazy to me, but looks like it happens quite often.
Everyone was complaining about the conditions (should have been here last week ) sort of thing, but I had a lot of fun getting to fly with top ranked pilots all week.
But the thing that really got me to write this was this. That both Manfred Ruhmer and Thomas Weissenberger were using there drogue chutes on a consistent basis. It totally surprised me, so I questioned them both about it. Manfred said that (every cross country pilot should have one and know how to use it). He was saying practice using it. Thomas said that (he uses the drag shoot about 50% of the time, it makes landings much easier and less stressful). Now just so you know this info is coming from two super talented pilots that have no problems landing a hang glider.
The discussion in the car recorded:
6 topics in this article: Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr, Manfred Ruhmer, Phill Bloom, record, Thomas Weissenberger, video
XXII Open de Canarias
XXII Open de Canarias
Finally, more than a few make goal
Christian Pollet|Icaro 2000|Joseph Salvenmoser|Manfred Ruhmer|Moyes Litespeed RX|Phill Bloom|Thomas Weissenberger
Saturday, December 8th
Last task:
# | Name | Glider | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Manfred Ruhmer | Icaro 2000 Laminar Z09 | 00:38:01 | 715 |
2 | Christian Pollet | Aeros Combat C | 00:38:37 | 694 |
3 | Thomas Weissenberger | Icaro 2000 Laminar Z09 | 00:38:39 | 693 |
4 | Carlos Punet | AIR ATOS VQ Race | 00:36:46 | 633 |
5 | Phill Bloom | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 00:48:17 | 599 |
6 | Francois Isoard | Aeros Combat GT 12.7 | 00:49:06 | 581 |
7 | Joseph Salvenmoser | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 00:56:04 | 535 |
8 | Blay Olmos Ramos (Snr) | Moyes Litespeed RS 3 | 01:04:25 | 463 |
9 | Joerg Bajewski | Willls Wing T2C 154 | 01:07:18 | 449 |
10 | Johnny Nilssen | Icaro 2000 Laminar Z09 | 01:07:18 | 443 |
Final Results:
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Thomas Weissenberger | Icaro 2000 Laminar Z09 | 1852 |
2 | Manfred Ruhmer | Icaro 2000 Laminar Z09 | 1762 |
3 | Christian Pollet | Aeros Combat C | 1667 |
4 | Joseph Salvenmoser | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 1502 |
5 | Francois Isoard | Aeros Combat GT 12.7 | 1360 |
6 | Manuel Garcia garcia | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro | 1300 |
7 | Phill Bloom | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 1218 |
8 | Joerg Bajewski | Willls Wing T2C 154 | 1162 |
9 | Gustavo Migliozzi | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 1150 |
10 | Carlos Punet | AIR ATOS VQ Race | 1129 |
7 topics in this article: Christian Pollet, Icaro 2000, Joseph Salvenmoser, Manfred Ruhmer, Moyes Litespeed RX, Phill Bloom, Thomas Weissenberger
XXII Open de Canarias
XXII Open de Canarias
More tiny flights
Christian Pollet|competition|Icaro 2000|Joseph Salvenmoser|Manfred Ruhmer|Moyes Litespeed RX|Phill Bloom|Thomas Weissenberger
Friday, December 7th
https://airtribune.com/xxii-open-de-canarias/results
Task 5:
# | Name | Glider | Time | Distance | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Manfred Ruhmer | Icaro 2000 Laminar Z09 | 00:55:29 | 24.00 | 407 |
2 | Thomas Weissenberger | Icaro 2000 Laminar Z09 | 00:56:18 | 24.00 | 400 |
3 | Carlos Punet | AIR ATOS VQ Race | 00:53:47 | 24.00 | 358 |
4 | Joseph Salvenmoser | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 23.92 | 337 | |
5 | Benito Rodriguez Gonzalez | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 21.49 | 315 | |
6 | Christian Pollet | Aeros Combat C | 20.45 | 305 | |
7 | Manuel Garcia Garcia | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro | 20.17 | 292 | |
8 | Joerg Bajewski | Willls Wing T2C 154 | 18.70 | 275 | |
9 | Jose María (Tximo) Iriarte Ziritza | Aeros Combat GT 12.4 | 14.72 | 238 | |
10 | Gustavo Migliozzi | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 14.62 | 237 |
Cumulative:
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Thomas Weissenberger | Icaro 2000 Laminar Z09 | 1149 |
2 | Manfred Ruhmer | Icaro 2000 Laminar Z09 | 1037 |
3 | Christian Pollet | Aeros Combat C | 965 |
4 | Joseph Salvenmoser | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 959 |
5 | Manuel Garcia garcia | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro | 876 |
6 | Gustavo Migliozzi | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 793 |
7 | Francois Isoard | Aeros Combat GT 12.7 | 775 |
8 | Joerg Bajewski | Willls Wing T2C 154 | 706 |
9 | Benito Rodriguez Gonzalez | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 689 |
10 | Phill Bloom | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 615 |
8 topics in this article: Christian Pollet, competition, Icaro 2000, Joseph Salvenmoser, Manfred Ruhmer, Moyes Litespeed RX, Phill Bloom, Thomas Weissenberger
XXII Open de Canarias
Tiny flights
XXII Open de Canarias
December 6, 2018, 7:48:46 pm ESTA.I.R. ATOS VR|Christian Pollet|competition|Icaro 2000|Joseph Salvenmoser|Manfred Ruhmer|Moyes Litespeed RX|Phill Bloom|Thomas Weissenberger
Thursday, December 6th
https://airtribune.com/xxii-open-de-canarias/results
Task 4:
# | Name | Glider | Distance | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Manfred Ruhmer | Icaro 2000 Laminar Z09 | 17.96 | 154 |
2 | Thomas Weissenberger | Icaro 2000 Laminar Z09 | 14.87 | 135 |
3 | Carlos Punet | AIR ATOS VQ Race | 17.84 | 130 |
4 | Wolfgang Brunner | Moyes Litespeed RX | 10.06 | 112 |
5 | Phill Bloom | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 9.94 | 111 |
6 | Francois Isoard | Aeros Combat GT 12.7 | 9.66 | 110 |
7 | Joseph Salvenmoser | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 9.39 | 108 |
8 | Tormod Helgesen | Moyes Litespeed RX 4 | 9.03 | 105 |
9 | Manuel Garcia garcia | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro | 8.92 | 104 |
9 | Benito Rodriguez Gonzalez | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 8.99 | 104 |
Cumulative:
# | Name | Glider | T 1 | T 2 | T 3 | T 4 | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Thomas Weissenberger | Icaro 2000 Laminar Z09 | 0 | 3 | 611 | 135 | 749 |
2 | Christian Pollet | Aeros Combat C | 0 | 3 | 585 | 72 | 660 |
3 | Manfred Ruhmer | Icaro 2000 Laminar Z09 | 0 | 4 | 472 | 154 | 630 |
4 | Joseph Salvenmoser | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 0 | 3 | 511 | 108 | 622 |
5 | Francois Isoard | Aeros Combat GT 12.7 | 0 | 0 | 489 | 110 | 599 |
6 | Manuel Garcia garcia | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro | 0 | 3 | 477 | 104 | 584 |
7 | Gustavo Migliozzi | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 0 | 3 | 481 | 72 | 556 |
8 | Juan Antonio Molina Vera | AIR Atos VR | 0 | 3 | 368 | 94 | 465 |
9 | Tormod Helgesen | Moyes Litespeed RX 4 | 0 | 3 | 354 | 105 | 462 |
9 topics in this article: A.I.R. ATOS VR, Christian Pollet, competition, Icaro 2000, Joseph Salvenmoser, Manfred Ruhmer, Moyes Litespeed RX, Phill Bloom, Thomas Weissenberger
22nd Open de Canarias
1st task results
competition|Icaro 2000|Joseph Salvenmoser|Konrad Heilmann|Manfred Ruhmer|Moyes Litespeed RX|Phill Bloom
Monday, December 3rd
https://airtribune.com/xxii-open-de-canarias/results
# | Name | Glider | Distance | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Manfred Ruhmer | Icaro 2000 Laminar Z09 | 12.00 | 10 |
2 | Ataulfo J. Fernandez Montero | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 5.00 | 7 |
2 | Kip Stone | Moyes Litespeed RX4 | 5.00 | 7 |
2 | Phill Bloom | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 5.00 | 7 |
2 | Joseph Salvenmoser | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 5.00 | 7 |
2 | Konrad Heilmann | Moyes Litespeed RX 3,5 | 5.00 | 7 |
2 | Cyro Lopez | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro | 5.00 | 7 |
2 | Manuel Garcia garcia | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro | 5.00 | 7 |
2 | Jose María (Tximo) Iriarte Ziritza | Aeros Combat GT 12.4 | 5.00 | 7 |
2 | Cedric Michelena | Moyes Litespeed RX | 5.00 | 7 |
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7 topics in this article: competition, Icaro 2000, Joseph Salvenmoser, Konrad Heilmann, Manfred Ruhmer, Moyes Litespeed RX, Phill Bloom
2018 Santa Cruz Flats Race »
2018 Santa Cruz Flats Race
The lift returns along with the high top of lift. No cu's, of course
Ben Dunn|Brian Porter|Chris Zimmerman|competition|Davis Straub|Dustin Martin|Flytec 6030|Fred Kaemerer|Glen Volk|Greg Chastain|Gregg "Kim" Ludwig|Greg Kendall|John Simon|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Kevin Carter|Larry Bunner|Mitchell "Mitch" Shipley|Moyes Litespeed RX|Phill Bloom|Robin Hamilton|Santa Cruz Flats Race 2018|Tyler Borradaile|Wayne Michelsen|Wills Wing T3|Zac Majors
https://airtribune.com/santa-cruz-flats-race-mark-knight-memorial-2018/results
I wrote in a review of the 2018 Big Spring Nationals that luck is an important part of a hang gliding competition. Today really illustrated that truth. Larry Bunner launched early and climbed up to 6,400'.
I launched in the tenth position with Gregg Ludwig pulling me behind his trike upwind and took me to a thermal where I pinned off at 1,600'. That thermal averaged 270 fpm and it got me to 5,700' (the first piece of luck). I had just a couple of other pilots with me in the thermal (none at my altitude) so it was no problem staying in the best part of the lift.
Four or five of us headed northeast against the 11 mph east wind and down to 3,100' (1,600' AGL) I found a nice thermal that averaged 450 fpm (second bit of luck). Robin came in under me and Zac, Dustin, Tyler and Mitch came over me. We all climbed to 8,000' with me ending up just slightly on the bottom. As I was climbing up I heard from Larry and he was landing back at the tow field having not found any more lift.
This was our task for the day. The forecast was for a strong east wind:
After topping out at 8,000' we headed northwest three minutes late for the second clock just the six of us with no one else around. This seemed like a good group to go with (third bit of luck) and I doubted that we would get any higher in the start cylinder.
I followed just behind and just below the other five pilots. I would do that all day. It was a 16 kilometer downwind glide to 300+ fpm to 6,700' before the turnpoint at Maricopa. A bit of nothing didn't work out after the turnpoint, but further south we found 280 fpm in a 15 mph east wind to 5,500'. We lost contact with Mitch at this point as he didn't connect well with this thermal.
At the second turnpoint we found 225 fpm climbing to 5,700' in a 17 mph east wind. I had now caught up with Zac, Tyler, Robin and Dustin, finding my spot about 100 feet below them. I would spot the best core just below them and they would use me as a sniffer dog to keep climbing at the best rate.
Heading north toward the three kilometer cylinder around Mobile and down to 3,200' I found a thermal that averaged 290 fpm and the four other pilots joined me as we climbed to 7,300' yet again in a 17 mph east wind. I had hoped to climb to 8,000' but Zac headed out and we all went with him.
After a 10 kilometer glide I was down to 3,600' (2,200' AGL) 4.5 kilometers from the edge of the goal cylinder at Estrella. The Flytec 6030 was showing a required L/D of 7:1 and I was getting 5:1 going into the 17 mph head wind. I felt a little lift and felt around going a bit to the north.
I found 460 fpm and took it way too high at 6,000'. That got me to goal in fifth position at 4,500'. The four guys in front of me found lift from four kilometers out and were able to stuff the bar in on the rest of the final glide.
https://airtribune.com/santa-cruz-flats-race-mark-knight-memorial-2018/results
Task 6:
# | Name | Glider | Time | Distance | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Zac Majors | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 01:43:20 | 70.37 | 682 |
2 | Robin Hamilton | Aeros Combat 13 | 01:43:38 | 70.37 | 676 |
3 | Tyler Borradaile | Moyes RX 3.5 PRO | 01:43:49 | 70.37 | 673 |
4 | Dustin Martin | Wills Wing T3Cx 144.2 | 01:44:46 | 70.37 | 666 |
5 | Davis Straub | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 01:58:05 | 70.37 | 607 |
6 | Jonny Durand | Moyes RX 4 PRO | 02:10:34 | 70.37 | 539 |
7 | Mitch Shipley | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 53.79 | 401 | |
8 | Austin Marshall | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 50.62 | 366 | |
8 | Oliver Chitty | Moyes Rx5 Pro | 50.16 | 366 | |
10 | Phill Bloom | Moyes RX 3.5 | 49.97 | 363 |
Final Results:
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Robin Hamilton | Aeros Combat 13 | 3810 |
2 | Oliver Chitty | Moyes Rx5 Pro | 3692 |
3 | Jonny Durand | Moyes RX 4 PRO | 3620 |
4 | Zac Majors | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 3607 |
5 | Dustin Martin | Wills Wing T3Cx 144.2 | 3604 |
6 | Tyler Borradaile | Moyes RX 3.5 PRO | 3313 |
7 | Phill Bloom | Moyes RX 3.5 | 3145 |
8 | Davis Straub | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 2964 |
9 | Kevin Dutt | Aeros Combat 13.5 | 2962 |
10 | Mitch Shipley | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 2829 |
11 | Ben Dunn | Moyes RX 3.5 | 2637 |
12 | Patrick Pannese | Wills Wing T2C | 2556 |
13 | John Simon | Aeros Combat C 12.7 | 2523 |
14 | Kip Stone | Moyes RX 5 PRO | 2499 |
15 | Greg Kendall | Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 | 2359 |
16 | Wayne Michelsen | Icaro Laminar | 2307 |
17 | Larry Bunner | Wills Wing T2C144 | 2197 |
18 | Kevin Carter | Wills Wing T2C | 2194 |
19 | Felix Cantesanu | Aeros Combat C 12.7 | 2179 |
20 | Glen Volk | Moyes RX 3.5 | 2144 |
None of the ATOS Class gliders made it around the task, but Peter Cairns from Australia won the day (his first win here) getting almost to the last turnpoint. Fred Kaemerer won over all.
Greg Chastain won the day in Swift Class and the competition ahead of Chris Zimmerman, Brian Porter and Stephen Morris.
Dave Aldrich won the last day and Matt Pruett won overall in Sport Class with David in second and L.J. Omara in third.
25 topics in this article: Ben Dunn, Brian Porter, Chris Zimmerman, competition, Davis Straub, Dustin Martin, Flytec 6030, Fred Kaemerer, Glen Volk, Greg Chastain, Gregg "Kim" Ludwig, Greg Kendall, John Simon, Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr, Kevin Carter, Larry Bunner, Mitchell "Mitch" Shipley, Moyes Litespeed RX, Phill Bloom, Robin Hamilton, Santa Cruz Flats Race 2018, Tyler Borradaile, Wayne Michelsen, Wills Wing T3, Zac Majors
2018 Santa Cruz Flats Race »
2018 Santa Cruz Flats Race
More weakness, but none the less glory
competition|Davis Straub|Dustin Martin|Fred Kaemerer|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Kevin Carter|Mitchell "Mitch" Shipley|Phill Bloom|Robin Hamilton|sailplane|Santa Cruz Flats Race 2018|Tyler Borradaile|Wills Wing T3|Zac Majors
The task committee thought that the day would be pretty good and that the weakness from the previous day would be relegated to a distant memory. It would turn out to be the case that once again the lift would be weak and the top of lift would be low, at least where we would start our flying at the Francisco Grande.
The task set was heroic:
The idea was to head east against a 7 mph head wind and then, if you can make it there, get high on the mountain north of the sailplane port at Estrella, coming back with a tailwind.
With the first start window open at 1:30 PM I launched at 12:55 PM. Even with the light lift I only took the tow to 1,600' and pinned off in light lift with a couple of pilots.
The lift was indeed quite light and the first three thermals averaged 95 fpm, 86 fpm, and 129 fpm. There were just a few pilots around, maybe ten, and I got to only 3,600', or 2,300' AGL.
We were still in the center of the start cylinder with eight minutes to go before the start clock having been pushed back by the west northwest wind and I headed out with three other pilots to the north west to see if we could get closer to the optimum start point and also find better lift.
After gliding about 4 kilometers and finding nothing we all turned around with me as the lowest. Coming back and trying to get near a road in case I landed I found lift at 500'. I was by myself with everyone else high and down wind of me. 130 fpm felt like a strong thermal and climbed right up to all the other pilots at 4,000' without any issues. It was great to be by myself just turning in the best rising air.
Now we all headed north west again, aiming for the second start time at 1:50 PM. A 30 fpm thermal kept me above 3,800'. The next thermal, all of 66 fpm only got me to 3,200'. I was climbing terribly. I wasn't able to climb through anyone and there were twenty pilots in the gaggle, which severely restricted my options.
Heading north west again I was down to 900' AGL as three pilots landed below me. Half the pilots in the last gaggle were here with a few hanging back two kilometers to get the third start time. I joined other pilots in a 64 fpm thermal Again it was terrible. Very weak, only a small portion of the turn was actually in lift.
I was near the bottom of the stack. I was not climbing well and not getting up to where I needed to be. When all my turns were in sink I headed out with four other pilots, but I was by far the lowest at 2,900' (1,600' AGL).
That didn't last long and I found a good field to land in next to the highway.
Other pilots stayed up in the weak conditions very slowly moving against the headwind. They huddled together in groups of four or five. Only eleven pilots were able to get more than 10 kilometers from the edge of the start cylinder. Ten of them were able to cross the flats getting to Estrella where the mountains were working. Some got to at least 10,000'.
As we arrived back at the Francisco Grande hotel, Jonny, Ollie, and Tyler were arriving over the hotel. They had made it around. A great day for them.
https://airtribune.com/santa-cruz-flats-race-mark-knight-memorial-2018/results
Task 5:
# | Name | Glider | Time | Distance | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Jonny Durand | Moyes RX 4 PRO | 02:40:07 | 80.76 | 605 |
2 | Felix Cantesanu | Aeros Combat C 12.7 | 02:57:39 | 80.76 | 553 |
3 | Dustin Martin | Wills Wing T3Cx 144.2 | 02:59:49 | 80.76 | 545 |
4 | Tyler Borradaile | Moyes RX 3.5 PRO | 03:02:16 | 80.76 | 540 |
5 | Oliver Chitty | Moyes Rx5 Pro | 03:02:16 | 80.76 | 536 |
6 | Patrick Pannese | Wills Wing T2C | 03:03:20 | 80.76 | 534 |
7 | Phill Bloom | Moyes RX 3.5 | 03:10:44 | 80.76 | 520 |
8 | Robin Hamilton | Aeros Combat 13 | 73.08 | 381 | |
9 | Kevin Carter | Wills Wing T2C | 76.10 | 365 | |
10 | Zac Majors | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 65.99 | 362 |
Cumulative:
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Oliver Chitty | Moyes Rx5 Pro | 3326 |
2 | Robin Hamilton | Aeros Combat 13 | 3134 |
3 | Jonny Durand | Moyes RX 4 PRO | 3081 |
4 | Dustin Martin | Wills Wing T3Cx 144.2 | 2938 |
5 | Zac Majors | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 2925 |
6 | Phill Bloom | Moyes RX 3.5 | 2782 |
7 | Kevin Dutt | Aeros Combat 13.5 | 2694 |
8 | Tyler Borradaile | Moyes RX 3.5 PRO | 2640 |
9 | Mitch Shipley | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 2428 |
10 | Davis Straub | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 2357 |
In the Swift Class, Greg, Chris and Brian made it back to the hotel.
David Aldrich got outside the start cylinder for 10 kilometers (coming low over my head into a landing) as the only Sport Class pilot to get outside the start cylinder. He got 8 points for that effort.
Fred Kaemerer was the only ATOS class pilot to make it around the course.
14 topics in this article: competition, Davis Straub, Dustin Martin, Fred Kaemerer, Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr, Kevin Carter, Mitchell "Mitch" Shipley, Phill Bloom, Robin Hamilton, sailplane, Santa Cruz Flats Race 2018, Tyler Borradaile, Wills Wing T3, Zac Majors
2018 Santa Cruz Flats Race »
2018 Santa Cruz Flats Race
The weakness after the rain storm
Ben Dunn|Davis Straub|Dustin Martin|Greg Kendall|Jeff Chipman|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Kevin Carter|Mitchell "Mitch" Shipley|Moyes Litespeed RX|Phill Bloom|Rich Burton|Robin Hamilton|Santa Cruz Flats Race 2018|Tyler Borradaile|Wills Wing T3|Zac Majors
After I wrote about how good conditions were here (https://ozreport.com/22.189#3), they have turned to very weak after a deluge on Wednesday.
The pilot meeting was delayed for a late launch. The start window wasn't set to open until 2:30 PM with a short day forecasted. The task committee set a small task of 63 km:
The forecast for soaring indicated very poor soaring conditions. Pilots were not ready to launch at 1:15 PM. We stood around waiting for some sign that we should get going. Kevin Carter and Bill Bennett flew around but they weren't too inspiring.
Finally an hour later at 2:15 PM a few of us got dressed and that moved the crowd to get out of the shade and get to their gliders. I took off at 2:17 PM.
Jonny Thompson pulled me up and I didn't pin off until 2,000' AGL. There was very little lift. I joined up with Felix and Luke and we just hung in -30 fpm. Zac Majors came and joined us.
Luke drifted a little further east and found better lift and Zac and I joined him. We got up at 90 fpm.
We kept drifting further east at 9 mph and climbing to 4,100'. I noticed that we were right at the edge of the 5 kilometer start circle coincidentally it was about to be the second start time, 2:45 PM. One turn and all three of us got it.
Four or five pilots who had climbed up over launch came flying toward us as we headed out to the southeast. I followed Zac and Luke. Then veering off the course line to the south I found 35 fpm and that turned out to be the hot spot.
After a few turns to the south of me Zac came in under. The other pilots trickled in. I climbed to 3,300', but something wasn't working. Zac was able to climb up through me even though I was right over him and lost 300' of altitude. I couldn't figure out what was going on.
I finally had to leave and head southeast to the Casa Grande mountains. Nothing there for me and I was soon on the ground.
Eleven pilots were able to continue in the air past the second turnpoint at Arizona City at 25.5 km out.
Task 4:
# | Name | Glider | Distance | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Kip Stone | Moyes RX 5 PRO | 36.98 | 229 |
2 | Kevin Dutt | Aeros Combat 13.5 | 36.00 | 227 |
3 | Ben Dunn | Moyes RX 3.5 | 35.34 | 224 |
4 | Tyler Borradaile | Moyes RX 3.5 PRO | 35.22 | 223 |
4 | Jonny Durand | Moyes RX 4 PRO | 35.25 | 223 |
6 | Patrick Pannese | Wills Wing T2C | 33.24 | 206 |
7 | Zac Majors | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 31.39 | 192 |
8 | Mitch Shipley | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 29.93 | 184 |
8 | Greg Kendall | Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 | 29.72 | 184 |
10 | Jeff Chipman | Moyes Litespeed S4T | 29.77 | 182 |
The scorekeeper needs to add 5 km to each of these distances.
Cumulative:
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Robin Hamilton | Aeros Combat 13 | 2722 |
2 | Oliver Chitty | Moyes Rx5 Pro | 2690 |
3 | Zac Majors | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 2521 |
4 | Kevin Dutt | Aeros Combat 13.5 | 2355 |
5 | Jonny Durand | Moyes RX 4 PRO | 2301 |
6 | Dustin Martin | Wills Wing T3Cx 144.2 | 2297 |
7 | Phill Bloom | Moyes RX 3.5 | 2168 |
8 | Mitch Shipley | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 2134 |
9 | Davis Straub | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 2125 |
10 | Kip Stone | Moyes RX 5 PRO | 2069 |
The ATOS and Swift class pilots passed on flying today, with only Rich Burton on an ATOS flying.
Only two Sport Class pilots got outside the start cylinder.
2018 Santa Cruz Flats Race »
Day 3 Cumulative Results
2018 Santa Cruz Flats Race
September 19, 2018, 8:23:10 MSTA.I.R. ATOS VR|Ben Dunn|Brian Porter|Chris Zimmerman|competition|Davis Straub|Dustin Martin|Fred Kaemerer|Glen Volk|Greg Chastain|John Simon|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Larry Bunner|Mitchell "Mitch" Shipley|Phill Bloom|Rich Burton|Robin Hamilton|Santa Cruz Flats Race 2018|Sara Weaver|Tyler Borradaile|Wills Wing T3|Zac Majors
https://airtribune.com/santa-cruz-flats-race-mark-knight-memorial-2018/results
Open class:
# | Name | Glider | T 1 | T 2 | T 3 | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Robin Hamilton | Aeros Combat 13 | 789 | 891 | 937 | 2617 |
2 | Oliver Chitty | Moyes Rx5 Pro | 985 | 987 | 616 | 2588 |
3 | Zac Majors | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 806 | 996 | 527 | 2329 |
4 | Dustin Martin | Wills Wing T3Cx 144.2 | 734 | 765 | 727 | 2226 |
5 | Kevin Dutt | Aeros Combat 13.5 | 512 | 839 | 777 | 2128 |
6 | Phill Bloom | Moyes RX 3.5 | 944 | 606 | 531 | 2081 |
7 | Jonny Durand | Moyes RX 4 PRO | 919 | 228 | 931 | 2078 |
8 | Davis Straub | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 946 | 602 | 510 | 2058 |
9 | Mitch Shipley | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 823 | 585 | 542 | 1950 |
10 | Glen Volk | Moyes RX 3.5 | 850 | 518 | 487 | 1855 |
11 | Kip Stone | Moyes RX 5 PRO | 726 | 576 | 538 | 1840 |
12 | Ben Dunn | Moyes RX 3.5 | 766 | 816 | 240 | 1822 |
13 | John Simon | Aeros Combat C 12.7 | 708 | 235 | 860 | 1803 |
14 | Larry Bunner | Wills Wing T2C144 | 448 | 630 | 652 | 1730 |
15 | Tyler Borradaile | Moyes RX 3.5 PRO | 752 | 585 | 390 | 1727 |
Sport Class:
# | Name | Glider | T 1 | T 2 | T 3 | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Matt Pruett | Wills Wing U2 145 | 1000 | 775 | 41 | 1816 |
2 | David Aldrich | Wills Wing Sport 3 135 | 458 | 757 | 66 | 1281 |
3 | L.J. Omara | Wills wing U2 160 | 458 | 500 | 60 | 1018 |
4 | Ric Caylor | Moyes Gecko 170 | 753 | 197 | 41 | 991 |
5 | Jeff Parrott | Wills Wing U2 145 | 624 | 310 | 49 | 983 |
6 | Bill Snyder | Wills Wing u2 | 440 | 456 | 41 | 937 |
7 | Sara Weaver | Wills Wing Sport3 135 | 618 | 230 | 41 | 889 |
8 | Abhishek Sethi | Wills Wing U2 | 643 | 179 | 57 | 879 |
9 | Mitch Sorby | Wills Wing U2 | 427 | 405 | 41 | 873 |
10 | Bill Comstock | Wills Wing S3 | 458 | 170 | 41 | 669 |
ATOS Class:
# | Name | Glider | T 1 | T 2 | T 3 | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Fred Kaemerer | AIR ATOS VR | 1000 | 1000 | 925 | 2925 |
2 | Peter Cairns | A.I.R ATOS VQ | 676 | 380 | 411 | 1467 |
3 | Rich Burton | Icaro Stratos | 594 | 325 | 78 | 997 |
Swift Class:
# | Name | Glider | T 1 | T 2 | T 3 | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Chris Zimmerman | Aeriane Swift'Light | 991 | 964 | 990 | 2945 |
2 | Greg Chastain | Swift | 773 | 1000 | 986 | 2759 |
3 | Brian Porter | Aeriane Swift | 951 | 682 | 0 | 1633 |
4 | Stephen Morris | Bright Star Swift | 287 | 220 | 672 | 1179 |
22 topics in this article: A.I.R. ATOS VR, Ben Dunn, Brian Porter, Chris Zimmerman, competition, Davis Straub, Dustin Martin, Fred Kaemerer, Glen Volk, Greg Chastain, John Simon, Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr, Larry Bunner, Mitchell "Mitch" Shipley, Phill Bloom, Rich Burton, Robin Hamilton, Santa Cruz Flats Race 2018, Sara Weaver, Tyler Borradaile, Wills Wing T3, Zac Majors
2018 Santa Cruz Flats Race »
Day 3 Results
2018 Santa Cruz Flats Race
September 18, 2018, 9:25:14 pm MSTA.I.R. ATOS VR|competition|Davis Straub|Dustin Martin|Fred Kaemerer|Glen Volk|Greg Kendall|John Simon|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Larry Bunner|Mitchell "Mitch" Shipley|Moyes Litespeed RX|Phill Bloom|Robin Hamilton|Santa Cruz Flats Race 2018|Wills Wing T3|Zac Majors
https://airtribune.com/santa-cruz-flats-race-mark-knight-memorial-2018/results
Task 3:
# | Name | Glider | SS | Time | Distance | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Robin Hamilton | Aeros Combat 13 | 14:00:00 | 02:18:17 | 81.04 | 937 |
2 | Jonny Durand | Moyes RX 4 PRO | 14:00:00 | 02:19:01 | 81.04 | 931 |
3 | John Simon | Aeros Combat C 12.7 | 14:20:00 | 02:20:29 | 81.04 | 860 |
4 | Kevin Dutt | Aeros Combat 13.5 | 14:00:00 | 02:42:56 | 81.04 | 777 |
5 | Dustin Martin | Wills Wing T3Cx 144.2 | 14:20:00 | 02:51:07 | 81.04 | 727 |
6 | Larry Bunner | Wills Wing T2C144 | 14:20:00 | 03:24:30 | 81.04 | 652 |
7 | Oliver Chitty | Moyes Rx5 Pro | 14:00:00 | 72.00 | 616 | |
8 | Greg Kendall | Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 | 14:00:00 | 69.79 | 571 | |
9 | Mitch Shipley | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 14:00:00 | 65.00 | 542 | |
10 | Kip Stone | Moyes RX 5 PRO | 14:00:00 | 65.00 | 538 | |
11 | Phill Bloom | Moyes RX 3.5 | 14:20:00 | 64.97 | 531 | |
12 | Zac Majors | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 14:20:00 | 63.86 | 527 | |
13 | Peter Suchanek | Wills Wing T2C 136 | 14:00:00 | 62.76 | 512 | |
14 | Davis Straub | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 14:20:00 | 63.45 | 510 | |
15 | Glen Volk | Moyes RX 3.5 | 14:00:00 | 59.07 | 487 |
Cumulative results haven't been posted yet. Kate, the scorekeeper, is likely fixing earlier results.
Fred Kaemerer, flying the latest tricked out version of the ATOS VR, won the day and it looks like he is leading over all.
The Swift results aren't final for the day as there is no score for Brian.
The Sport Class had a tough day with David Aldrich wining but only going 13.83 km.
17 topics in this article: A.I.R. ATOS VR, competition, Davis Straub, Dustin Martin, Fred Kaemerer, Glen Volk, Greg Kendall, John Simon, Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr, Larry Bunner, Mitchell "Mitch" Shipley, Moyes Litespeed RX, Phill Bloom, Robin Hamilton, Santa Cruz Flats Race 2018, Wills Wing T3, Zac Majors
2018 Santa Cruz Flats Race »
2018 Santa Cruz Flats Race
Day 2 results
Ben Dunn|Bruce Barmakian|competition|Davis Straub|Dustin Martin|Glen Volk|Kevin Carter|Larry Bunner|Mitchell "Mitch" Shipley|Phill Bloom|Robin Hamilton|Santa Cruz Flats Race 2018|Wills Wing T3|Zac Majors
You'll find all the results for all the four classes at the link below:
https://airtribune.com/santa-cruz-flats-race-mark-knight-memorial-2018/results
Task 2:
# | Name | Glider | Time | Distance | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Zac Majors | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 02:51:44 | 89.46 | 996 |
2 | Oliver Chitty | Moyes Rx5 Pro | 02:52:02 | 89.46 | 987 |
3 | Robin Hamilton | Aeros Combat 13 | 03:09:08 | 89.46 | 891 |
4 | Bruce Barmakian | Aeros Combat 12.7 | 03:08:43 | 89.46 | 884 |
5 | Kevin Dutt | Aeros Combat 13.5 | 03:18:34 | 89.46 | 839 |
6 | Ben Dunn | Moyes RX 3.5 | 03:22:08 | 89.46 | 816 |
7 | Dustin Martin | Wills Wing T3Cx 144.2 | 03:43:09 | 89.46 | 765 |
8 | Larry Bunner | Wills Wing T2C144 | 86.50 | 630 | |
9 | Phill Bloom | Moyes RX 3.5 | 77.42 | 608 | |
10 | Davis Straub | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 77.92 | 602 |
Cumulative:
Name | Glider | T 1 | T 2 | Total | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Oliver Chitty | Moyes Rx5 Pro | 985 | 987 | 1972 |
2 | Zac Majors | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 806 | 996 | 1802 |
3 | Robin Hamilton | Aeros Combat 13 | 789 | 891 | 1680 |
4 | Ben Dunn | Moyes RX 3.5 | 766 | 816 | 1582 |
5 | Phill Bloom | Moyes RX 3.5 | 944 | 608 | 1552 |
6 | Davis Straub | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 946 | 602 | 1548 |
7 | Dustin Martin | Wills Wing T3Cx 144.2 | 734 | 765 | 1499 |
8 | Kevin Carter | Wills Wing T2C | 875 | 599 | 1474 |
9 | Mitch Shipley | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 823 | 586 | 1409 |
10 | Glen Volk | Moyes RX 3.5 | 850 | 526 | 1376 |
14 topics in this article: Ben Dunn, Bruce Barmakian, competition, Davis Straub, Dustin Martin, Glen Volk, Kevin Carter, Larry Bunner, Mitchell "Mitch" Shipley, Phill Bloom, Robin Hamilton, Santa Cruz Flats Race 2018, Wills Wing T3, Zac Majors
2018 Santa Cruz Flats Race »
2018 Santa Cruz Flats Race
Day 1 results
competition|Davis Straub|Glen Volk|Greg Kendall|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Kevin Carter|Mitchell "Mitch" Shipley|Moyes Litespeed RX|Phill Bloom|Santa Cruz Flats Race 2018|Zac Majors
https://airtribune.com/santa-cruz-flats-race-mark-knight-memorial-2018/results.
Task 1:
# | Name | Glider | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Oliver Chitty | Moyes Rx5 Pro | 01:46:22 | 981 |
2 | Davis Straub | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 01:48:17 | 942 |
3 | Phill Bloom | Moyes RX 3.5 | 01:48:09 | 940 |
4 | Jonny Durand | Moyes LSRX 3.5 PRO | 01:50:52 | 915 |
5 | Patrick Pannese | Wills Wing T2C | 01:53:05 | 872 |
6 | Kevin Carter | Wills Wing T2C | 01:55:30 | 871 |
7 | Greg Kendall | Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 | 01:46:29 | 857 |
8 | Glen Volk | Moyes RX 3.5 | 01:56:00 | 845 |
9 | Mitch Shipley | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 01:55:56 | 818 |
10 | Zac Majors | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 01:49:41 | 787 |
11 topics in this article: competition, Davis Straub, Glen Volk, Greg Kendall, Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr, Kevin Carter, Mitchell "Mitch" Shipley, Moyes Litespeed RX, Phill Bloom, Santa Cruz Flats Race 2018, Zac Majors
Spring Air Race at Kagel, California
Spring Air Race at Kagel, California
End of April
Phil Bloom|video
Thanks to Phil Bloom.
Discuss "Spring Air Race at Kagel, California" at the Oz Report forum link»
2 topics in this article: Phil Bloom, video
2018 Quest Air Nationals »
The happy pilots
Alejandro Riera|Andrey Solomykin|Bruce Barmakian|Charles Allen|Christian Ciech|Corinna Schwiegershausen|Davis Straub|Fabiano Nahoum|Fred Kaemerer|Gary Anderson|Glen Volk|Greg Dinauer|Jeff Chipman|Jim Messina|John Simon|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Ken Kinzie|Kevin Carter|Konrad Heilmann|Krzysztof "Krys/Kris" Grzyb|Larry Bunner|Makbule Baldik Le Fay|Mark Bourbonnais|Mike Glennon|Patrick Kruse|Phill Bloom|Quest Air|Quest Air Nationals 2018|Raul Guerra|Richard Lovelace|Roger Irby|Sara Weaver|Tullio Gervasoni|Tyler Borradaile|Zac Majors
Joerg Bajewski's photo of all of us:
The photo is live.
Discuss "2018 Quest Air Nationals" at the Oz Report forum link»
35 topics in this article: Alejandro Riera, Andrey Solomykin, Bruce Barmakian, Charles Allen, Christian Ciech, Corinna Schwiegershausen, Davis Straub, Fabiano Nahoum, Fred Kaemerer, Gary Anderson, Glen Volk, Greg Dinauer, Jeff Chipman, Jim Messina, John Simon, Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr, Ken Kinzie, Kevin Carter, Konrad Heilmann, Krzysztof "Krys/Kris" Grzyb, Larry Bunner, Makbule Baldik Le Fay, Mark Bourbonnais, Mike Glennon, Patrick Kruse, Phill Bloom, Quest Air, Quest Air Nationals 2018, Raul Guerra, Richard Lovelace, Roger Irby, Sara Weaver, Tullio Gervasoni, Tyler Borradaile, Zac Majors
2018 Quest Air Nationals »
Results from day six, task 4
Fri, Apr 20 2018, 11:58:13 pm EDTA.I.R. ATOS VR|Andrey Solomykin|Bruce Barmakian|Christian Ciech|competition|Davis Straub|Fred Kaemerer|Glen Volk|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Krzysztof "Krys/Kris" Grzyb|Larry Bunner|Makbule Baldik Le Fay|Phill Bloom|Quest Air|Quest Air Nationals 2018|Richard Lovelace|Sara Weaver|Zac Majors
https://airtribune.com/2018-quest-air-national-series/results
Task 4:
Name | Glider | SS | ES | Time | Total | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Christian Ciech | Icaro 2000 Laminar 14.1 | 13:30:00 | 16:09:48 | 02:39:48 | 877 |
2 | Zac Majors | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 14:10:00 | 16:34:49 | 02:24:49 | 860 |
3 | Alvaro Figueiredo Sandoli | Ww T2C 144 | 13:50:00 | 16:34:55 | 02:44:55 | 729 |
3 | Jonny Durand | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 13:50:00 | 16:35:06 | 02:45:06 | 729 |
5 | Malcolm Brown | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 13:50:00 | 16:36:11 | 02:46:11 | 720 |
6 | Sandy Dittmar | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 13:50:00 | 16:41:14 | 02:51:14 | 694 |
7 | Bruce Barmakian | Aeros Combat 12.7 | 13:30:00 | 16:34:49 | 03:04:49 | 687 |
8 | Carl Wallbank | Moyes RX 3.5 | 13:30:00 | 16:35:00 | 03:05:00 | 685 |
9 | Kevin Dutt | Aeros Combat 13.1 | 13:30:00 | 16:35:01 | 03:05:01 | 681 |
10 | Glen Volk | Moyes RX 3.5 | 13:50:00 | 16:43:49 | 02:53:49 | 675 |
11 | Krzysztof Grzyb | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 13:50:00 | 16:43:53 | 02:53:53 | 674 |
12 | Larry Bunner | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 13:30:00 | 16:35:06 | 03:05:06 | 673 |
13 | Phill Bloom | Moyes RX 3.5 | 13:30:00 | 16:37:22 | 03:07:22 | 646 |
14 | Davis Straub | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 13:30:00 | 16:45:08 | 03:15:08 | 620 |
15 | Richard Lovelace | Wills Wing T2C 144 Carbon | 13:30:00 | 16:46:58 | 03:16:58 | 614 |
Sport Task 4:
# | Name | Glider | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | James Race | Wills Wing U2 160 | 01:38:00 | 985 |
2 | Douglas Hale | Moyes Gecko 155 | 01:40:33 | 935 |
3 | Makbule Baldik Le Fay | Aeros Discus 13B | 01:46:14 | 866 |
4 | Andrey Solomykin | Aeros Discus 14 | 01:50:45 | 822 |
5 | Rod Regier | Moyes Litesport 4 | 01:53:08 | 801 |
6 | Charles Cozean | Wills Wing U2 145 | 01:55:33 | 781 |
7 | Sara Weaver | Wills Wing Sport 3 135 | 01:56:02 | 777 |
8 | Nick Jones | Wills Wing U2 145 | 01:58:43 | 756 |
9 | Rich Reinauer | Wills Wing U2 145 | 01:59:53 | 747 |
10 | Richard Milla | Wills Wing U2 145 | 02:00:18 | 744 |
11 | Ricardo Ricky | Wills Wing T2C | 01:37:41 | 700 |
12 | Lee Silver | Wills Wing U2 160 | 02:18:14 | 622 |
Rigid task 4:
# | Name | Glider | Sponsor | Time | Distance | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Fred Kaemerer | Air Atos Vr | Air Usa | 03:03:53 | 126.60 | 995 |
2 | Patrick Ruber | A-I-R Atos Vr | A-I-R | 03:04:08 | 126.60 | 992 |
3 | James Yocom | Air Atos Vr 10 | My Beautiful Wife! | 75.82 | 326 |
Rigid final results (they all left early Saturday morning):
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Patrick Ruber | A-I-R Atos Vr | 2509 |
2 | Fred Kaemerer | Air Atos Vr | 2263 |
3 | James Yocom | Air Atos Vr 10 | 1875 |
18 topics in this article: A.I.R. ATOS VR, Andrey Solomykin, Bruce Barmakian, Christian Ciech, competition, Davis Straub, Fred Kaemerer, Glen Volk, Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr, Krzysztof "Krys/Kris" Grzyb, Larry Bunner, Makbule Baldik Le Fay, Phill Bloom, Quest Air, Quest Air Nationals 2018, Richard Lovelace, Sara Weaver, Zac Majors
2018 Quest Air Nationals »
2018 Quest Air Nationals
Day three, task one, results (ready by 7:30 PM local time
Andrey Solomykin|Christian Ciech|competition|Davis Straub|John Simon|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Kevin Carter|Phill Bloom|Quest Air|Quest Air Nationals 2018|Raul Guerra|Sara Weaver|Zac Majors
https://airtribune.com/2018-quest-air-national-series/results
Eighteen in goal. The first task was elapsed time with no leading or arrival points following the Australian precedent for the first day. The launch opened at 1:30 PM. The pilots with the fastest times started the task later when conditions improved.
Task 1:
# | Name | Glider | SS | ES | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Christian Ciech | Icaro 2000 Laminar 14.1 | 14:58:33 | 16:08:02 | 01:09:29 | 514 |
2 | Zac Majors | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 14:59:05 | 16:11:12 | 01:12:07 | 488 |
3 | Austin Marshall | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 14:55:56 | 16:12:35 | 01:16:39 | 464 |
4 | Phill Bloom | Moyes RX 3.5 | 14:59:07 | 16:21:11 | 01:22:04 | 442 |
5 | Jonny Durand | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 14:58:50 | 16:21:07 | 01:22:17 | 441 |
6 | John Simon | Aeros Combat C 12.7 | 15:24:58 | 16:51:44 | 01:26:46 | 425 |
7 | Malcolm Brown | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 14:41:45 | 16:10:51 | 01:29:06 | 417 |
8 | Davis Straub | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 14:40:42 | 16:12:04 | 01:31:22 | 409 |
9 | Marcelo Alexandre Menin | Wills Wing T2C 154 | 14:54:45 | 16:27:18 | 01:32:33 | 406 |
10 | Sandy Dittmar | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 14:55:36 | 16:30:06 | 01:34:30 | 400 |
10 | Kevin Carter | Wills Wing T2C 154 | 14:40:53 | 16:15:26 | 01:34:33 | 400 |
10 | Raul Guerra | Moyes RX 3.5 | 14:41:31 | 16:15:56 | 01:34:25 | 400 |
Sport task 1:
# | Name | Glider | SS | Distance | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Rod Regier | Moyes Litesport 4 | 15:43:47 | 25.76 | 359 |
1 | Charles Cozean | Wills Wing U2 145 | 15:44:10 | 25.70 | 359 |
3 | Andrey Solomykin | Aeros Discus 14 | 15:33:54 | 24.58 | 346 |
4 | Sara Weaver | Wills Wing Sport 3 135 | 15:43:52 | 22.62 | 338 |
5 | Douglas Hale | Moyes Gecko 155 | 15:30:11 | 16.51 | 264 |
6 | adrian sanchez | Wills Wing U2 145 | 15:43:17 | 14.89 | 249 |
7 | Greg Sessa | Wills Wing U2 160 | 16:04:05 | 11.57 | 214 |
8 | Nick Jones | Wills wing U2 145 | 16:11:00 | 11.51 | 213 |
9 | Soraya Rios | Wills Wing Sport 135 | 16:03:50 | 9.44 | 199 |
10 | Rick Maddy | Wills Wing U2 160 | 15:42:59 | 9.90 | 195 |
13 topics in this article: Andrey Solomykin, Christian Ciech, competition, Davis Straub, John Simon, Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr, Kevin Carter, Phill Bloom, Quest Air, Quest Air Nationals 2018, Raul Guerra, Sara Weaver, Zac Majors
2017 Midwest, day 6, task 5 »
June 9, 2017, 8:09:29 pm CST -0500
2017 Midwest, day 6, task 5
Looks like five competition days
Bart Weghorst|Bill Soderquist|Bruce Barmakian|competition|Davis Straub|Fabiano Nahoum|James Stinnett|John Simon|Kevin Carter|Konrad Heilmann|Lawrence "Pete" Lehmann|Midwest Championships 2017|Mike Degtoff|Moyes Litespeed RX|Niki Longshore|Pete Lehmann|Phill Bloom|Roger Irby
With Saturday predicted to be too windy it looks like Friday is the last competition day.
Niki on launch:
Photo by Mike Degtoff.
https://airtribune.com/midwest-2017/results
Task 5:
# | Name | Glider | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | John Simon | Aeros Combat C 12.7 | 01:16:23 | 954 |
2 | Bruce Barmakian | Icaro Laminar 13.2 | 01:21:44 | 881 |
3 | Kevin Carter | Wills Wing T2C | 01:22:16 | 874 |
4 | Phill Bloom | Moyes RX 3.5 | 01:15:55 | 853 |
5 | Reinaldo Niella | WillsWing T2C144 | 01:25:46 | 837 |
5 | Bill Soderquist | Moyes RX3.5 | 01:25:27 | 837 |
7 | Robert Dallas | Wills Wing T2C 154 | 01:27:00 | 815 |
8 | Patrick Pannese | Wills Wing T2C 154 | 01:28:45 | 807 |
9 | James Stinnett | Wills Wing T2C | 01:19:38 | 797 |
10 | Luke Waters | Wills Wing T2 154 | 01:35:34 | 749 |
11 | Fabiano Nahoum | Icaro Laminar 14.1 | 01:36:05 | 740 |
12 | Niki Longshore | Moyes LSRX 3.5 PRO | 01:26:40 | 736 |
13 | Bart Weghorst | Wills Wing 154 T2C | 01:35:47 | 726 |
14 | Roger Irby | Wills Wing T2C 154 | 01:38:41 | 720 |
15 | Konrad Heilmann | Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 Technora | 01:30:18 | 712 |
16 | Davis Straub | Wills Wing T2C | 01:40:26 | 698 |
17 | Alfredo Cabezas | Moyes RX | 01:41:28 | 687 |
18 | Rich Cizauskas | Aeros Combat | 01:54:34 | 642 |
19 | Pete Lehmann | Wills Wing T2-154 | 01:44:53 | 630 |
20 | JD Guillemette | Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 | 01:55:09 | 599 |
21 | Bill Comstock | Wills Wing T2 | 02:05:54 | 544 |
18 topics in this article: Bart Weghorst, Bill Soderquist, Bruce Barmakian, competition, Davis Straub, Fabiano Nahoum, James Stinnett, John Simon, Kevin Carter, Konrad Heilmann, Lawrence "Pete" Lehmann, Midwest Championships 2017, Mike Degtoff, Moyes Litespeed RX, Niki Longshore, Pete Lehmann, Phill Bloom, Roger Irby
2016 Santa Cruz Flats Race »
2016 Santa Cruz Flats Race
Day 4
Results
Bruce Barmakian|competition|David Gibson|Gary Anderson|Glen Volk|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Kevin Carter|Kraig Coomber|Larry Bunner|Moyes Litespeed RX|Niki Longshore|Phill Bloom|Robin Hamilton|Santa Cruz Flats Race 2016
https://airtribune.com/santacruzflatsrace2016/results
Day 4:
# | Name | Glider | Distance | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Bruce Barmakian | Laminar | 67.62 | 640 |
1 | David Gibson | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 67.55 | 640 |
3 | Kevin Carter | Wills Wing T2C 154 | 67.24 | 637 |
4 | Patrick Pannese | Wills Wing T2C 154 | 41.98 | 483 |
5 | Larry Bunner | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 40.84 | 480 |
6 | Jonny Durand | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 41.41 | 479 |
7 | Kraig Coomber | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 40.80 | 474 |
8 | Derreck Turner | Moyes Litespeed RX5 | 39.67 | 467 |
9 | Pedro L. Garcia | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 39.97 | 465 |
10 | Kevin Dutt | Icaro Z9 | 38.75 | 448 |
Cumulative:
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Kevin Carter | Wills Wing T2C 154 | 1448 |
2 | Kraig Coomber | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 1390 |
3 | Jonny Durand | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 1388 |
4 | Pedro L. Garcia | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 1377 |
5 | Larry Bunner | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 1350 |
6 | Bruce Barmakian | Laminar | 1339 |
7 | Robin Hamilton | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 1332 |
8 | Phill Bloom | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 1326 |
9 | Kevin Dutt | Icaro Z9 | 1300 |
10 | Glen Volk | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 1268 |
Sport Day 4:
# | Name | Glider | Time | Distance | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Kelly Myrkle | Moyes Gecko | 01:58:43 | 34.72 | 775 |
2 | Niki Longshore | Moyes Gecko | 25.34 | 390 | |
3 | Douglas Hale | Moyes Gecko | 7.54 | 169 | |
4 | Gary Anderson | Wills Wing Sport 2 | 5.00 | 123 |
Cumulative:
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Kelly Myrkle | Moyes Gecko | 1671 |
2 | Niki Longshore | Moyes Gecko | 1290 |
3 | Gary Anderson | Wills Wing Sport 2 | 476 |
4 | Douglas Hale | Moyes Gecko | 169 |
14 topics in this article: Bruce Barmakian, competition, David Gibson, Gary Anderson, Glen Volk, Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr, Kevin Carter, Kraig Coomber, Larry Bunner, Moyes Litespeed RX, Niki Longshore, Phill Bloom, Robin Hamilton, Santa Cruz Flats Race 2016
2016 Santa Cruz Flats Race »
2016 Santa Cruz Flats Race
Day 1
Bruce Barmakian|competition|David Gibson|Davis Straub|dust devil|Dustin Martin|Gary Anderson|Glen Volk|Greg Kendall|John Simon|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Kevin Carter|Kraig Coomber|Larry Bunner|Moyes Litespeed RX|Niki Longshore|Phill Bloom|Robin Hamilton|Santa Cruz Flats Race 2016
Too long a task and against the wind. I knew right away that we would not make it back unless the lift was really much better than usual and we started getting to 11,000' as forecast right away. That didn't happen.
The task was a triangle to the east then south then back to the Francisco Grande Hotel, 130 km. Quite a task for days that end around 5 PM and the tasks start at 2 PM.
We started launching a little after 12:45 PM and there was plenty of lift. Launching eleventh I was able to climb right up to 7,500'. The wind was west northwest at about 8 mph so a bunch of us were soon on the south eastern edge of the start cylinder.
We pushed back up wind getting down to 6,000'; but were able to get back up to 7.400' in time for the first start time. Zac went out in front by far. Larry Bunner next, then me and I was followed by the rest of the pilots. Pilots bunched up and we found 200 to 300 fpm over Casa Grande, getting back over 6,500' and continued east. I chased a dust devil that gave out before I got to it and ended up 500' to 1,000' below my gaggle.
There was a reasonable amount of lift out on the flats and I went chasing the gaggle to see if I could find some. A couple of hundred foot per minute got me close and the lift was spread out and there were not consistent cores. Even closer by the time I got to the first turnpoint out over no man's land 7 km from the Cactus airport.
We headed south for the hills which were small bumps as we approached them from the north. But the bumps were hot and at almost 400 fpm and back to 7,300' it was time to race down the ridge line. Another 380 fpm north of Newman Peak and back to 7,300' before heading across the gap to Picacho Peak and what looked like it might be the last good lift of the day as we would soon be on the return leg into the wind over the flats and irrigated areas,.
Took the 400 fpm to 8,800' which was the highest so far. Jonny left early below a few of us. Later Larry with Kevin Carter below him would get to 10,500' staying at Picacho until he couldn't get any higher. Smart move. He had forecasted the 11,000' so he needed to get high to show that he was correct.
We thought we were pretty smart to let Jonny go out in front low and stay in the lift that much longer, but Larry was smarter.
Catching the edge of the 15 km cylinder around the next turnpoint John Simon and I headed northwest over a small range. It didn't work. About half way through it I saw a pilot turning to the south over more no man's land. I headed right for him. Jonny was working up slowly low on the small range.
The lift averaged less than 150 fpm and we were drifting back in the 5 mph head wind. But it was easy flying and the lift had been very comfortable all day. John Simon headed out without climbing much with us and we saw him later on the ground not too far down the course line.
There was a cu to the west and I dearly wanted to go to it but no one else seemed to be inclined to do so. It was over the no mans land but we were high enough to make it as it died out. It was off the course line a bit but the only nearby cu we had seen all day.
Jonny headed out and we all followed along the course line all spread out. I was way to the west hoping the there would be lift toward where that cu had been. Jonny out in front finally found some light lift and I came in under him (I had been over him since the first turnpoint although he took a later clock) at 900' AGL to find 80 fpm and a head wind. I climbed 900' back to 3,500' and as I watched the four or five guys over head head north west I headed also in that direction.
Again back down to 900' AGL I found 175 fpm to 3,900' but that was it. I went on glide to land about 33 km short. Jonny geot to within 15 km. Larry within 17 km. No one made goal.
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Task 1:
# | Name | Glider | Distance | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Kraig Coomber | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 120.91 | 916 |
2 | Robin Hamilton | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 120.72 | 912 |
3 | Jonny Durand | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 120.29 | 909 |
4 | Phill Bloom | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 119.95 | 906 |
5 | Glen Volk | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 119.54 | 905 |
6 | Larry Bunner | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 116.52 | 875 |
7 | Kevin Dutt | 115.18 | 859 | |
8 | Alex Cuddy | 112.48 | 825 | |
9 | Kevin Carter | Wills Wing T2C 154 | 112.47 | 820 |
10 | Greg Kendall | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 107.09 | 737 |
11 | Bruce Barmakian | Laminar | 103.81 | 700 |
12 | Davis Straub | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 102.94 | 687 |
13 | Sergey Kataev | Wills Wing T2C | 99.30 | 641 |
14 | Dustin Martin | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 95.26 | 604 |
15 | David Gibson | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 95.04 | 598 |
Task 1 sport:
# | Name | Glider | Distance | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Niki Longshore | Moyes Gecko | 39.00 | 900 |
2 | Kelly Myrkle | Moyes Gecko | 38.72 | 896 |
3 | Gary Anderson | Wills Wing Sport 2 | 13.36 | 353 |
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The Flytec Championships 2006, day 5, task 4
Ring around the Green Swamp
Flytec, day 5
Thu, Apr 20 2006, 9:16:53 pm EDTA.I.R. ATOS VR|Brett Hazlett|Campbell Bowen|Davis Straub|Flytec Championships 2006|Gary Osoba|Jacques Bott|James Lamb|Jim Lamb|Johann Posch|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Kevin Carter|Larry Bunner|Mark Stump|Oleg Bondarchuk|Oliver Gregory|Phill Bloom|photo|Quest Air|Robin Hamilton|Ron Gleason|Russell "Russ" Brown|Timothy Ettridge|weather
The flight and the task on the HOLC and on Google Earth.
On Wednesday thirty two gliders follow Jonnie here.
We under call the day again, as we thought we would. The forecast calls for cloud base between 6,500' and 7,000' in the afternoon, with sea breeze convergence setting up in the middle of the state. The lift was supposed to average 500-600 fpm.
We decide to go around the Green Swamp as Gary Osoba and the Tampa Bay National Weather Service guys are both calling for sea breeze convergence and Gary says he thinks that it will be west of Quest. The flexies have a 79 mile task and the rigid a 92 mile one. We want to make the tasks long enough to get full validity for the day, which means three hours for the rigids and two and a half for the flex wings.
We send the the rigids right over the Green Swamp to Dean Still and Rockridge intersection, but we are kind to the flexies and have their first turnpoint at Dean Still and highway 33 so that they don't have to cut across the swamp. Our collective next turnpoint is Clinton over the Green Swamp to the west, then thirty miles to the north to the Coleman and then back southeast to Quest. The flexies only have to go north to Kokee and then straight east to Quest.
With no clouds near us at noon we postpone the rigid launches until 1 PM, as pilots are reluctant to get launched when there aren't any visible signs of lift, especially on a day that calls for clouds. The rigids get launched within ten minutes and the flexies start launching fifteen minutes after we start. We've only got a fifteen minutes gap between the classes today, so it's good that we have different first turnpoints.
At 1 PM there are a few wispies around and cloud base is 4,500'. The lift is weak and only three rigids take the first start time at 1:30, a half hour after we open the launch. The rest of us take the second start time at 2 PM, fifteen minutes before the flex wings open their first start window. The start intervals are a half hour for them also.
I catch a little bit of lift just before the 2 PM start time and am able to head southwest with 4,000'. The lift is still weak but I'm heading for the Green Swamp and the cu's in that direction. I see that Jacques Bott is heading south instead, around the swamp, as I follow Johann on the course line. Then Johann heads south as I head into the swamp to get under some wispies.
I find more weak lift but a few pilots who are willing to head out over the swamp join me as we climb up. I get high enough to run deeper into the swamp to a black cloud and with no one in tow climb at 500 fpm to 5,200'. I'm feeling good.
There are plenty of clouds ahead on the way to the turnpoint, but I don't find much lift under them. Two miles from Dean Still and Rockeridge I meet up with Jacques, but don't find much of the lift he appears to be turning in. Then the bottom drops out from under me as I head into the swamp after the turnpoint. Larry Bunner is there with me and he is falling like a rock also. I go to the driest spot out in the swamp to find the lift and we start climbing from 1,400'. This allows all the guys behind to catch up with us.
They are awfully nice about it staying right above us as we work our way back to cloud base. I bet that this won't happen in the Worlds. Getting back to 5,000' I push hard to the west to get us under the nice black clouds out there before the second turnpoint at Clinton. If the lift isn't good I just keep going.
Four miles before Clinton I get under a nice dark cloud that is the beginning of a cloud street to Clinton. I work the 300 FPM until Campbell finds the 700 fpm right next to me. We climb to 6,000'. Tjaden got there above us and was out of there in a hurry. We see him running in front of us.
The convergence has set up and we are in it. We make the turnpoint going upwind against a 5 mph northwest wind under the street all the way, once we turn, the street continues for twenty miles directly on the course line to the north. It is about half a mile wide and on the west side, toward the Gulf of Mexico (thirty miles away), there are only a few cu's. The street is dark, thick and solid. We porpoise fly under it and then stop for the strong bits. We pass Jacques below us as we race together down the street.
Jim Lamb who started early is out in front but Johann and Tjaden soon catch and pass him. I'm right behind them with Kevin Dutt and now Jim following me. At the end of the street eleven miles from Coleman I catch up with Johann and Paul and we head out into the blue after finding weak lift in the last cloud.
Paul dives toward Coleman. There are clouds to the east of Coleman, but it is not clear that we can make it to the clouds after getting the turnpoint as the sink is strong. Johann is slowly following Paul and I'm keeping an eye on both of them. Three and a half miles out and down to 3,000' with my 5030 saying we'll arrive at Coleman at 1,700' I decide that they are diving into a hole that they might not get out of. I spot a tiny forming cu to my left over Lake Panasofskee to the northwest and get under it to climb back to 4,400'. I'm sure that I'm going to see two gliders on the ground by Coleman.
I head to Coleman and still get pounded but make the turnpoint with 2,800'. I'm still in search mode running downwind to find a thermal. Fortunately Jim Lamb gives me some directions and while it isn't right where he is climbing at 500 fpm I'm able to find the thermal at 1,400' in a ten mph west (downwind) wind. Russell comes and joins me and we slowly climb out. I earlier saw Johann and Paul climbing east of us but couldn't find that thermal. They got a strong thermal right after the turnpoint at 2,000'.
There is a set of cu's heading southeast paralleling the Florida turnpike going in the general direction of Quest Air. We climb to 5,800, fifteen miles out and I go on final glide, heading off the course line a little to the east to deal with the light north northeast wind (also forecasted) and get over the drier areas. There is plenty of lift on the final glide to goal.
Jacques Bott gets fitted for lead. Photo by Timothy Ettridge
Thirteen of fourteen ridge wings make goal:
Place | Name | Glider | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Posch, Johann | Air Atos Vr | 03:08:30 | 934 |
2 | Tjaden, Paul | Air Atos Vx | 03:08:40 | 915 |
3 | Bott, Jacques | Air Atos Vr | 03:15:33 | 830 |
4 | Dutt, Kevn | Aeros Phantom | 03:17:24 | 807 |
5 | Straub, Davis | Air Atos Vr | 03:31:38 | 709 |
6 | Brown, Russell | Air Atos Vr | 03:32:25 | 696 |
7 | Gregory, Oliver | Air Atos Vx | 03:42:21 | 646 |
8 | Lamb, James | Air Atos Vr | 03:57:50 | 625 |
9 | Bowen, Campbell | Air Atos Vx | 03:49:41 | 611 |
10 | Yocom, James | Air Atos Vr | 03:51:46 | 601 |
11 | Giles, David | Air Atos V | 04:01:48 | 596 |
12 | Bunner, Larry | Air Atos Vr | 03:57:28 | 577 |
13 | Gleason, Ron | Air Resume C/v | 03:59:53 | 567 |
Totals:
Place | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Posch Johann | Air Atos Vr | 3051 |
2 | Straub Davis | Air Atos Vr | 2654 |
3 | Bott Jacques | Air Atos Vr | 2615 |
4 | Brown Russell | Air Atos Vr | 2588 |
5 | Lamb James | Air Atos Vr | 2408 |
6 | Tjaden Paul | Air Atos Vx | 2194 |
7 | Giles David | Air Atos V | 2180 |
8 | Bunner Larry | Air Atos Vr | 2139 |
9 | Yocom James | Air Atos Vr | 2134 |
10 | Gregory Oliver | Air Atos Vx | 1887 |
11 | Dutt Kevn | Aeros Phantom | 1700 |
12 | Bowen Campbell | Air Atos Vx | 1566 |
13 | Gleason Ron | Air Resume C/v | 1413 |
14 | Stump Mark | Air Atos V | 1118 |
Flex wings (40+ in goal):
Place | Name | Glider | Nation | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Bondarchuk, Oleg | Aeros Combat | Ukr | 02:47:47 | 1000 |
2 | Warren, Curt | Moyes Litespeed S4 | Usa | 02:47:52 | 991 |
3 | Guillen, Bruno | Moyes Litespeed S4.5 | Fra | 02:47:53 | 987 |
4 | Hamilton, Robin | Moyes Litespeed S4 | Gbr | 02:48:00 | 979 |
5 | Hazlett, Brett | Moyes Litespeed S4.5 | Can | 02:48:02 | 975 |
6 | Durand, Jonny | Moyes Litespeed S4 | Aus | 02:49:12 | 950 |
7 | Bloom, Phill | Moyes Litespeed S4 | Usa | 02:49:41 | 940 |
8 | Bajewski, Jorg | Moyes Litespeed S5 | Deu | 02:50:35 | 925 |
9 | Smith, Christopher | Moyes Litespeed S4.5 | Usa | 02:51:11 | 916 |
10 | De La Horie, Geffroy | Aeros Combat L | Fra | 02:51:37 | 908 |
10 | Carter, Kevin | Wills Wing Talon Ii 154 | Usa | 02:51:37 | 908 |
Totals:
Place | Name | Glider | Nation | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Bondarchuk Oleg | Aeros Combat | Ukr | 3030 |
2 | Hazlett Brett | Moyes Litespeed S4.5 | Can | 2979 |
3 | Durand Jonny | Moyes Litespeed S4 | Aus | 2872 |
4 | Hamilton Robin | Moyes Litespeed S4 | Gbr | 2748 |
5 | Carter Kevin | Wills Wing Talon Ii 154 | Usa | 2618 |
6 | Warren Curt | Moyes Litespeed S4 | Usa | 2593 |
7 | Mathurin Didier | Moyes Litespeed S4 | Fra | 2571 |
8 | De La Horie Geffroy | Aeros Combat L | Fra | 2559 |
9 | Bloom Phill | Moyes Litespeed S4 | Usa | 2512 |
10 | Guillen Bruno | Moyes Litespeed S4.5 | Fra | 2496 |
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Flytec Results
Nine rigids in goal within three minutes and seven seconds
Results
April 20, 2006, 5:57:17 EDTA.I.R. ATOS VR|Brett Hazlett|Campbell Bowen|Davis Straub|Glen Volk|Jacques Bott|James Lamb|Johann Posch|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Kevin Carter|Mark Stump|Oleg Bondarchuk|Oliver Gregory|Phill Bloom|Quest Air|Robin Hamilton|Ron Gleason|Russell "Russ" Brown
Task 3:
Place | Name | Glider | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | BOTT, Jacques | AIR Atos VR | 02:35:46 | 974 |
2 | POSCH, Johann | AIR Atos VR | 02:36:58 | 932 |
3 | YOCOM, James | AIR Atos VR | 02:37:12 | 917 |
4 | GREGORY, Oliver | AIR Atos VX | 02:37:15 | 907 |
5 | BROWN, Russell | AIR Atos VR | 02:37:59 | 889 |
6 | TJADEN, Paul | AIR Atos VX | 02:38:27 | 877 |
7 | GILES, David | AIR Atos V | 02:38:58 | 866 |
8 | LAMB, James | AIR Atos VR | 02:38:59 | 862 |
9 | STRAUB, Davis | AIR Atos VR | 02:39:03 | 859 |
Totals:
Place | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | POSCH Johann | AIR Atos VR | 2117 |
2 | STRAUB Davis | AIR Atos VR | 1945 |
3 | BROWN Russell | AIR Atos VR | 1892 |
4 | BOTT Jacques | AIR Atos VR | 1785 |
5 | LAMB James | AIR Atos VR | 1783 |
6 | GILES David | AIR Atos V | 1584 |
7 | BUNNER Larry | AIR Atos VR | 1562 |
8 | YOCOM James | AIR Atos VR | 1533 |
9 | TJADEN Paul | AIR Atos VX | 1279 |
10 | GREGORY Oliver | AIR Atos VX | 1241 |
11 | BOWEN Campbell | AIR Atos VX | 955 |
12 | DUTT Kevn | Aeros Phantom | 893 |
13 | GLEASON Ron | AIR Resume C/V | 846 |
14 | STUMP Mark | AIR Atos V | 790 |
The first nine flex wings within three minutes and eleven seconds of each other:
Place | Name | Glider | Nation | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | BONDARCHUK, Oleg | Aeros Combat | UKR | 02:10:36 | 976 |
2 | HAZLETT, Brett | Moyes Litespeed S4.5 | CAN | 02:10:39 | 969 |
3 | HAMILTON, Robin | Moyes Litespeed S4 | GBR | 02:10:43 | 963 |
4 | DURAND, Jonny | Moyes Litespeed S4 | AUS | 02:11:55 | 935 |
5 | BLOOM, Phill | Moyes Litespeed S4 | USA | 02:12:51 | 919 |
6 | WARREN, Curt | Moyes Litespeed S4 | USA | 02:12:53 | 915 |
7 | MATHURIN, Didier | Moyes Litespeed S4 | FRA | 02:13:37 | 903 |
8 | BAJEWSKI, Jorg | Moyes Litespeed S5 | DEU | 02:13:38 | 901 |
9 | PALMARINI, Jean-Franqois | Aeros Combat L | FRA | 02:13:47 | 896 |
10 | CAUX, Raymond | Moyes Litespeed S 3.5 | FRA | 02:14:36 | 885 |
Totals:
Place | Name | Glider | Nation | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | BONDARCHUK Oleg | Aeros Combat | UKR | 2030 |
2 | HAZLETT Brett | Moyes Litespeed S4.5 | CAN | 2004 |
3 | DURAND Jonny | Moyes Litespeed S4 | AUS | 1922 |
4 | HAMILTON Robin | Moyes Litespeed S4 | GBR | 1769 |
5 | MATHURIN Didier | Moyes Litespeed S4 | FRA | 1745 |
6 | CARTER Kevin | Wills Wing Talon II 154 | USA | 1710 |
7 | DE LA HORIE Geffroy | Aeros Combat L | FRA | 1650 |
8 | WARREN Curt | Moyes Litespeed S4 | USA | 1601 |
9 | BLOOM Phill | Moyes Litespeed S4 | USA | 1572 |
10 | VOLK Glen | Moyes Litespeed S4 | USA | 1570 |
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Sat, Aug 20 2005, 4:00:00 am EDT
A soft day with cu-nimbs under the blue sky.
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We woke up Saturday to a very dark day. There was a thick middle layer of clouds with plenty of low lying cumulus scud whipping by at 30 mph. It sure didn't look like we would be flying, and the RUC along with Dr. Jack indicated that we wouldn't have any lift at 4 PM.
None the less we went out to the airport and the day was slightly improving with a bit of sunlight filtering through the multiple layers of clouds. The RUC is updated around 9 AM CDT, and the lift forecast improves markedly to 500 FPM at 4 PM with a good chance of over development, due to the sunlight hitting the ground and creating the lift.
The task committee had to come up with a task given the forecasted conditions, in spite of how un inspiring it looked at 10 in the morning. We called a 46 mile down wind to La Mesa given the 20 mph average winds at 10 that are supposed to drop off to 12 mph at 4 PM.
We called for a late start at 1:30 PM given the satellite photos showing blue to our south coming our way. Around noon we began to see the blue as the upper level clouds open up to our south, but cu-nims started to develop under the blue. At the airport it was still dark and overcast. We postponed the launched a half hour.
At the last minute we postponed the launch 15 minutes as Kraig Coomber reported no lift and then took off in the dark with the sunshine five miles to our south and the cu-nimbs ten miles to our southeast.
I was second off behind Vince. Drug to 3,000 AGL 2.5 miles out, I continued on for another 4.5 miles to the south against a seven mph head wind to get to a cloud and see if I can find any lift. There was zero sink there so I glided down wind back to just south of the airport to hook up with Russell over a bit of a landfill and climbed from 900' AGL to 1,500' AGL. At least we were still in the air. It was dark all around.
After not finding any lift under a cloud to the west, we spent the next ten minutes climbing at 15 fpm. Russell and Paul Tjaden landed and I spent another ten minutes climbing at 100 fpm. Russell was towed to the thermal next to me and we finally got to 5,300' at 200 fpm. It was time to get on course, half an hour after the last start time.
Campbell Bowen had already gone down having gone north and not made it out of the start circle. Danny Mallet and Vince Endter had given up and landed back at the air field to break down. The cu-nimb to the east had closed down the launch, but there were ten flex wings in the air with us and we were finally feeling good.
The sky was blue to the north and over us with a few cu's just to give us something to shoot for. We got on our way and we were ready for a great flight leaving the vast majority of the flex wings behind, but flying with the best ones.
After all that work (and it was great fun) we then heard on the radio that David Glover had called the day for both classes. It was confusing given that the conditions on course were great, and all he had to do was keep the launch closed as all the folks in the air were happy to be there and happy to be going on course. Dustin Martin didn't hear that the task was called and flew to La Mesa in an hour.
David needs to be more disciplined regarding these kinds of decisions or let someone else make them. The rules for the Worlds don't allow the meet director (only the safety director) to make this decision and only for conditions on the course line. The launch director/safety director can close the launch (which was already done).
We all landed safely back at the airport and had broken down in time to avoid the rain. The towns folks got to see us land, at least.
The task committee worked hard to get a task that was workable given the forecast. We chose a perfect task that could be done within the very narrow time window. Flex wing pilots chose not to launch when conditions were weak, but this did not stop rigid wing pilots from going up and working the lift that was available. There was plenty of time for most of the flex wings to get off and up in the air before the cu-nimb came close.
All our good work and hard thinking came to naught when the tasks were called erroneously. There certainly was no need to call the rigid wing task. When I asked David about this, he just said he made a bad call.
On Sunday it rains hard all day. West Texas is becoming Wet Texas.
The Results:
Rigids on the last day:
Place | Name | Glider | Time | Distance | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | STRAUB Davis | AIR Atos VR | 03:40:09 | 151.3 | 1000 |
2 | BOWEN Campbell | AIR ATOS VX | 147.0 | 752 | |
3 | LAMB James | AIR Atos VR | 146.8 | 751 | |
4 | BROWN Russell | AIR Atos VR | 141.7 | 728 | |
5 | BUNNER Larry | AIR Atos VR | 134.3 | 686 |
Finals for Rigids:
Place | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | STRAUB Davis | AIR Atos VR | 5033 |
2 | POSCH Johann | AIR Atos VR | 4268 |
3 | BROWN Russell | AIR Atos VR | 4061 |
4 | LAMB James | AIR Atos VR | 3713 |
5 | BUNNER Larry | AIR Atos VR | 3563 |
6 | ENDTER Vincent | AIR Ato VR s | 3345 |
7 | TJADEN Paul | AIR Atos VX | 3313 |
8 | BOWEN Campbell | AIR ATOS VX | 3177 |
9 | GLEASON Ron | AIR Atos V | 2761 |
10 | MALLETT Denny | AIR Atos VX | 2744 |
Last day for Flex Wings:
Place | Name | Glider | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | DURAND Jonny | Moyes Litespeed S4 | 02:57:13 | 1000 |
2 | BLOOM Phill | Moyes Litespeed S4 | 03:02:22 | 948 |
3 | BARBER Mike | Moyes Litespeed S4 | 03:08:39 | 911 |
4 | OLSSON Andreas | Wills Wing T2 154 | 03:10:44 | 896 |
5 | VOLK Glen | Moyes Litespeed S4 | 03:05:36 | 890 |
6 | ZIMMERMAN Chris | Wills Wing T2 144 | 03:20:32 | 856 |
7 | GOODMAN Bubba | Wills Wing T2 144 | 03:19:32 | 837 |
8 | HAMILTON Robin | Moyes Litespeed S4 | 04:07:30 | 724 |
9 | KENDALL Greg | Moyes Litespeed S4 | 04:09:10 | 720 |
10 | LEHMANN Pete | Wills Wing Talon 150 | 128.0 | 643 |
Totals for Flex Wings:
Place | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | DURAND Jonny | Moyes Litespeed S4 | 4600 |
2 | BARBER Mike | Moyes Litespeed S4 | 4441 |
3 | VOLK Glen | Moyes Litespeed S4 | 4300 |
4 | HAMILTON Robin | Moyes Litespeed S4 | 4128 |
5 | MARTIN Dustin | Moyes Litespeed S4 | 4027 |
6 | COOMBER Kraig | Moyes Litespeed S4 | 3585 |
7 | OLSSON Andreas | Wills Wing T2 154 | 3539 |
8 | GOODMAN Bubba | Wills Wing T2 144 | 3313 |
9 | BURICK Carl | Moyes Litespeed S4 | 3282 |
10 | ZIMMERMAN Chris | Wills Wing T2 144 | 3272 |
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Mon, Aug 15 2005, 11:00:00 am EDT
The US pilot ranking after the Big Spring Open
Bo Hagewood|Bruce Barmakian|Bubba Goodman|Campbell Bowen|Chris Zimmerman|Davis Straub|Dennis Pagen|Dustin Martin|George Stebbins|Glen Volk|Greg Kendall|James Lamb|Judy Hildebrand|Kari Castle|Kevin Carter|Lauren Tjaden|Lisa Verzella|Mark Stump|Mike Barber|Oliver Gregory|Paris Williams|Phill Bloom|Quest Air|Ron Gleason|Russell "Russ" Brown
The women:
13 | VASSORT Claire | 1013 |
19 | Castle Kari | 823 |
25 | SALAMONE Linda | 694 |
50 | PERMENTER Raean | 269 |
61 | VERZELLA Lisa | 164 |
66 | TJADEN Lauren | 141 |
78 | HILDEBRAND Judy | 85 |
The first six women pilots (there are seven in the table above) form the US Women's National Team and get to fly in the Worlds in May at Quest Air. The draft rules allow a women's team of six with six additional individual pilots.
The rigid wing pilots:
1 | Straub Davis | 1552 |
2 | ENDTER Vincent | 1307 |
3 | GLEASON Ron | 1246 |
4 | LAMB James | 1149 |
5 | Brown Russell | 1138 |
6 | Yocom Jim | 1091 |
7 | Bowen Campbell | 1087 |
8 | BARMAKIAN Bruce | 855 |
9 | GREGORY Oliver | 713 |
10 | TJADEN Paul | 624 |
11 | STUMP Mark | 597 |
12 | BUNNER Larry | 536 |
The first six pilots form the US rigid wing team for the Worlds at Quest Air in May. The second six can fly in the Worlds as individuals (according to the draft rules).
The flex wing pilots:
1 | Barber Mike | 1925 |
2 | Martin Dustin | 1922 |
3 | CARTER Kevin | 1863 |
4 | Volk Glen | 1831 |
5 | BLOOM Phill | 1766 |
6 | Warren Curt | 1741 |
7 | Williams Paris | 1721 |
8 | ZIMMERMAN Chris | 1524 |
9 | LANNING Tom | 1394 |
10 | Goodman Bubba | 1321 |
11 | PRESLEY Terry | 1098 |
12 | BURICK Carl | 1089 |
13 | VASSORT Claire | 1013 |
14 | KENDALL Greg | 958 |
15 | Stebbins George | 949 |
16 | Williams Michael | 924 |
17 | Pagen Dennis | 861 |
18 | ZABO Shawn | 855 |
19 | Castle Kari | 823 |
20 | Hagewood Bo | 822 |
The flex wing pilots will not have a Worlds until 2007 (in Big Spring) and so their ranking this year doesn't matter so much. They get to use their best two flights from this year when determining their ranking at the end of 2006.
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25 topics in this article: Bo Hagewood, Bruce Barmakian, Bubba Goodman, Campbell Bowen, Chris Zimmerman, Davis Straub, Dennis Pagen, Dustin Martin, George Stebbins, Glen Volk, Greg Kendall, James Lamb, Judy Hildebrand, Kari Castle, Kevin Carter, Lauren Tjaden, Lisa Verzella, Mark Stump, Mike Barber, Oliver Gregory, Paris Williams, Phill Bloom, Quest Air, Ron Gleason, Russell "Russ" Brown
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Tue, Aug 2 2005, 4:00:03 pm EDT
The US pilot ranking before the Big Spring Open
Bo Hagewood|Bruce Barmakian|Bubba Goodman|Campbell Bowen|Chris Zimmerman|Davis Straub|Dennis Pagen|Dustin Martin|George Stebbins|Glen Volk|James Lamb|Kari Castle|Kevin Carter|Mark Stump|Mike Barber|Oliver Gregory|Paris Williams|Phill Bloom|Ron Gleason|Russell "Russ" Brown
Rigid:
1 | Straub Davis | 1370 |
2 | Yocom Jim | 1091 |
3 | ENDTER Vincent | 1071 |
4 | Brown Russell | 1058 |
5 | GLEASON Ron | 1051 |
6 | Bowen Campbell | 975 |
7 | LAMB James | 887 |
8 | BARMAKIAN Bruce | 855 |
9 | GREGORY Oliver | 713 |
10 | STUMP Mark | 597 |
Flex:
1 | CARTER Kevin | 1863 |
2 | Martin Dustin | 1838 |
3 | Warren Curt | 1741 |
4 | Williams Paris | 1394 |
5 | BLOOM Phill | 1390 |
6 | Barber Mike | 1384 |
7 | Volk Glen | 1308 |
8 | LANNING Tom | 1273 |
9 | Goodman Bubba | 1150 |
10 | ZIMMERMAN Chris | 1125 |
11 | PRESLEY Terry | 1098 |
12 | Pagen Dennis | 861 |
13 | Williams Michael | 842 |
14 | Castle Kari | 823 |
15 | Straub Davis | 811 |
16 | VASSORT Claire | 808 |
17 | HAYWOOD John | 787 |
18 | Stebbins George | 786 |
19 | SLOCUM Jack | 770 |
20 | Hagewood Bo | 690 |
20 topics in this article: Bo Hagewood, Bruce Barmakian, Bubba Goodman, Campbell Bowen, Chris Zimmerman, Davis Straub, Dennis Pagen, Dustin Martin, George Stebbins, Glen Volk, James Lamb, Kari Castle, Kevin Carter, Mark Stump, Mike Barber, Oliver Gregory, Paris Williams, Phill Bloom, Ron Gleason, Russell "Russ" Brown
NTSS Ranking »
Wed, May 4 2005, 5:00:03 pm EDT
After the US Nationals and the South Florida International
Bo Hagewood|Bruce Barmakian|Bubba Goodman|Campbell Bowen|Chris Zimmerman|Davis Straub|Dustin Martin|George Stebbins|Glen Volk|James Lamb|Kari Castle|Kevin Carter|Mark Stump|Mike Barber|Oliver Gregory|Paris Williams|Phill Bloom|Ron Gleason|Russell "Russ" Brown|US Nationals
Rigids (this year determines who gets to represent the US at the Worlds at Quest next year) :
1 Straub Davis 1344
2 Yocom Jim 1091
3 ENDTER Vincent 1071
4 GLEASON Ron 1051
5 Bowen Campbell 975
6 Brown Russell 973
7 LAMB James 887
8 BARMAKIAN Bruce 855
9 GREGORY Oliver 713
10 STUMP Mark 597
Flexies (doesn't matter that much when determining who goes to the 2007 Worlds in Texas):
1 CARTER Kevin 1863
2 Martin Dustin 1838
3 Warren Curt 1741
4 Barber Mike 1384
4 BLOOM Phill 1384
6 Volk Glen 1308
7 LANNING Tom 1271
8 ZIMMERMAN Chris 1125
9 PRESLEY Terry 1098
10 Williams Paris 1069
11 Goodman Bubba 915
12 Castle Kari 823
13 Straub Davis 811
14 VASSORT Claire 808
15 HAYWOOD John 787
16 Stebbins George 786
17 SLOCUM Jack 770
18 Williams Michael 739
19 Hagewood Bo 690
20 BURICK Carl 689
Full rankings found https://ozreport.com/compPilotRankings.php.
20 topics in this article: Bo Hagewood, Bruce Barmakian, Bubba Goodman, Campbell Bowen, Chris Zimmerman, Davis Straub, Dustin Martin, George Stebbins, Glen Volk, James Lamb, Kari Castle, Kevin Carter, Mark Stump, Mike Barber, Oliver Gregory, Paris Williams, Phill Bloom, Ron Gleason, Russell "Russ" Brown, US Nationals
2005 Flytec Championship, day nine
A.I.R. ATOS VR|Bruce Barmakian|Chris Muller|Davis Straub|Dustin Martin|Flytec Championships 2005|Glen Volk|Jacques Bott|Johann Posch|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Kari Castle|Kevin Carter|Mike Barber|Oleg Bondarchuk|Paris Williams|Phill Bloom|photo|Ron Gleason|US Nationals
Sat, Apr 23 2005, 5:30:00 pm EDT
A front and rain.
Flytec Championship
The last day of the US Nationals was called on account of a forecast for rain and wind. The rain showed up, but the wind didn't.
Rigid final results:
Place | Name | Glider | Nation | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | REISINGER Robert | AIR Atos VR | AUT | 5806 |
2 | GRICAR Primoz | Aeros Phantom | SVN | 4807 |
3 | BARMAKIAN Bruce | AIR Atos VR | USA | 4533 |
4 | ALMOND Neville | AIR Atos V | GBR | 4449 |
5 | BOTT Jacques | AIR Atos VR | FRA | 4366 |
6 | ENDTER Vincent | AIR Atos VR | USA | 4265 |
7 | YOCOM James | AIR Atos VR | USA | 4195 |
8 | STRAUB Davis | AIR Atos VR | USA | 3904 |
9 | POSCH Johann | Helite Tsunami | AUT | 3806 |
10 | GLEASON Ron | AIR Atos VR | USA | 3448 |
Flex final results:
Place | Name | Glider | Nation | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | BONDARCHUK Oleg | Aeros Combat | UKR | 5540 |
2 | DURAND Jonny | Moyes Litespeed S4 | AUS | 5505 |
3 | WILLIAMS Paris | Aeros Combat L | USA | 5491 |
4 | BLOOM Phill | Moyes Litespeed 4 | USA | 4943 |
5 | MARTIN Dustin | Moyes Litespeed 4 | USA | 4827 |
6 | OLSSON Andreas | Wills Wing T2 154 | SWE | 4735 |
7 | MULLER Chris | Wills Wing T2 | CAN | 4557 |
8 | VOLK Glen | Moyes Litespeed | USA | 4544 |
9 | BARBER Mike | Moyes Litespeed | USA | 4502 |
10 | CARTER Kevin | Aeros Combat | USA | 4436 |
Kari Castle was doing well in twelfth place until she went down early on the last day, still she managed to be the US Women's National Champion and beat the current Women's World Champion. Kari loved flying in Florida (much better than Greifenburg). She was flying the Moyes Litespeed S4 that I was flying in Australia in January.
Flytec Championship photos.
19 topics in this article: A.I.R. ATOS VR, Bruce Barmakian, Chris Muller, Davis Straub, Dustin Martin, Flytec Championships 2005, Glen Volk, Jacques Bott, Johann Posch, Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr, Kari Castle, Kevin Carter, Mike Barber, Oleg Bondarchuk, Paris Williams, Phill Bloom, photo, Ron Gleason, US Nationals
2005 Flytec Championship, day eight
Why did they want a short task? Well, the sea breeze for one thing.
Flytec Championship
2005 Flytec Championship, day eight
Fri, Apr 22 2005, 4:00:00 pm EDTØyvind Ellefsen|A.I.R. ATOS VR|Bruce Barmakian|Campbell Bowen|Chris Muller|Davis Straub|Dustin Martin|Flytec Championships 2005|Glen Volk|Greg Kendall|Jacques Bott|James Lamb|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Kevin Carter|Mike Barber|Oleg Bondarchuk|Paris Williams|Phill Bloom|Ron Gleason
The rigid wing flight and task
The forecast was for a twenty percent chance of rain after 4 PM, so we want to get every one back by then. I also forecasted a sea breeze, given the light west winds, and the Windcast showing what looks like convergence up the middle of the state. Pilots expressed the feeling that they were a little tired from the three hour task (plus one hour in the start circle) the day before, so a two and a half hour task sounded better.
Given the desire for a smaller task, we chose a run up and down highway 33 with a 64 mile task for the flex wings and 77 miles for the rigid wings. The cu's weren't happening when we rigids started to launch at 12:15, but after half an hour they began to appear nearby.
The flexies seeing the lack of clouds postponed their task 45 minutes. We rigids found the clouds and started our task on time. Soon the clouds were every where and we raced around the course. Our first turnpoint was at the intersection of highway 33 and the Turnpike north of Quest then back to the northeast corner of the Green Swamp and highway 50, down to I4 and 27, then back to Quest.
It was a nine mile glide to the second turnpoint after we got up at 700 fpm over the landfill just south of the Turnpike. Down to 1,400' I followed Bruce and a couple of other pilots into the Green Swamp to hit the lift than got us out of this hole. Primoz and Robert got away from me and were out in front.
With Ollie and Jacques in tow I headed southeast toward Wallaby Ranch, finding at first strong lift to 6,500', then weak lift under one thick black cloud after another. I only took a few turns under each cloud before I continued on looking for better lift. Twenty four miles later I finally found a strong core just past the intersection at 27 and I4 under a few wispies. Three miles out from the turnpoint I came in just under Primoz and Robert, but didn't find any lift there.
The gliders over Wallaby were a draw, for the leg back to Quest, and as I had no one who was flying with me, I chased after these guys to find that they were turning in nothing useful. Pushing west I finally got over a sunny spot with a nice black cloud over me that was working. After climbing I pushed northwest and found one more black cloud to 5,800' and went on glide from 15 miles out at 14:1 with an 8 mph cross wind.
It looked like there was a convergence line ahead paralleling highway 33 on the west side, so I got under it to got a little less sink or a little lift while gliding. It was enough to get me in.
Today Paris leaving early on the first clock won the day but not by enough to catch Jonny and Oleg. Oleg was second and had enough points to move ahead of Jonny into first place. Kevin Carter has been flying with wheels as he has a bad knee from an earlier bad landing and has to walk with a cane (yesterday it was crutches).
Rigids:
Place | Name | Glider | Nation | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Endter Vincent | Air Atos Vr | Usa | 02:39:28 | 1000 |
2 | Straub Davis | Air Atos Vr | Usa | 02:42:52 | 929 |
3 | Barmakian Bruce | Air Atos Vr | Usa | 02:44:41 | 898 |
4 | Parcellier Thierry | Air Atos V | Fra | 02:50:46 | 838 |
5 | Almond Neville | Air Atos V | Gbr | 02:51:07 | 828 |
6 | Bott Jacques | Air Atos Vr | Fra | 02:52:29 | 812 |
7 | Gleason Ron | Air Atos Vr | Usa | 02:57:58 | 770 |
8 | Chopard Patrick | Helite Tsunami | Fra | 02:58:03 | 767 |
9 | Bowen Campbell | Flight Designs Axxess + | Usa | 03:04:56 | 723 |
10 | Lamb James | Air Atos Vr | Usa | 03:21:40 | 634 |
Rigid cumulative:
Place | Name | Glider | Nation | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Reisinger Robert | Air Atos Vr | Aut | 4812 |
2 | Barmakian Bruce | Air Atos Vr | Usa | 4711 |
3 | Almond Neville | Air Atos V | Gbr | 4605 |
4 | Bott Jacques | Air Atos Vr | Fra | 4518 |
5 | Endter Vincent | Air Atos Vr | Usa | 4497 |
6 | Yocom James | Air Atos Vr | Usa | 4323 |
7 | Straub Davis | Air Atos Vr | Usa | 4095 |
8 | Gricar Primoz | Aeros Phantom | Svn | 3875 |
9 | Gleason Ron | Air Atos Vr | Usa | 3590 |
10 | Bowen Campbell | Flight Designs Axxess + | Usa | 3483 |
Flexies:
Place | Name | Glider | Nation | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Williams Paris | Aeros Combat L | Usa | 01:56:59 | 963 |
2 | Bondarchuk Oleg | Aeros Combat | Ukr | 01:55:16 | 929 |
3 | Carter Kevin | Aeros Combat | Usa | 01:55:57 | 907 |
4 | Olsson Andreas | Wills Wing T2 154 | Swe | 01:56:31 | 895 |
5 | Haywood John | Aeros Combat L | Usa | 02:04:47 | 868 |
6 | Durand Jonny | Moyes Litespeed S4 | Aus | 01:58:16 | 866 |
7 | Zabo Shawn | Moyes Litespeed S4 | Usa | 02:06:15 | 851 |
8 | Anderson Johan | Wills Wing T2 144 | Zaf | 02:01:06 | 834 |
9 | Kendall Greg | Moyes Litespeed S4 | Usa | 02:09:50 | 818 |
10 | Ellefsen Oyvind | Moyes Litespeed 4 | Nor | 02:02:35 | 809 |
Cumulative flexies:
Place | Name | Glider | Nation | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Bondarchuk Oleg | Aeros Combat | Ukr | 5539 |
2 | Durand Jonny | Moyes Litespeed S4 | Aus | 5503 |
3 | Williams Paris | Aeros Combat L | Usa | 5491 |
4 | Bloom Phill | Moyes Litespeed 4 | Usa | 4938 |
5 | Martin Dustin | Moyes Litespeed 4 | Usa | 4823 |
6 | Olsson Andreas | Wills Wing T2 154 | Swe | 4733 |
7 | Muller Chris | Wills Wing T2 | Can | 4553 |
8 | Volk Glen | Moyes Litespeed | Usa | 4541 |
9 | Barber Mike | Moyes Litespeed | Usa | 4498 |
10 | Carter Kevin | Aeros Combat | Usa | 4434 |
19 topics in this article: Øyvind Ellefsen, A.I.R. ATOS VR, Bruce Barmakian, Campbell Bowen, Chris Muller, Davis Straub, Dustin Martin, Flytec Championships 2005, Glen Volk, Greg Kendall, Jacques Bott, James Lamb, Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr, Kevin Carter, Mike Barber, Oleg Bondarchuk, Paris Williams, Phill Bloom, Ron Gleason
2005 Flytec Championship, day seven
A.I.R. ATOS VR|Brett Hazlett|Brian Porter|Bruce Barmakian|Campbell Bowen|cart|Chris Muller|Davis Straub|Dr. John "Jack" Glendening|Dustin Martin|Flytec Championships 2005|Glen Volk|Jacques Bott|Jim Lamb|Johann Posch|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand jnr|Kevin Carter|Mike Barber|Oleg Bondarchuk|Paris Williams|Phill Bloom|Ron Gleason|Tim Denton|weather
Thu, Apr 21 2005, 4:00:00 pm EDT
Ring around the swamp.
Flytec Championship
The weather models and the weather gods get it together for today, which we greatly appreciate. The National Weather Service local forecast (from some model) and the RUC model (that Dr. Jack uses) disagreed on the top surface temperature (79 degrees for Jack and 84 for the NWS). I liked the NWS number so went with that value. Therefore I predicted stronger lift and higher cloud bases than BLIPSPOT showed, and sure enough, that's what we got.
Cloudbase was over 5,000' at 1 PM and over 6,700' later in the day (around 4 PM). Dr. Jack called for nice coherent thermals, and sure enough they were perfect. At one point four of us were in a thermal going up at 1,800 fpm (according in Robert Resinger's instrument, mine showed 1000 fpm).
The clouds were predicted to be about 2,000' thick and they were about that. They were also quite plentiful starting early. We also got going 45 minutes earlier with long tasks to take advantage of the great conditions forecast for the day.
Both the flex wings and the rigid wings were tasked to go around the Green Swamp with different turnpoints and start times to keep them separated. The task for the rigids was a little over 90 miles and for the flexies a little over 80 miles.
The cu's formed early and the pilots got excited. The pilot Le Mans run across the runways to the setup area was especially grueling as it was much further than the case for the last few days. We opened launch at 12:15 PM, so there was no time to waste.
The rigids got off quickly and after working some light lift, I joined the pilots who got hauled up after me and we climbed quickly to cloudbase at 5,000'. We (most of the pilots) actually drove south to the edge of the 15 mile entry start circle too early and had to find lift one mile within the circle. Luckily at 10 minutes before the second start time we were able to drive two miles back upwind to the north (the wind is 5 mph out of the north) to get under a very inviting cloud that sucked us back up to 5,500'.
I played a little trick. Most of the pilots were hanging out at the south end of the cloud just outside the start circle staying out of the cloud. I hung back to the north and went back under the cloud four minutes before the start time. I climbed up under the cloud to get above the pilots at the edge of the cloud. I was able to stay out of the cloud and get two hundred feet over every one else.
At 1:15 we all took off with Robert in the lead (flying faster). I had the imperial view two hundred feet over a dozen or so rigid wing pilots all just behind Robert. My strategy of following Robert (he didn't have the yellow jersey today so it was harder) seemed to be the preferred strategy. Or it was Robert's strategy to lead.
I've mentioned before how important getting into a good position at the start is in competition. I had the perfect position.
He found the first thermal six miles out and we regained the 2,000' that we had all lost on the glide. Robert took off a little over my head and I followed closely behind while the others were not following as fast.
Robert took a couple of turns in a thermal that I didn't notice as having much lift and continued through. Robert and I continued on a nine mile glide to the turnpoint at Dean Still and Rockridge Road. He came in five hundred over my head and continued to the west toward the next turnpoint over the Green Swamp.
I found 600 fpm just south of the intersection to 6,000' and headed west toward the slow burning swamp fire in the Green Swamp. What's this I see? There was Robert down below me turning in the smoke of the fires. I joined him and we slowly climbed up as blackened bits flew passed us.
We worked together in light lift under lots of clouds to catch up just before the Clinton turnpoint with Jim Lamb and Tim Denton who started at 1 PM. The lift was light until we got north of Dade City to find the strongest lift of the day with Brian Porter and Bruce Barmakian joining us. I was lower as we climbed out in the strong lift. I followed a mile behind at 6,700'.
I raced to catch up and caught Bruce about 7 miles out from the thermal right at his altitude. Robert was still 500 feet higher with Brian (who decided to stick with him). Within a mile Robert and Brian were showing another thermal and I joined them. Bruce came over lower, didn't find it and continued on getting very low.
The clouds were lined up to Coleman our next turnpoint, 33 miles from Clinton and the lift was plentiful as I raced to keep Robert and Brian in sight. Every one else was left behind. The cu's thinned out at Coleman, and it was a bit of a struggle to jump from thermal to thermal to the Turnpike and 33 intersection. I kept spotting Brian and Robert so I was feeling good.
With a northwest wind it was an easy glide back to Quest.
Not long after we landed the flexies came in from their task. Dustin was first in, with Jonny getting the bag once again.
Primoz had trouble with his control frame falling into pieces on the cart. According to Regina he seems to be having trouble landing the Phantom. I saw him take out one of his aluminum down tubes today (the one that replaced the damaged carbon fiber one) and the control frame was pretzeled. Primoz got a late start as he replaced his down tube and came in fast.
Rigids:
Place | Name | Glider | Nation | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | REISINGER Robert | AIR Atos VR | AUT | 03:00:43 | 1000 |
2 | STRAUB Davis | AIR Atos VR | USA | 03:04:48 | 927 |
3 | ENDTER Vincent | AIR Atos VR | USA | 03:12:25 | 855 |
4 | ALMOND Neville | AIR Atos V | GBR | 03:19:43 | 799 |
5 | BOWEN Campbell | Flight Designs Axxess + | USA | 03:23:21 | 771 |
6 | YOCOM James | AIR Atos VR | USA | 03:29:14 | 727 |
7 | RUEHLE Felix | AIR Atos VR | DEU | 03:30:18 | 718 |
8 | BARMAKIAN Bruce | AIR Atos VR | USA | 03:40:23 | 710 |
9 | POSCH Johann | Helite Tsunami | AUT | 03:31:14 | 709 |
10 | GLEASON Ron | AIR Atos VR | USA | 03:35:40 | 682 |
Cumulative Rigids:
Place | Name | Glider | Nation | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | REISINGER Robert | AIR Atos VR | AUT | 4812 |
2 | BARMAKIAN Bruce | AIR Atos VR | USA | 3820 |
3 | ALMOND Neville | AIR Atos V | GBR | 3778 |
4 | YOCOM James | AIR Atos VR | USA | 3701 |
5 | GRICAR Primoz | Aeros Phantom | SVN | 3519 |
6 | ENDTER Vincent | AIR Atos VR | USA | 3498 |
7 | POSCH Johann | Helite Tsunami | AUT | 3238 |
8 | STRAUB Davis | AIR Atos VR | USA | 3166 |
9 | BOTT Jacques | AIR Atos VR | FRA | 2958 |
10 | GLEASON Ron | AIR Atos VR | USA | 2827 |
Flexies:
Place | Name | Glider | Nation | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | BONDARCHUK Oleg | Aeros Combat L | UKR | 02:48:02 | 962 |
2 | WILLIAMS Paris | Aeros Combat L | USA | 02:49:45 | 922 |
3 | OLSSON Andreas | Wills Wing T2 154 | SWE | 02:49:46 | 919 |
4 | ROTOR Nene | Wills Wing T2 144 | BRA | 02:50:21 | 909 |
5 | MARTIN Dustin | Moyes Litespeed S4 | USA | 03:02:03 | 890 |
6 | DURAND Jonny | Moyes Litespeed S4 | AUS | 03:02:44 | 878 |
7 | CARTER Kevin | Aeros Combat | USA | 02:53:07 | 875 |
8 | BARRETT Scott | Airborne Climax2 13 | AUS | 03:03:37 | 863 |
9 | HAZLETT Brett | Moyes Litespeed S4 | AUS | 03:04:38 | 852 |
10 | HEANEY Grant | Moyes Litespeed S4 | AUS | 03:05:54 | 831 |
Brett is Australian and Canadian.
Cumulative Flexies:
Place | Name | Glider | Nation | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | DURAND Jonny | Moyes Litespeed S4 | AUS | 4636 |
2 | BONDARCHUK Oleg | Aeros Combat L | UKR | 4609 |
3 | WILLIAMS Paris | Aeros Combat L | USA | 4527 |
4 | BLOOM Phill | Moyes Litespeed S4 | USA | 4218 |
5 | MARTIN Dustin | Moyes Litespeed S4 | USA | 4076 |
6 | VOLK Glen | Moyes Litespeed S4 | USA | 3844 |
7 | OLSSON Andreas | Wills Wing T2 154 | SWE | 3838 |
8 | MULLER Chris | Wills Wing T2 | CAN | 3782 |
9 | BARBER Mike | Moyes Litespeed S4 | USA | 3750 |
10 | ANDERSON Hakan | Aeros Combat L13 | SWE | 3561 |
The weather is so fine as Jonny Durand shows in his photo:
25 topics in this article: A.I.R. ATOS VR, Brett Hazlett, Brian Porter, Bruce Barmakian, Campbell Bowen, cart, Chris Muller, Davis Straub, Dr. John "Jack" Glendening, Dustin Martin, Flytec Championships 2005, Glen Volk, Jacques Bott, Jim Lamb, Johann Posch, Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr, Jon Durand jnr, Kevin Carter, Mike Barber, Oleg Bondarchuk, Paris Williams, Phill Bloom, Ron Gleason, Tim Denton, weather
2005 Flytec Championship, day six
A.I.R. ATOS VR|Brett Hazlett|Bruce Barmakian|Chris Muller|Davis Straub|Dr. John "Jack" Glendening|Dustin Martin|Felix Ruehle|Flytec Championships 2005|Glen Volk|Jacques Bott|Jim Lamb|Johann Posch|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Kevin Carter|Mike Barber|Nichele Roberto|Oleg Bondarchuk|Paris Williams|Phill Bloom|Robert Reisinger|Ron Gleason|Russell "Russ" Brown|weather
Wed, Apr 20 2005, 5:00:00 pm EDT
Under called on a great day, but that makes most happy.
Flytec Championship
Today's flight and rigid wing task
The day started with thick clouds covering the sky until mid morning. This made the pilots wary. I knew from the forecast that these clouds would go away and the day would be sunny.
Dr. Jack, using the RUC (Rapid Update Cycle) model, called for a day like any other here recently with lighter winds (5 mph) out of the southeast, and maybe a cloud or two unlike the previous days where we saw nothing but wispies. The National Weather Service mentioned cirrus again, as we've had for the last two days. But there was a fly in the ointment.
The FSL chart completely disagreed with the RUC model. It called for cunimbs,and strong lift (even though the local forecast showed no rain). The winds on the FSL chart also rotated ninety degrees from northeast on the ground to southeast at 6,000' cloud base. But we were seeing light southeast on the ground.
Given the conflict in the models, the task committee called for a task that was 20% longer than the day before hoping for a three hour task. The winds in the launch field were switchy with a few bad tows.
Later in the morning the cirrus began to disappear and it looked like it would clear off completely. The satellite also showed this with clearing to the west.
The cu's were forming nicely and thickly throughout the sky (give that one to the FSL model) and this was very inviting. The winds were light. Lots of pilots wanted to launch early so I had to wait a bit to get launched. The lift over the field was not that great and all the lift we found in the start circle was weak. Jim Lamb was pulled way north, found 700 fpm, unlike the rest of us, and climbed to cloudbase immediately. He had to come back and hang with the rest of us who worked less than 100 fpm to get to cloud base. The clouds looked great, but it felt like they were faking it. The lift was so weak we struggled to get to cloudbase at 5,200'.
We were five miles north of Quest at the edge of the start circle. The course line was to our west. It was unclear what would happen at 1:45 the first start time. A few people headed out. I headed out then came back. More people headed out. I followed Robert Reisinger as he headed out, as my strategy for the day was to stick to Robert. Then he turned around and came back. Now there were only three of us left out of the main gaggle: Robert, Ron Gleason, and me.
We promptly fell down to 3,000' before we found 200 fpm (what luck) at the same spot we started with the original gaggle. As fifteen minutes slipped by we climbed back up to 4,800', all three of us very near each other in altitude. It looked like everyone else took the early start clock. We were feeling pretty darn smart.
Felix Ruehle, who was on top at 1:45, also turned around after going out a bit, but didn't find any lift and had to land back at Quest and relaunch fourteen minutes after the last start time. He would be on his own after that.
At 2 PM we headed off together spreading out to help each other find the lift. With the mostly weak lift that we'd experienced we were not expecting much out on the course. We quickly caught up with a couple of stragglers from the earlier clock.
The lift wasn't all that great. I was gliding and climbing with Robert, but Ron couldn't glide with us. Something is wrong with his setup. Robert and Ron will swap gliders in the morning and do some side by side comparisons to get to the root of the problem.
I had no worries staying with the Robert all the way to the turnpoint as we caught one pilot after another. The lift wasn't strong at all, but we were moving quickly from thermal to thermal.
Finally, after the turnpoint 34 miles north northwest of Quest at Savana air strip, I found the first good core and climbed from 2,600' at 600 fpm with Robert twenty feet over my head. I lost track of him in this thermal and I was on my own to get back home. Ron Gleason took a different line and met us there.
A few miles out from the turnpoint there was a cloud street paralleling the Florida Turnpike heading back toward Groveland. I got under it, climbed up fast and road that sucker all the way home. Johann Posch and Ron Gleason as well as a few others followed behind.
After I landed I found out that we weren't the only ones to take the later clock. The others were hiding more on the course line to our west. Robert apologized for not finding better lift. The others had a much better run down to the turnpoint than we did. Robert would pick this day to go slower (well, it wasn't that bad).
Rigids today:
Place | Name | Glider | Nation | Start | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | GRICAR Primoz | Aeros Phantom | SVN | 14:00:00 | 02:05:02 | 948 |
2 | REISINGER Robert | AIR Atos VR | AUT | 14:00:00 | 02:05:55 | 913 |
3 | YOCOM James | AIR Atos VR | USA | 14:00:00 | 02:07:07 | 890 |
4 | ENDTER Vincent | AIR Atos VR | USA | 13:45:00 | 02:17:34 | 877 |
5 | BARMAKIAN Bruce | AIR Atos VR | USA | 14:00:00 | 02:10:28 | 847 |
6 | ALMOND Neville | AIR Atos V | GBR | 13:45:00 | 02:19:55 | 844 |
7 | STRAUB Davis | AIR Atos VR | USA | 14:00:00 | 02:10:51 | 839 |
8 | BROWN Russell | AIR Atos V | USA | 13:45:00 | 02:20:28 | 826 |
9 | POSCH Johann | Helite Tsunami | AUT | 14:00:00 | 02:14:50 | 800 |
10 | BOTT Jacques | AIR Atos VR | FRA | 14:00:00 | 02:14:54 | 796 |
11 | GLEASON Ron | AIR Atos VR | USA | 14:00:00 | 02:16:45 | 778 |
Rigid cumulative:
Place | Name | Glider | Nation | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | REISINGER Robert | AIR Atos VR | AUT | 3812 |
2 | GRICAR Primoz | Aeros Phantom | SVN | 3139 |
3 | BARMAKIAN Bruce | AIR Atos VR | USA | 3110 |
4 | ALMOND Neville | AIR Atos C | GBR | 2979 |
5 | YOCOM James | AIR Atos VR | USA | 2974 |
6 | BOTT Jacques | AIR Atos VR | FRA | 2928 |
7 | ENDTER Vincent | AIR Atos VR | USA | 2643 |
8 | POSCH Johann | Helite Tsunami | AUT | 2529 |
9 | STRAUB Davis | AIR Atos VR | USA | 2239 |
10 | BUNNER Larry | AIR Atos V | USA | 2166 |
Oleg Bondarchuck on an Aeros Combat won the day taking the second start time coming in first thirty seconds in front of Kevin Carter also on an Aeros Combat, who took the first start time. A couple of Wills Wing pilots made the top ten today with Nick in second. Jonny grabbed the bag at the finish line for the third day in a row, coming in third. He won one hundred dollars grabbing the bag on the first day.
Kevin hyper extended his leg on landing, so we'll see what happens tomorrow. Russell Brown broke a couple of toes before the meet and is still flying.
Paris Williams after not flying for a while, is doing very well.
The task for the flex wings was shorter at 60 miles. They flew northwest out to Coleman, south back to the top of the Green Swamp, north again to Center Hill and then 12 miles southeast to Quest.
Flex wings:
Place | Name | Glider | Nation | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | BONDARCHUK Oleg | Aeros Combat | UKR | 01:51:35 | 957 |
2 | NICHELE Roberto | Wills Wing T2 144 | CHE | 01:53:48 | 908 |
3 | DURAND Jonny | Moyes Litespeed S4 | AUS | 01:53:57 | 903 |
4 | HAZLETT Brett | Moyes Litespeed 4 | AUS | 01:54:25 | 892 |
5 | ZANETTI Marcelo | Moyes Litespeed S5 | USA | 01:54:26 | 889 |
6 | OLSSON Andreas | Wills Wing T2 154 | SWE | 01:56:45 | 860 |
7 | BAJEWSKI Joerg | Moyes LS 4.5 | DEU | 01:57:57 | 841 |
7 | CARTER Kevin | Aeros Combat | USA | 02:07:06 | 841 |
9 | WILLIAMS Paris | Aeros Combat L | USA | 01:58:06 | 838 |
10 | VOLK Glen | Moyes Litespeed | USA | 01:58:17 | 832 |
Flex wings cumulative:
Place | Name | Glider | Nation | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | DURAND Jonny | Moyes Litespeed S4 | AUS | 3752 |
2 | BONDARCHUK Oleg | Aeros Combat | UKR | 3647 |
3 | WILLIAMS Paris | Aeros Combat L | USA | 3602 |
4 | BLOOM Phill | Moyes Litespeed 4 | USA | 3534 |
5 | MARTIN Dustin | Moyes Litespeed 4 | USA | 3186 |
6 | VOLK Glen | Moyes Litespeed | USA | 3096 |
7 | BARBER Mike | Moyes Litespeed | USA | 3078 |
8 | MULLER Chris | Wills Wing T2 | CAN | 2971 |
9 | OLSSON Andreas | Wills Wing T2 154 | SWE | 2918 |
10 | BAJEWSKI Joerg | Moyes LS 4.5 | DEU | 2869 |
As you can see from the times above, the tasks were under called given the great conditions. The clouds were much better than we thought at first. There was no over development. There were no cunimbs. Here's the BLIPSPOT for 4 PM at Groveland that I called up after I got back:
Dr. Jack is calling for zero lift at 4 PM and a high level of convergence and no surface heating (shade). The height of the -3 at 120 feet. In fact it was beautiful, sunny, warm, cu's every where. Pilots were piling into goal. Sixty flex wings made it back. All but one rigid wing made it back.
Here's the satellite photo showing cu's well up into Georgia:
Joerg Bajewski sends this photo from the air over Quest:
24 topics in this article: A.I.R. ATOS VR, Brett Hazlett, Bruce Barmakian, Chris Muller, Davis Straub, Dr. John "Jack" Glendening, Dustin Martin, Felix Ruehle, Flytec Championships 2005, Glen Volk, Jacques Bott, Jim Lamb, Johann Posch, Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr, Kevin Carter, Mike Barber, Nichele Roberto, Oleg Bondarchuk, Paris Williams, Phill Bloom, Robert Reisinger, Ron Gleason, Russell "Russ" Brown, weather
2005 Flytec Championship, day five
A.I.R. ATOS VR|Brett Hazlett|Brian Porter|Bruce Barmakian|Chris Muller|Chris Zimmerman|Davis Straub|Dustin Martin|Flytec Championships 2005|Glen Volk|Jacques Bott|Jim Rooney|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand jnr|Mike Barber|Nichele Roberto|Oleg Bondarchuk|Paris Williams|Phill Bloom|photo|Ron Gleason|sailplane|US Nationals|weather
Tue, Apr 19 2005, 5:00:00 pm EDT
We braved the east winds and the cirrus and go south east for an out and return.
Flytec Championship
The weather service called for east south east winds at 8 to 10 mph (here in Groveland) all the way up to cloud base at 5,800'. Here's what we got:
We on the task committee (Jonny, Curt and I) wanted to do a two hour task to balance the three hour one the day before so we sent the rigid wings on a 60 mile out and return to Gore (spot on highway 27 south of Interstate 4), and the flexies 50 miles out and back to an intersection southwest of Wallaby Ranch. We made the first leg an upwind leg because we wanted to stay away from the weaker areas to the north which suffer from cooler air coming off the big lakes up that way (there are lakes every where, here in Florida).
We separated the rigid wings and flexies by at least a half an hour and sent them on separate courses so that there was no special help for the flexies who took the first start time.
There was plenty of cirrus around but wispy cu's were forming underneath it just like during the last two days. Pilots wanted to get going early so that they wouldn't get shut down as the sun got lower and therefore behind the cirrus to the west.
Bruce Barmakian was off first this day which was good as he got a trike, and I, right behind him, got a tug. Jim Rooney, flying the tug, whipped me around in a tight circle right right over the launch area and as we came around again, Primoz was taking off underneath me. Unfortunately he had a tug with a four stroke engine and they powered right through us. I was trying to hold on so that I could get let off above Primoz. I signal to Jim to follow Primoz, but Jim waved me off 500 feet below him. Shucks. It will stay that way all day.
There was lift right away and after climbing to 4,600' I forced the issue and headed east, trying to bring as many as I could with me as far as east as possible inside the start circle. I'd heard talk about taking the early start (cirrus is the issue) so I wanted to get east as far as possible as quick as possible. So now we know why Bruce was off early.
A bunch of us got together near the start circle circumference at 4,800' at 1:48 so it just seemed natural to leave and not wait around. Ron Gleason and I took first off with Primoz above and just behind us. We were heading for highway 27 to get the upwind part of this leg over early.
There were about eight pilots in the group. I took chances as the clouds in front looked good, and I found good lift, but the guys behind me caught up quickly and Primoz was on top along with a VR pilot (Ron at first). We found 700 fpm near 474 and got to 5,600'. This was a real core (unlike most of the lift) and it was great to just put the VR up on a tip and go up fast.
Primoz and the VR lead us out to 27 and we were finding lots of cu's as we headed south. I glided side by side (right next to each other) with Neville for a few minutes and we didn't notice any difference between the VR and the V in glide. Who knows.
I went out in front at the intersection of 27 and I4 to find better lift over the former Baseball City and three or four pilots came and joined me. Primoz went out in front south along 27 along the west side. We climbed to 4,800' and I headed out along the east side of 27, upwind and nearer the clouds (or so I think). It was light sink for a couple of miles to four miles out and it looked good when suddenly the bottom fell out.
I was racing to get out of the sink toward a pond that looked like it had a monster devil coming out of it. It turned out to be an aerator fountain. Rounding the turnpoint sinking fast all the way I was down to 1,400' when I finally got to the clouds and spent the next ten minutes climbing out of that hole as I drifted west and then forced my way back east to the highway.
We had a great close knit group of six pilots going down to the turnpoint but all that was gone now (at least for me). I spotted a couple of stragglers and used them to spot the next two thermals south and east of Wallaby for me. The cirrus had come over and that just added to the sense of woe.
I saw the guys I was with now just ahead of me north east of Wallaby next to 27. I raced in under them at 1,400' and climed at 500 fpm. The sun was out here and the cu above me was inviting as was the sailplane next to me.
I left early and raced six miles in light sink chasing the four pilots in front of me to south of 474. After a few miles of racing and watching the glide paths of the pilots four miles ahead I saw Brian Porter turning in his Swift and I came in under him over a burnt field. It was fourteen miles back to Quest, but this was all it would take to get there given the cross tail component of the wind and the strong lift. I flew through the next thermal catching Ron Gleason and kept it at 50 mph (or more) the rest of the way in bright sunlight with lots of hits of lift.
Meanwhile the flexies were on their route to our west. No interference between the flexies and the rigids today. Most flex wing pilots left early to try to avoid having to the deal with the late cirrus, but their first start time was 2:30, 45 minutes after most of the rigids had left.
It wasn't too long after we came into goal that the flexies started arriving with Jonny Durand in the lead.
Rigid wing results:
Place | Name | Glider | Nation | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | REISINGER Robert | AIR Atos VR | AUT | 01:46:39 | 955 |
2 | BARMAKIAN Bruce | AIR Atos VR | USA | 02:06:28 | 800 |
3 | ENDTER Vincent | AIR Atos VR | USA | 02:08:35 | 770 |
4 | BOTT Jacques | AIR Atos VR | FRA | 02:16:40 | 702 |
5 | ALMOND Neville | AIR Atos V | GBR | 02:16:47 | 695 |
6 | PARCELLIER Thierry | AIR Atos V | FRA | 02:17:57 | 681 |
7 | STRAUB Davis | AIR Atos VR | USA | 02:20:25 | 660 |
8 | GLEASON Ron | AIR Atos VR | USA | 02:20:43 | 654 |
9 | YOCOM James | AIR Atos VR | USA | 02:28:58 | 568 |
10 | BUNNER Larry | AIR Atos V | USA | 02:32:26 | 546 |
Cumulative:
Place | Name | Glider | Nation | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | REISINGER Robert | AIR Atos VR | AUT | 2900 |
2 | BARMAKIAN Bruce | AIR Atos VR | USA | 2270 |
3 | BOTT Jacques | AIR Atos VR | FRA | 2136 |
4 | ALMOND Neville | AIR Atos V | GBR | 2126 |
5 | YOCOM James | AIR Atos VR | USA | 2079 |
6 | PARCELLIER Thierry | AIR Atos V | FRA | 1940 |
7 | ENDTER Vincent | AIR Atos VR | USA | 1766 |
8 | LANSER Pascal | Tsunami | FRA | 1592 |
9 | BUNNER Larry | AIR Atos V | USA | 1477 |
10 | LUCZYNSKY Thomis | AIR Atos VX | DEU | 1464 |
Flexies:
Place | Name | Glider | Nation | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | DURAND Jonny | Moyes Litespeed S4 | AUS | 01:46:57 | 981 |
2 | BONDARCHUK Oleg | Aeros Combat | UKR | 01:47:01 | 972 |
3 | BLOOM Phill | Moyes Litespeed 4 | USA | 01:47:19 | 958 |
4 | MARTIN Dustin | Moyes Litespeed 4 | USA | 01:49:43 | 913 |
5 | WILLIAMS Paris | Aeros Combat L | USA | 01:52:38 | 876 |
6 | MULLER Chris | Wills Wing T2 | CAN | 01:52:39 | 872 |
7 | HAZLETT Brett | Moyes Litespeed 4 | AUS | 01:52:43 | 868 |
8 | BARBER Mike | Moyes Litespeed | USA | 01:55:55 | 834 |
9 | NICHELE Roberto | Wills Wing T2 | CHE | 01:56:46 | 823 |
10 | ANDERSON Hakan | Aeros Combat L13 | SWE | 01:58:18 | 808 |
Cumulative flexies:
Place | Name | Glider | Nation | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | DURAND Jonny | Moyes Litespeed S4 | AUS | 2849 |
2 | BLOOM Phill | Moyes Litespeed 4 | USA | 2760 |
3 | WILLIAMS Paris | Aeros Combat L | USA | 2754 |
4 | BONDARCHUK Oleg | Aeros Combat | UKR | 2689 |
5 | MARTIN Dustin | Moyes Litespeed 4 | USA | 2436 |
6 | MULLER Chris | Wills Wing T2 | CAN | 2281 |
7 | VOLK Glen | Moyes Litespeed | USA | 2239 |
8 | BARBER Mike | Moyes Litespeed | USA | 2237 |
9 | ANDERSON Hakan | Aeros Combat L13 | SWE | 2093 |
10 | ZIMMERMAN Chris | Wills Wing Talon 140 | USA | 2091 |
The US Nationals slide show with Chris Muller's loop from 150 feet. The set of photos here.
The Wills Wing Team:
24 topics in this article: A.I.R. ATOS VR, Brett Hazlett, Brian Porter, Bruce Barmakian, Chris Muller, Chris Zimmerman, Davis Straub, Dustin Martin, Flytec Championships 2005, Glen Volk, Jacques Bott, Jim Rooney, Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr, Jon Durand jnr, Mike Barber, Nichele Roberto, Oleg Bondarchuk, Paris Williams, Phill Bloom, photo, Ron Gleason, sailplane, US Nationals, weather
2005 Flytec Championship, day four
A.I.R. ATOS VR|Bruce Barmakian|Chris Muller|Corinna Schwiegershausen|Dustin Martin|Flytec Championships 2005|Glen Volk|Jacques Bott|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Kevin Carter|Mike Barber|Neville Almond|Oleg Bondarchuk|Paris Williams|Phill Bloom
Mon, Apr 18 2005, 4:00:00 pm EDT
Winds out of the east so we go south and back.
Flytec Championship
The call was for winds at 10 mph out of the east today, so the task committee decided to go for a task that was cross wind in both directions. We sent the pilots 33 miles south to the Winter Haven airport and back to Quest.
I'm off first again and find light lift to the northeast of Quest to 4,000'. With the wind forecast (along with the prediction of no or very few clouds, and 500 fpm lift), my tactic is to try to get as far up wind as possible. I find a good line of clouds and soon find myself three miles upwind of highway 33 with most pilots to my west. I've got wisps of cu's to tell me where the lift is, so it's pretty safe.
I'm almost at the edge of the 5 mile start circle and as I wait for the start clock to turn 2 PM, six more rigids come over and join me just before it opens. As we head off I keep an upwind line and watch Neville Almond to my right. I take a couple of turns and Primoz and a couple of other ATOS pilots join continue with Neville to my west. I continue south southeast and find another better core as the four pilots now in front continue diving toward highway 474 eleven miles out from Quest, and getting low.
I continue to work to the south east toward highway 27 to get under the clouds and hopefully stay upwind all the way to the turnpoint south of I 4. Another AIR ATOS VR pilot joins me and we head south along 27 over Wallaby. Not finding any lift in the blue I have to head south west to get up again.
The turnpoint at Winter Haven is surrounded by lakes, and I am able to keep upwind of it and get high enough to come in and take the turnpoint and find lift to get out of there. I see the four pilots in the lead just downwind of me before I get to the turnpoint, but they are higher and get ahead of me.
After making the turnpoint I notice that cirrus clouds have come in and cut down the solar heating. I take anything I can find then head north to find Mark in the Swift turning in crummy lift by the juvenile prisons north of I 4. I move ahead and become Mark' sniffer dog finding all the next thermals for him.
With weak lift and dark ground it is slow and tricky heading north of 33. The flex wing pilots behind us also took 27 north and then headed back to 27 to get better lift going back.
Just north of Dean Still Road I catch up with Chris Muller, and an ATOS pilot. Together we start finding lift and and helping each other out as we move north. At the Seminole Lake Glider Port, we're eleven miles out and almost 5,000' high as we go on glide. Chris will take a few more thermals and I'll have to take a few turns when I'm two miles out and down to 900'. Mark will just glide in. Chris will come in third in flex wings, just behind me.
I was slow getting killed by the shade. Twenty one out of eighty flex wings pilots made it to goal. Many went down by the turnpoint.
Flex wings day one:
Place | Name | Glider | Nation | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | WILLIAMS Paris | Aeros Combat L | USA | 01:56:43 | 997 |
2 | DURAND Jonny | Moyes Litespeed S4 | AUS | 02:08:58 | 870 |
3 | BONDARCHUK Oleg | Aeros Combat | UKR | 02:07:30 | 831 |
4 | OLSSON Andreas | Wills Wing T2 150 | SWE | 02:14:37 | 830 |
5 | ROTOR Nene | Wills Wing T2 | BRA | 02:07:37 | 827 |
6 | MARTIN Dustin | Moyes Litespeed 4 | USA | 02:07:44 | 823 |
6 | BLOOM Phill | Moyes Litespeed 4 | USA | 02:15:05 | 823 |
8 | CARTER Kevin | Aeros Combat | USA | 02:09:49 | 807 |
9 | VOLK Glen | Moyes Litespeed | USA | 02:17:53 | 803 |
10 | BARBER Mike | Moyes Litespeed | USA | 02:25:39 | 74 |
Flex wings day two:
Place | Name | Glider | Nation | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | DURAND Jonny | Moyes Litespeed S4 | AUS | 02:48:36 | 1000 |
2 | BLOOM Phill | Moyes Litespeed 4 | USA | 02:49:10 | 981 |
3 | MULLER Chris | Wills Wing T2 | CAN | 02:55:28 | 920 |
4 | SCHWIEGERSHAUSER Corinna | Moyes Litespeed | DEU | 02:56:12 | 910 |
5 | BONDARCHUK Oleg | Aeros Combat | UKR | 02:54:41 | 883 |
6 | WILLIAMS Paris | Aeros Combat L | USA | 02:54:59 | 877 |
7 | BAJEWSKI Joerg | Moyes LS 4.5 | DEU | 03:05:50 | 852 |
8 | OLSSON Andreas | Wills Wing T2 150 | SWE | 03:19:53 | 758 |
9 | CARTER Kevin | Aeros Combat | USA | 03:26:46 | 729 |
10 | VOLK Glen | Moyes Litespeed | USA | 03:37:09 | 690 |
Overall flex wing:
Place | Name | Glider | Nation | T1 | T2 | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | WILLIAMS Paris | Aeros Combat L | USA | 997 | 877 | 1874 |
2 | DURAND Jonny | Moyes Litespeed S4 | AUS | 870 | 1000 | 1870 |
3 | BLOOM Phill | Moyes Litespeed 4 | USA | 823 | 981 | 1804 |
4 | BONDARCHUK Oleg | Aeros Combat | UKR | 831 | 883 | 1714 |
5 | OLSSON Andreas | Wills Wing T2 150 | SWE | 830 | 758 | 1588 |
6 | CARTER Kevin | Aeros Combat | USA | 807 | 729 | 1536 |
7 | MARTIN Dustin | Moyes Litespeed 4 | USA | 823 | 687 | 1510 |
8 | VOLK Glen | Moyes Litespeed | USA | 803 | 690 | 1493 |
9 | MULLER Chris | Wills Wing T2 | CAN | 487 | 920 | 1407 |
10 | BARBER Mike | Moyes Litespeed | USA | 747 | 642 | 1389 |
Rigids (the results from the second day aren't up on the Flytec web site so I've published the overall score):
Place | Name | Glider | Nation | T1 | T2 | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | REISINGER Robert | AIR Atos VR | AUT | 971 | 974 | 1945 |
2 | YOCOM James | AIR Atos VR | USA | 691 | 820 | 1511 |
3 | BARMAKIAN Bruce | AIR Atos C | USA | 858 | 612 | 1470 |
4 | BOTT Jacques | AIR Atos VR | FRA | 700 | 734 | 1434 |
5 | ALMOND Neville | AIR Atos C | GBR | 775 | 656 | 1431 |
Corrections in the Oz Report
Thu, Aug 12 2004, 10:00:01 am EDT
The inconsistent spelling of each pilot's name is the bugaboo.
Phillip Bloom
Phillip Bloom should have been in seventh at 1511 points.
Mammatus clouds
Discuss NTSS and clouds at the Oz Report forum
1 topic in this article: Phillip Bloom
The race for the Worlds in Oz
Bo Hagewood|Bubba Goodman|calendar|Carlos Bessa|Chelan XC Classic 2004|Chris Zimmerman|Claire Vassort|competition|Curt Warren|Davis Straub|Dean Funk|Dennis Pagen|Flytec Championships 2004|George Stebbins|Glen Volk|Jerz Rossignol|Jim Lee|Kari Castle|Kevin Carter|Krzysztof "Krys/Kris" Grzyb|Larry Bunner|Mark Bolt|Mike Barber|NTSS|Paris Williams|Phil Bloom|Richard Sauer|Scott Angel|South Florida Championships 2004|Steve Rewolinski|Tennessee Tree Toppers Team Challenge 2004|Terry Presley|USHGA|US Nationals 2004|Worlds 2004
The points from the Australian meets add up as we look at the NTSS standings for US flex wing pilots and how they effect who's going to the Worlds in Hay in 2005.
https://OzReport.com/compPilotRankings.php
The race to be on the flex wing national teams is on. Pilots were in Australia flying to gain points on their country's team so that they can go to the Worlds in Australia next January. In the US, the pilots are chosen on the basis of their four best competitions results. They can use their two best flights from 2003, and their best flights from 2004. One new rule is that only two flights from competitions outside the United States count. Here's how things stand today:
1 | Hagewood Bo | 1498 |
2 | Williams Paris | 1150 |
3 | Warren Curt | 1059 |
4 | Lee Jim | 1014 |
5 | Bessa Carlos | 994 |
6 | Rossignol Jerz | 975 |
7 | Castle Kari | 965 |
8 | Zimmerman Chris | 898 |
9 | Sauer Richard | 886 |
10 | Presley Terry | 827 |
11 | Carter Kevin | 811 |
12 | Goodman Bubba | 806 |
13 | Straub Davis | 733 |
14 | Pagen Dennis | 719 |
14 | Bolt Mark | 719 |
16 | Bloom Phil | 662 |
17 | Vassort Claire | 657 |
18 | Grzyb Krzysztof | 635 |
19 | Angel Scott | 632 |
20 | Rewolinski Steve | 629 |
21 | Barber Mike | 628 |
22 | Bunner Larry | 557 |
23 | Volk Glen | 516 |
24 | Stebbins George | 512 |
25 | Funk Dean | 476 |
Of course the pilots who went to Australia got a head start. Bo has four meets that count now and Kevin has three meets. Other pilots have only two meets that count. Both Bo and Kevin have meets with low points that can be overcome with better results in 2004.
It takes about 1,900 NTSS points to gain a place on the US National flex wing team. That means you've got to average about 475 points per meet to make it. Placing first in a fully valid, well attended meet gives you 660 points.
There are five USHGA sanctioned meets in the US in 2004 - Flytec, South Florida, Team Challenge, CXCC, US Nats. All these meets are worth at least 330 points to the flex wing winner (with a minimal number of days flying). The rest of the pilots get a percentage of the winner's points.
See https://OzReport.com/calendar.php for a list of the competition in 2004.
35 topics in this article: Bo Hagewood, Bubba Goodman, calendar, Carlos Bessa, Chelan XC Classic 2004, Chris Zimmerman, Claire Vassort, competition, Curt Warren, Davis Straub, Dean Funk, Dennis Pagen, Flytec Championships 2004, George Stebbins, Glen Volk, Jerz Rossignol, Jim Lee, Kari Castle, Kevin Carter, Krzysztof "Krys/Kris" Grzyb, Larry Bunner, Mark Bolt, Mike Barber, NTSS, Paris Williams, Phil Bloom, Richard Sauer, Scott Angel, South Florida Championships 2004, Steve Rewolinski, Tennessee Tree Toppers Team Challenge 2004, Terry Presley, USHGA, US Nationals 2004, Worlds 2004
2003 US Nationals – Paris wins flex wing championship »
Aeros Combat|Aeros Combat 2|Brian Porter|Bruce Barmakian|cloud|competition|gaggle|Jerz Rossignol|Kraig Coomber|Moyes Litespeed|Paris Williams|Phillip "Phill" Bloom|record|Robin Hamilton|Swift|US National Champion|US Nationals|Wills Wing|Wills Wing Talon
http://www.flytec.com/usnats03/scores.html
Paris Williams, the number US ranked flex wing hang glider pilot, won the US National Championships and is the US Flex wing National Champion. Bruce Barmakian is the US National Rigid Wing Champions and Brian Porter is the US National Swift Champion.
Paris has been US National Champion three years in a row, which I believe is a record. He won the US Nationals when they were last held in Texas two years ago at Hearne.
So how did Paris do it? He flew faster than anyone else. Sound like a tautology? It isn’t.
I’ve flown with Paris a lot. Given the extra performance of the AIR ATOS, I can stay with Paris whenever the rigids and flex wings fly together. We flew together on the first two days and I got to see him on other days at the Nationals. So I have a real good idea about how he flies.
Paris is a racer (although he quickly slowed down in Wisconsin in the weak lift at the Midwest Regionals). He wants to go fast and is willing to go in front. He goes for the big lift and is reluctant to stop for the weak stuff. He leaves the thermal when they get weak. He doesn’t wait around for anyone else. He’s not thinking about the gaggle. He’s thinking about how to go as fast as possible.
I’m always happy to fly with Paris because I want someone out there with me when I’m leading and Paris never hesitates. Time and time again I’ve gone out with him and it always works. (I held back in Wisconsin, and Paris had to come back to the gaggle when it proved to be very weak out in front.)
Paris will most often take the last start time as that is the time when the best pilots go, but sometimes he will go for the extra points afforded the pilots who go early and go fast.
Paris often starts off a meet in the hole and has to dig himself out because he flies too fast on the first day and doesn’t make goal. In this meet he flew fast on the first day, was leading from the start.
falseParis at Big Spring at the US Nationals
Paris flying the Aeros Combat 2 at Big Spring
Big Spring provided us with strong lift, high cloud bases, and lots of thermal markers, i.e. cu’s. These are perfect conditions for a racer. You can ignore the gaggle because you are flying the clouds. You can ignore weak lift because you are high and there is something better coming along. You can leave when it slows down, because there is something faster ahead.
So you had better be ready to run as hard as you can. Forget about hitting the deck. Fly hard and fly to win.
You also might notice that Bo, who was flying with Paris when he could, had a much better meet than he’s had lately. He was smoking up the course also. Kraig Coomber and Robin Hamilton provided strong “foreign” competition.
More on the US Nationals in a later issue.
Flex wings day seven:
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0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> Glider |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> Time |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> Total |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> 1 |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> COOMBER Kraig |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> Moyes Litespeed |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> 2:11:28 |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> 930 |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> 2 |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> WILLIAMS Paris |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> Aeros Combat 2 |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> 2:16:35 |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> 920 |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> 3 |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> HAMILTON Robin |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> Moyes Litespeed 4 |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> 2:12:00 |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> 909 |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> 4 |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> VOLK Glen |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> Moyes Litespeed |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> 2:17:20 |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> 906 |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> 5 |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> HAGEWOOD Bo |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> Aeros Combat 2 |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> 2:18:13 |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> 891 |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> 6 |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> WARREN Curt |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> Moyes Litespeed 4 |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> 2:12:56 |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> 888 |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> 7 |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> LEE Jim |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> Wills Wing Talon |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> 2:13:31 |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> 876 |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> 8 |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> ROSSIGNOL Jerz |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> Aeros Combat |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> 2:16:50 |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> 833 |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> 9 |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> BLOOM Phill |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> Wills Wing Talon |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> 2:23:09 |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> 779 |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> 10 |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> ZIMMERMAN Chris |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> Wills Wing Talon 150 |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> 2:23:58 |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> 771 |
Cumulative
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> Place |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> Name |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> Glider |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> Total |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> 1 |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> WILLIAMS Paris |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> Aeros Combat 2 |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> 5929 |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> 2 |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> WARREN Curt |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> Moyes Litespeed 4 |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> 5715 |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> 3 |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> COOMBER Kraig |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> Moyes Litespeed |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> 5662 |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> 4 |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> VOLK Glen |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> Moyes Litespeed |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> 5566 |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> 5 |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> HAGEWOOD Bo |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> Aeros Combat 2 |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> 5531 |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> 6 |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> HAMILTON Robin |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> Moyes Litespeed 4 |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> 5324 |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> 7 |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> LEE Jim |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> Wills Wing Talon |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> 5245 |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> 8 |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> SAUER Rich |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> Icaro MRX |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> 5073 |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> 9 |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> ZIMMERMAN Chris |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> Wills Wing Talon 150 |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> 4916 |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> 10 |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> ROSSIGNOL Jerz |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> Aeros Combat |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> 4895 |
Rigids on day seven:
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0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> Time |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> Total |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> 1 |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> STRAUB Davis |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> AIR Atos C |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> 2:11:42 |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> 1000 |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> 2 |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> BOWEN Campbell |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> Flight Design Access |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> 2:23:41 |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> 840 |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> 3 |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> BURTON Richard |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> Icaro Stratos |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> 2:30:59 |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> 775 |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> 4 |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> YOCOM James |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> AIR Atos C |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> 2:31:06 |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> 765 |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> 5 |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> GLEASON Ron |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> AIR Atos |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> 2:38:16 |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> 710 |
Cumulative:
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> Place |
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0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> Total |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> 1 |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> BARMAKIAN Bruce |
0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> AIR Atos C |
0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> 5804 |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> 2 |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> ENDTER Vincent |
0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> Icaro Stratos |
0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> 5504 |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> 3 |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> SEABERG David |
0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> Icaro Stratos |
0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> 4991 |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> 4 |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> BOWEN Campbell |
0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> Flight Design Access |
0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> 4761 |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> 5 |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> STRAUB Davis |
0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> AIR Atos C |
0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> 4673 |
Swifts:
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0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> Glider |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> Total |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> 1 |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> PORTER Brian |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> Aeriane Swift |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> 4627 |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> 2 |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> MULHOLLAND Mark |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> Aeriane Swift Lite |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> 4548 |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> 3 |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> NAKAMURA Junko |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> Aeriane Swift Lite |
0in 5.4pt; height:13.2pt"> 4428 |
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19 topics in this article: Aeros Combat, Aeros Combat 2, Brian Porter, Bruce Barmakian, cloud, competition, gaggle, Jerz Rossignol, Kraig Coomber, Moyes Litespeed, Paris Williams, Phillip "Phill" Bloom, record, Robin Hamilton, Swift, US National Champion, US Nationals, Wills Wing, Wills Wing Talon
2003 US Nationals – courage on a blue day »
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First, a few corrections from the last report on the Nationals. The mystery glider was Vince Endter. That mystery was cleared up today when we got together with Tim Meany and used CompeGPS to run the task back on the screen. Quite amazing to live the race over again and see who did what. Campbell and Bruce took a completely different track than the rest of us. And Bruce was way behind us for the longest time but apparently didn’t have to stop and thermal on the way back.
I believe that Buddy Cutts has made goal before, although what I wrote was what my informant told me. Jeremie Hill, you may know him as the chef at Wallaby Ranch, made goal for the first time. He is flying a borrowed Wills Wing Talon (borrow from Wills Wing), and I believe that this is his first competition (don’t hold me to that).
The task committee mistakenly interpreted Gary’s weather forecast as calling for a chance of over development. Sorry for our mistake there. We should have called a longer task, but then Carol Sperry might not have made it in.
There were a few mistypings and I also said that Rich Burton was low on my left. He actually was low on my right. Sorry about any other problems that I didn’t catch today.
Speaking of today. We had a magnificence if rowdy blue day.
The FSL forecast calls for a brisk south-southeast wind (10-13 knots) turning to southwest up high. It also shows an inversion that rises to over 12,000’ after 4 PM. I call for perhaps blue or thin clouds.
There are no clouds when the rigids are set to launch at 1 PM for their race start at 2 PM. It’s easy and fun to do a race with the rigids because there are only fifteen (fourteen with Mike Tryon out of it because of shoulder problems) and there is no crowding in the thermals even at the start gate.
Still given my forecast for the good likelihood of only thin clouds we (Kraig Coomber and I on the task committee) figure that’s just the way the day is and let’s go for it.
I get Bobby Bailey to tow me up and given that I’m the seven or eighth guy in line I let him tow me up as far as he will under the gaggle that is slowly rising in the center of the airstrip. He waves me off before he passes anyone.
The lift is actually pretty good at 200 fpm. Unfortunately, it doesn’t last and the next half hour before the race start we all slowly climb up to 5,000’ AGL. The flex wing guys on the ground are a lot happier to be starting later when perhaps it will be better. There are one or two thin cu’s in the distance. The inversion layer is obvious between 6 and 8,000’ MSL.
The task is a 70 mile FAI triangle (when you subtract the 5 mile start circle), and that may make it available for world records (see article below). The first leg is off to the northeast, then back to the northwest, with a 25 mile final leg to the southeast. If the wind does in fact clock around to the southwest up high maybe it won’t be quite so tough getting in.
We rigids find good lift for the first time right after the start circle which is a surprise (without clouds these thermal are darn invisible) and that gets us to 9,000’ MSL. Another blip a few miles later and the whole crew is sticking together and racing.
Vince and another glider are low off to the north but they get the next thermal first and it is a strong one. The rest of us continue on to find a worse thermal and one that is actually very unpleasant. This will be the story for the next few thermals getting to and around the first turnpoint. Very unpleasant with the gliders doing most of the flying on their own. I’m hoping that everyone realizes that it’s not a good idea to be too close to anyone else.
The rigids thin out with four rigids taking an upwind southern track and Jim Yokum, myself and another rigid or two following the course line. We’ll drift away from it to the north while thermaling as the wind out of the south in measuring well over 15 mph. At three o’clock the four of us hit our first really good thermal that actually gets as high as 700 fpm and I’ll climb out to almost ten thousand feet. I’m not able to keep track of the rigids to the south and there is one rigid that I don’t recognize just 100’ over me.
The last flex wing start time is 3 PM, and Paris will later say that this is when the lift really turns on for them. He’ll take the 3 PM start clock.
I go on a fifteen mile glide without seeing anyone else and from five miles out from the second turnpoint I can see a small dust devil and dust rising in another field from a couple of tractors. I go over to where the dust is rising from the tractors but don’t find anything. I then go to the field where I had seen the dust devil another one or two miles closer to the turnpoint. I’m down to 1,200’ AGL. The dust devil is no longer there, but I’m thinking that the lift will be. It is.
I’ll climb to 10,200’ MSL at times at 800 fpm just before the turnpoint and catch a glimpse of Vince and Bruce climbing just in front of me past the turnpoint. I’ll go on glide and come in under Vince twelve miles later in the only thermal that I’ll take on the last leg of the task. I’ll see 1000 fpm on the averager in this thermal.
The extreme turbulence that we experienced in thermals on the first leg disappeared at 3 PM, and the thermals have been much stronger, much smoother and we are getting much higher. I assume that the inversion breaking was related to this change in the characteristics of the thermals.
I will climb under Vince and Bruce to 10,500’ fifteen miles from goal. Paris will tell me later that when he comes along an hour after us he’ll find 1,200 fpm on the averager at the thermal at the turnpoint and 1,600 fpm on the thermal half way to goal. The clouds are just beginning to form when I get to the second turnpoint and there are a few wispies on the course going back to goal.
From fifteen miles out it’s a 10:1 glide to goal. Vince is two miles ahead and Bruce is about a mile ahead of me. I’m telling Belinda at goal to watch for two gliders and I’ll be right behind.
The lift is good going to goal until about 7 miles out where there is a stretch of 900 fpm down. I’m flying at about 55 mph air speed the whole fifteen miles only slowing up when the bumps from the lift get too hard.
Vince has a problem with his final glide calculator and stops to thermal as Bruce and then I pass unnoticed below him. Bruce will be first into goal and I’ll be a few minutes behind him. Vince will finally see that he can indeed make goal and come in a few minutes later. Then the wait is on for Ron to come in twenty minutes alter and Jim Yokum another twenty minutes later. Twelve out of fourteen rigids make goal.
While we are waiting for the rigids to come in the flexies start coming in with Paris Williams first. He found the strong lift and was able to run very fast. Curt warren came in with Paris but started 15 minutes earlier.
As the flexies came in two cloud streets set up along the course line coming into goal. We had seen the beginnings of these when we were coming in but now they were quite distinct. Still it didn’t help some flex wings who landed short. Bo just made it in by 4/10th of a mile. Rich Burton on a Stratos was just barely in the goal cylinder.
Flex wings:
Place | Name | Glider | Time | Total |
1 | WILLIAMS Paris | Aeros Combat 2 | 2:18:20 | 916 |
2 | VOLK Glen | Moyes Litespeed | 2:21:47 | 833 |
3 | WARREN Curt | Moyes Litespeed 4 | 2:33:41 | 783 |
4 | SAUER Rich | Icaro MRX | 2:34:22 | 769 |
5 | HAGEWOOD Bo | Aeros Combat 2 | 2:37:41 | 705 |
6 | COOMBER Kraig | Moyes Litespeed | 2:43:25 | 698 |
7 | HAMILTON Robin | Moyes Litespeed 4 | 2:48:40 | 632 |
8 | BLOOM Phill | Wills Wing Talon | 2:57:15 | 615 |
9 | ZIMMERMAN Chris | Wills Wing Talon 150 | 3:00:25 | 592 |
10 | LEE Jim | Wills Wing Talon | 3:12:55 | 554 |
Cumulative:
Place | Name | Glider | Total |
1 | WILLIAMS Paris | Aeros Combat 2 | 4998 |
2 | WARREN Curt | Moyes Litespeed 4 | 4795 |
3 | COOMBER Kraig | Moyes Litespeed | 4685 |
4 | VOLK Glen | Moyes Litespeed | 4634 |
5 | HAGEWOOD Bo | Aeros Combat 2 | 4594 |
6 | HAMILTON Robin | Moyes Litespeed 4 | 4359 |
7 | LEE Jim | Wills Wing Talon | 4300 |
8 | SAUER Rich | Icaro MRX | 4269 |
9 | ZIMMERMAN Chris | Wills Wing Talon 150 | 4082 |
10 | PRESLEY Terry | Moyes Litespeed | 3972 |
Rigids:
Place | Name | Glider | Time | Total |
1 | BARMAKIAN Bruce | AIR Atos C | 2:35:27 | 1000 |
2 | STRAUB Davis | AIR Atos C | 2:38:00 | 937 |
3 | ENDTER Vincent | Icaro Stratos | 2:40:09 | 901 |
4 | GLEASON Ron | AIR Atos | 3:00:51 | 736 |
5 | YOCOM James | AIR Atos C | 3:19:14 | 628 |
Cumulative:
Place | Name | Glider | Total |
1 | BARMAKIAN Bruce | AIR Atos C | 5152 |
2 | ENDTER Vincent | Icaro Stratos | 4809 |
3 | SEABERG David | Icaro Stratos | 4345 |
4 | GLEASON Ron | AIR Atos | 3946 |
5 | BOWEN Campbell | Flight Design Access | 3921 |
Swifts cumulative (30 points separate them):
Place | Name | Glider | Nation | Total |
1 | PORTER Brian | Aeriane Swift | USA | 3632 |
2 | NAKAMURA Junko | Aeriane Swift Lite | JPN | 3613 |
3 | MULHOLLAND Mark | Aeriane Swift Lite | USA | 3602 |
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Another view of the Wild West Regionals
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Rich Burton <indasky@yahoo.com> writes:
On the first day, I thought that we were going to be blown out since it was blowing about 10 on launch when we arrived at 10:00 AM. What often happens is that when the West pushes through across Washoe Lake, the thermals that are needed to get over the back become very elusive. The good news was that it stayed about the same as the launch window and prime launch time of 1:00 PM approached. I was rewarded with a 800 FPM climb right off of launch and was smiling as I know how important this first climb is.
The format of this meet is: Launch window is from 11:00 AM until 1:00PM. Your time starts when your feet leave the ground and it stops when you cross a goal line about 28 miles over the back and straight down highway 50.
Anyone who competes knows that if you miss just one climb on a race task, you won't be standing in the winners circle that day. At Carson, that one climb is very likely the one that you enter right after your launch run.
If you have not launched by 1:00, then that is your start time. If you look at the start times for day three, you will see that there were quite a few of us still on the ground at 1:00 on the last day. I believe that this day was my fastest, but the time doesn't reflect that.
I went into this meet not sure how the rigids would compare with the flex wings for this short dash. In the past I have often times found myself low and then climbing too high and flying at 65 + for the last 10 miles through very turbulent air. I knew that I wasn't willing to run at those speeds in my Stratos.
Short story. The rigids did very well. Bruce Barmekian did an exceptional job flying his ATOS-C and clearly won the rigid division. If you look at the elapsed times for the top three rigids and the top three flex wings each day, you will see that the rigids didn't have any disadvantage in this type of race.
I want to thank Ray and Jackie for putting on a great three day meet. I truly enjoy flying the Carson area with its endless landing fields and great climbs (did I mention the 1800fpm climb over Virginia City on the last day?).
I talked with Ray during the meet and we have emailed each other since that time. He is very open to changing the format of the meet next year. The fact that he had a rigid class this year shows his willingness to change.
You need to understand that this meet was started as a fun meet that could be flown without instruments and a minimal amount of XC experience. People are talking all of the time about how to increase pilot participation in local meets. Where are the trial grounds for our World Team pilots?
I believe that one of Ray and Jackie's goal was to make this meet a pilot friendly low tech meet for just these reasons. What I have seen after participating at this meet for the past four years, is that it has become a very technical meet. The intermediate pilot and even many competent XC heroes no longer have a chance. You can look back just a few years to see that the winners are well known names in hang gliding. Making goal is still a reality for most, but going home with one of the infamous Wild West belt buckles has gotten out of reach for many.(How many of these do Rich Sauer and Kenny Brown need ?
There were a lot of familiar faces this year at the Regionals, and a serious void was felt because there were many participants from years past who were not there. I heard second and third hand that some pilots didn't show because of the format. They want to see a longer (flight wise) meet. I hope that this will happen next year and that everyone who has participated in the past will come back, and that there will be many more new faces.
Results:
Flexwing Day One
Phill Bloom 45:07 WWTalon
Ken Brown 46.23 Litespeed S
Sebastia Lutges 51.33 WW Talon
Day 2
Rich Sauer 45:06 Laminar MR700
Phil Bloom 46:25 WW Talon
Ken Brown 48:45 Litespeed S
Day 3
Rich Sauer 53:15 Laminar MR700
Bill Saderquist 55.34 Litespeed
Ken Brown 1:01:24 Litespeed S
Finals:
Phll Bloom
Ken Brown
Rich Sauer
Rigids day one:
Bruce Barmakian 43:10 Atos-C
Rich Burton 47:20 Stratos-C
Mike Tryon 47.55 Stratos – C
Day2
Mike Tryon 43.21 Stratos – C
Bruce Barmakian 43:51 Atos-C
Steve Rudy 1:13:02 ATOS
Day 3
Bruce Barmakian 45:38 Atos-C
Rich Burton 51:05 Stratos-C
Mike Tryon 53;17 Stratos – C
FINALS:
Bruce Barmakian Atos-C
Mike Tryon Stratos-C
Rich Burton Stratos-C
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