Houston TX area 402 Pattern Shootout/Grudge Match

[Keith Black]

OK, this is the point where I'm supposed to whine about only having three complete rounds due to dead-sticks in Waco. But the truth is that Mark definitely deserved to beat me that weekend because he endured much worse when he mid-aired his brand new plane and held himself together well enough to finish the weekend with his backup.

Mark was on my heels all season and we swapped plenty of rounds. I must admit that I don't mind at all that he's staying in Intermediate ;-)  You other Intermediate guys are going to have your work cut out for you next year!

Keith
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Mark Hunt 
  To: discussion at nsrca.org 
  Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2004 9:59 PM
  Subject: Re: Houston TX area 402 Pattern Shootout/Grudge Match


  The funny part is we will all be at Jim's house the night before celebrating the closing of a great season.....Jim, unless you want to find a fuel leak on sunday morning, hide your smudge and that Hydeaway! LOL.

  BTW, I did beat Keith...with a backup plane....see the Waco results on Don Ramsey's site.  Gotta admit though, Keith is cool under pressure.


    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Chuck Hochhalter 
    To: discussion at nsrca.org 
    Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2004 8:51 PM
    Subject: RE: Houston TX area 402 Pattern Shootout/Grudge Match


    Emails like beat this beat the **** out of whether you should use a 4 stroke or 2 stoke, what voltage your pack is running versus my pack.  I fly pattern cause of the people , the challenge of putting the plane where I want it to be and not where it ends up and the people, and having fun.  Plus I like beating a few guys with my ARF ( Mark Hunt got your ears on?) and be able to fly 3 rounds of Intermediate on one tank of fuel ( Richard Lewis still working on a complete round) Martin Stohr is trying to figure out what God Ron Barr used to make his previous pattern plane so successful and the chickens are scared of JOE BO (major league anyone).  Jim Sheffield is trying to acid dip his plane like the old drag racers and lower its overall weight from 9.5 to 9.49 so his ridiculous vertical performance of late is improved.  Tommy Scarmado has found his ideal landing gear and is just waiting to abuse some Long term local intermediate class pilots with is ability to improve overall flight performance.  Mark Hunt is still looking for some insight on what he has to do to beat Keith Black.. well, not anymore, Keith moved to Advanced (lucky Mark).  Sorry Keith, but I think a skins style round robin at NATS would really make for a great event if we could get the sponsorship money lined up.  Maybe instead of unknowns we threw in a combat class??/ you know how TV execs love a little drama.

     

    Nuff for now, back to hanger flying.. my last round of visualizing the maneuvers I scored 10's each maneuver. (yes Jim Sheffield, even the 2. ½ rolls opposite)

     

    LATER!!!

    Chuck
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