[NSRCA-discussion] 16th Annual Pocono Pattern contest report

[Dave Michael]

BlankGlad to hear you guys had a decent turnout despite the weather.  We had the same issues over at LVRCS IMAC.  Had 18 show up for the contest- not bad considering it was a first time contest and with the rain.

We laughed a bit about the rain-  only a competitive flyer would say- "hey the rain has slowed down (not stopped)- let's fire 'em back up and get flying!"

Dave
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Ed Alt 
  To: dist1 at nsrca.org ; NSRCA Mailing List ; ramac at yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2006 10:57 PM
  Subject: [NSRCA-discussion] 16th Annual Pocono Pattern contest report


  Despite very gloomy weather forecasts for the entire weekend (Severe T-storms, 90% chance of precip, flash flooding, dogs & cats living together yada-yada), we had 23 pilots brave the weather and compete.  Clearly we would have had a better draw without these conditions, but we made a good contest out of it. It's great to see the attitude that people have, who still arrived from New Hampshire, Connecticut, Maryland, Delaware, Tennessee, PA, "Joisey", upstate NY and points in between.  I know that feeling you get when you are one of the long distance travelers slogging through downpours on the way, wondering if there's even a chance that there's going to be any flying possible.  Best of all was the strong attendance in Sportsman and Intermediate under these conditions.  7 in Sportsman, 5 in Intermediate - half the contest was with guys with 0 to 5 years time in the sport.  And the support from the guys in the club who still come out to sit in the rain to man the impound, tally the scores and grill the burgers is just great.  

  In between rain delays we got 4 rounds in for all AMA classes, 3 for FAI.  We decided to defer the informal "Mini e-Pattern" event until the 51st annual AGS Pattern contest in Sayre, PA in August.  Bob Noll graciously offered us a slot at to take that show in the road, which we will be doing.  A .pdf with detailed results for all places in each class will be emailed out to participants early this week.  Results 1st -3rd are:

  Sportsman

  1st - Carl Veit
  2nd - Bruce Ginn
  3rd - Bob Soden

  Intermediate

  1st - Scott Anderson
  2nd - John Pavlick
  3rd - Joe Zeigenfus

  Advanced

  1st Jim Quinn

  Masters

  1st - Joe Lachowski
  2nd - Ron Lockhart
  3rd - Ed Alt

  FAI

  1st - Dave Lockhart
  2nd - Bob Noll


  Thanks again for all the support and help from everyone.  A bunch thanks and of credit goes to Joe Lachowski for his co-CD help.

  Ed




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