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

[Ed Alt]

BlankDave:
Yeah, I remember driving to Maryland a couple of times when it poured buckets the whole way and we got surprised with flyable weather.  Can't always trust the forecast, that's for sure.

Ed
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Dave Michael 
  To: NSRCA Mailing List 
  Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2006 9:35 AM
  Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] 16th Annual Pocono Pattern contest report


  Glad 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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