The morning dawned with left over rain from the day before still
threatening the day's event. After driving 30 min in the rain, a
glimmer of hope was evident as the clouds lightened up a bit and blue
showed though as I neared the flying field.
We had a good turnout of 13 pilots but missed some of the out of town
flyers who had earlier expressed interest in coming. Perhaps the
forecast of high winds kept them away. Three flyers from the Dayton area
did make the trip.
The forecast of high winds did turn out to be true with the winds peaking
at 20-25 by round 2. We got in one more round before we broke for
lunch and after lunch the conditions improved slightly, still windy but
not nearly as bad. In the end we got in 6 rounds, starting the
last round right about 3:00 PM
This was the first meet of the year and it was good to get out and fly
airplanes. .The temperatures were warm so we all enjoyed that aspect of
the weather after the hard winter we had. To bad the winds were
not as ideal, but I think that in the final analysis the conditions were
very flyable and we all had a good time.
Gavin Tussel flew a clean contest not giving up much time and hitting many
of his landings never once landing out of bounds. One flight of
note is when he chased air downwind and returned to catch the next ride
about 4 times during the fight when everyone else was down. Only
the highly capable moldies were able to do this and combined with
Gavin's flying skills the combination put him in first place.
Joe Mekina flew a stock Vista with a more powerful than stock power
system. He came in 2nd also never landing out. Joe made many
of his times and with the exception of one flight where he didn't find
the air and Gavin put time on him, he pretty much won or nearly won
every group he was in. Joe's Vista motored upwind for the first 20
seconds than pulled up vertically to make the cutoff altitude of 200
meters in the last 10 sec of the allotted time or less. From there
Joe kept the model pointed into the wind with few turns. He then
hovered the model in the still wind onto the landing tape. A
couple of times the winds caught the model and he missed the landing
tape, but many times he was able to score good landing points in the
wind.
Don Harris also fell victim to the treacherous winds on landing on one
flight when his model was literally tossed inverted when he was about 25
feet off the ground. Don's quick response recovered the airplane
but it was blown way off the landing tape so he did not get any landing
points that round.
Paul Weise flew a moldie to 3rd place despite taking a zero from a landout
in one of the early rounds.
The story of the day was therefore landouts, those that had them did not
fair very well in the final standings. One of the things that some
of the constants were doing was it if became obvious that they were
going to landout, way out they simply powered up and returned safely
taking the same zero flight score but avoiding the walk and the dirt
from last years farming on there model. This technique should not be
overlooked when the crops come in, it will save trudging through the
crops to retrieve a model.
Thanks to Greg Bell for organizing this meet. A special thanks to
John Karnes who was the dedicated scorekeeper. Also many thanks to
Al Schmidt for keeping things moving along always announcing who is next
in one way or another and launching the flight in a consistent way. Once
again the all beef hot dogs were great thanks Greg Bell for binging them
and the Grill Master - Mark Groves for cooking them. .Having this
kind of help I am sure contributed to the overall smooth running of the
event and allowed us to get in the 6 rounds we did.
Thanks to mostly Gilbert Perez for taking the pictures, The ones with Gil
in them were taken by Joe Mekina
Clicking on a thumbnail below brings up a full-size image (without the caption)
suitable for downloading and printing.
Also, the entire set of high resolution pictures can be downloaded in a
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Left to right: Greg Bell, Don Fleming, Jerry Shape, Gilbert Perez, Gavin Trussell (hiding behind his hand launch glider wing), Joe Mekina (knelling), Bill Hoelcher, Don Harris, Jay Watkings and Skye Malcom
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