Orlando Buzzards Gentle Lady "Plus" RC soaring Contest

[raed5]

The Orlando Buzzards RC soaring club in Oviedo, FL www.orlandobuzzards.org is pleased to announce our annual Gentle Lady "Plus" RC soaring contest, 10am Saturday May 19 2007.
This is a thermal duration contest limited to 2 meter wing span, rudder/elevator sailplane.
Any AMA member is welcome to compete; beginners are especially welcome, we would be glad to assist in any way.
Grilled hamburgers and hot dogs, soft drinks on ice will be provided at the field free of charge for the contestants ($5 for non contestants)
Entry fee is $10
Awards for 1st 2nd 3rd in expert, 1st 2nd 3rd in novice class, and top scoring pilot flying a Gentle Lady sailplane by Carl Goldberg.
Our flying field is located off Red Ember Rd in Oviedo, FL; please visit our web site for a map.

Raed Elazzawi
Contest Director
Orlando Buzzards

[R. Carver]

I'll be there...Anyone else?

[allanp]

Andrea

[R. Carver]

She'll be long gone by then ;)

[raed5]

Just 6 days left for the Orlando Buzzards Gentle Lady "PLus" contest, Fly any two meter rudder/elevator sailplane, open winch 7 minute rounds.
Sand bagger Bar-B-Q by supreme grill master Rusty :cool: .
Come join us Saturday May 19 at 10 am for some fun flying.
Raed Elazzawi
Contest Director
Orlando Buzzards www.orlandobuzzards.org

[raed5]

2007 Gentle Lady “Plus” contest.

This past Saturday was the Orlando Buzzards’ annual Gentle
Lady “Plus” contest, 21 brave pilots registered to fly, many even
finished!!! I say that because of the 20+ mph winds and we were
flying 2meter rudder/elevator sailplanes most of which were Gentle
Ladys. At the pilots meeting I mentioned we will try to fly 7 rounds
and many of the guys laughed, I was laughing later when I
announced:”round 7 is now open”. We started with a 5 minute round in
hopes of increasing to 7 the next round, but nobody got even 4
minutes! So we continued with 5 minute rounds.
We set up two landing circles with 75, 50, 25 point tapes, for the
sportsmen landing within the circle scored 75 points.
There were 4 novices with two actually finishing, Bill Staley (first
place finish), competing for the first time flying a converted to
sailplane Spectra, and Steve Woods (second place finish) flying a
spirit.
Here are the final standings:

Pilot Class Sailplane Score

Rick Eckel expert Gentle Lady 1796
Rich Kubris expert Art Hobby 1481
Kurt Carlsen expert Gentle Lady 1480
Jim Maclean expert Chrysalis 1228
Ricardo Galarza expert Spirit 1164
Raed Elazzawi expert Gentle Lady 1151
Dan Johns expert Gentle Lady 1000
Al Ducharme expert Gentle Lady 967
Lewis Gray expert Gentle Lady 799
Rusty Carver expert Gentle Lady 795
Kevin Eckle expert Gentle Lady 756
Tom Galloway expert Gentle Lady 716
Larry Squire expert Gentle Lady 686
Gordon Cottrill expert Sovereign 634
Hank McDaniel expert Gentle Lady 591
Ed White expert Gentle Lady 518
Bill Staley novice Spectra 1210
Steve Woods novice Spirit 1126
Don Grisham novice Chrysalis 0
Jerry O’Keefe novice Spirit 0


Rick Eckle got the Top Gentle Lady pilot award again this year.
As Gordy would say: “I pity the fool that didn’t make it to the 2007
Gentle Lady “Plus” contest” He didn’t make it either!

I would like to thank all that braved the high winds, and all that
helped with running the contest, and a special thanks to “Supreme
Grill Master” Rusty for cooking.

Raed Elazzawi
Contest Director
www.orlandobuzzards.org

[ThermalBuster]

You ran a real nice contest Raed. Thanks!

As I was leaving the field the weather guy on the radio said the wind was 26mph. That says a lot for all the guys who flew in the contest. Flying GL's and other light 2 meter planes in that weather is a real challenge. Flying in all conditions is a true test of a pilot's mettle. All the contestants Saturday proved that they have "The Right Stuff"!

Rick