Guys,

I need two small pieces (2" x 3") diagonal spread tow to repairs the leading edge damage from the planes that went into the trees. PM me if you can spare any. I'll paypal any money needed.

Thanks,

Gary

18 pilots showed up but two dropped out and we had a great contest. The wind was blowing and the air was unstable. Lots of lift that was there one second and gone the next. Traveling to far down wind was risky as huge sink often put the DLG down in seconds from 100'. The Magnuson field has lots of areas to find bumps and waves. As always the rain held off until 30 minutes after the 7th round was in the books. Thanks Rick and Burtan and all the timers. Who wants to have a contest in January of 2013.

Whomever is responsible for scheduling the rain in Seattle must like DLGs ... Just wish we could of have the same love from the wind scheduling department. Overall an excellent contest.

I'd love to do a Jan. contest.

-Heath

Congrats Dave banks on a well earned win. Tough, challenging conditions, as always the cream was at the top.

Thanks to all for braving the dicey weather and especially for playing by my "rules" on the no fly area. You guys are the best.

Thanks again to Bret for lunch and delivering the stuff we needed to run the contest.

Only 5 months to our march contest!

Rick

And a HUGE shout out of thanks to my bud and super score keeper Burton for all his help.
Rick

Ummm,

It's not 5 months to the contests in Arizona. Just think, sunshine, great sites, pretty women.

Well, two out of three isn't bad, is it?

Take a break from the gloom, the rain, the black ice, well you know.

Love to see some of you down there.

Gary

Forgot to mention, John is taking care of my spread tow request. Thanks, John.

What were the tasks?

Gary

Originally Posted by GaryO

What were the tasks?Gary

1) Last flight 5 min max, 7 min window
2) Ladder
3) Best 3, 3min max, 10 min window
4) 1,2,3,4
5) All up
6) Poker
7) Last 2, 3min max, 7min window

I was trying to steer away from what I think is a logical order for the tasks (start with ladder, end with All up, and put the longer flights in the middle). I hate last flight and last two, so I had to start and end with them. I figured there was no way anyone would get a five minute flight first thing in the morning, but Lawrence pretty much proved me wrong by getting 4:55! I'll try and get to the scores in the next couple days and post them when they are ready.

So glad to hear the weather allowed for a successful contest. I had scheduled something else that day and had forgotten about it until a reminder email was sent out just before.

Totally up for a January contest, if I can make it.

Joseph

Very Fun Contest Yesterday. Big thanks to Burton, Rick And Brett! I struggled all day with the chunky air and had a ton of fun. Can't wait till the next one.

Gary- Is there a link to contests in Arizona? It would be nice to fly down for a little Dry/Thaw time. Lee

Check out anything that has "Blue Skies" in it's title. Those are 2 day contests. One each in Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Utah. The Arizona one is coming up in early Nov, I think.

One day contest may be titled "Beat the Heat", other than that, I dunno. I just browse all the threads.

All the two day contests would be on the F3K tour calendar.

Gary

Ok, the final results are in with a couple modifications.
Ken got bumped down two places while John and Rick J each went up one place. The top three didn't move. Congratulations!

1st Dave Banks
2nd Ben Swanson
3rd Ole Skotvold

Attached is a PDF for the totals and the final contest file. F3KScore (Thanks Peter and Oleg!) is available from Oleg's website if you want to download it and check out the detailed scores.

Thanks everyone for visiting Seattle for this one. The venue (Magnuson park) worked quite well and everyone did a good job of avoiding the no fly zones over the soccer fields. I suspect the lack of boomer thermals along with the rough air helped to make those areas less appealing. Despite Adams absence, he still graced us a rain free day (at least until we were packing up).

A few items for us to work on next time (putting these here to help us CDs remember for next time):
- try using a different android device to see if that evens out the announcements
- We'd like to try having the timers review the round results with the pilots before walking off the field
- get the clocks to count down on the AllUp task

We are feeling really good about the new scoring system as well as the speaker/clock setup. I also wanted to thank Rick for putting together a new inverter setup for powering the clocks, speaker, android, and laptop. It worked great and we didn't have any of the power issues that we were seeing in the last contest. It was also great because at one point the battery was getting low and it warned us before we were out of juice.

Thanks to:
-Rick for running things, setting up, tearing down, and shuttling stuff around
-Brett for the delicious meal; the chilli was a great addition on a cold day! And for picking up and dropping off supplies at Correy for us.
-Adam for all his work getting the clock, speaker, and android setup, and of course the rain free event!
-Everyone else for making it a great day!

Please feel free to post any comments or suggestions for us.

Burton

Originally Posted by killercando

Very Fun Contest Yesterday. Big thanks to Burton, Rick And Brett! I struggled all day with the chunky air and had a ton of fun. Can't wait till the next one.

Gary- Is there a link to contests in Arizona? It would be nice to fly down for a little Dry/Thaw time. Lee

Phillip started this link--
http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1559160

I am going to look into CDing a contest sometime in late Jan or Feb if we get a warm spell. Date and location to be determined.

Thank you SASS for another great contest. I was very pleasantly surprised that the weather held out and we got to fly the whole contest with no weather delays. It was a bit cold and quite turbulent with the wind. But, it was a good time and lots of great flying. I am always impressed with what these great pilots can do with these gliders. I will look forward to traveling to the contests again next flying season.

Congratulations Dave, great flying! I will look forward to competing with you and the others again next year. :-)
Ben