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aeajr
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 Posted - 07/12/2010 : 3:21:07 PM
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From: Lucke, Steve
Sent: Monday, July 12, 2010 11:42 AM
Subject: [talk] Daniel Boone Silent Fliers July contest
Dear ESL:
The Daniel Boone Silent Fliers contest at the Daniel Boone Homestead this past weekend went off without a glitch. Other then a minor problem with the rain on Saturday. :-))) Pottstown had almost 4 inches from late Friday night till about 3 PM on Saturday. I'm sure Daniel Boone got almost as much.
But, we still had a contest on Saturday. By 2 or 3 PM the rain stopped and 19 very dedicated and hardcore ESL members helped me get 4 ESL and a pop off winch set up in half an hour, while Luis and JoAnn put the scorers tent and registration together. Once we got everything set we flew 5 rounds of man on man till, I think, about 6:30 PM. The conditions were actually quite good with light NW wind and temps in the 80s, but with some humidity.
The winch lines ran 600 feet to the turnarounds and launches were quite good with very few broken lines during both days. This is a great help to any CD and I appreciate how people handled the equipment this past weekend.
(Before I forget, we had about 10 pilots out flying on Friday off a winch and a retriever Dave Beach was kind enough to set up.)
I've noticed over the last few ESL contests how the Supras are coming to dominate the ESL, just like the Mantis used to. But there are still people flying Perfects, Explorers and a Satori. This past Saturday was no exception.
Saturday's contest had 4 Sportsman with Duane Beck finishing in third flying an older model with bagged wings, and I can not recall what model that was. In second place was John Marion flying a Super Ava and in first was Preston Heller flying an Explorer with the extended tips.
In expert on Saturday we 14 had pilots in expert and a very tight race. Check the scores section in the ESL website to see how close the top 9 guys were.
In third place flying a Supra was James Griffeth, in second place flying a Satori was Reto Fiolka and in first place flying a Supra was Mike Lachowski.
On Sunday we had a great day. The wind was mostly light and variable, with the drift from the NW. Again we had 600 foot winch lines. It was sunny with great lift and no rain. We got started at about 9 AM after Tony Guide did some emergency surgery to replace a bad solenoid in one of the winches. We got in 6 rounds with a 20 minute lunch break and the last round did start before 2 PM.
We had 28 pilots for Sundays contest with Luke Glaab flying in novice on both days and winning novice on both days. Good for Luke!
In Sportsman we had Preston Heller finish in third with his Explorer, Duane Beck in second and in first place Dave Ashinsky flying his Super Ava. At least I think he was flying his Super Ava. That's what I remember.
In expert it was another close one with Mike Lachowski finishing in third, Josh Glaab in second and Reto Fiolka taking first.
I have to mention what a huge help JoAnn Bustamante, Dawn Huffman and Vera Griffeth are in the scorer's tent. Without them nothing works well or quickly and the scorer's tent is the key to any good contest. In addition Dave Beach and Tony Guide were immense help to me on the winch line.
We did run a seeded man on man contest on Sunday and it seemed to go over well. I think we will try seeded man on man again.
Please feel free to add anything I might have left out.
Which reminds me, congratulations to John Marion for getting his one hour LSF thermal flight completed on Sunday after the contest. John was flying his Super AVA and we were pretty sure he could see it, most of the time. :-)) John how high did it get?
Steve Lucke
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aeajr
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Posted - 07/12/2010 : 3:22:17 PM
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From: Glaab, Louis J.
Sent: Monday, July 12, 2010 12:53 PM
Subject: [talk] RE: Daniel Boone Silent Fliers July contest
Good afternoon all!
The seeded MOM on Sunday was very interesting and I was surprised how well it worked. Luis obviously put a lot of thought into it and it showed. Some observations of it are:
1) Everyone was much more aware of the contest standings, in a good way, since your flight group depended on your standings. It was like there were several mini-contests after each round when pilots would look to see which flight group they were in for the next round. That was kind of neat and added to the interest in the event.
2) It seemed to be hard to stay in the top group and there was a lot of turnover. Don’t know if Mike stayed in the top group all day or not, but I only flew in group 5 for the last round and went into group 3 after round 2 (botched landing), but made it back to the top group for the end. Reto also was sent down in round 5, but came back up at the end. It was neat to be able to work back up the groups.
3) The last flight group was neat and made it such that the contest could not be won until the very end. It added a lot of drama and excitement to it. In fact the contest was decided in about 40 seconds when Mike, me, Reto and James landed.
4) It also helped to mix-up the pilot-timer relations since you did not know when you were going to fly from one round to the next. It was good to work with pilots from the other class (Sportsflyers and Experts) since they were the ones that were more likely available.
5) I think the way we did it yesterday (with 2 classes) was good since the flight groups for each class could be generated when the other class was flying. As a result, we didn’t lose any time to the seeded MOM part of it.
6) The seeded MOM also provided in some ways a little bit of a handicap system in that pilots with similar scores/capabilities for that day ended up flying against each other as the day went on. Seemed like each group was competitive with all having a shot at winning the group.
Overall, I think it was a lot of fun and hope to fly in seeded MOM contests some more.
Thanks, Josh.
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aeajr
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Posted - 07/12/2010 : 3:25:27 PM
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From: "Lucke, Steve"
Sent: Monday, July 12, 2010 1:49 PM
Subject: RE: [talk] Daniel Boone Silent Fliers July contest
Thanks Duane! I could not remember what plane that was. Nice flying!
-----Original Message-----
From: Duane Beck
Sent: Monday, July 12, 2010 1:01 PM
Subject: Re: [talk] Daniel Boone Silent Fliers July contest
I flew a Whyte Wings Sapphire fuselage with wings bagged by Phil Barnes. I was told they are Drela airfoils.
Thanks to all those who helped to run an outstanding contest.
Duane
> From: "Steve Lucke"
> Sent: Monday, July 12, 2010 11:42:50 AM
> Subject: [talk] Daniel Boone Silent Fliers July contest
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> Saturday's contest had 4 Sportsman with Duane Beck finishing
> in third flying an older model with bagged wings, and I can not recall
> what model that was. In second place was John Marion flying a Super
> Ava and in first was Preston Heller flying an Explorer with the
> extended tips.
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mikel
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Posted - 07/12/2010 : 5:42:11 PM
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aeajr
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ljb0001
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Posted - 07/20/2010 : 11:58:53 AM
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From: "Reto Fiolka" <reto_fiolka@yahoo.com>
To: "Luis Bustamante" <ljbcomp@comcast.net>
Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2010 10:01:18 AM
Subject: DBSF results
Dear all,
It is great to enjoy a hobby like this, I am amazed how quickly I was integrated in the ESL community. Finding like minded people made my start in the US much easier.
Thermal Duration is quite different from what we do in Europe, but I like it. And the seeded MOM, as it was done at Daniel Boone on Sunday, is really a great idea.
It has the potential to produce exciting flight groups and a mini finale at the end.
Needless to say that all this is owed to the great organization and the generous effort of all the helpers.
Reto
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