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2018 Quest Air Nationals Series
The meet is over-subscribed
Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|André Wolfe|André Wolfe|Attila Bertok|Bill Soderquist|Bruce Barmakian|Christian Ciech|CIVL|Davide Guiducci|David Gibson|Davis Straub|Derrick Turner|Dustin Martin|Filippo Oppici|Glen Volk|John Simon|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Kevin Carter|Kraig Coomber|Krzysztof "Krys/Kris" Grzyb|Larry Bunner|Lawrence "Pete" Lehmann|Marco Laurenzi|Pete Lehmann|Primoz Gricar|Quest Air|Quest Air Nationals 2018|Robin Hamilton|Steve Blenkinsop|Thomas Weissenberger|USHPA|World Pilot Ranking Scheme|Zac Majors
The meet filled up in three days. We have 82 pilots registered. We are currently looking at expanding the number of pilots who can attend. Frankly we had no idea that this would happen so quickly. We have to follow the following USHPA rule:
All competitors should be registered on a first-come, first-served basis except during the first 30 days of registration, where 30% of the available places may be held for the top 20 NTSS and top 30 WPRS ranked pilots.
We'll use NTSS and WPRS rankings as of November 1st, 2017.
Pos | Name |
---|---|
1 | Zac Majors |
2 | Robin Hamilton |
3 | Bruce Barmakian |
4 | John Simon |
5 | Kraig Coomber |
6 | Dustin Martin |
7 | Larry Bunner |
8 | Derrick Turner |
9 | James Stinnet |
10 | Jd Guillemette |
11 | Davis Straub |
12 | Bill Soderquist |
13 | Kevin Carter |
14 | Patrick Pannese |
15 | David Gibson |
16 | Glen Volk |
17 | Kevin Dutt |
18 | Mick Howard |
19 | Krzysztof Grzyb |
20 | Pete Lehmann |
WPRS
Rank | Name | CIVL ID |
---|---|---|
1 | JONNY Durand | 2231 |
2 | ALESSANDRO Ploner | 5724 |
3 | FILIPPO Oppici | 6295 |
4 | THOMAS Weissenberger | 7819 |
5 | CHRISTIAN Ciech | 6034 |
6 | ALVARO Figueiredo Sandoli | 5760 |
7 | MARIO Alonzi | 7043 |
8 | ANDRE Wolf | 5783 |
9 | PETR Benes | 9764 |
10 | DAVIDE Guiducci | 6142 |
11 | MARCO Laurenzi | 25161 |
12 | DAN Vyhnalik | 6089 |
13 | DAVID Brito Filho | 13846 |
14 | CARLOS Niemeyer | 6001 |
15 | PETER Neuenschwander | 398 |
16 | GLEN Mcfarlane | 17641 |
17 | VALENTINO Bau | 7889 |
18 | GRANT Crossingham | 6440 |
19 | STEVE Blenkinsop | 7701 |
20 | PRIMOZ Gricar | 7437 |
21 | BALAZS Ujhelyi | 5893 |
22 | ATTILA Bertok | 5885 |
23 | ROLAND Wöhrle | 7547 |
24 | JOSH Woods | 42097 |
25 | RODOLFO Gotes | 12376 |
26 | ANTON Moroder | 5842 |
27 | TAKASHI Sunama | 7755 |
28 | ROBIN Hamilton | 7536 |
29 | GUY Hubbard | 6467 |
30 | OLAV Opsanger | 7271 |
To secure a higher place in the order that pilots are chosen to participate in the competition, we need pilots to be confirmed. To be confirmed you need to register, fill out on-line and send in your correct waivers and medical form (use Adobe Acrobat DC - the free version, https://helpx.adobe.com/reader/faq.html), and pay the entry fee. See:
https://airtribune.com/2018-quest-air-national-series/info/details__info
https://OzReport.com/waivers.php
https://OzReport.com/2018QuestAirpay.php
We will keep track of the order in which pilots are confirmed (everything is time and date stamped), check any forms for errors, and notify pilots if they are allowed entry into the meet.
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32 topics in this article: Alessandro "Alex" Ploner, André Wolfe, Attila Bertok, Bill Soderquist, Bruce Barmakian, Christian Ciech, CIVL, Davide Guiducci, David Gibson, Davis Straub, Derrick Turner, Dustin Martin, Filippo Oppici, Glen Volk, John Simon, Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr, Kevin Carter, Kraig Coomber, Krzysztof "Krys/Kris" Grzyb, Larry Bunner, Lawrence "Pete" Lehmann, Marco Laurenzi, Pete Lehmann, Primoz Gricar, Quest Air, Quest Air Nationals 2018, Robin Hamilton, Steve Blenkinsop, Thomas Weissenberger, USHPA, World Pilot Ranking Scheme, Zac Majors
2016 Santa Cruz Flats Race »
2016 Santa Cruz Flats Race
Final results
Bruce Barmakian|competition|David Gibson|John Simon|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Kevin Carter|Kraig Coomber|Moyes Litespeed RX|Niki Longshore|Robin Hamilton|Santa Cruz Flats Race 2016|Tyler Borradaile
https://airtribune.com/santacruzflatsrace2016/results
Task 6:
# | Name | Glider | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Robin Hamilton | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 01:56:34 | 990 |
2 | Josh Woods | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 01:56:53 | 980 |
3 | Bruce Barmakian | Laminar | 01:56:55 | 970 |
4 | Tyler Borradaile | Wills Wing T2C | 01:57:15 | 944 |
5 | Kraig Coomber | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 01:57:42 | 930 |
6 | Jonny Durand | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 02:05:38 | 850 |
7 | Patrick Pannese | Wills Wing T2C 154 | 02:10:30 | 801 |
8 | Kevin Carter | Wills Wing T2C 154 | 02:04:28 | 782 |
9 | Pedro L. Garcia | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 02:18:20 | 767 |
10 | John Simon | Aeros Combat C 12.7 | 02:05:43 | 761 |
Final:
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Kraig Coomber | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 4187 |
2 | Jonny Durand | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 3872 |
3 | Kevin Carter | Wills Wing T2C 154 | 3774 |
4 | Bruce Barmakian | Laminar | 3597 |
5 | Tyler Borradaile | Wills Wing T2C | 3579 |
6 | David Gibson | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 3550 |
7 | Josh Woods | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 3419 |
8 | Pedro L. Garcia | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 3364 |
9 | Patrick Pannese | Wills Wing T2C 154 | 3288 |
10 | Robin Hamilton | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 3257 |
Sport task 6:
# | Name | Glider | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Kelly Myrkle | Moyes Gecko | 00:54:12 | 829 |
2 | Niki Longshore | Moyes Gecko | 01:25:08 | 485 |
Final:
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Kelly Myrkle | Moyes Gecko | 4500 |
2 | Niki Longshore | Moyes Gecko | 3331 |
12 topics in this article: Bruce Barmakian, competition, David Gibson, John Simon, Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr, Kevin Carter, Kraig Coomber, Moyes Litespeed RX, Niki Longshore, Robin Hamilton, Santa Cruz Flats Race 2016, Tyler Borradaile
2016 Santa Cruz Flats Race »
2016 Santa Cruz Flats Race
Friday's task with very preliminary results
Belinda Boulter|Bill Soderquist|Bruce Barmakian|David Gibson|Dustin Martin|Facebook|John Simon|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Kevin Carter|Kraig Coomber|Moyes Litespeed RX|Santa Cruz Flats Race 2016|Tyler Borradaile|Zac Majors
The forecast was for very light winds, no cu's, of course, and good lift, hopefully as good as Thursday. I encouraged the task committee to keep us out of the cultivated areas and for the most part they did.
I was near the back of the staging line a few pilots in front of Zac and that turned out to be a great thing for all of us as we didn't have spend an hour and forty five minutes in the start cylinder. Just forty minutes, thanks very much.
The lift was good right at launch and I pinned off at 1,000' after being pulled up by Bobby for the third day in a row. He stated to the folks on the ground that no one deserved a second tow as the lift was so plentiful.
The lift in the first thermal to 5,500' averaged over 400 fpm. Then the lift slowed down but soon almost everyone was up over 8,500'. We had to hang out for another twenty minutes but still were able to take the first start window at 7,000' and then quickly find a 300+ fpm to over 8,000'.
The course was to the northwest to Montezuma Peak, south to the off ramp for highway 84 at I8 and then back east to the Francisco Grande hotel. It was possible to stay north of the course line on the first leg to stay out of the cultivated fields out of Maricopa.
I raced following about eight pilots, four of who I could see, toward the north side of Maricopa. It took fifteen kilometers before those of us behind found 300+ fpm to get back up from 3,500' just on the dry east side of Maricopa.
I climbed back up to 7,000' with Bruce and Dustin and another pilot a little higher. We headed northwest again and just over the northwest corner of Maricopa we came in over eight pilots struggling at least three thousand feet below us. We had just flown over the lead gaggle.
The lift was a little over 100 fpm above these guys so Dustin, Bruce and I headed toward the big mountain and over the alluvial fan that spreads out from it to the south and east. I have been over this area a number of times and always found good lift before getting to the mountain side itself.
The lift before the hill side was only 100+ fpm and after gaining 500' I followed Bruce and Dustin in to the mountain face. I had seen one of them start climbing well so I went for it at about 4,000'. We were in the lead by far.
Getting to the hill side I didn't find any lift. Bruce and Dustin continued after the brief episode of lift to the west side I followed but didn't find any thing and had to land way back off road to the west of the mountain and on Indian land. Fortunately I found a nice open area to land without having to negotiate too many saguaro cactus.
Walked out about three miles on a jeep track just in time to find Belinda driving up a dirt road that connected to the jeep track. We drove back in to pick up the gear and glider.
A great romantic adventure for our anniversary.
Other more patient pilots got up on the mountain but not as high as we have been before, merely to about 9,000' and then they headed south along the low north-south range finding little if any lift. Dustin mentioned that he faced an 18 kmh east wind as he got to the second turnpoint and after working an hour to get to 6,000' being pushed to the west still landed at the turnpoint. The winds were forecast to be very very light today.
Preliminary results:
# | Name | Glider | Distance | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Kraig Coomber | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 94.48 | 917 |
2 | Alex Cuddy | Moyes Litespeed RX 4 | 89.76 | 881 |
3 | JD Guillemette | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 89.14 | 880 |
4 | Bill Soderquist | Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 | 88.79 | 876 |
5 | Tyler Borradaile | Wills Wing T2C | 87.49 | 864 |
6 | Jonny Durand | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 87.61 | 861 |
7 | Josh Woods | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 86.69 | 852 |
8 | Derreck Turner | Moyes Litespeed RX5 | 86.56 | 846 |
9 | Patrick Pannese | Wills Wing T2C 154 | 86.05 | 840 |
10 | Zac Majors | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 85.94 | 835 |
Cumulative:
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Kraig Coomber | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 3258 |
2 | Jonny Durand | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 3022 |
3 | Kevin Carter | Wills Wing T2C 154 | 2992 |
4 | David Gibson | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 2871 |
5 | Derreck Turner | Moyes Litespeed RX5 | 2827 |
6 | Tyler Borradaile | Wills Wing T2C | 2635 |
7 | Bruce Barmakian | Laminar | 2626 |
8 | Patrick Pannese | Wills Wing T2C 154 | 2487 |
9 | Josh Woods | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 2439 |
10 | Alex Cuddy | Moyes Litespeed RX 4 | 2405 |
We also had an unfortunate incident where a pilot clipped a tree on landing out. He was unconscious and was helicoptered to the hospital. Larry Bunner was on the scene quickly and stated later that the pilot and John Simon got themselves in a situation where they did not have good landing options.
14 topics in this article: Belinda Boulter, Bill Soderquist, Bruce Barmakian, David Gibson, Dustin Martin, Facebook, John Simon, Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr, Kevin Carter, Kraig Coomber, Moyes Litespeed RX, Santa Cruz Flats Race 2016, Tyler Borradaile, Zac Majors
2016 Santa Cruz Flats Race »
2016 Santa Cruz Flats Race
Rescored with proper track logs
Bruce Barmakian|competition|David Gibson|Davis Straub|Dustin Martin|John Simon|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Kevin Carter|Kraig Coomber|Larry Bunner|Moyes Litespeed RX|Santa Cruz Flats Race 2016|Tyler Borradaile|Zac Majors
Task 4 from Thursday redone:
https://airtribune.com/santacruzflatsrace2016/results
# | Name | Glider | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Zac Majors | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 01:19:24 | 979 |
2 | Kevin Carter | Wills Wing T2C 154 | 01:19:31 | 956 |
3 | Kraig Coomber | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 01:19:36 | 946 |
4 | Tyler Borradaile | Wills Wing T2C | 01:19:48 | 931 |
5 | Derreck Turner | Moyes Litespeed RX5 | 01:20:22 | 923 |
6 | Dustin Martin | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 01:20:23 | 912 |
7 | David Gibson | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 01:20:27 | 903 |
8 | Davis Straub | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 01:22:02 | 879 |
9 | John Simon | Aeros Combat C 12.7 | 01:22:48 | 867 |
10 | Larry Bunner | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 01:28:11 | 805 |
Cumulative:
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Kevin Carter | Wills Wing T2C 154 | 2409 |
2 | Kraig Coomber | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 2341 |
3 | Jonny Durand | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 2161 |
4 | Larry Bunner | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 2160 |
5 | David Gibson | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 2157 |
6 | Pedro L. Garcia | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 2049 |
7 | Bruce Barmakian | Laminar | 2043 |
8 | Derreck Turner | Moyes Litespeed RX5 | 1981 |
9 | Kevin Dutt | Icaro Z9 | 1808 |
10 | Tyler Borradaile | Wills Wing T2C | 1771 |
14 topics in this article: Bruce Barmakian, competition, David Gibson, Davis Straub, Dustin Martin, John Simon, Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr, Kevin Carter, Kraig Coomber, Larry Bunner, Moyes Litespeed RX, Santa Cruz Flats Race 2016, Tyler Borradaile, Zac Majors
2016 Santa Cruz Flats Race »
2016 Santa Cruz Flats Race
Day 5, preliminary results
Bruce Barmakian|competition|David Gibson|Davis Straub|Dustin Martin|Gary Anderson|John Simon|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Kevin Carter|Kraig Coomber|Larry Bunner|Moyes Litespeed RX|Niki Longshore|Santa Cruz Flats Race 2016|Tyler Borradaile|Zac Majors
https://airtribune.com/santacruzflatsrace2016/results
Task 4:
# | Name | Glider | Time | km/h | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Zac Majors | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 01:19:24 | 52.2 | 979 |
2 | Kraig Coomber | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 01:19:36 | 52.1 | 952 |
3 | Tyler Borradaile | Wills Wing T2C | 01:19:48 | 51.9 | 937 |
4 | Derreck Turner | Moyes Litespeed RX5 | 01:20:22 | 51.6 | 928 |
5 | Dustin Martin | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 01:20:23 | 51.5 | 916 |
6 | David Gibson | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 01:20:27 | 51.5 | 906 |
7 | Davis Straub | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 01:22:02 | 50.5 | 882 |
8 | John Simon | Aeros Combat C 12.7 | 01:22:48 | 50.0 | 869 |
9 | Larry Bunner | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 01:28:11 | 47.0 | 806 |
10 | Jonny Durand | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 01:30:47 | 45.6 | 769 |
Not Yet Processed: Glen and Kevin Carter
Cumulative:
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Kraig Coomber | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 2347 |
2 | Jonny Durand | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 2162 |
3 | Larry Bunner | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 2161 |
4 | David Gibson | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 2160 |
5 | Pedro L. Garcia | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 2049 |
6 | Bruce Barmakian | Laminar | 2045 |
7 | Derreck Turner | Moyes Litespeed RX5 | 1986 |
8 | Kevin Dutt | Icaro Z9 | 1808 |
9 | Tyler Borradaile | Wills Wing T2C | 1777 |
10 | Dustin Martin | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 1732 |
Task 4 sport:
# | Name | Glider | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Kelly Myrkle | Moyes Gecko | 01:07:35 | 1000 |
2 | Niki Longshore | Moyes Gecko | 01:42:07 | 579 |
3 | Gary Anderson | Wills Wing Sport 2 | 01:58:53 | 452 |
4 | Douglas Hale | Moyes Gecko | 334 |
Cumulative:
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Kelly Myrkle | Moyes Gecko | 2671 |
2 | Niki Longshore | Moyes Gecko | 1869 |
3 | Gary Anderson | Wills Wing Sport 2 | 928 |
4 | Douglas Hale | Moyes Gecko | 503 |
2016 Santa Cruz Flats Race »
2016 Santa Cruz Flats Race
Day 4
Results
Bruce Barmakian|competition|David Gibson|Gary Anderson|Glen Volk|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Kevin Carter|Kraig Coomber|Larry Bunner|Moyes Litespeed RX|Niki Longshore|Phill Bloom|Robin Hamilton|Santa Cruz Flats Race 2016
https://airtribune.com/santacruzflatsrace2016/results
Day 4:
# | Name | Glider | Distance | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Bruce Barmakian | Laminar | 67.62 | 640 |
1 | David Gibson | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 67.55 | 640 |
3 | Kevin Carter | Wills Wing T2C 154 | 67.24 | 637 |
4 | Patrick Pannese | Wills Wing T2C 154 | 41.98 | 483 |
5 | Larry Bunner | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 40.84 | 480 |
6 | Jonny Durand | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 41.41 | 479 |
7 | Kraig Coomber | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 40.80 | 474 |
8 | Derreck Turner | Moyes Litespeed RX5 | 39.67 | 467 |
9 | Pedro L. Garcia | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 39.97 | 465 |
10 | Kevin Dutt | Icaro Z9 | 38.75 | 448 |
Cumulative:
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Kevin Carter | Wills Wing T2C 154 | 1448 |
2 | Kraig Coomber | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 1390 |
3 | Jonny Durand | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 1388 |
4 | Pedro L. Garcia | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 1377 |
5 | Larry Bunner | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 1350 |
6 | Bruce Barmakian | Laminar | 1339 |
7 | Robin Hamilton | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 1332 |
8 | Phill Bloom | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 1326 |
9 | Kevin Dutt | Icaro Z9 | 1300 |
10 | Glen Volk | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 1268 |
Sport Day 4:
# | Name | Glider | Time | Distance | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Kelly Myrkle | Moyes Gecko | 01:58:43 | 34.72 | 775 |
2 | Niki Longshore | Moyes Gecko | 25.34 | 390 | |
3 | Douglas Hale | Moyes Gecko | 7.54 | 169 | |
4 | Gary Anderson | Wills Wing Sport 2 | 5.00 | 123 |
Cumulative:
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Kelly Myrkle | Moyes Gecko | 1671 |
2 | Niki Longshore | Moyes Gecko | 1290 |
3 | Gary Anderson | Wills Wing Sport 2 | 476 |
4 | Douglas Hale | Moyes Gecko | 169 |
14 topics in this article: Bruce Barmakian, competition, David Gibson, Gary Anderson, Glen Volk, Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr, Kevin Carter, Kraig Coomber, Larry Bunner, Moyes Litespeed RX, Niki Longshore, Phill Bloom, Robin Hamilton, Santa Cruz Flats Race 2016
2016 Santa Cruz Flats Race »
2016 Santa Cruz Flats Race
Day 1
Bruce Barmakian|competition|David Gibson|Davis Straub|dust devil|Dustin Martin|Gary Anderson|Glen Volk|Greg Kendall|John Simon|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Kevin Carter|Kraig Coomber|Larry Bunner|Moyes Litespeed RX|Niki Longshore|Phill Bloom|Robin Hamilton|Santa Cruz Flats Race 2016
Too long a task and against the wind. I knew right away that we would not make it back unless the lift was really much better than usual and we started getting to 11,000' as forecast right away. That didn't happen.
The task was a triangle to the east then south then back to the Francisco Grande Hotel, 130 km. Quite a task for days that end around 5 PM and the tasks start at 2 PM.
We started launching a little after 12:45 PM and there was plenty of lift. Launching eleventh I was able to climb right up to 7,500'. The wind was west northwest at about 8 mph so a bunch of us were soon on the south eastern edge of the start cylinder.
We pushed back up wind getting down to 6,000'; but were able to get back up to 7.400' in time for the first start time. Zac went out in front by far. Larry Bunner next, then me and I was followed by the rest of the pilots. Pilots bunched up and we found 200 to 300 fpm over Casa Grande, getting back over 6,500' and continued east. I chased a dust devil that gave out before I got to it and ended up 500' to 1,000' below my gaggle.
There was a reasonable amount of lift out on the flats and I went chasing the gaggle to see if I could find some. A couple of hundred foot per minute got me close and the lift was spread out and there were not consistent cores. Even closer by the time I got to the first turnpoint out over no man's land 7 km from the Cactus airport.
We headed south for the hills which were small bumps as we approached them from the north. But the bumps were hot and at almost 400 fpm and back to 7,300' it was time to race down the ridge line. Another 380 fpm north of Newman Peak and back to 7,300' before heading across the gap to Picacho Peak and what looked like it might be the last good lift of the day as we would soon be on the return leg into the wind over the flats and irrigated areas,.
Took the 400 fpm to 8,800' which was the highest so far. Jonny left early below a few of us. Later Larry with Kevin Carter below him would get to 10,500' staying at Picacho until he couldn't get any higher. Smart move. He had forecasted the 11,000' so he needed to get high to show that he was correct.
We thought we were pretty smart to let Jonny go out in front low and stay in the lift that much longer, but Larry was smarter.
Catching the edge of the 15 km cylinder around the next turnpoint John Simon and I headed northwest over a small range. It didn't work. About half way through it I saw a pilot turning to the south over more no man's land. I headed right for him. Jonny was working up slowly low on the small range.
The lift averaged less than 150 fpm and we were drifting back in the 5 mph head wind. But it was easy flying and the lift had been very comfortable all day. John Simon headed out without climbing much with us and we saw him later on the ground not too far down the course line.
There was a cu to the west and I dearly wanted to go to it but no one else seemed to be inclined to do so. It was over the no mans land but we were high enough to make it as it died out. It was off the course line a bit but the only nearby cu we had seen all day.
Jonny headed out and we all followed along the course line all spread out. I was way to the west hoping the there would be lift toward where that cu had been. Jonny out in front finally found some light lift and I came in under him (I had been over him since the first turnpoint although he took a later clock) at 900' AGL to find 80 fpm and a head wind. I climbed 900' back to 3,500' and as I watched the four or five guys over head head north west I headed also in that direction.
Again back down to 900' AGL I found 175 fpm to 3,900' but that was it. I went on glide to land about 33 km short. Jonny geot to within 15 km. Larry within 17 km. No one made goal.
https://airtribune.com/santacruzflatsrace2016/results
Task 1:
# | Name | Glider | Distance | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Kraig Coomber | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 120.91 | 916 |
2 | Robin Hamilton | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 120.72 | 912 |
3 | Jonny Durand | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 120.29 | 909 |
4 | Phill Bloom | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 119.95 | 906 |
5 | Glen Volk | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 119.54 | 905 |
6 | Larry Bunner | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 116.52 | 875 |
7 | Kevin Dutt | 115.18 | 859 | |
8 | Alex Cuddy | 112.48 | 825 | |
9 | Kevin Carter | Wills Wing T2C 154 | 112.47 | 820 |
10 | Greg Kendall | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 107.09 | 737 |
11 | Bruce Barmakian | Laminar | 103.81 | 700 |
12 | Davis Straub | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 102.94 | 687 |
13 | Sergey Kataev | Wills Wing T2C | 99.30 | 641 |
14 | Dustin Martin | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 95.26 | 604 |
15 | David Gibson | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 95.04 | 598 |
Task 1 sport:
# | Name | Glider | Distance | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Niki Longshore | Moyes Gecko | 39.00 | 900 |
2 | Kelly Myrkle | Moyes Gecko | 38.72 | 896 |
3 | Gary Anderson | Wills Wing Sport 2 | 13.36 | 353 |
19 topics in this article: Bruce Barmakian, competition, David Gibson, Davis Straub, dust devil, Dustin Martin, Gary Anderson, Glen Volk, Greg Kendall, John Simon, Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr, Kevin Carter, Kraig Coomber, Larry Bunner, Moyes Litespeed RX, Niki Longshore, Phill Bloom, Robin Hamilton, Santa Cruz Flats Race 2016
Hands under the bar
Hands under the bar
It feels so wrong
Dave Gibson|Ryan Vought|technique
Ryan Vought <<airthug84>> writes:
After doing lots of flying with Dave Gibson, I noticed he often has at one hand turned palm-up holding the base tube from underneath. I tried it a few times, and found it felt very awkward, very different from what I was accustomed to.
After asking him about it, he said it helps use different muscles and gives the arms a bit of a rest… especially during long glides. Fascinated, I decided to practice it a bit more before making a call on if it’s something I wanted to use from time to time.
I can now say- after putting in the time and effort to practice flying that way (it feels so WRONG at first!) - I really like it on glide! I find it much easier to hold the base tube in if there is a lot of pressure. It also helps me hold my upper-body down in an aerodynamic dangle angle, where as pulling in with the traditional hand position can lead to rocking more head up if you’re not careful about only pulling in and not pushing down at all like a pushup. With palms up holding under the base tube, it also puts my arms and elbows tucked into a much more aerodynamic position!
Oz Report readers might want to check it out… but if you’ve never tried it before, be prepared to feel like a H2 all over again! I was astounded at how “different” flying with my hands that way felt. I had to really work to learn the new feel and be precise again.
Hope that helps some people!
3 topics in this article: Dave Gibson, Ryan Vought, technique
2015 Santa Cruz Flats Race - day 7 »
2015 Santa Cruz Flats Race - day 7
Pedro doesn't make goal
Chris Zimmerman|competition|David Gibson|Dustin Martin|Filippo Oppici|Fred Kaemerer|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Kraig Coomber|Moyes Litespeed RX|Paul Voight|Ryan Voight|Santa Cruz Flats Race 2015|Tyler Borradaile|Wills Wing T2C|Zac Majors
https://airtribune.com/2015scfr/results
Task 7 (those at goal):
Name | Glider | Time | Total | |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Zac Majors | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 02:27:52 | 1000 |
2 | Jonny Durand | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 02:29:23 | 960 |
3 | Ryan Voight | Wills Wing T2C 144 (2011) | 02:29:23 | 959 |
4 | Kraig Coomber | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 02:33:59 | 882 |
5 | Josh Woods | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 02:47:12 | 858 |
6 | Dustin Martin | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 03:03:15 | 803 |
Final:
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Jonny Durand | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 5765 |
2 | Pedro Garcia | Wills Wing T2C 154 | 5692 |
3 | Kraig Coomber | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 5599 |
4 | Filippo Oppici | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 4985 |
5 | Zac Majors | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 4908 |
6 | Ryan Voight | Wills Wing T2C 144 (2011) | 4780 |
7 | Olav Opsanger | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 4597 |
8 | Tyler Borradaile | Wills Wing T2C | 4562 |
9 | Dustin Martin | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 4508 |
10 | David Gibson | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 4097 |
In a surprise victory Jonny Durand won the competition after Pedro led it all week. Pedro was three kilometers short.
Fred Kaemerer won the day and overall in the ATOS class.
Floyd Fronius won the Goat/Superfloater class overall.
In a surprise victory Chris Zimmerman won the day in the Swift class and overall (by 17 points out of 5847), and is the Swift Class National Champion. For the first time in like forever the class was very competitive.
John Maloney won the last day which was worth almost nothing. Zachary Hazen is the overall winner in sport class.
Zac Majors is the Class 1 open national champion.
15 topics in this article: Chris Zimmerman, competition, David Gibson, Dustin Martin, Filippo Oppici, Fred Kaemerer, Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr, Kraig Coomber, Moyes Litespeed RX, Paul Voight, Ryan Voight, Santa Cruz Flats Race 2015, Tyler Borradaile, Wills Wing T2C, Zac Majors
2015 Santa Cruz Flats Race - day 6 »
2015 Santa Cruz Flats Race - day 6
Guess who got the most leading points for the day.
competition|David Gibson|Davis Straub|Dustin Martin|Filippo Oppici|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Kraig Coomber|Moyes Litespeed RX|Paul Voight|Ryan Voight|Santa Cruz Flats Race 2015|Tyler Borradaile|Wills Wing T2C|Zac Majors
https://airtribune.com/2015scfr/results
Task 6 (those at goal):
# | Name | Glider | SS | ES | Time | Dist. Pts |
Lead. Pts |
Time Pts |
Arr. Pos. Pts |
Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Kraig Coomber | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 14:30:00 | 16:52:29 | 02:22:29 | 656.3 | 45.9 | 240.6 | 43.0 | 986 |
2 | Filippo Oppici | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 14:30:00 | 16:52:34 | 02:22:34 | 656.3 | 45.2 | 238.3 | 29.5 | 969 |
3 | Pedro Garcia | Wills Wing T2C 154 | 14:30:00 | 16:52:54 | 02:22:54 | 656.3 | 41.4 | 234.0 | 20.2 | 952 |
4 | Jonny Durand | Moyes Litespeed RS 3.5 | 14:30:00 | 16:53:22 | 02:23:22 | 656.3 | 47.2 | 229.8 | 14.2 | 948 |
5 | Tony Armstrong | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 14:15:00 | 16:56:32 | 02:41:32 | 656.3 | 56.9 | 156.7 | 10.8 | 881 |
6 | Davis Straub | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 14:15:00 | 17:00:27 | 02:45:27 | 656.3 | 60.1 | 145.5 | 9.1 | 871 |
Cumulative:
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Pedro Garcia | Wills Wing T2C 154 | 5022 |
2 | Jonny Durand | Moyes Litespeed RS 3.5 | 4805 |
3 | Filippo Oppici | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 4780 |
4 | Kraig Coomber | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 4717 |
5 | Olav Opsanger | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 3953 |
6 | Tyler Borradaile | Wills Wing T2C | 3934 |
7 | Zac Majors | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 3908 |
8 | Ryan Voight | Wills Wing T2C 144 (2011) | 3821 |
9 | Dustin Martin | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 3705 |
10 | David Gibson | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 3686 |
Fred made goal in the ATOS class and flew with the finishing class 1 pilots. He leads over all.
Floyd was the only pilot to fly in the Goat/Super floater class today.
Chris and Bruce made goal in the Swift class. So that means that the overall in Swift is very tight. Brian hasn't reported yet but should still be in the lead.
No one made goal in the sport class. Zach was the furthest out. He leads the class.
Boise state played four quarterbacks today as they won 52 to 0.
14 topics in this article: competition, David Gibson, Davis Straub, Dustin Martin, Filippo Oppici, Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr, Kraig Coomber, Moyes Litespeed RX, Paul Voight, Ryan Voight, Santa Cruz Flats Race 2015, Tyler Borradaile, Wills Wing T2C, Zac Majors
2015 Santa Cruz Flats Race - day 5 »
2015 Santa Cruz Flats Race - day 5
The results
Brian Porter|Chris Zimmerman|competition|David Gibson|Dustin Martin|Filippo Oppici|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Kraig Coomber|Moyes Litespeed RX|Paul Voight|Ryan Voight|Santa Cruz Flats Race 2015|Tyler Borradaile|Wills Wing T2C|Zac Majors
https://airtribune.com/2015scfr/results
Task 5:
Name | Glider | Time | Total | |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Zac Majors | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 02:26:25 | 942 |
2 | Filippo Oppici | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 02:35:15 | 917 |
3 | Pedro Garcia | Wills Wing T2C 154 | 02:36:14 | 899 |
4 | Ryan Voight | Wills Wing T2C 144 (2011) | 02:46:04 | 817 |
5 | Kraig Coomber | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 02:46:11 | 813 |
6 | Jonny Durand | Moyes Litespeed RS 3.5 | 02:52:01 | 786 |
7 | Tyler Borradaile | Wills Wing T2C | 02:51:27 | 784 |
8 | Dustin Martin | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 03:05:32 | 764 |
9 | JD Guillemette | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 03:10:19 | 755 |
10 | Jim Weitman | Will Wing T2C 144 | 03:06:52 | 749 |
Cumulative:
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Pedro Garcia | Wills Wing T2C 154 | 4074 |
2 | Jonny Durand | Moyes Litespeed RS 3.5 | 3867 |
3 | Filippo Oppici | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 3816 |
4 | Kraig Coomber | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 3738 |
5 | Zac Majors | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 3556 |
6 | Tyler Borradaile | Wills Wing T2C | 3548 |
7 | Olav Opsanger | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 3425 |
8 | Dustin Martin | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 3310 |
9 | David Gibson | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 3306 |
10 | Ryan Voight | Wills Wing T2C 144 (2011) | 3136 |
Four of five sport class pilots made goal with John Maloney winning the day. Zach Hazen is in first overall.
Chris Zimmerman won in the Swift Class for the first time. Brian Porter is in the lead overall. Only two of the Swifts out of four made it back to goal.
Peter Cairns was the one ATOS to make it back to goal (out of two). Fred Kaemerer leads overall by a few points.
No results from the Goat/Super floater class. I saw them in the start cylinder having trouble climbing.
15 topics in this article: Brian Porter, Chris Zimmerman, competition, David Gibson, Dustin Martin, Filippo Oppici, Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr, Kraig Coomber, Moyes Litespeed RX, Paul Voight, Ryan Voight, Santa Cruz Flats Race 2015, Tyler Borradaile, Wills Wing T2C, Zac Majors
2015 Santa Cruz Flats Race - day 4 »
2015 Santa Cruz Flats Race - day 4
The results
Brian Porter|David Gibson|Dustin Martin|Filippo Oppici|Fred Kaemerer|Greg Kendall|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Kraig Coomber|Moyes Litespeed RX|Paul Voight|Ryan Voight|Santa Cruz Flats Race 2015|Tyler Borradaile|Wills Wing T2C|Zac Majors
Task 4:
# | Name | Glider | Time | km/h | Distance | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Pedro Garcia | Wills Wing T2C 154 | 01:51:19 | 42.7 | 81.41 | 986 |
2 | Kraig Coomber | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 01:51:23 | 42.7 | 81.41 | 969 |
3 | Olav Opsanger | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 01:51:24 | 42.6 | 81.41 | 960 |
4 | Jonny Durand | Moyes Litespeed RS 3.5 | 01:51:37 | 42.6 | 81.41 | 948 |
5 | Filippo Oppici | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 01:52:33 | 42.2 | 81.41 | 925 |
6 | Tyler Borradaile | Wills Wing T2C | 01:53:21 | 41.9 | 81.41 | 912 |
7 | Wolfgang Siess | Wills Wing T2C 154 | 01:53:17 | 41.9 | 81.41 | 911 |
8 | Dustin Martin | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 01:53:05 | 42.0 | 81.41 | 906 |
9 | David Gibson | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 01:53:28 | 41.9 | 81.41 | 895 |
10 | Zac Majors | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 81.01 | 622 | ||
11 | Josh Woods | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 80.74 | 604 | ||
12 | Ryan Voight | Wills Wing T2C 144 (2011) | 76.80 | 578 | ||
13 | Greg Kendall | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 03:09:48 | 25.0 | 81.41 | 564 |
Cumulative:
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Pedro Garcia | Wills Wing T2C 154 | 3175 |
2 | Jonny Durand | Moyes Litespeed RS 3.5 | 3081 |
3 | Kraig Coomber | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 2925 |
4 | Filippo Oppici | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 2899 |
5 | Olav Opsanger | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 2869 |
6 | Tyler Borradaile | Wills Wing T2C | 2764 |
7 | David Gibson | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 2711 |
8 | Wolfgang Siess | Wills Wing T2C 154 | 2701 |
9 | Zac Majors | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 2614 |
10 | Dustin Martin | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 2546 |
Fred Kaemerer leads Peter Cairns in the ATOS class. Brian Porter has the overall lead in the Swift class. Floyd in the Goat leads in the Goat/Super floater class. The Sport class is not fully scored yet.
15 topics in this article: Brian Porter, David Gibson, Dustin Martin, Filippo Oppici, Fred Kaemerer, Greg Kendall, Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr, Kraig Coomber, Moyes Litespeed RX, Paul Voight, Ryan Voight, Santa Cruz Flats Race 2015, Tyler Borradaile, Wills Wing T2C, Zac Majors
2015 Santa Cruz Flats Race - day 3 »
2015 Santa Cruz Flats Race - day 3
Results
competition|David Gibson|Davis Straub|Dustin Martin|Filippo Oppici|Jeffrey "Jeff" Lawrence Bohl|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Kraig Coomber|Larry Bunner|Moyes Litespeed RX|Patrick Kruse|Paul Voight|Ryan Voight|Santa Cruz Flats Race 2015|Steven "Steve" Pearson|Tyler Borradaile|Wills Wing T2C|Zac Majors
https://airtribune.com/2015scfr/results
Task 3:
# | Name | Glider | Time | km/h | Distance | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Jonny Durand | Moyes Litespeed RS 3.5 | 02:05:12 | 32.7 | 75.75 | 889 |
2 | Pedro Garcia | Wills Wing T2C 154 | 03:00:17 | 22.7 | 75.75 | 805 |
3 | Zac Majors | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 71.06 | 726 | ||
4 | Patrick Kruse | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 69.84 | 718 | ||
5 | Wolfgang Siess | Wills Wing T2C 154 | 58.93 | 640 | ||
6 | Larry Bunner | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 55.39 | 623 | ||
7 | Dustin Martin | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 54.39 | 616 | ||
8 | Patrick Pannese | Wills Wing T2C 154 | 54.31 | 612 | ||
9 | Davis Straub | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 53.07 | 596 | ||
10 | Filippo Oppici | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 52.51 | 578 |
Cumulative:
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Pedro Garcia | Wills Wing T2C 154 | 2191 |
2 | Jonny Durand | Moyes Litespeed RS 3.5 | 2135 |
3 | Zac Majors | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 1993 |
4 | Filippo Oppici | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 1975 |
5 | Kraig Coomber | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 1957 |
6 | Olav Opsanger | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 1910 |
7 | Tyler Borradaile | Wills Wing T2C | 1854 |
8 | David Gibson | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 1817 |
9 | Wolfgang Siess | Wills Wing T2C 154 | 1792 |
10 | Patrick Kruse | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 1747 |
11 | Ryan Voight | Wills Wing T2C 144 (2011) | 1741 |
12 | Davis Straub | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 1718 |
13 | Josh Woods | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 1688 |
14 | Robert deGroot | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 1660 |
15 | Dustin Martin | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 1642 |
16 | Patrick Pannese | Wills Wing T2C 154 | 1617 |
17 | Jeffery Bohl | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 1575 |
18 | Tony Armstrong | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 1549 |
19 | Steven Pearson | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 1545 |
20 | Larry Bunner | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 1534 |
Brian won the Swift class and leads overall. The Goat/ Super floater class didn't fly. John Maloney who just got here today made goal in the Sport Class and leads overall.
18 topics in this article: competition, David Gibson, Davis Straub, Dustin Martin, Filippo Oppici, Jeffrey "Jeff" Lawrence Bohl, Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr, Kraig Coomber, Larry Bunner, Moyes Litespeed RX, Patrick Kruse, Paul Voight, Ryan Voight, Santa Cruz Flats Race 2015, Steven "Steve" Pearson, Tyler Borradaile, Wills Wing T2C, Zac Majors
2015 Santa Cruz Flats Race - day 2 »
2015 Santa Cruz Flats Race - day 2
Results - Steve Pearson wins the day
Bruce Barmakian|competition|David Gibson|Davis Straub|Dustin Martin|Filippo Oppici|Greg Kendall|Jeffrey "Jeff" Lawrence Bohl|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Kraig Coomber|Larry Bunner|Moyes Litespeed RX|Paul Voight|Ryan Voight|Santa Cruz Flats Race 2015|Steven "Steve" Pearson|Wills Wing T2C|Zac Majors
https://airtribune.com/2015scfr/results
https://airtribune.com/2015-santa-cruz-flats-and-mark-knight-memorial/results/task1038/day/class-1
Task 2:
# | Name | Glider | Distance | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Steven Pearson | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 50.73 | 538 |
2 | Larry Bunner | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 48.61 | 533 |
3 | Kraig Coomber | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 45.54 | 497 |
4 | Filippo Oppici | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 43.62 | 480 |
5 | Ryan Voight | Wills Wing T2C 144 (2011) | 38.43 | 440 |
6 | David Gibson | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 37.96 | 437 |
7 | Olav Opsanger | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 37.92 | 436 |
8 | Robert deGroot | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 36.15 | 418 |
9 | Felix Cantesanu | Aeros Combat Carbon 12.7 | 35.10 | 405 |
10 | Davis Straub | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 34.50 | 396 |
Cumulative:
1 | Filippo Oppici | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 1381 |
2 | Pedro Garcia | Wills Wing T2C 154 | 1373 |
3 | Kraig Coomber | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 1371 |
4 | Olav Opsanger | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 1328 |
5 | Ryan Voight | Wills Wing T2C 144 (2011) | 1274 |
6 | Zac Majors | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 1256 |
7 | Jonny Durand | Moyes Litespeed RS 3.5 | 1235 |
8 | David Gibson | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 1234 |
9 | Wolfgang Siess | Wills Wing T2C 154 | 1141 |
10 | Steven Pearson | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 1127 |
11 | Josh Woods | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 1120 |
12 | Robert deGroot | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 1119 |
13 | Tony Armstrong | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 1118 |
14 | Davis Straub | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 1110 |
15 | JD Guillemette | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 1081 |
16 | Greg Kendall | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 1044 |
17 | Kenneth Andrews | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 1031 |
18 | Dustin Martin | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 1029 |
19 | Jeffery Bohl | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 1021 |
20 | Patrick Pannese | Wills Wing T2C 154 | 996 |
Steve Pearson and Ryan Voight were by far the last pilots to go out on the course. Larry Bunner was early and almost went down at the second turnpoint but found 1,500 fpm over a power station.
Bruce Barmakian won the day in the Swift category. All the Swifts made it into goal with their triangle task. Bruce is in the lead overall.
Most of the Sport Class didn't fly given the launch conditions with nearby virga earlier.
It's not clear what's up with the Goat/Super floater class.
18 topics in this article: Bruce Barmakian, competition, David Gibson, Davis Straub, Dustin Martin, Filippo Oppici, Greg Kendall, Jeffrey "Jeff" Lawrence Bohl, Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr, Kraig Coomber, Larry Bunner, Moyes Litespeed RX, Paul Voight, Ryan Voight, Santa Cruz Flats Race 2015, Steven "Steve" Pearson, Wills Wing T2C, Zac Majors
2015 Santa Cruz Flats Race - day 1 »
Results
Øyvind Ellefsen|David Gibson|Davis Straub|Dustin Martin|Filippo Oppici|Gerry Pesavento|Greg Dinauer|Greg Kendall|Jeffrey "Jeff" Lawrence Bohl|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Kraig Coomber|Moyes Litespeed RX|Patrick Kruse|Paul Voight|Ryan Voight|Santa Cruz Flats Race 2015|Steven "Steve" Pearson|Tyler Borradaile|Wills Wing T2C|Zac Majors
There is a glitch on the Airtribune server, so the results aren't on-line yet.
Class 1:
# | Name | Glider | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Pedro Garcia | Wills Wing T2C 154 | 01:35:40 | 1000 |
2 | Zac Majors | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 01:40:55 | 911 |
3 | Filippo Oppici | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 01:41:09 | 900 |
4 | Olav Opsanger | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 01:41:36 | 891 |
5 | Kraig Coomber | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 01:42:26 | 873 |
6 | Tony Armstrong | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 01:42:37 | 864 |
7 | Dustin Martin | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 01:42:34 | 860 |
8 | Josh Woods | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 01:43:30 | 855 |
9 | Jonny Durand | Moyes Litespeed Rs 3.5 | 01:44:48 | 840 |
10 | Oyvind Ellefsen | Moyes Litespeed Rs 4 | 01:43:44 | 837 |
11 | Ryan Voight | Wills Wing T2C 144 (2011) | 01:44:56 | 832 |
12 | Tyler Borradaile | Wills Wing T2C | 01:47:37 | 803 |
13 | Wolfgang Siess | Wills Wing T2C 154 | 01:47:40 | 799 |
14 | David Gibson | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 01:48:37 | 795 |
15 | Kenneth Andrews | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 01:53:11 | 755 |
16 | Jd Guillemette | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 01:56:48 | 729 |
17 | Patrick Pannese | Wills Wing T2C 154 | 01:58:52 | 718 |
18 | Patrick Kruse | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 01:56:33 | 717 |
19 | Davis Straub | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 01:57:48 | 712 |
20 | Greg Dinauer | Aeros Combat 12.7 C | 02:01:42 | 699 |
21 | Grant Emary | Wills Wing T2C | 02:07:05 | 668 |
22 | Greg Kendall | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 02:05:40 | 649 |
23 | Gerry Pesavento | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 02:07:52 | 646 |
24 | Jeffery Bohl | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 02:07:16 | 645 |
25 | Steven Pearson | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 02:21:54 | 587 |
26 | Jim Weitman | Will Wing T2C 144 | 430 | |
27 | Cory Barnwell | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 394 | |
28 | Robert Degroot | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 388 | |
29 | Jay Devorak | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 344 | |
30 | Alfredo Grey | Wills Wing T2C | 329 | |
31 | Michael Williams | Wills Wing Sport 2 | 152 | |
32 | Mike Jefferson | Wills Wing T2 144 | 21 |
Scoring issues with Sport class, no Class 4 reports yet, ATOS class not fully reported, some missing from open class.
20 topics in this article: Øyvind Ellefsen, David Gibson, Davis Straub, Dustin Martin, Filippo Oppici, Gerry Pesavento, Greg Dinauer, Greg Kendall, Jeffrey "Jeff" Lawrence Bohl, Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr, Kraig Coomber, Moyes Litespeed RX, Patrick Kruse, Paul Voight, Ryan Voight, Santa Cruz Flats Race 2015, Steven "Steve" Pearson, Tyler Borradaile, Wills Wing T2C, Zac Majors
Dinosaur 2015 - Predictions From the Organizers »
Dinosaur 2015 - Predictions From the Organizers
A pilot had qualms
Dinosaur 2015|Terry Reynolds|weather
https://www.rockymountainglider.com/locale.html
WEATHER
(1) While no one would be so foolish as to guarantee the weather for any hang gliding contest, the period scheduled for this meet should yield seven straight days of outstanding flying conditions. The desert area around Dinosaur is not affected by the high mountain weather which makes many mountain sites inconsistent. (2) While a high mountain site could have a solid week of virtually unflyable conditions, it is unlikely that there will be even a single day at Dinosaur on which a safe, valid task cannot be called. (3) During the post-monsoon period of this meet, pilots can expect a weather pattern dominated by high pressure, with light westerly winds aloft and blue thermals/small cumulus. Climbs above 17,000'msl are normal.
The numbers in parentheses and emphasis added.
The pilot writes:
Terry Reynolds and Crew, Jim and Amy Zeiset, and all those vested deeply in Dinosaur 2015 should be applauded and recognized for their enthusiastic and significant effort in putting on such a comp from scratch. Events such as this are a labor of love and demonstrate both a philanthropic and historical support for the sport of hang gliding. They are by nature cash negative.
However, when will event organizers properly recognize the importance of meteorological assessments and strategies? Pursuits which rely upon harvesting energy from atmospheric discontinuities which is both reliable and safe must fully understand the scope and impact of these parameters.
Reading the paragraph about the weather from the Dinosaur 2015 website in advance (see above), and being somewhat familiar with the area, meteorological patterns, and time of year for this event, I bit my lip, sublimated the skepticism, and hoped for the best.
The good (1) and the bad (2), bad (3). Unfortunately my concerns about the conditions proved to be only too well founded. Congratulations to Zippie on another top performance and extending something of a real roll! Congratulations to the organizers for putting on a very special event at a special site. It's unfortunate that the weather didn't run against historic patterns, but it didn't, and that's like crying over spilt milk.
The message: Make sure events, sites, and meet practice synch with meteorological realities. Time is precious, as are the best and well-meaning efforts and lives themselves.
Discuss "Dinosaur 2015 - Predictions From the Organizers" at the Oz Report forum link»
3 topics in this article: Dinosaur 2015, Terry Reynolds, weather
Dinosaur day 7 cancelled »
Dinosaur day 7 cancelled
Gail force winds force the end of the meet after three days of flying.
Bill Soderquist|Bruce Barmakian|Christian Ciech|competition|Dinosaur 2015|Jim Yocom|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand snr|Lawrence "Pete" Lehmann|Pete Lehmann|Wills Wing T2C|Zac Majors
https://airtribune.com/dinosaur2015/results
Final:
# | Name | Glider | T 1 | T 2 | T 3 | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Zac Majors | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 962 | 928 | 1000 | 1962 |
2 | Glen McFarlane | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 947 | 1000 | 945 | 1947 |
3 | Christian Ciech | Icaro Laminar | 987 | 916 | 730 | 1903 |
4 | Pedro Garcia | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 935 | 897 | 416 | 1832 |
5 | Jon Sr Durand | Moyes RX4 | 833 | 878 | 374 | 1711 |
6 | Rudy Gotes | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 576 | 969 | 442 | 1545 |
7 | Jonny Durand | Moyes RX3.5 | 880 | 472 | 448 | 1352 |
8 | Bruce Barmakian | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 556 | 102 | 709 | 1265 |
9 | Bill Soderquist | Moyes RS3.5 | 812 | 443 | 380 | 1255 |
10 | Pete Lehmann | Wills Wing T2 154 | 266 | 536 | 673 | 1209 |
Sport class final:
# | Name | Glider | T 1 | T 2 | T 3 | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Kelly Myrkle | Aeros Discus | 844 | 133 | 451 | 1295 |
2 | Beau Buck | North Wing Liberty 148 | 794 | 107 | 464 | 1258 |
3 | Nathan Grimes | Wills Wing U2 145 | 652 | 272 | 514 | 1166 |
4 | Brian Morris | Freedom 170 | 862 | 220 | 194 | 1082 |
5 | Josiah Stephens | Predator 142 | 450 | 114 | 468 | 918 |
6 | Rob DeGroot | Moyes Gecko | 321 | 477 | 265 | 798 |
7 | John Christian | Wills Wing U2 145 | 613 | 107 | 0 | 720 |
8 | Carlos Alvarado | Wills Wing U2 145 | 363 | 272 | 203 | 635 |
9 | Jon Lindburg | Wills Wing Sport 2 135b | 319 | 114 | 126 | 445 |
10 | Rick Maddy | Wills Wing U2 160 | 195 | 0 | 164 | 359 |
Kelley
Jim Yocom was the first of two ATOS pilots.
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Dinosaur day 6 cancelled »
Dinosaur day 6 cancelled
Forecast for unpleasant conditions
weather
NWS forecast for this afternoon, here:
Scattered showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 5pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 77. South southwest wind around 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%.
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Dinosaur - today's forecast »
30 mph gusts again forecast
Dinosaur 2015
Forecast here:
Isolated showers and thunderstorms after noon. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 77. Breezy, with a southeast wind 5 to 10 mph becoming south 15 to 20 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 30 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
NWS hazardous weather forecast for today here:
SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP OVER THE SOUTHERN HALF OF THE FORECAST AREA THIS AFTERNOON…WITH SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FORMING OVER THE NORTHERN HALF OF THE AREA. THE STRONGEST STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF GENERATING HEAVY RAIN…SMALL HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 mph.
Forecast for Saturday:
A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly sunny, with a high near 74. Breezy, with a south southwest wind 5 to 15 mph increasing to 15 to 25 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 35 mph.
Forecast by Rich Jesuroga. Tomorrow looks worse.
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Dinosaur day 5 cancelled »
Dinosaur day 5 cancelled
Windy with gusts to 30 mph
weather
NWS forecast for this afternoon, here:
This Afternoon: Isolated showers and thunderstorms. Partly sunny, with a high near 81. South southwest wind around 15 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
Glen sends:
And reports 30 mph gusts just as forecast. I wonder if there is anything to do in Dinosaur, Colorado.
From the cancelled day:
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Dinosaur - Hazardous weather forecasted »
Thunderstorms for the Yampa
Dinosaur 2015
NWS hazardous weather forecast for today here:
SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP OVER THE SOUTHERN HALF OF THE FORECAST AREA THIS MORNING AND SPREAD SLOWLY NORTH DURING THE DAY BEFORE DIMINISHING THIS EVENING. THE STRONGEST STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF GENERATING HEAVY RAIN…SMALL HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 mph.
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Dinosaur - Thank goodness for the Sport Class »
So few open class pilots
Dinosaur 2015
https://airtribune.com/dinosaur2015/pilots
There are only eighteen open class pilots flying in the Dinosaur competition. But, fortunately there are eleven sport class pilots and two rigid wing pilots. This with a competition that promised in advance $15,000 in prize money and had lower costs because there was no need for towing.
Without the sport class this would be a very poorly attended competition. It is also a warning flag to future meet organizers that they should be careful about how many pilots might want to come to their competition and how carefully they should encourage sport class pilots.
It wasn't that long ago that there weren't any sport class competitions in the US. We have worked hard to turn that around despite lots of discouragement from old fart pilots who felt that this was a travesty. It has turned out to be very favorable to competitions and has been a whole lot of fun.
It's great to see such enthusiasm from these newer pilots and the fast learning that is taking place.
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Dinosaur - day 4 »
The results
Bill Soderquist|Bruce Barmakian|Christian Ciech|competition|Dinosaur 2015|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand snr|Lawrence "Pete" Lehmann|Moyes Litespeed RX|Pete Lehmann|Wills Wing T2C|Zac Majors
https://airtribune.com/dinosaur2015/results
Task 3:
# | Name | Glider | Time | Distance | Dist. Points |
Lead. Points |
Time Points |
Arr. Pos. Points |
Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Zac Majors | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 01:59:35 | 115.67 | 717.5 | 49.4 | 197.8 | 35.3 | 1000 |
2 | Glen Mcfarlane | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 02:04:37 | 115.67 | 717.5 | 42.8 | 167.6 | 16.6 | 945 |
3 | Dave Gibson | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 03:19:32 | 115.67 | 717.5 | 7.5 | 8.8 | 734 | |
4 | Christian Ciech | Icaro Laminar | 107.93 | 688.0 | 41.6 | 730 | |||
5 | Bruce Barmakian | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 112.99 | 709.2 | 709 | ||||
6 | Pete Lehmann | Wills Wing T2 154 | 105.07 | 672.8 | 673 | ||||
7 | Cory Barnwell | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 56.85 | 480.2 | 480 | ||||
8 | Aaron Rinn | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 53.12 | 464.5 | 465 | ||||
9 | Felix Cantesanu | Aeros Combat C 12.7 | 51.86 | 457.9 | 458 | ||||
10 | Jonny Durand | Moyes RX3.5 | 50.24 | 447.5 | 448 |
I'm quite certain that Christian was happier to get his leading points than not.
Cumulative (well here's a little different outcome):
# | Name | Glider | T 1 | T 2 | T 3 | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Zac Majors | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 962 | 928 | 1000 | 1962 |
2 | Glen Mcfarlane | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 947 | 1000 | 945 | 1947 |
3 | Christian Ciech | Icaro Laminar | 987 | 916 | 730 | 1903 |
4 | Pedro Garcia | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 935 | 897 | 416 | 1832 |
5 | Jon Sr Durand | Moyes RX4 | 833 | 878 | 374 | 1711 |
6 | Rudy Gotes | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 576 | 969 | 442 | 1545 |
7 | Jonny Durand | Moyes RX3.5 | 880 | 472 | 448 | 1352 |
8 | Bruce Barmakian | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 556 | 102 | 709 | 1265 |
9 | Bill Soderquist | Moyes RS3.5 | 812 | 443 | 380 | 1255 |
10 | Pete Lehmann | Wills Wing T2 154 | 266 | 536 | 673 | 1209 |
Only the best two scores are used. Clearly, so far, Zac and Glen are disadvantaged by this elimination of the worst day (perhaps they'll have bad days later), while everyone else was advantaged, especially Christian.
Four sport class pilots made goal. Kelly Myrkle is in the overall lead.
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Dinosaur - day 4 »
Zac tasks wins task 3
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Zac in first, Glen second, Christian lands 9 km short. No one else in goal.
Dave Gibson makes it in later in third:
Nice looking sky. Thanks to Glen for his on the spot (goal) reports.
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Dinosaur - day 3 »
Just like the good old days
Dinosaur 2015|Facebook|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|photo
Jonny Durand «Jonny Durand» writes:
If you want to know why I was not in goal today it was because I was in front and at the last turnpoint I went to land because there was lightning and rain on course. Glen reports he flew through hail to make goal and win the day. I did the safe thing and turned around and landed away from the storm.
Every day of the 1990 Nationals at Dinosaur was like this. We didn't know any better then.
Good for Jonny making the safe decision. There is a reason I'm not flying at Dinosaur.
Photo from the first task.
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Dinosaur - day 3 »
The results
Bill Soderquist|Christian Ciech|competition|Dinosaur 2015|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand snr|Wills Wing T2C|Zac Majors
https://airtribune.com/dinosaur2015/results
Task 2:
# | Name | Glider | Time | Lead. Points |
Time Points |
Arr. Pos. Points |
Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Glen Mcfarlane | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 01:52:45 | 85.1 | 340.5 | 60.8 | 1000 |
2 | Rudy Gotes | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 01:53:09 | 78.2 | 330.7 | 46.0 | 969 |
3 | Zac Majors | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 01:55:55 | 78.2 | 301.7 | 34.5 | 928 |
4 | Christian Ciech | Icaro Laminar | 01:56:22 | 78.5 | 298.1 | 26.0 | 916 |
5 | Pedro Garcia | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 01:57:21 | 72.5 | 290.7 | 20.1 | 897 |
6 | Josh Woods | Moyes RX3.5 | 01:58:15 | 66.5 | 284.4 | 16.1 | 881 |
7 | Jon Sr Durand | Moyes RX4 | 01:59:14 | 72.4 | 277.9 | 13.8 | 878 |
8 | Pete Lehman | Wills Wing Sport 2-155 | 03:11:37 | 9.4 | 12.6 | 536 |
Cumulative:
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Glen Mcfarlane | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 1946 |
2 | Christian Ciech | Icaro Laminar | 1902 |
3 | Zac Majors | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 1889 |
4 | Pedro Garcia | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 1831 |
5 | Jon Sr Durand | Moyes RX4 | 1708 |
6 | Rudy Gotes | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 1537 |
7 | Jonny Durand | Moyes RX3.5 | 1350 |
8 | Bill Soderquist | Moyes RS3.5 | 1251 |
9 | Pedro Montes | Aeros Combat GT 15 | 1143 |
10 | Josh Woods | Moyes RX3.5 | 1119 |
Rob DeGroot was the only sport class pilot to make goal on a Moyes Gecko.
Brian Morris on a North Wing Freedom 170 (single surface) is in first place over all with Kelley Myrkle on an Aeros Discus right behind him. There is a handicap.
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Dinosaur - day 3 »
Rudy second, Zac third, Christian, fourth, only seven in goal
Dinosaur 2015|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr
Jonny Durand, not in goal.
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Dinosaur - day 3 »
Glen wins task 2
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Dinosaur - day 3 »
Watch live tracking
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Dinosaur - day 2 »
Christian 40 seconds ahead
Bill Soderquist|Christian Ciech|competition|Dinosaur 2015|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand snr|Wills Wing T2C|Zac Majors
https://airtribune.com/dinosaur2015/blog__day_2
https://airtribune.com/dinosaur2015/results
Task 1:
# | Name | Glider | Time | Lead. Points |
Time Points |
Arr. Pos. Points |
Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Christian Ciech | Icaro Laminar | 01:39:40 | 81.3 | 354.9 | 63.4 | 986 |
2 | Zac Majors | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 01:40:20 | 86.0 | 340.0 | 46.0 | 959 |
3 | Glen Mcfarlane | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 01:40:22 | 82.4 | 339.5 | 33.2 | 942 |
4 | Pedro Garcia | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 01:40:35 | 82.1 | 336.5 | 24.2 | 929 |
5 | Jonny Durand | Moyes RX3.5 | 01:47:25 | 88.7 | 278.3 | 18.4 | 872 |
6 | Jon Sr Durand | Moyes RX4 | 01:51:11 | 66.5 | 255.2 | 15.0 | 823 |
7 | Bill Soderquist | Moyes RS3.5 | 01:52:55 | 57.7 | 245.4 | 13.3 | 803 |
Notice that Arrival Position and Time points (the difference between the values given) are way more important than Leading points (where the differences are very small among the top five pilots).
Sport class: Most pilots not scored yet.
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Dinosaur - day 2 »
Zac and Glen first into goal
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Dinosaur - day 1 cancelled »
Over development - just like in the old days there.
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2015 Big Spring Nationals - task 7 »
The off switch again on the final day
Belinda Boulter|Bruce Barmakian|competition|David Gibson|Davis Straub|Gerry Pesavento|James Stinnett|Jeffrey "Jeff" Lawrence Bohl|Larry Bunner|Moyes Litespeed RX|PG|Robin Hamilton|USHPA|US Nationals 2015|weather|Wills Wing T2C|Zac Majors
Results: https://airtribune.com/2015-big-spring-nationals/results
https://airtribune.com/2015-big-spring-nationals/blog__day_7
http://www.onlinecontest.org/olc-2.0/para/flightinfo.html?flightId=328673370
http://www.xcontest.org/world/en/flights/detail:davisstraub/8.8.2015/19:06
http://www.paraglidingforum.com/leonardo/flight/1235059
We were faced again with the prospect of a windy (10-15 mph) day with the constraint that we needed to get back to Big Spring at 9 PM for the awards dinner. We often have tasks that come back to the airport because the winds are light in August, but not this year.
The task committee came up with a zig zag task that would give us again a cross wind component of strong winds.
The winds on launch were about the same as on Friday so there was no drama. We've had once again a perfectly safe competition with no injuries.
The sky was blue again as has been the case for most days this year in contrast to all the other years when we regularly get cu's at 1 PM. The wet weather in Texas since the winter has suppressed the lift and there have been inversions (which we never had before) every day.
I got off early again and there was lift right at the end of the runway. Pilots have been asking to be towed straight upwind no matter what the lift and Russell just kept right on going instead of turning in the lift. That was fine because I knew where it was.
Pilots were upset earlier when tug pilots would not continue upwind because with the strong winds it was too easy to get blown back and have to quickly land back at launch without risking going downwind to find lift.
There was lift back where we originally flew through it and I slowly climbed out watching Olav Olsen, Larry, and Dangerous Dave (he really is dangerous in gaggles) thermal up higher than me upwind. I was hoping that my lift would be good enough to get me back up and not drift me outside the 10 km start cylinder. I couldn't really hope to get under them by pushing upwind. I was going up at 94 fpm and drifting at 12 mph.
At 6,700' and feeling okay I moved east a little to over a recently built pond watching the wind lines and found 135 fpm. Now the pilots south of me came downwind and joined me. We climbed to over 8,400' still three kilometers inside the start cylinder with 38 minutes to go before the race start gate.
We pushed up wind and did some more twirling to soak up the rest of the minutes. Other pilots joined us and a few minutes before the start we found 220 fpm and climbed back up to 8,500' and a good start with about a third of the field all enjoying themselves in the gaggle.
Cory and I headed out first when the lift got too weak and no one was willing to lead out. We are all together and it is a race against each other so there is no advantage in leading. But I got tired of the whole wait for the other guy thing (one of my many weaknesses).
After a few thermals with ten of us in the lead the lift was weak, often less than 100 fpm, sometimes a little over 200 fpm on average. Broken and moving about. James, Robin, Olav Olsen, and another pilot or two got high on the rest of us and got away. I was hanging with Zippy and Dangerous with a four or five others following.
It wasn't until we were 27 km north of the start cylinder that we found 500 fpm. I had lead out three times moving quickly to the newly forming wispies and it just took awhile to find the best lift.
Zac raced off right after the 500 fpm thermal, which got us to 10,000' and I took off after him. I could not keep up. One of the keys to Zac's good performance is the ease and willingness that he has to go very fast on glide when conditions allow for it.
Again with light lift and a 12-15 mph tail wind we made it quickly to the west side of the 5km turnpoint at 1T out in the dry areas where the top soil is thin and they don't/can't grow cotton.
Heading to the northwest just behind Dave and Zac and to their right I found the lift over the remains of the canyon before it goes up to the plateau and the croplands at 240 fpm. They both turned around and came back to me. They must have mirrors on their gliders. We climbed almost to 8,000'.
Before us stretched the crop lands and the prospect of weak lift. No cu's or wispies ahead. It looked like we would suffer as we had in previous days when we didn't go to the east and get over the drier and thinner lands. There were ponds and lakes every where, something that we haven't seen before in Big Spring.
A 9 km glide and we caught up with Olav Olsen turning in 8 fpm. Apparently Robin Hamilton was already on the ground.
We moved further west and found 15 fpm. Then found 240 fpm. The guys I was with including Ospanger, Zac, Bruce, Pannese, Dave, and Danny found a better core and left with 500' on me. I left with 6,700' and headed for the 10 km radius turnpoint at Welch northwest of La Mesa.
I watched the guys ahead and above me to see how they would do. Making the turnpoint and heading into the 17 mph south southeast wind toward Tahoka, I didn't see them start to circle. I headed further north, downwind of their track to check out some other areas and watching the ground for ponds or other wind disruptors, I found weak lift that averaged 72 fpm. I was by myself at 4,200' (1,200' AGL).
Although drifting north of the northeast course line I stayed in whatever I had so I could get high enough to head further east. I moved over a little to the west and found 133 fpm and worked it.
One pilot came in under me and then Larry came in at about my level and popped up above me. I worked it until the lift quit at 6,650'. Larry was 200' over me as we headed east northeast 8 km downwind of the course line. After a couple of kilometers he stopped and turned in 50 fpm. I didn't find that lift.
I continued easterly skimming the cotton fields. Down to 100' I had picked out a nice field and then saw that Zippy and Olav were breaking down right there I landed next to them. Larry would continue on for another six kilometers and win the day. No one made goal. I was 15 km short.
Six of us landed within half a kilometer of each other. The guys who got high on me and made the turnpoint in front of me never found lift after that.
James Stinnett was about 8 kilometers behind us but 20 kilometers ahead of Robin so he held on strong to second place after Robin was one point behind him after six days. Robin dropped from third down to fifth.
The wet cropped fields to the north and northwest of Big Spring cut dramatically into the lift that we normally expect here in Big Spring. The combination of strong winds, weak lift and cross wind tasks made it difficult, still we were able to get across a lot of country.
Everyone indicated that once again they had a great time flying in the best competition site in the US. They were very appreciative of Belinda Boulter as the meet director and want to come back next year for some more great flying.
We raised $2,840 for the needy children in Big Spring and the Cloudbase Foundation added another $1,000. The folks from the Rainbow Room came to our awards dinner and presented the USHPA and Cloudbase with plagues stating how much they appreciate our substantial support of their effort.
Matt's landing on the last day:
Task 7 results:
https://airtribune.com/2015-big-spring-nationals/results/task7/day/open-class
# | Name | Glider | Distance | Dist. Points |
Lead. Points |
Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Larry Bunner | Wills Wing T2C144 | 119.65 | 896.9 | 12.0 | 909 |
2 | Patrick Pannese | Wills Wing T2C 154 | 113.98 | 868.6 | 13.4 | 882 |
2 | Bruce Barmakian | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 113.78 | 867.5 | 14.8 | 882 |
4 | Olav Opsanger | Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 Technora | 113.54 | 865.7 | 15.2 | 881 |
5 | Zac Majors | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 113.57 | 866.0 | 13.7 | 880 |
5 | David Gibson | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 113.63 | 866.5 | 13.6 | 880 |
7 | Davis Straub | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 113.47 | 865.1 | 13.4 | 879 |
8 | Danny Jones | Wills Wing T2 154 | 111.50 | 840.5 | 12.1 | 853 |
9 | James Stinnett | Wills Wing T2C | 105.32 | 758.2 | 17.4 | 776 |
10 | Gerry Pesavento | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 99.72 | 692.4 | 12.1 | 705 |
Final results:
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Zac Majors | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 4249 |
2 | James Stinnett | Wills Wing T2C | 3845 |
3 | David Gibson | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 3752 |
4 | Bruce Barmakian | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 3654 |
5 | Robin Hamilton | Moyes RX3.5 | 3632 |
6 | Olav Opsanger | Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 Technora | 3628 |
7 | Derreck Turner | Moyes Litespeed RX5 | 3494 |
8 | Davis Straub | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 3447 |
9 | Larry Bunner | Wills Wing T2C144 | 3440 |
10 | Danny Jones | Wills Wing T2 154 | 2969 |
There were a number of former Sport class pilots (last year) flying in open class including Danny Jones, Cory Barnwell, Jeff Bohl, Jeff Kannard, Matt Christensen, and Patrick Pannese. There were a few others that were Sport Class pilots previously. Sport Class is the feeder class for Open Class.
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2015 Big Spring Nationals - task 6 »
The off switch
competition|David Gibson|Davis Straub|Gerry Pesavento|James Stinnett|Larry Bunner|Moyes Litespeed RX|PG|US Nationals 2015|Wayne Michelsen|Wills Wing T2C|Zac Majors
Results: https://airtribune.com/2015-big-spring-nationals/results
Blog and live tracking and replay: https://airtribune.com/2015-big-spring-nationals/blog__day_7
http://www.onlinecontest.org/olc-2.0/para/flightinfo.html?flightId=195761036
http://www.paraglidingforum.com/leonardo/flight/1233318
http://www.xcontest.org/world/en/flights/detail:davisstraub/7.8.2015/20:17
It was windy and blue at launch at 2 PM. Tiki pulled me up fifth and for the first time ever I was being towed so slow that when the rope bellied I broke a two hundred pound weak link at 500'. That pretty much screwed my day.
I got back in line but it was soon too late for the first start clock. I got another tow but didn't find any lift. On the third tow I raced downwind to get under Dave Proctor and we climbed out at 150 fpm as the clocked ticked down to the second time at 3:50 PM for the start window.
After getting up the lift was strong and there were wispies along our route:
We were racing trying to catch the guys a half hour in front. Ground speeds were in the 60's (mph) with a 17 mph south southeast wind.
We climbed higher in each thermal and jumped from wispy to wispy getting to 10,700'. It took merely an hour and forty minutes to go 125 km (plus ten for the start cylinder). Then the lift stopped.
I stayed near or to the right of the course line given the second leg to the north northeast and the south southeast winds.
South west of Post at over 10,000' I headed for some cu's northeast of Post. Down to under 7,000' northwest of Post I took 240 fpm to 8,500' just to make sure that I could make it to the cu's. I figured that they were enough east of the course line and that I would get high enough to make it in to goal from cloud base.
Unfortunately by the time I got to them they were dying and it was all blue out in front in a open canyon. I continued toward the goal but it looked like I was diving into a blue hole.
I saw some little wispies off downwind across the north south highway. I decided that that was my best chance to get up. I went to the best looking and newly forming cu and got nothing. I had gained no distance toward goal. I was 30 km away.
I headed north just so that I could land up on the plateau and have an easier retrieve. When I got to the edge of the canyon I found lift that turned into 190 fpm. I was being blown to the northwest away from goal at 17 to 19 mph.
I figured that if I could climb to 11,000' I could make it back to the goal despite the wind. There were wispies forming further to the northwest and I climbed to 7,500' before going to them and getting up to 9,200' but that was it.
It was a glide toward goal with a strong quartering head wind and I got within 8.3 km.
I was on the radio with Larry Bunner. I almost caught him just passed Post but he took the earlier start gate and was able to get up and into goal before I had to turn and take my chances with the wispies downwind. I landed a little after 7 PM.
Preliminary results:
# | Name | Glider | SS | ES | Time | Distance | Dist. Points |
Lead. Points |
Time Points |
Arr. Pos. Points |
Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Zac Majors | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 15:20:00 | 17:37:45 | 02:17:45 | 161.20 | 564.4 | 76.2 | 304.9 | 54.4 | 1000 |
2 | James Stinnett | Wills Wing T2C | 15:20:00 | 17:51:42 | 02:31:42 | 161.20 | 564.4 | 67.6 | 217.5 | 39.5 | 889 |
3 | David Gibson | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 15:20:00 | 17:55:50 | 02:35:50 | 161.20 | 564.4 | 59.6 | 201.0 | 28.5 | 854 |
4 | Derreck Turner | Moyes Litespeed RX5 | 15:20:00 | 17:56:38 | 02:36:38 | 161.20 | 564.4 | 62.1 | 198.0 | 20.8 | 845 |
5 | Larry Bunner | Wills Wing T2C144 | 15:20:00 | 18:10:27 | 02:50:27 | 161.20 | 564.4 | 50.0 | 150.7 | 15.8 | 781 |
6 | Wayne Michelsen | Icaro Laminar | 15:20:00 | 18:25:00 | 03:05:00 | 161.20 | 564.4 | 39.1 | 107.8 | 12.8 | 724 |
7 | Gerry Pesavento | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 15:20:00 | 18:41:21 | 03:21:21 | 161.20 | 564.4 | 64.6 | 11.4 | 640 | |
8 | Olav Opsanger | Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 Technora | 15:20:00 | 155.18 | 553.9 | 65.4 | 619 | ||||
9 | Jeff Kannard | Wills Wing T2C | 15:20:00 | 152.93 | 548.4 | 10.0 | 558 | ||||
10 | Davis Straub | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 15:50:00 | 153.33 | 549.6 | 550 |
12 topics in this article: competition, David Gibson, Davis Straub, Gerry Pesavento, James Stinnett, Larry Bunner, Moyes Litespeed RX, PG, US Nationals 2015, Wayne Michelsen, Wills Wing T2C, Zac Majors
2015 Big Spring Nationals - task 5 »
Updated results
Alejandro Gonzalez|Bruce Barmakian|competition|David Gibson|Davis Straub|James Stinnett|Larry Bunner|Moyes Litespeed RX|Robin Hamilton|US Nationals 2015|Wills Wing T2C|Zac Majors
Results: https://airtribune.com/2015-big-spring-nationals/results
Blog and live tracking and replay: https://airtribune.com/2015-big-spring-nationals/blog__day_6
Task 5:
# | Name | Glider | SS | ES | Time | Dist. Points |
Lead. Points |
Time Points |
Arr. Pos. Points |
Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Zac Majors | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 16:15:00 | 17:09:02 | 00:54:02 | 200.4 | 54.4 | 247.8 | 44.2 | 547 |
2 | Davis Straub | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 16:15:00 | 17:16:17 | 01:01:17 | 200.4 | 61.9 | 185.1 | 37.5 | 485 |
3 | Robin Hamilton | Moyes RX3.5 | 16:15:00 | 17:16:09 | 01:01:09 | 200.4 | 39.3 | 185.8 | 40.8 | 466 |
4 | Larry Bunner | Wills Wing T2C144 | 16:15:00 | 17:24:34 | 01:09:34 | 200.4 | 38.2 | 143.6 | 24.6 | 407 |
5 | Derreck Turner | Moyes Litespeed RX5 | 16:00:00 | 17:17:57 | 01:17:57 | 200.4 | 59.7 | 108.8 | 34.5 | 403 |
6 | Olav Olsen | Ww T2C 136 | 16:00:00 | 17:22:02 | 01:22:02 | 200.4 | 49.1 | 93.4 | 31.7 | 375 |
7 | Olav Opsanger | Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 Technora | 16:15:00 | 17:30:51 | 01:15:51 | 200.4 | 33.0 | 117.1 | 22.6 | 373 |
8 | David Gibson | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 16:00:00 | 17:22:56 | 01:22:56 | 200.4 | 49.9 | 90.1 | 26.8 | 367 |
9 | Jay Devorak | Moyes Lightspeed RX 3.5 | 16:00:00 | 17:22:05 | 01:22:05 | 200.4 | 33.8 | 93.2 | 29.2 | 357 |
10 | Bruce Barmakian | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 16:15:00 | 17:34:23 | 01:19:23 | 200.4 | 21.7 | 103.3 | 20.8 | 346 |
Cumulative:
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Zac Majors | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 2369 |
2 | Bruce Barmakian | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 2213 |
3 | Robin Hamilton | Moyes RX3.5 | 2189 |
4 | James Stinnett | Wills Wing T2C | 2174 |
5 | Olav Opsanger | Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 Technora | 2113 |
6 | Derreck Turner | Moyes Litespeed RX5 | 2088 |
7 | David Gibson | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 2018 |
8 | Davis Straub | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 2002 |
9 | Wolfgang Siess | Wills Wing T2C 154 | 1915 |
10 | Jay Devorak | Moyes Lightspeed RX 3.5 | 1827 |
Sport class:
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | John Maloney | Ww Sport 2 155 | 788 |
2 | Jose Sandoval | Aeros Aeros Discus C | 433 |
3 | Alejandro Gonzalez | Aeros Discus | 350 |
4 | Chris Chaney | Wills Wing Sport 2 135 | 308 |
5 | Michelle Haag | Wills Wing Sport 2 | 186 |
6 | W. Michael Ford | Wills Wing S2-175 | 22 |
12 topics in this article: Alejandro Gonzalez, Bruce Barmakian, competition, David Gibson, Davis Straub, James Stinnett, Larry Bunner, Moyes Litespeed RX, Robin Hamilton, US Nationals 2015, Wills Wing T2C, Zac Majors
2015 Big Spring Nationals - task 5 »
A short race to goal with most everyone there
Bruce Barmakian|competition|David Gibson|Davis Straub|Moyes Litespeed RX|Robin Hamilton|US Nationals 2015|Wills Wing T2C
Results: https://airtribune.com/2015-big-spring-nationals/results
Blog and live tracking and replay: https://airtribune.com/2015-big-spring-nationals/blog__day_5
Today we got preliminary results early:
https://airtribune.com/2015-big-spring-nationals/results/task5/day/open-class
# | Name | Glider | SS | ES | Time | Dist. Points |
Lead. Points |
Time Points |
Arr. Pos. Points |
Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Davis Straub | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 16:15:00 | 17:16:17 | 01:01:17 | 223.9 | 69.2 | 272.1 | 41.7 | 607 |
2 | Robin Hamilton | Moyes RX3.5 | 16:15:00 | 17:16:09 | 01:01:09 | 223.9 | 43.6 | 276.8 | 49.4 | 594 |
3 | David Gibson | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 16:00:00 | 17:22:56 | 01:22:56 | 223.9 | 55.6 | 136.8 | 29.3 | 446 |
4 | Jay Devorak | Moyes Lightspeed RX 3.5 | 16:00:00 | 17:22:05 | 01:22:05 | 223.9 | 37.3 | 140.5 | 35.0 | 437 |
5 | Bruce Barmakian | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 16:15:00 | 17:34:23 | 01:19:23 | 223.9 | 23.6 | 152.5 | 24.6 | 425 |
6 | Danny Jones | Wills Wing T2 154 | 16:30:00 | 17:49:26 | 01:19:26 | 223.9 | 10.1 | 152.2 | 13.3 | 400 |
7 | Jeff Kannard | Wills Wing T2C | 16:00:00 | 17:39:30 | 01:39:30 | 223.9 | 18.7 | 72.7 | 20.7 | 336 |
8 | Luke Waters | Moyes RS4 | 16:15:00 | 17:54:47 | 01:39:47 | 223.9 | 9.7 | 71.7 | 12.0 | 317 |
9 | Cory Barnwell | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 16:00:00 | 17:45:35 | 01:45:35 | 223.9 | 17.1 | 51.7 | 17.6 | 310 |
10 | Grant Emary | Wills Wing T2C | 16:00:00 | 17:47:07 | 01:47:07 | 223.9 | 20.9 | 46.5 | 15.2 | 307 |
I guess I like leading points.
8 topics in this article: Bruce Barmakian, competition, David Gibson, Davis Straub, Moyes Litespeed RX, Robin Hamilton, US Nationals 2015, Wills Wing T2C
Dinosaur 2015 »
Dinosaur 2015
Fees rising
Terry <<terryreynolds2>> writes:
Dinosaur 2015 (see http://rockymountainglider.com) is a maximum NTSS points (600) meet (+$10,000 prize money). Also, at least fourteen Sport Class ($5000 prize money) pilots have signed up and more to come. Entry fee goes up August 1. Pilots registering and paying before then get an embroidered fleece jacket instead of a t-shirt. So far all entrants are foot launching, so too bad we built Dinosaur International.
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Dinosaur 2015 »
Dinosaur 2015
150 million years of soaring
Terry <<terryreynolds2>> writes:
The entry fee for Dinosaur 2015 ( http://rockymountainglider.com ) goes up to $425 August 1.
As anyone who has been part of organizing a hang gliding comp could tell you, it would be much easier and better for all concerned if competitors were able to plan ahead and pay the earlier, lower prices ($300 for Dinosaur.) For pilots registered and paid before August 1, the “T-Shirt Size” requested on the pilot registration form is actually for a nice fleece jacket (or vest, as shown) with “Dinosaur 2015; 150 Million Years of Soaring” embroidered around a pterodactyl and hang glider. Entrants paid after that date - we have to place the order - will get a t-shirt. Extra jackets for family, crew, etc. can be ordered by paid up pilots, before August 1, for $55.
The event is non-profit and any money left over will go to the Cloudbase Foundation.
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Tyler Canadian Champion
Tyler Canadian Champion
A few bucks for the winners
David Gibson|Doug Keller|Dustin Martin|photo|Ralph Herten|Randy Rauck|Tyler Borradaile
Bruce Barmakian|David Gibson|Doug Keller|Dustin Martin|photo|Ralph Herten|Randy Rauck|Tyler Borradaile
Bruce Barmakian|David Gibson|Doug Keller|Dustin Martin|photo|Ralph Herten|Randy Rauck|Tyler Borradaile
Randy Rauck <<randy>> writes:
After 5 rounds the winners are
Overall winners:
Open Class
1st David Gibson, USA $500.00
2nd Jonas Lobitz, New Zealand $300.00
3rd Bruce Barmakian, USA $200.00
4th Dustin Martin, USA $100.00
5th Konrad Heilman, Brazil $100.00
Canadian National Champs
Open
1st Tyler Borradaile, Kelowna $500.00
2nd Ross Hunter, Calgary $300.00
3rd John Theoret $200.00
4th Doug Keller, Calgary
5th Tim Middlemiss, Calgary
KingPost
1st David Bacon, Summerland $300.00
2nd Stewart Trowsdale, Vancouver $200.00
3rd Ralph Herten, Vancouver $100.00
All Scores and Photos can be found at: http://lumbyairforce.weebly.com/blog
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7 topics in this article: David Gibson, Doug Keller, Dustin Martin, photo, Ralph Herten, Randy Rauck, Tyler Borradaile
The 2015 Canadian National Championships »
The 2015 Canadian National Championships
Fifth task
Bruce Barmakian|David Gibson|Doug Keller|Dustin Martin|Moyes Litespeed RX|Tyler Borradaile|Wills Wing T2C
http://lumbyairforce.weebly.com/blog
Task five:
# | Name | Glider | Time | Dist. Points |
Lead. Points |
Time Points |
Arr. Pos. Points |
Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Jonas Lobitz | Moyes RS3.5 | 01:27:40 | 378.9 | 42.8 | 409.4 | 51.8 | 883 |
2 | Bruce Barmakian | WW T2C 144 | 01:41:03 | 378.9 | 102.4 | 276.7 | 73.1 | 825 |
3 | David Gibson | WW T2C | 01:41:02 | 378.9 | 73.7 | 276.8 | 61.6 | 791 |
4 | Konrad Heilman | Moyes RX | 01:39:44 | 378.9 | 39.2 | 285.6 | 43.4 | 747 |
5 | Marcelo Menin | WW T2C | 01:41:56 | 378.9 | 38.3 | 270.9 | 36.4 | 725 |
6 | Wolfgang Siess | WW T2C 154 | 02:02:45 | 378.9 | 157.1 | 30.7 | 567 | |
7 | Ross Hunter | Moyes Litespeed S4.3 | 02:16:13 | 378.9 | 8.3 | 96.1 | 22.4 | 506 |
8 | Tyler Borradaile | Wills Wing T2C | 02:15:50 | 378.9 | 1 | 97.8 | 26.1 | 504 |
9 | Doug Keller | Moyes Litespeed RX4 | 02:19:08 | 378.9 | 83.7 | 19.7 | 482 | |
10 | Rory Duncan | WW T2C 144 | 02:28:09 | 378.9 | 46.7 | 17.7 | 443 | |
11 | Doug Hartley | Wills Wing T2C | 02:30:37 | 378.9 | 36.9 | 16.3 | 432 | |
12 | Tim Middlemiss | WW T2C | 02:35:44 | 378.9 | 17.0 | 15.4 | 411 | |
13 | Greg Leslie | WW T2C | 03:17:17 | 378.9 | 14.9 | 394 |
The pilots at goal. Thanks to Ryann.
Cumulative:
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | David Gibson | WW T2C | 3732 |
2 | Jonas Lobitz | Moyes RS3.5 | 3693 |
3 | Bruce Barmakian | WW T2C 144 | 3559 |
4 | Dustin Martin | WW T2C | 3291 |
5 | Konrad Heilman | Moyes RX | 3208 |
6 | Tyler Borradaile | Wills Wing T2C | 2856 |
7 | Wolfgang Siess | WW T2C 154 | 2717 |
8 | Rory Duncan | WW T2C 144 | 2586 |
9 | Ross Hunter | Moyes Litespeed S4.3 | 2492 |
10 | Marcelo Menin | WW T2C | 2428 |
7 topics in this article: Bruce Barmakian, David Gibson, Doug Keller, Dustin Martin, Moyes Litespeed RX, Tyler Borradaile, Wills Wing T2C
The 2015 Canadian National Championships »
Fourth task
Bruce Barmakian|Canadian Nationals 2015|David Gibson|Doug Keller|Dustin Martin|Moyes Litespeed RX|Tyler Borradaile|Wills Wing T2C
http://lumbyairforce.weebly.com/blog
Task four:
# | Name | Glider | Time | Dist. Points |
Lead. Points |
Time Points |
Arr. Pos. Points |
Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Dustin Martin | Ww T2C | 02:08:49 | 422.4 | 84.6 | 404.3 | 72.2 | 984 |
2 | Wolfgang Siess | Ww T2C 154 | 02:09:00 | 422.4 | 85.6 | 397.7 | 59.0 | 965 |
3 | Konrad Heilman | Moyes RX | 02:10:57 | 422.4 | 101.1 | 370.4 | 47.9 | 942 |
4 | Bruce Barmakian | Ww T2C 144 | 02:11:22 | 422.4 | 99.2 | 366.2 | 38.9 | 927 |
5 | Jonas Lobitz | Moyes RS3.5 | 02:12:09 | 422.4 | 90.4 | 358.7 | 26.1 | 898 |
6 | David Gibson | Ww T2C | 02:11:51 | 422.4 | 76.2 | 361.5 | 31.7 | 892 |
7 | Tyler Borradaile | Wills Wing T2C | 02:14:08 | 422.4 | 88.4 | 342.0 | 21.9 | 875 |
8 | Marcelo Menin | Ww T2C | 02:10:22 | 422.4 | 50.3 | 376.9 | 18.9 | 869 |
9 | Rory Duncan | Ww T2C 144 | 02:25:14 | 422.4 | 34.0 | 272.2 | 15.5 | 744 |
10 | Ross Hunter | Moyes Litespeed S4.3 | 02:37:17 | 422.4 | 72.9 | 213.7 | 16.8 | 726 |
11 | Doug Keller | Moyes Litespeed RX4 | 03:22:15 | 422.4 | 45.7 | 14.8 | 483 |
Cumulative:
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Dustin Martin | Ww T2C | 2947 |
2 | David Gibson | Ww T2C | 2941 |
3 | Jonas Lobitz | Moyes RS3.5 | 2810 |
4 | Bruce Barmakian | Ww T2C 144 | 2734 |
5 | Konrad Heilman | Moyes RX | 2461 |
6 | Tyler Borradaile | Wills Wing T2C | 2352 |
7 | Wolfgang Siess | Ww T2C 154 | 2150 |
8 | Rory Duncan | Ww T2C 144 | 2143 |
9 | Ross Hunter | Moyes Litespeed S4.3 | 1986 |
10 | John Theoret | Ww T2C | 1954 |
8 topics in this article: Bruce Barmakian, Canadian Nationals 2015, David Gibson, Doug Keller, Dustin Martin, Moyes Litespeed RX, Tyler Borradaile, Wills Wing T2C
The 2015 Canadian National Championships »
Third task
Bruce Barmakian|Canadian Nationals 2015|David Gibson|Doug Keller|Dustin Martin|Moyes Litespeed RX|Tyler Borradaile|Wills Wing T2C
http://lumbyairforce.weebly.com/blog
Task three:
# | Name | Glider | Time | Distance | Dist. Points |
Lead. Points |
Time Points |
Arr. Pos. Points |
Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Dustin Martin | Ww T2C | 02:29:51 | 86.35 | 667.7 | 34.7 | 184.0 | 32.9 | 919 |
2 | David Gibson | Ww T2C | 02:30:52 | 86.35 | 667.7 | 41.6 | 175.1 | 15.4 | 900 |
3 | Jonas Lobitz | Moyes RS3.5 | 02:31:06 | 86.35 | 667.7 | 39.9 | 173.8 | 8.2 | 890 |
4 | Konrad Heilman | Moyes RX | 76.47 | 629.5 | 43.9 | 673 | |||
5 | Bruce Barmakian | Ww T2C 144 | 70.41 | 598.3 | 46.0 | 644 | |||
6 | Tyler Borradaile | Wills Wing T2C | 62.65 | 549.9 | 28.4 | 578 | |||
7 | John Theoret | Ww T2C | 62.00 | 545.8 | 10.7 | 557 | |||
8 | Doug Keller | Moyes Litespeed RX4 | 61.10 | 538.9 | 16.7 | 556 | |||
9 | Marcelo Menin | 55.66 | 492.8 | 32.7 | 526 | ||||
10 | Wolfgang Siess | Ww T2C 154 | 55.21 | 488.8 | 31.0 | 520 |
Cumulative:
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | David Gibson | Ww T2C | 2049 |
2 | Dustin Martin | Ww T2C | 1963 |
3 | Jonas Lobitz | Moyes RS3.5 | 1912 |
4 | Bruce Barmakian | Ww T2C 144 | 1807 |
5 | John Theoret | Ww T2C | 1524 |
6 | Konrad Heilman | Moyes RX | 1519 |
7 | Tyler Borradaile | Wills Wing T2C | 1477 |
8 | Rory Duncan | Ww T2C 144 | 1399 |
9 | Ross Hunter | Moyes Litespeed S4.3 | 1260 |
10 | Wolfgang Siess | Ww T2C 154 | 1185 |
8 topics in this article: Bruce Barmakian, Canadian Nationals 2015, David Gibson, Doug Keller, Dustin Martin, Moyes Litespeed RX, Tyler Borradaile, Wills Wing T2C
The 2015 Canadian National Championships »
Seven in goal
Bruce Barmakian|Canadian Nationals 2015|David Gibson|Dustin Martin|Tyler Borradaile|Wills Wing T2C
http://lumbyairforce.weebly.com/blog
Task 2:
# | Name | Glider | Time | Dist. Points |
Lead. Points |
Time Points |
Arr. Pos. Points |
Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Dustin Martin | Ww T2C | 01:42:43 | 321.3 | 55.8 | 223.2 | 39.9 | 640 |
2 | David Gibson | Ww T2C | 01:44:07 | 321.3 | 53.9 | 207.9 | 28.9 | 612 |
3 | Bruce Barmakian | Ww T2C 144 | 01:46:41 | 321.3 | 43.4 | 192.7 | 20.9 | 578 |
4 | Tyler Borradaile | Wills Wing T2C | 01:48:50 | 321.3 | 47.9 | 182.5 | 15.2 | 567 |
5 | Jonas Lobitz | Moyes RS3.5 | 01:49:56 | 321.3 | 36.0 | 177.7 | 11.5 | 547 |
6 | Rory Duncan | Ww T2C 144 | 01:55:04 | 321.3 | 37.7 | 158.1 | 9.4 | 527 |
7 | John Theoret | Ww T2C | 02:22:42 | 321.3 | 35.4 | 80.8 | 8.4 | 446 |
Cumulative:
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Bruce Barmakian | Ww T2C 144 | 1163 |
2 | David Gibson | Ww T2C | 1149 |
3 | Dustin Martin | Ww T2C | 1044 |
4 | Rory Duncan | Ww T2C 144 | 1034 |
5 | Jonas Lobitz | Moyes RS3.5 | 1022 |
6 | John Theoret | Ww T2C | 967 |
7 | Tyler Borradaile | Wills Wing T2C | 899 |
8 | Konrad Heilman | Moyes RX | 846 |
9 | Ross Hunter | Moyes Litespeed S4.3 | 753 |
10 | Wolfgang Siess | Ww T2C 154 | 665 |
Photo by Ryann.
6 topics in this article: Bruce Barmakian, Canadian Nationals 2015, David Gibson, Dustin Martin, Tyler Borradaile, Wills Wing T2C
Dinosaur 2015 »
June 25, 2015, 5:15:33 pm MST -0600
Dinosaur 2015
Fees rising
Terry <<terryreynolds2>> writes:
The entry fee for Dinosaur 2015 goes up July 1 to $400.
The comp was conceived last year to boost hang gliding through competition by providing a major foot launch meet in a proven location. (Although designed primarily as a footlaunch event, we built a runway just for this comp for those who prefer to aerotow.) While aerotow contests have evolved and been refined to a fine art, particularly through the work of Davis Straub and Jamie Shelden, large footlaunch comps in the U.S. seem to be a thing of the past.
Dinosaur 2015 aims to:
1) To attract the world’s top pilots - the World Champion and the U.S. Champion
are coming;
2) To bring back former regular competitors - “The Jeffs,” among others, are
coming;
3) To build on the well thought out efforts to encourage the Sport Class.
Most of the Sport Class pilots signed up thus far have never flown in either class of a major comp. Nothing changes the fact that only the individual pilot can determine what is safe or not for that individual pilot. That said, we are making special efforts to encourage and cater to Sport Class:
1) Ryan Voight, USHPA Instructor of the Year and experienced big air pilot, will
teach a free clinic, including video critique of launches, onsite Friday and
Saturday before the contest starts Sunday;
2) Sport Class competitors will drop their two low score days - bomb out or
choose not to fly and you’re still in the comp!;
3) Jim Zeiset has pledged $5,000 prize money (split $3K, $1500, $500) to the
class.
To register, and to see the answers to more questions than you thought to ask, please go to http://rockymountainglider.com.
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Dinosaur 2015 »
Dinosaur 2015
Entry fee rises soon
Terry <<terryreynolds2>> writes:
Reminder, the entry fee for Dinosaur 2015 goes up June 1. Please see http://rockymountainglider.com for more information and to register. Contact us at <rockymountainglider> with any questions, to volunteer, etc.
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Dinosaur fees to rise
Dinosaur fees to rise
March 31st.
Dinosaur 2015
Terry writes:
March 31 is the last day for the Dinosaur 2015 early entry fee. Go to http://www.rockymountainglider.com/registration-fees.html to fill out your Pilot Entry Form and pay before the entry fee goes up!
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1 topic in this article: Dinosaur 2015
2015 Dinosaur »
2015 Dinosaur
Registration is open
Terry <<terryreynolds2>> writes:
Registration is now open for Dinosaur 2015. Open ($10,000 First Prize), Sport ($5,000 prize money) and rigid classes. August 30 - September 5. Dinosaur, Colorado. Please see http://RockyMountainGlider.com for complete information.
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Dinosaur 2015 »
Dinosaur 2015
Terry is up and going for it
Terry <<terryreynolds2>> writes:
Tim Collard, longtime Colorado tow pilot, stood in for me with the Mayor of Dinosaur and a local rancher/county road grader artist building the new hang glider towing runway (1800' x 75') just east of town. While Dinosaur 2015 is being organized primarily as a foot launch contest, we want to provide an alternative for pilots who prefer to tow. The runway is within the same 10k start circle as the foot launches and a 2000' tow puts the pilot at the same altitude.
http://www.rockymountainglider.com/
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Dinosaur 2015 goes topless
Dinosaur 2015
No longer restricted to kingpost only
Dinosaur 2015
http://www.rockymountainglider.com
August 30 - September 5, 2015
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Dinosaur 2015 »
Dinosaur 2015
$5,000 prize money for sport class
http://www.rockymountainglider.com/about.html
Terry<<terryreynolds2>> writes:
Jim Zeiset just kicked in another $5,000, designated for Sports Class prize money. This will be escrowed as will the $10,000 from us.
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Dinosaur 2015 »
Dinosaur 2015
King posted only - open and sport
http://www.rockymountainglider.com/about.html
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Tin Cup
This is where the tough get going
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13 topics in this article: Belinda Boulter, Blue Sky, David Gibson, Davis Straub, Dragonfly, Jim Yocom, Kraig Coomber, Oliver Gregory, Orlando Stephenson, Quest Air, Quinn Cornwell, Steve Wendt, weather
2011 Santa Cruz Flats Race - final results »
2011 Santa Cruz Flats Race
The results
(Francisco Grande, Casa Grande, Arizona, USA)
Alex McCulloch|Ben Dunn|Bill Soderquist|Brett Hazlett|Charles Allen|Chris Zimmerman|David Gibson|Davis Straub|Dustin Martin|Gary Solomon|Glen Volk|Greg Dinauer|Greg Kendall|James Stinnett|Jeff Chipman|John Hesch|Jonathan Dietch|Kraig Coomber|Larry Bunner|Mitchell "Mitch" Shipley|Patrick Kruse|Robin Hamilton|Santa Cruz Flats Race 2011
http://santacruzflatsrace.blogspot.com/
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Jeff Obrien | Ww T2C 144 | 4247 |
2 | Dustin Martin | Ww T2C144 | 4158 |
3 | Mitch Shipley | Ww T2C 144 | 3713 |
4 | Kraig Coomber | Moyes Litespeed RS3.5 | 3584 |
5 | James Stinnett | Ww T2C 144 | 3579 |
6 | Robin Hamilton | Moyes Litespeed RS4 | 3552 |
7 | Glen Volk | Moyes RS3.5 | 3484 |
8 | Brett Hazlett | Moyes Litespeed RS3.5 | 3204 |
9 | Josef Bostik | Ww T2C 154 | 3151 |
10 | Chris Zimmerman | Ww T2C 154 | 3089 |
11 | Larry Bunner | Ww T2C144 | 2872 |
12 | David Gibson | Ww T2C 144 | 2855 |
13 | Davis Straub | Ww T2C 144 | 2825 |
14 | Ben Dunn | Moyes RS3.5 | 2688 |
15 | Matt Barker | Ww T2C 144 | 2536 |
16 | Patrick Kruse | Ww T2C 144 | 2395 |
17 | Bill Soderquist | Moyes Litespeed RS3.5 | 2389 |
18 | Rudy Gotes | Moyes Litespeed S 3.5 | 2035 |
19 | Bob Filipchuk | Aeros Combat L 15 | 1966 |
20 | Greg Kendall | Moyes Litespeed S4 | 1942 |
21 | Olav Olsen | Ww T2C 144 | 1925 |
22 | Charles Allen | Icaro Laminar Z8 | 1908 |
23 | Ricker Goldsborough | Moyes Litespeed RS3.5 | 1865 |
24 | Konrad Heilman | Moyes Litespeed RS3.5 | 1854 |
25 | John Hesch | Moyes RS4 | 1555 |
26 | Jochen Zeischka | Moyes Litespeed S4 | 1539 |
27 | Alex Mcculloch | Ww T2C 153 | 1506 |
28 | Jd Guillemette | Moyes Litespeed 4S | 1465 |
29 | Jeff Chipman | Moyes Litespeed 4S | 1446 |
30 | Mike Branger | Ww T2 155 | 1348 |
31 | Jonathan Dietch | Ww T2C 144 | 1239 |
32 | Markus Venturini | Ww T2 150 | 1090 |
33 | Jay Devorak | Moyes Litespeed 4S | 986 |
34 | Efren Fierro | Ww T2C 144 | 693 |
35 | Bill Reynolds | Aeros Combat L 13 | 652 |
36 | Rodrigo Russek | Moyes Litespeed S4.5 | 638 |
37 | Greg Dinauer | Aeros Combat L-13 | 445 |
38 | Alex Cuddy | Moyes Litespeed RS4 | 411 |
39 | Matt Dittman | Moyes Litespeed S4 | 65 |
39 | Gary Solomon | Icaro Laminar MR700 14.1 | 65 |
Discuss "2011 Santa Cruz Flats Race - final results" at the Oz Report forum link»
23 topics in this article: Alex McCulloch, Ben Dunn, Bill Soderquist, Brett Hazlett, Charles Allen, Chris Zimmerman, David Gibson, Davis Straub, Dustin Martin, Gary Solomon, Glen Volk, Greg Dinauer, Greg Kendall, James Stinnett, Jeff Chipman, John Hesch, Jonathan Dietch, Kraig Coomber, Larry Bunner, Mitchell "Mitch" Shipley, Patrick Kruse, Robin Hamilton, Santa Cruz Flats Race 2011
2011 Santa Cruz Flats Race - results for day three »
2011 Santa Cruz Flats Race
A low scoring day
(Francisco Grande, Casa Grande, Arizona, USA)
Ben Dunn|Brett Hazlett|Charles Allen|Chris Zimmerman|David Gibson|Davis Straub|Dustin Martin|Glen Volk|Greg Kendall|James Stinnett|Kraig Coomber|Larry Bunner|Mitchell "Mitch" Shipley|Robin Hamilton|Santa Cruz Flats Race 2011
http://santacruzflatsrace.blogspot.com/
# | Name | Glider | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Dustin Martin | Ww T2C144 | 02:38:17 | 684 |
2 | Jeff Obrien | Ww T2C 144 | 02:39:47 | 663 |
3 | Glen Volk | Moyes RS3.5 | 02:46:03 | 635 |
4 | Chris Zimmerman | Ww T2C 154 | 03:18:28 | 554 |
5 | Ben Dunn | Moyes RS3.5 | 03:21:30 | 550 |
6 | Larry Bunner | Ww T2C144 | 462 | |
7 | Mitch Shipley | Ww T2C 144 | 453 | |
8 | Ricker Goldsborough | Moyes Litespeed RS3.5 | 411 | |
9 | Jd Guillemette | Moyes Litespeed 4S | 398 | |
10 | Charles Allen | Icaro Laminar Z8 | 362 | |
11 | David Gibson | Ww T2C 144 | 355 | |
12 | Davis Straub | Ww T2C 144 | 346 | |
13 | Robin Hamilton | Moyes Litespeed RS4 | 291 | |
13 | Josef Bostik | Ww T2C 144 | 291 | |
15 | Kraig Coomber | Moyes Litespeed RS3.5 | 290 | |
16 | James Stinnett | Ww T2C 144 | 288 | |
17 | Brett Hazlett | Moyes Litespeed RS3.5 | 231 | |
18 | Greg Kendall | Moyes Litespeed S4 | 229 | |
19 | Bob Filipchuk | Aeros Combat L 15 | 222 | |
20 | Rodrigo Russek | Moyes Litespeed S4.5 | 198 |
Discuss "2011 Santa Cruz Flats Race - results for day three" at the Oz Report forum link»
15 topics in this article: Ben Dunn, Brett Hazlett, Charles Allen, Chris Zimmerman, David Gibson, Davis Straub, Dustin Martin, Glen Volk, Greg Kendall, James Stinnett, Kraig Coomber, Larry Bunner, Mitchell "Mitch" Shipley, Robin Hamilton, Santa Cruz Flats Race 2011
2011 Santa Cruz Flats Race - totals after two days »
2011 Santa Cruz Flats Race
Landing out hurts
(Francisco Grande, Casa Grande, Arizona, USA)
Ben Dunn|Bill Soderquist|Brett Hazlett|David Gibson|Davis Straub|Dustin Martin|Glen Volk|James Stinnett|Kraig Coomber|Larry Bunner|Mitchell "Mitch" Shipley|Mitch Shipley|Patrick Kruse|Robin Hamilton|Santa Cruz Flats Race 2011
Ben Dunn|Bill Soderquist|Brett Hazlett|David Gibson|Davis Straub|Dustin Martin|Glen Volk|James Stinnett|Kraig Coomber|Larry Bunner|Mitchell "Mitch" Shipley|Patrick Kruse|Robin Hamilton|Santa Cruz Flats Race 2011
Ben Dunn|Bill Soderquist|Brett Hazlett|Chris Zimmerman|David Gibson|Davis Straub|Dustin Martin|Glen Volk|James Stinnett|Kraig Coomber|Larry Bunner|Mitchell "Mitch" Shipley|Mitch Shipley|Patrick Kruse|Robin Hamilton|Santa Cruz Flats Race 2011
Ben Dunn|Bill Soderquist|Brett Hazlett|Chris Zimmerman|David Gibson|Davis Straub|Dustin Martin|Glen Volk|James Stinnett|Kraig Coomber|Larry Bunner|Mitchell "Mitch" Shipley|Patrick Kruse|Robin Hamilton|Santa Cruz Flats Race 2011
# | Name | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Jeff Obrien | WW T2C 144 | 1797 |
2 | Dustin Martin | WW T2C144 | 1730 |
3 | James Stinnett | WW T2C 144 | 1667 |
4 | Brett Hazlett | Moyes Litespeed RS3.5 | 1631 |
5 | Kraig Coomber | Moyes Litespeed RS3.5 | 1593 |
6 | Josef Bostik | WW T2C 144 | 1551 |
7 | Robin Hamilton | Moyes Litespeed RS4 | 1478 |
8 | Mitch Shipley | WW T2C 144 | 1459 |
9 | Larry Bunner | WW T2C144 | 1375 |
10 | Ben Dunn | Moyes RS3.5 | 1263 |
11 | Chris Zimmerman | WW T2C 154 | 1257 |
12 | Glen Volk | Moyes RS3.5 | 1158 |
13 | Davis Straub | WW T2C 144 | 1124 |
14 | David Gibson | WW T2C 144 | 1089 |
15 | Rudy Gotes | Moyes Litespeed S 3.5 | 1065 |
16 | Matt Barker | WW T2C 144 | 957 |
17 | Patrick Kruse | WW T2C 144 | 923 |
18 | Olav Olsen | WW T2C 144 | 897 |
19 | Bill Soderquist | Moyes Litespeed RS3.5 | 836 |
20 | Ricker Goldsborough | Moyes Litespeed RS3.5 | 779 |
Discuss "2011 Santa Cruz Flats Race" at the Oz Report forum link»
15 topics in this article: Ben Dunn, Bill Soderquist, Brett Hazlett, David Gibson, Davis Straub, Dustin Martin, Glen Volk, James Stinnett, Kraig Coomber, Larry Bunner, Mitchell "Mitch" Shipley, Mitch Shipley, Patrick Kruse, Robin Hamilton, Santa Cruz Flats Race 2011
2011 Santa Cruz Flats Race - top twenty results from day one »
2011 Santa Cruz Flats Race
Eight pilots in goal
(Francisco Grande, Casa Grande, Arizona, USA)
Brett Hazlett|Chris Zimmerman|David Gibson|Davis Straub|Dustin Martin|Glen Volk|Greg Dinauer|James Stinnett|Jeff Chipman|Kraig Coomber|Larry Bunner|Mitchell "Mitch" Shipley|Patrick Kruse|Robin Hamilton|Santa Cruz Flats Race 2011
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/26822852/SCF2011/Results/T1/Flex_T1.html
# | Name | Nat | Glider | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | James Stinnett | USA | WW T2C 144 | 998 |
2 | Davis Straub | USA | WW T2C 144 | 902 |
3 | Jeff Obrien | USA | WW T2C 144 | 899 |
4 | Mitch Shipley | USA | WW T2C 144 | 865 |
5 | Dustin Martin | USA | WW T2C144 | 822 |
5 | Robin Hamilton | USA | Moyes Litespeed RS4 | 822 |
7 | David Gibson | USA | WW T2C 144 | 800 |
8 | Larry Bunner | USA | WW T2C144 | 769 |
9 | Chris Zimmerman | USA | WW T2C 154 | 645 |
10 | Brett Hazlett | CAN | Moyes Litespeed RS3.5 | 640 |
11 | Kraig Coomber | USA | Moyes Litespeed RS3.5 | 627 |
12 | Olav Olsen | NOR | WW T2C 144 | 596 |
13 | Josef Bostik | USA | WW T2C 144 | 582 |
14 | Glen Volk | USA | Moyes RS3.5 | 551 |
15 | Rudy Gotes | MEX | Moyes Litespeed S 3.5 | 530 |
16 | Bob Filipchuk | USA | Aeros Combat L 15 | 485 |
17 | Ricker Goldsborough | USA | Moyes Litespeed RS3.5 | 468 |
18 | Jeff Chipman | USA | Moyes Litespeed 4S | 461 |
19 | Greg Dinauer | USA | Aeros Combat L-13 | 450 |
20 | Patrick Kruse | USA | WW T2C 144 | 432 |
15 topics in this article: Brett Hazlett, Chris Zimmerman, David Gibson, Davis Straub, Dustin Martin, Glen Volk, Greg Dinauer, James Stinnett, Jeff Chipman, Kraig Coomber, Larry Bunner, Mitchell "Mitch" Shipley, Patrick Kruse, Robin Hamilton, Santa Cruz Flats Race 2011
Dave Gibson's T2C
Nice undersurface
David "Dave" Gibson|Wills Wing T2C
(N Side, Point of the Mountain, Draper, UT, USA)
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2 topics in this article: David "Dave" Gibson, Wills Wing T2C