Thanks to the CSS group for hosting this event. WOW that was some crazy wind. As for my Supra in the tree - THANK YOU Gordy!!! I was ready to write it off after we made it out to where the tree was.
BTW - When your caller says to head to the trees and try to get some slope lift,,,, don't do it. But hey, I'm the one moving the sticks so it was my doing. 8^) Thanks to all that braved the conditions. JD -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 19, 2008 7:35 AM To: Soaring@airage.com Subject: [RCSE] Re: OVSS #1 contest in Cinci was a wild one! BTW, Karl won overall for the weekend with his usual great, consistent flying! "Icon Man"! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 00:06:30 -0500 From: Karl Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Soaring@airage.com" <soaring@airage.com> Subject: OVSS #1 contest in Cinci was a wild one! Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --_26b9fbcd-4960-40a6-bcf0-e5e2ac6f036e_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Just got back home from the Cincinnati Memorial contest which was the first= this year in the Midwest OVSS contest series. What a blast it was to fly i= n! Rain was predicted all weekend but it never showed up. The winds however= were up in the 15 to 25mph range both days which made for some rough, exci= ting, challenging, hairy, lumpy, and fun flying! There was a lot of carnage= and it was the most times I have ever heard "Heads up !" at a contest. The= re was a treeline on the West side of the field which created a nasty and t= urbulent rotor on the field over the landing zone. This made for some of th= e most difficult landings I have ever done. Many planes were swatted out of= their flight paths by the furious winds and tossed like leaves sideways an= d down to the ground prematurely into the pits or out of bounds. Amazingly = no cars or persons were hit. Two pilots did manage to land in the trees. Th= e omnipotent Gordy was there to the rescue and bravely waded through over a= foot of water and climbed the tree to free John Diniz's Supra. He let out = a loud Tarzan yell as the plane came tumbling out of the tree with only a b= roken loose servo and some wing scratches and dings. Hooray for Gordy!Other= incidents included: a smoking winch, which just happened to occur while I = was launching my Icon... ( I think it was a coincidence of wind and wear so= they gave me a relaunch), A turn around was pulled out of the ground while= I was shagging chutes and flew over me and luckily landed 50 feet away. It= travelled over a 100 feet in the air! Did I mention the ground and grass w= as muddy and marshy from 5 days of previous rain? There were some interesti= ng launches where various parts departed on the way up including ; a v-tail= shearing off, Steve Sebenalar's fuselage boom snapping in half, a Genie ha= d one half a stab flying off and the other remained for a very short flight= , and several others. Many a wingtip and fuse was broken or bent just tryin= g to land. I somehow escaped mostly unscathed with only a new crease in the= bottom skin of my wing. Saturday was all 6 minute tasks and it was difficu= lt to get 4 and 5 minutes with the wind and very short winch lines. Sunday = was a little better weather with 10 minute tasks all day and some huge lift= did come by in irregular cycles if you were lucky to be the group that was= in the air at the time. That did happen to me on my last flight of the day= Sunday, and I finally got to sky out against the numerous huge, looming,cu= mulous clouds in the blue and partly sunny sky. Thanks to Barry Anderson, P= aul Seigel and all at CSS for hosting this event. It was a great soaring co= ntest and one I think I will remember for a long time! Can't wait for OVSS = #2. Results from memory I think are:Saturday 1.Pat Crosby 2.Steve Sebenalar 3.K= arl Miller 4.Rob Glover 5. Glauco LagoSunday: 1.Karl Miller 2.Paul Siegel 3= .Glauco Lago 4.Chris Lee 5.Walt VanGorder Karl MillerSoarChicago,IL _________________________________________________________________ E-mail for the greater good. Join the i=92m Initiative from Microsoft. http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/Join/Default.aspx?source=3DEML_WL_ GreaterG= ood= -- Rudy Siegel, AMA 131126, CD Civis Aerius Sum RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
