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Late
May produced some exceptional soaring conditions and I'm sure we'll be
talking about the "May of 2003" many years from now. May 13 saw heights
to 8300 feet, only to be exceeded on May 24 with achieved altitudes of
9000 feet. And some "newbies" like Chris Carpenter and Scott Ortman and
Bill Paris fledged the nest with flights of 66 to 170 miles. The icing
on the cake, however, was Ron Clarke's six hour record flight of 321 miles
up to northern Illinois and back on May 26 to set the first diamond distance
out and return record from Indiana. Unfortunately, as of this writing
I can only report one contest day for May due to pesky soaring gremlins.
Ristow's GPS used up all of its track log memory capability and erased
his track for one day, and Ortman suffered an electrical blackout minutes
after takeoff on his best day. And I'm still awaiting contest flight applications
for a couple of days. No contest day will be scored unless three pilots
submit flight data, so for the time being the results for May are as follows:
. Don't forget to take your GPS and get yourself on the scoresheet.
- Don Taylor
| Contest
Results |
|
|
| Date
|
Pilot
|
Raw
Dist
|
Hdcp
Dist
|
Time
Hours
|
Raw
Speed
|
Hdcp
Speed
|
Points
|
Best
Cum.
|
| Apr
27 |
| Red
Tail Class |
Clarke
(18m)
|
77.7
|
67.21
|
1.581
|
49.15
|
42.51
|
1000
|
1000
|
|
Hays
|
61.2
|
57.47
|
1.650
|
37.09
|
34.83
|
819
|
819
|
| Kestrel
Class |
Ristow
|
77.7
|
77.7
|
2.356
|
32.98
|
30.97
|
1000
|
1000
|
| May
24 |
| Red
Tail Class |
Clarke
|
137.1
|
118.59
|
3.230
|
42.45
|
36.72
|
1000
|
2000
|
|
Hays
|
111.8
|
104.98
|
2.940
|
38.03
|
35.71
|
973
|
1792
|
| Kestrel
Class |
Ristow
|
111.8
|
100.51
|
2.983
|
37.48
|
33.69
|
1000
|
1000
|
| |
| Handicaps |
| ASW
15 1.000 |
ASW-19
.0970 |
DG800S
(15m) .890 (18m) .875 |
Grob
103 1.140 |
|
| LS
6 .899 |
SZD
55 .940 |
Discus
B/CS .939 |
Standard
Cirrus 1.000 |
PW-5
1.206 |
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| Ventus
2C (15m) .885 (18m) .865 |
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