Weather was much nicer than Fridays practice session with light winds and sunny skies. In fact the direction of flight was left to right for most of the day. Later on in the afternoon the winds shifted and a few clouds moved in to provide some additional shade.
Pilots meeting was promptly held at the appointed time and Harry reviewed the usual flight order and judging assignment for the first rounds. Also no fly zones and the usual pilot meeting type stuff... like when’s lunch etc :-)
Everyone progress smoothly through the flight order as all planes were sound tested before each round. Fail safe setting were also check on the initial flights as well.
Round one unfortunately started off with a bang as Scott McNaught’s Typhoon and Colin Chariandy’s Xigris become floating debris after a midair. Both pilots had backups and were able to continue.
I witnessed some great flying with Chad setting the standard as per usual. Ivan just started practicing a couple weeks ago but still has that magic touch with a pattern plane. Although suffering the loss of his primary plane Colin still put up good flights with Michi having consistent flights close behind. The biggest improvement I have seen is Colin’s son Ethan. This 13 year old is flying phenomenally and seems to be one with his plane. He has come a long way since I met him back in 2008 when I judged him in Sportsman.
We finished up with 3 rounds flown in FAI and the other classes all getting in 4 rounds I believe. A large group of us then headed into town for a nice dinner at a local restaurant.
Round two scores are posted in the picture album.
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