First I want to offer a hearty "Thank-you" to all the folks that had a hand in developing the new Intermediate Sequence, I love it! Nice rhythm and a lot of fun to look at.

Now for the question of the day. Once again I am certain that those of you who have been around a while have asked and answered this question over and over, but as part of my continuing pattern education I was wondering today about timing my sequence and whether or not it is meaningful. First I noticed that my buddy, C. Moon, has his 12X timer set so that it goes off almost to the second every time he is landing after completing a Master's Sequence. So today I started timing my own Intermediate Sequence and found I was very consistent at 5:35 mins. Does anybody else time their sequence? Can you say anything about whether or not you are flying too fast or too slow based on the time? Today was super windy, and I found myself hitting close to full throttle a lot while going downwind. Would that affect my time? Is there some way to have an "optimum time" to judge your speed on? Anyways, just curious what others have to say regarding time and their sequence.


Thanks as always to anyone that takes the time to read and answer,


Joe