St Clairsville Wrap Up
All the scores for this past weekend's contest at St Clairsville have been posted in the Contest Results section at nsrca.us. Here are some pics and a small report:
We were a little concerned about attendance this year. The week started with an earthquake and a hurricane was moving up the coast for the weekend, so we thought people might be hesitant to travel. Seeing fifteen pilots set up and practicing at 3:00 Friday afternoon kind of hinted that everything was going to be OK.
We ended up with 27 pilots...six in Sportsman, eight in Intermediate, five each in Advanced and Masters and three in FAI. That seems to be a good number for a local contest, enough to make it an event, not too many to get six rounds in and still head home at a reasonable hour on Sunday.
Joe Ruminski was flying at his first contest in Sportsman, Joe Mari made his debut in Intermediate and Ron Hansen returned to Intermediate after a year-long layoff. FAI flew P 13 for the first time, something that was demanding to pilots and judges alike. It was good to see guys challenging themselves.
We tried something new in sun protection for the judges, the SportBrella. They were easy to set up and worked real well. We opted not to use them Sunday morning because we were afraid they might not handle the brisk in-blowing wind.