Well, for everyone who didn’t make Phoenix, I can tell you it was a wonderful week. Weather was great for most of it. Thanks to the Sun Valley Fliers and Rusty Fried for the great contest. Also want to thank Dave Guerin for all of his help, and I’m sure many will agree. Rusty Dose for letting me use his airplanes, even though we lost his new Focus this morning due to a battery issue..so he then offers me his brand new Zeque. Troy Newman and wife Jenny for letting me stay with them all week. I’m really glad I was able to make it out. I had to bail a few minutes early to catch my flight back to Del Rio in my boss’ K35 Bonanza. I will let some one else post the scores, but I know how the top in Masters and FAI turned out. Masters and FAI were dogfights all weekend. I think Masters ended up with the 3 of us at the top within 8 or 10 normalized points, and FAI was the same way. Brett Wickizer is going to be a FORCE in FAI. Every day as the week progressed he flew better and better and was a definite force by the weekend. Troy was flying great with his new Oxai Astral and he flew his Adventure Bipe as well. Mark Leesburg showed up and and flew Saturday afternoon, and Jason Krause did some great heli flights as the week went on.



The new Oxai Zeque is IMPRESSIVE!!! The plane flies amazing and presents just as well. Anyone flying these at the NATS this year should be penalized, its just not fair.



Anyway, just a few observations, now I’ve got to go unpack.



Tough having a contest in late Feb…J





Masters

Arch Stafford

Jerry Budd

Rusty Fried



FAI

Chip Hyde

Brett Wickizer

Troy Newman