What a great day! The storm blew through Friday evening and we were left with patchy clouds and surprisingly low winds. We had a total of 18 fliers and we cruised through 4 rounds. It was a very fun day. Advanced and Masters each had 7 fliers so that helped with the judging matrix. 2 rounds tomorrow and we'll get folks on the road at a good time.

Chuck's wife came out and I got a chance to speak with her. She was really happy that so many guys came in to the event. She knows that Chuck would have been very humbled by this.

Looking forward to tomorrow!!
Steve

As Steve stated we had a great time. We were able to get 4 rounds, here are day 1 score and a few photos



NO SPORTSMAN


INTERMEDIATE

4000.000 RANDY McELHATTAN

ADVANCED

3000.000 JON BRUML
2923.907 MIKE GREEAR
2820.095 JOHN BENTLY
2781.701 TAK TAKAYAMA
2758.222 MIKE AUSTIN
2729.646 BOB GILLESPIE
2570.253 GARY SWITALA
2502.764 JIM BRONOWSKI

MASTERS

3000.000 JERRY BUDD
2982.294 JON CARTER
2842.835 BILL WALLACE
2770.921 DALE OLSTINSKE
2678.084 STEVE KANESHIRO
2651.431 JARVIS JOHNSON
2467.194 LYNN BURKS

FAI/F3A P-13

3000.000 TONY FRACKOWIAK
2855.338 STEVE HANNAH
2557.758 BILL SHEET

More Photos

This one's in the books. We had a fantastic flying day today. Light winds, bright sun and snow capped mountains as a backdrop. We waited for the sun to move (we got the weather to cooperate but we couldn't force the earth to rotate faster) and started at 10:30am. We finished with awards and had folks on the road before 3pm. Jarvis will post the results and some more pics soon. All in all I think everyone had a fun time. I tried to keep the lines moving as quickly as possible, which was a challenge due to the fact that this was an Advanced and Masters show primarily. We had to have Advanced and Masters judge each other frequently so I had to get creative with the flight order to keep things moving. I tried to drop judges towards the bottom of their class flight order. I think it worked out OK. We only had a couple pauses for judge availability the whole weekend.

Thanks to Randy McElhattan for doing the advanced field condition scouting and to he and Jean Greear for the scorekeeping. Thanks to both Mike and Jean for their total support and also to Bill Wallace, CD of record, for the award graphics and for his overall support.

Sorry I can't make it to Arvin so have a good time!!

We made it home safe and sound.  Thanks Steve for all your hard work as well.  See ya when you get back from your trip.

Mike...........

Here's a few pics from today

I wan to thanks the Riverside club for the use of their facility. And I really want to thank Steve. This was his first time at running an event and he did a great job! Thanks!

This was a scary contest for me. There were three Onas' there and one of them was the Onas I mid-aired with at the 2010 Nats. And we even flew at the same time!I'm glad history didn't repeat itself!

Thanks again to all who helped out at this event. I had a great time!

Yes it was a fantastic day of flying,and I would like to thank everyone that took part in such a great event, I'm sure Chuck would be proud.
To Steve, Bill and the Riverside Flyers club, thanks for putting on such a great event.
An for those out of town flyers, Jon, Dale and Jon Bruml from NORCAL, and Gary, Mike and John Bently from the Phoenix area, thanks to all you guys, for driving those 4 to 5 hour.
Randy, Jean and Mike, geat job with all those scoring duties.





Results

NO SPORTSMAN


INTERMEDIATE

4000.000 RANDY McELHATTAN

ADVANCED

4000.000 JON BRUML
3874.421 MIKE GREEAR
3869.903 JOHN BENTLY
3738.250 TAK TAKAYAMA
3716.570 MIKE AUSTIN
3646.579 BOB GILLESPIE
3475.046 GARY SWITALA
3370.496 JIM BRONOWSKI

MASTERS

4000.000 JERRY BUDD
3982.294 JON CARTER
3799.311 BILL WALLACE
3720.352 DALE OLSTINSKE
3609.613 STEVE KANESHIRO
3523.512 JARVIS JOHNSON
3374.142 LYNN BURKS

FAI/F3A P-13

4000.000 TONY FRACKOWIAK
3855.338 STEVE HANNAH
3415.410 BILL SHEET

FAI/F3A F-13

1000.000 / 981.317 TONY FRACKOWIAK
1000.000 / 879.025 STEVE HANNAH
857.651 / 756.310 BILL SHEET

Winner's Photos

Thanks for posting the scores and pics Jarvis.

I think the P13 scores you listed were the actual final total of the 3 P13's and the 1 F13

Hey guys - this is Dale & Jon from I5! We had a blast! Thanks to all who made it happen. Our ETA
is 2130.

I'm sorry Steve , yes the P-13, are the overall scores


Here are the scores from P-13, best 3 of 4

3000.000 Tony Frackowiak
2855.338 Steve Hannah
2557.758 Bill Sheet

Steve

Thanks for hosting a great contest

Jon

Thanks Jon,
I hope you got a chance to catch some of your son's baseball game!

Steve

Thanks for you made a contest so smoothly and showed us for best F13.

Tak.