18th Pattern by the Bay Contest - Richmond, CA
 

It is hard to believe this will be our final year to host a pattern contest at our Richmond field. We have received an eviction notice from the East Bay Regional Parks Department advising us we have to vacate the premises after June 4th. Unfortunately, after many years of negotiation, they refuse neither to incorporate us into their system nor have any interest on helping us to relocate.

This year's contest will be on 5/5 - 6, attached link to the contest flyer - http://www.rcpilot.com/eventFlyers/184/2012%20BARCS.pdf

We will try to finish 4 rounds on Saturday, so pilots can make their return trip early on Sunday. If weather permits, flying will start at 9 on Saturday. Otherwise, we'll wait till the morning sun is out of the way.

Unfortunately, we're not able to provide lunch on both days. Therefore, please bring your own. However, there are a number of fast food restaurants within 10 minutes drive from the field.

Sportsman is allowed to fly any AMA legal planes - maximum 98db noise limitation on all planes.

FAI will be flying 4 rounds of P-13, and 2 rounds of F-13 with the best 3 of P-13 counting and the best F round counting to total up for the final score.

This will be Derek Koopowitz's 18th year as a CD, and my 17th as his assistant. We have had some real good contests in the past and hope to see many of you this year to join us celebrate and bit a fond farewell to this great flying site.

The field will be open for practice on Friday after 11:30. Any question please contact either:-

Adrian Wong - [email protected]

or

Derek Koopowitz - [email protected]


Hope to see you all.

Adrian

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CD Derek is seen here practicing the F-15 to stay ahead of the game, with his caller Lulu faithfully chasing away paparazzi photographers & signature seekers.

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My fellow Team ACME member - Don Atwood - seen here calling the wrong maneuver for our buddy - Bill Sneed. Definitely no Rhoadies for you on Saturday after the rounds ... :)

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Adrian - Well, it looks like our 3rd Annual "Last" Pattern by the Bay contest is really going to be the "Last" one! It's really too bad that the Parks Department are being such wankers! Anyway, all of us "South Bay" people will be there to fly and celebrate the end of an era!

Thanks,

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Thanks for posting this, Adrian...

You can register for the event by going to the [link=http://www.rcpilot.com/event_details.cfm?event_id=184]NSRCA Events[/link] page and filling out the registration information.

We hope to make this a "bang-up" last event for BARCS... good weather/flying and a time to kick off the 2012 season for us in the northern part of the district.

See you all in May!

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As usual, you'll be in charge of the bar, Sheriff ...

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I can do that!

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Aerial views of this awesome field on a practice flight from last summer from my late 62" Osiris:

http://youtu.be/9Xw_5vVCpGs

I look forward to meeting/seeing you there!

Bill

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Did you order the replacement parts?

Adrian

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Great views!

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Yes, Adrian, I did - Thanks. The tube was out of stock so only shipped yesterday, but I should be in the air in a couple of days (AFTER I run a thorough preflight checklist!).

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I had a chance to fly at the BARCs field with Adrian Wong and Bill Sneed a couple weeks ago. Still a beautiful place, weather was great, sailboats in the 'Bay', Mount Tam on the west side of the Bay. Cool.

Woodie
Team Acme LG
Team Blenderm

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Just a quick reminder, the Pattern by the Bay Contest is this coming weekend. Long term forecast calls for sunny weather both Saturday & Sunday, with slight breeze from the North, the field will be open for practice after 12:30 on Friday. If you want to be there earlier, please contact me at - [email protected].

Hope to see you there.

Adrian

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Contest registration is available at http://www.rcpilot.com/event_details.cfm?event_id=184 - click on the Pilot Registration link below the map.

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Online registration - Cool!

Bill
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Weather forecast for this weekend is supposed to be terrific! This should be a blast!!

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Blue skies with the Bay in the background.... WOW!!!

For those of you that are staying over Saturday night, where are you staying? Dinner anyone?

Woodie

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Kris F. and few of us were talking about heading to Nantucket Fish Market for dinner on Saturday - that's the little place under the Carquinez Bridge in Crockett.

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San Rafael Joe's, where else ... :-)

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Choices, choices..... Joe's or Nantucket hard to decide

Woodie

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Don't forget both the Coyote & the Road Runner will be at Joe's, Woodie!

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Is there going to be a Cinco de Mayo parade at the field on Saturday? Margaritas on tap? ;-)

Woodie

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I think Sparky Capone will be providing us with Coronas in addition to the Sheriff's Rhoadies ... :D

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In honor of the day and the great years at a great field coming to a close, I will bring limes, salt, a shot glass and a bottle which may contain something in particular.

Bill

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Not nearly as exciting as Rhoadies or an "interesting" bottle but lisa will be making her "crack" muffins for a Sat am snack

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Mongo like muffins.....

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Lisa's crack muffins RULE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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You should all bring a small electric plane, we can have some formation flying after a few rounds of Rhoadies on Saturday afternoon.

This is what I will be flying:-

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Electric? I knew you were going to end up coming to the dark side eventually. Hahaha

So I hear you are going to give your Aiolos away to the winner of Masters to try to get him/her to fly glow.. hahahahaha

C ya in the morning Adrian!

C

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Who said it's an E, I've converted it to glow & am using the prototype YS 0.175 ... Ha!

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Cha, as if..... Becky...........

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Some last minute practice at the field this afternoon, flew all six planes ... :)

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Just got home from Richmond contest. Wow, what fantanstic weather. Saturday evening, it was almost dead calm at the field, most of the day Saturday and Sunday it was a gentle wind from the NW, no problems. Great time, sadly this is probably the last contest for the Richmond BARCS. Thanks Derek and Adrian for a good time, great contest. Sorry to see this one disappear.

Woodie

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Hey Don
Any score's ?, and photos

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Will post some pix later ...

Adrian

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Cool ....

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Thank you Derek for CD'ing this contest for so long! You are a great asset to our sport. It takes a lot of dedication to do everything that you have done for pattern for so long.. It's appreciated! Also a big thanks goes out to Adrian for all his hard work as always! It's also appreciated!

Sad to realize after I put my plane away after the 5th round that I had just flown my last flight at BARCS. Almost made me want to go ahead and fly the 6th and also a few more after the contest as it was perfect weather and the view of the bay is so hard to beat. The field and contest will be missed!!!!


Chris

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A big thank you to all who attended our contest this past weekend, especially to those who continued to support us over the years, and a hearty congratulations to all the winners.

Well, nothing last forever. Hopefully, we'll be able to host our contest at some other field in the future. Unfortunately, it will never be the same without the beautiful San Francisco bay & the infamous howling wind - except this weekend.

Last but not least, thank you again Derek for CD'ing the contest for the past 18 years.

Here are some pix:-

Adrian

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Wow! What a weekend for a contest at BARCS. This was, sadly, our last contest at the field as we'll be shutting down the club on June 4th due to the Parks Department turning our wonderful site into a marsh. Oh well... this is one time I disagree with the environmentalists.

We had incredible weather for our event - temps were in the high 70's all weekend with little to no wind. 15 pilots came out to fly and I want to thank each and every one of you for supporting our event over the years. We also had a couple of other pilots (Mark Alexander and Ron Davies) that came out and helped to judge over the weekend and their support is also appreciated. Thank you to all those that judged and to my good friend and flying buddy, Adrian Wong, for again assisting me and helping out with the event for the past years... 18 years is a long time to host an event and unfortunately it took us 18 years to get the weather right! :D

Scores have been posted on the [link=http://nsrca.us/index.php/contest-results/2012/d7]NSRCA website[/link] but I'll post them here as well...


Sportsman:
Bill Polits - 4000.000
Lawrence Tougas - 3890.109

Advanced:
Jon Bruml - 4000.000
Robert Hixson - 3316.547

Masters:
Krishlan Fitzsimmons - 4000.000
Jon Carter - 3895.140
Dale Olstinske - 3589.548
Robert Obregon - 3559.488
Frank Capone - 3520.592
Bill Sneed - 3508.411
Dick Belden - 3167.508
Roy Speights - 2982.380

F3A P-13:
Don Atwood - 3000.000
Derek Koopowitz - 2800.250
Adrian Wong - 2606.258

F3A - F-13:
Don Atwood - 1000.000
Derek Koopowitz - 897.281
Adrian Wong - 736.041

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Chris,

Thanks for the kind words. You should've stayed around - Jon Bruml stayed and flew a couple more times after the event...