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Woodland/Davis Pattern Spectacular

Please plan to join us at the Woodland Davis Aeromodelers for their 2014 Pattern Spectacular.

It will be held on June 21 and 22. The field will be open on Friday for practice.

This is the last D7 contest before the NATS so come and get your plane and fingers in shape for the NATS.

Please plan to arrive by 8:00 we will have a Pilot's meeting at 8:30 and be wheels up at 9:00 to beat the afternoon sun.

Enclosed is the flyer for the event.

I hope to see you all there,
Lawrence Tougas

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Lawrence

Does the Woodland Davis field have electricity avail for charging?

thanks
Woodie

Don,
The club does have electricity. I was there last Sunday to check it out and there are a dozen or so outlets in the pits. They have a large pit area with two covered shade areas with tables under them. I would recommend bringing an EZ-Up if you've got it because the shade may be limited.

LT

Looking forward to it, Lawrence!

-Jay W.

We've got about a week and a half until the contest. I was asked about places to stay for the contest. This is the field location. When you leave the field you take County Road 29 west to County Road 102. Road 102 runs south to Davis and north to Woodland. Both are good choices, Davis is a little closer and upscale but more pricey, Woodland is a little farther but there are less expensive choices for lodging. Check out the cost and availability on Expedia or something similar.

See you there,
Lawrence Tougas

If you think you might attend the event please preregister at the NSRCA website. It's much better to preregister and not show than to not preregister and show. There is no penalty for preregistering and by not doing it, It adds a lot of extra effort to enter pilot data the morning of the contest. We're going to start flying at 9:00 due to afternoon sun issues at the field. So please take a minute and preregister now

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Originally Posted by ltougas (Post 11822508)

As the guy running the scoring, let me re-emphasize that! If I had my way, we'd charge extra for registering "at the door" instead of pre-registering. If you are pre-registered the time cost to have you entered in the contest as a contestant is about 1 second per contestant. If you aren't pre-registered the time is 5-10 minutes, which is a HUGE cost when we're trying to get the contest up and running.

Peter+

Good Morning Everyone,
We've got 3 days to go to our contest. Please help Peter and I get the contest off on the right foot by preregistering at the NSRCA website.

See you Saturday,
LT

Real-time scores are being published at http://www.patternscoring.com

enjoy!

First day of competition is complete, 4 rounds of F3A, Advanced, Intermediate & Sportsman, 3 rounds of masters before sun was threatening the box and would have been firmly into the box before masters could complete a round. We'll pick it up with Masters round 4 at 8am. Real time scores will continue to be posted as they happen on http://www.patternscoring.com/576

By the way, we have a nice battle going on in Masters, Sean, Frank, and Jon have each taken 1 round.

Peter+

Absolutely a great contest! Many thanks to the Woodland -Davis club and Larry our CD who kept it all moving smoothly. Peter Vogel's scoring system is working better and better as he refines it. I only heard two cries of "Peter!" all weekend!

Thanks again,

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Originally Posted by Surefire (Post 11828366)

Absolutely a great contest!

Yeah, sure, you only say that because you came in first! :-)

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Originally Posted by Surefire (Post 11828366)

Many thanks to the Woodland -Davis club and Larry our CD who kept it all moving smoothly.

Indeed! A really awesome contest and I can't think of a 6 round contest where I was able to leave after awards, packing up, etc. by 1:03pm!

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Originally Posted by Surefire (Post 11828366)

Peter Vogel's scoring system is working better and better as he refines it. I only heard two cries of "Peter!" all weekend!

Thanks! I was very pleased with how the system worked this time around, the new controllers are much better and actually charge the iPhone while they, themselves are charging, a huge improvement over the other ones I was using. Not as flexible in terms of giving me extra buttons for advanced features (like marking box violations) but I hadn't figured out how to bubble that out to the score print out anyway. There were NO app crashes this time around, the only issues were:

1 -- if you swipe down from the very top of the screen (i.e. on the contestant selector screen) it invokes the Apple system notification center (with stock prices, etc.) and there's no way for me to suppress that. One judge ran into it once causing a minor delay between two pilots.

2 -- if you accidentally push the home button and then resume the patternscoring app I lose some of the db connection data that the app gets when it first starts up and things get confused. This generally requires me to reboot to be sure the app is fully closed out and then restart the app to get the connection data back. No scores are harmed in this process but it does cause an annoying delay. I'll spend some time on that between now and the next contest.

When I set out on this path, I said I'd know I'd achieved success if I could judge a round while also serving as scorekeeper without letting the scoring get behind. This contest, I judged two rounds! :)

Peter+

Yes, very nice contest! Lawrence did a great job keeping everything on time and running smoothly, while also managing to compete and place first in his class.

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Originally Posted by pvogel (Post 11828520)

When I set out on this path, I said I'd know I'd achieved success if I could judge a round while also serving as scorekeeper without letting the scoring get behind. This contest, I judged two rounds! :)

Peter+

Not only that, Peter, but also competing... and calling! That says a lot about the reduced workload your new system allows, very impressive.

Luke, thanks for posting the great pics!

-Jay

Thank you everyone

Our contest went great because everyone worked together to insure its success. I couldn't have done it without all of your help. Thank you again.

LT