Here is the real story. Gordy was kind to me for not telling, but I was
his timer for the day.
I filled his head with useless information about wind shifting, dandelion
fluff, milky clouds, flags that are not moving, cool breezes, warm air,
birds eating bugs, and planes that are circling but not going up until
Gordy was landing. You know, talk talk talk all the time he was trying
to think. Boy, a lot of fun! But it swings both ways. After the 5th
round burial that I dished out, I was up by 200 points. Till the last
round. I let Gordy talk me into a flight corse right smack in the middle
of a big sink hole. I got hosed and Gordy got even. I ended up in 4th.
Oh well, a really fun time with Gordy and everyone else.
I love a good 2 M contest
Mike Remus
LOFT Glider Club
Fort Wayne IN
LSF Level 5 #112
Remember; Think small. Big ideas upset others!
On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 17:08:13 -0400 Jack Iafret [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
Been there, done that. The DARTS are devious and the air in Dayton
generally sucks except for the DARTS. How do they do that??
Ex Daytonian
On 7/10/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Had my trusty (more like rusty since it never gets out to fly)
Organic
charged and ready for some ass kickin today in Dayton.
Woke up at the local Holiday Inn to sun and calm winds. Got to
the field to
find sun and wind building.
All the big dogs showed up to put the hurtin on me, Don Harris,
Paul the
Siegel, Marc Gellart, Jerry SuperV Shape, and a cast of other
rough looking
types who were obviously ringers brought in to insure that I
wouldn't be
hauling any more Dayton wood away.
I tried my own intimidation by showing up pulling a trailer (you
know to
carry all the wood), but in the end it didn't work.
It was sooo obvious what was afootFirst they rig the winches
to lull me
into complacency by making sure that I out launced everyone in my
rounds.
That part worked, I zoomed well beyond all, and headed out
distracted, so
never noticed that I flew through hundreds of thermals.
After 6 rounds of 10minutes each, I had amassed a total time of
about 6
minutes (the total air time out of all 6 rounds) while everyone
else seemed
to get their times.
First round they had rigged a tree line to extend upward so that I
would get
stuck behind, off field in some beans! These guys are devious.
That put a
bunch of poke holes in my Organic's Ultracoat and put a wrinkle in
the new
fuse's tailboom.
Then they had trimmed bushes up wind so that I had tremendous
turbulence in
the landing zone, which caused a flip over landing.
All in all a pretty fun day, and seriously one of the most
challenging
flying sites I have ever flown and easily some of the best thumb
wiggling
soaring I have been privileged to witness.
Wish you all could have been hosed like me :-)
Gordy
Columbus, Cincinatti, Louisville, Harrisburg, Rochester,
Jamestown
NDthen Muncie!
--
Jack Iafret
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