RE: [RCSE] German Open F3K Finals

2008-08-04 Thread ASK at RC Builder
I'm with Lex, though I have great respect for the Soaring Nationals as a whole. Clearly it is a great effort to put that together, and I hope everyone is having a great time. I want to say KUDOS to Ed Franz and those others who made hand launch at that NATS happen. What a great job--11 rounds

RE: [RCSE] German Open F3K Finals

2008-08-04 Thread chris
Subject: Re: [RCSE] German Open F3K Finals From: S Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, August 03, 2008 5:45 pm To: Ben Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: soaring@airage.com soaring@airage.com Ben Wilson wrote: ... That's out of 112 participants. Someone (who shall remain nameless) at the US F3K

Re: [RCSE] German Open F3K Finals

2008-08-03 Thread S Meyer
Ben Wilson wrote: ... That's out of 112 participants. Someone (who shall remain nameless) at the US F3K NATS said to me they have 112 people at a *handlaunch* contest? Yes, (name), handlaunch is popular everywhere else in the world except the US Nationals. There's a good reason why 8

RE: [RCSE] German Open F3K Finals

2008-07-29 Thread Got2soar
Thanks for keeping everyone updated Ben. What a great competition it was. The skills on that field were impressive. I sure would have liked to have a higher finish but even in 31st place my score was 96.4% of first. I am happy with my performance. It was well worth the trip and I have

Re: [RCSE] German Open F3K Finals

2008-07-29 Thread Ben Wilson
Yeah, and you know what is even worse? Marc Gellart's Blaster didn't have a rudder on it either - just a stab - and he won our NATS too... I kinda feel bad for ribbing Marc in one of the last rounds where he was struggling keeping his turn coordinated in some super-light air... but his

RE: [RCSE] German Open F3K Finals

2008-07-29 Thread Lex Mierop
Ben Wrote: Great contest, guys! I'd love to see more Loud Americans heading overseas for that contest or better yet, more Euros at our NATS! :) If the Nat's can ever figure out that it will take a 2 day F3K event to draw the numbers, then that just might happen... -l RCSE-List

RE: [RCSE] German Open F3K Finals

2008-07-29 Thread Kai Yang
I second that... 2 day F3K will attracts some CA pilots (like myself) for sure. -Kai ※ 引述《Lex Mierop [EMAIL PROTECTED]》之郵件內容: Ben Wrote: Great contest, guys! I'd love to see more Loud Americans heading overseas for that contest or better yet, more Euros at our NATS! :) If the Nat's can

Re: [RCSE] German Open F3K Finals

2008-07-29 Thread Joe Rodriguez
Subject: RE: [RCSE] German Open F3K Finals I second that... 2 day F3K will attracts some CA pilots (like myself) for sure. -Kai ※ 引述《Lex Mierop [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]》之郵件內容: Ben Wrote: Great contest, guys! I'd love to see more Loud Americans heading overseas

RE: [RCSE] German Open F3K Finals

2008-07-29 Thread Jim McCarthy
Lex Mierop wrote: If the Nat's can ever figure out that it will take a 2 day F3K event to draw the numbers, then that just might happen... What's to figure out? The IHLF event put on by the Torrey Pine Gulls has always been regarded as the premier event in HL. Unfortunately the

[RCSE] German Open F3K Finals

2008-07-28 Thread Ben Wilson
The 2008 German Open F3K is overand the USA took 2nd! North Carolina's own Oleg Golovidov (TD guy turned F3K) battled his way into the fly-off and then put the hammer down to finish in 2nd. Phil Barnes also made the fly-off and finished in 8th overall. Bret Carr (Jeff's son) took 6th in