The contest season was fickle, and fun.
All the OVSS Contests were LSF Level V Contests, ( part of the reason for the program).
The Ovss has been on its own, income wise, since its inception, except for the out of pocket from Marc,
and some yearly donations by myself and possibly some others.
This year, I had some really nifty towels, ( cost me 300 bucks)made up, to sell, and the profits were to go to the OVSS .
Well there were no profits( I accumulated 100 +/- bucks), and I ended up giving the damn things away.
I think we need more end of year trophies, and prizes at the FRU.
This "IS NOT" intended to step on our JR Contributors in any way, but is intended to say the clubs,
and/ or the people actually flying the series, could and should step up to the plate, and help out, defraying the costs of the program,
and getting more trophies for the series.
Some Clubs make out really big, BECAUSE, of the OVSS series, its time for some consideration....I think
Just a thought, and that is all that is meant.
T%hanks to all the Clubs, Marc, and especially the great folks at JR
C U In Cincinnati
Jack
At 06:52 PM 10/6/2004, Marc Gellart wrote:
Fall Round Up was a great weekend, even though most are thinking Visalia, us in the midwest are having a blast in Muncie (except Gordy, that is our secret weapon to screw up somebody out west). But we did have a great weekend at what has become a tough soaring contest, we flew nearly 21/2 hours of flight times in a total of 12 rounds of seeded MOM over the two contests (ya, that is a 12+ minutes per round of the contest). Tom Sieler and Jerry Shape ran the event for the LOFT club that has held the FRU since it's inception, they did a great job. Also there was Lonnie Estep, the new National Aeromodeling Center's Manager. Lonnie just took the post and he will be the man that oversees all functions at the site, he is also a glider guider.
The weekend was a mix of two polar opposite conditions, Saturday was wet to start and windy that got a bit windier but the sun did finally come out, Sunday was beautiful from the get go, but about half way through it went from cake walk to hanging folks out to dry. One thing that Tom and Jerry did was have a very small in bound area, as Tom said, you could land anywhere on the field, just not for time in most of them. This made fliers have to really weigh their options and in more than a few cases hung folks out to dry. This was in addition to having an even smaller landing zone than the Nats 5' circle, another Tom idea that made any landing points seem a real bonus in the breeze. Just to show how tough it could be, on Sunday, the big boy group had three fliers land out after a dash on a wind shift that went south after arrival, it ate up all kinds of fliers.
The only consistent thing about the weekend was the fact that the winner was about as perfect as you could be, Rich Burnowski kicked our butts thoroughly. Rich won both days in convincing style, and in doing so also won the Master Season Championship for the Ohio Valley Soaring Series for the second season running. There was a potential for a horse race if second place season finisher Tom Kallevang could have made a bigger run during the weekend, but it was not to be. Rich finished the season with 4960 points out of 5000, or an average of 992 points per weekend, and what this boiled down to was four winning weekends and one second out of his five best contests. Rich dominated 2004 period!
In our inaugural year of holding a Sportsman Season Championship, a St. Louis flier was our winner, Glauco Lago. Glauco is from Brazil originally and he is one of the real workers in his home club, the Mississippi Valley Soaring Society. I have gotten to know Glauco this year, he is a real gentleman. Glauco was the first in many years from St. Louis who had made it out on the road to attend out of town contest. He attended the SOAR Fred contest in June, and came home with big eyes and ready to try again, that MOM thing had really tripped his trigger. The neat part was that when Glauco came to a contest so did the whole family, it was neat to have them take part with us. The Sportsman division has added a completely new dimension to OVSS.
For the record, you can look up the final finishers at www.cincinnatisoaring.org/index_new.htm and see what really happened. Also, go to the LOFT website and see the final standings for the Fall Round Up (not sure of the web address, but link is on CSS site). A major thank to Steve Siebenaler for scoring the series and all the clubs that take part in the series, I hope that they have been pleased with the results over the seven years that we have operated the program.
And finally, a major thank you to JR Radio, Peter Goldsmith, John Diniz and all the rest in Champaign for their major support of the OVSS in 2004. They gave two 9303 complete radio systems to the Master and Sportsman Season Champions, 28 JRDS368 servos, and I cannot count how many raffle give away items though out the year. It is obvious that JR considers soaring a huge priority in RC and has taken the forefront in both products and research. I hope that all RC soaring pilots appreciate their efforts and support JR in their local hobby shop.
Hope everyone had a great 2004, see ya at Pumpkin Fly and PHX in "05. Marc Gellart
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