Wow, John, now your talking. I love it. Nice idea, good time of
year, perfect place
How are you going to take entries? Any qualification process, or
first entered first served LSF registered pilots?
Mike Smith
At 12:00 PM 12/29/2005, you wrote:
Well folks, time to block out your vacation days for Sept 21-24,
2006. I'm pleased to announce the 1st annual LSF Soaring Masters to
be held at the AMA site in Muncie, In. Please see the press release
below. There will be a website up in the coming weeks that will have
more info on registration and sponsorship opportunities. Cash
payouts for the top five finishers and trophies through tenth as
well as many product give-away opportunities for the rest of the field.
Stay tuned to RCSE for more updates!!!!
Thanks,
John
Press Release
US Soaring Masters.
The goal for this event is to help stimulate the competition soaring
segment into higher levels of awareness within the modeling
community. Soaring has endured many years with no real push to grow
the segment. With a prestigious international event, that will draw
out the best pilots from not only the US but the world, could only
help grow the great sport of competition soaring. IMAC has seen much
growth, which is no doubt partly due to prestigious events like TOC,
and the Don Lowe Masters. Scale has also seen great growth with
events like Top Gun and the US Scale masters. The Electric segment
has seen growth with events like Neat and SEFF. Giant scale has seen
growth with events like Joe Nall, Dogs and the IMAA rally's.
Soaring needs it's own high profile event. An event that will be the
one to win, an event that brings the soaring segment in front of the
average modeler, an event that gets people excited about soaring.
This event is not a fly in, it is a pure competition, with rules
designed to choose the best thermal pilot in the world. This event
will aspire many to get involved in soaring and aspire them to
higher levels of soaring skills.
Dates:
September 21 - 24 2006. The competition days are Friday, Saturday
and Sunday 8 - 5. Thursday is setup day.
Location:
AMA Headquarters, Muncie IN. This site will be ideal due to the
ability for 360deg winch setup.
LSF Involvement
LSF has agreed to support this event is in the form of manpower and
equipment. The LSF has agreed to run this event through utilization
of their staff and equipment. Additional Horizon staff will also be
available to help.
Entries:
All attending pilots must be a registered member of the LSF.
Entries will be capped to 150 due to available manpower and long
duration flight times.
10 Additional non-LSF positions will be held and recommended for
entry by the event organization staff. Entry Fees will be $75.
Competition rules:
1. Normalized Man on Man event. Each round will be
normalized to 1000 pts. This normalization also includes landing
points (ala FAI events). A perfect score will be a 12-minute
flight, and a 100-point landing.
2. Any model can be flown, provided it is a sailplane
and meets the AMA weight limit and total surface area restrictions.
3. 2 models per pilot will be allowed and can be
alternated at any time throughout the event. If a 3rd model is
required, that can be registered on a as needed basis.
4. No skegs or landing devices will be permitted.
5. Every round flown will be a 12 minute duration.
6. Each pilot will be allowed 2 line breaks for the
entire event. No line break re-flights will be allowed after the
pilot has used up his 2 launches.
7. Flight time starts when the model is released from
the winch line.
8. No model can be launched until the start of working
time. (Zero flight score will result).
9. If model lands outside the designated landing zone,
no flight score will result.
10. Landing tapes will be standard FAI tapes. The last
2 meters will be divided into 10cm spacing with additional 1-point
increments up to the maximum landing score of 100.
11. All winches will be supplied by the LSF and will be
of equal performance.
12. Ten to twelve (10 - 12, weather permitting)
qualifying rounds will be flown, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The
top ten from qualifying rounds will advance to the final Fly-off rounds.
13. Each finalist will carry his total score over to
the finals as a normalization of the qualifying rounds. If a pilot
has the leading amount of points after flying the qualifying
rounds, he will carry a score of 1000pts place going to the finals.
Each pilot in the top 10 will then be normalized based on the
winning total score from the qualifying rounds. 3 additional finals
rounds will be flown and the accumulation of the normalized
qualifying score along with the additional finals scores will be
added up to determine the winner.
14. 1st through to 5th place will receive cash prizes,
and trophies will be awarded to the top 10 finalists.
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