Post by Ed Anderson on Apr 29, 2012 16:01:51 GMT -5
Below is the contest report and the final score of the day for LISF ALES 1. It is pasted into the e-mail and attached to the message as an Excel file in case the formatting does not hold. I will also post this on the LISF Forums.
Contest Report –
LISF President, Trevor Ignatosky, Co-CDs John Caramanga and Ed Anderson would like to thank everyone for participating in LISF’s first ALES contest. It took three attempts but we finally got it in. The first one, last October was blown out by too much wind. The second attempt was rained out by storms last weekend. But on Saturday, April 28th we finally kicked off our ALES club contest series.
The day was clear, with a bit more wind than would be ideal, but certainly flyable. There was concern that, having rescheduled from last week we would have a poor turnout. But as cars rolled in it became clear this was going to be a great day of flying and fun.
We ended up with 16 pilots. Neither of the CDs flew as we were busy making sure this first ALES experience went smoothly. But you can be sure we will be flying next time.
We flew four flight groups each with 4 pilots. The contest started around 10 am and was finished around 1:30. The pace was smooth and unrushed as co-CD John Caramanga ran the flight line. Pete Nicholson and Ed Anderson handled the scoring. Occasionally we did have to hunt down a pilot who was too engaged in the social aspects of the contest to realize it was their turn to fly, but that wasn’t a problem.
Some pilots were seasoned contest veterans and some were pretty new. Plots were flying stock Radian’s, Radian Pros, scratch and kit built woodies and moldies. Wing spans ranged from from 2 meters to 3.5 meters. And, while experience always shows, we were very very impressed with how well many of our newer pilots did. And we were honored that pilots from the Merokes, chose to come fly with us. For many, this was their first contest experience. If end of day comments are to believed, it sounded like everyone had a good time. (For those who don’t know, the Merokes are our brothers of the Nassau County Flying Permit. )
We had one plane lost in the woods. Hopefully it will be found. We had one plane damaged in the pits by a clumsy foot, but the repair should be quick and easy. A few planes needed some adjustments or light repairs between rounds. However, overall the flying was top notch with safety and courtesy being exhibited by everyone.
The lift conditions were very challenging most of the day. Very few pilots made the target 10 minute time, however the man on man scoring format leveled the playing field. Each pilot was scored against the three other pilots in their flight group. So even if you only go a 4 minute flight out of the target 10 minutes, if you were last man down in your flight group you won your group and were awarded the full 1000 points possible for that round. If the next pilot’s time was 3 minutes, he got a percentage based on top time for the round. So a 3 minute time in that round earned 750 points, or 75% of the top pilot’s score.
The beauty of the man on man format is that no-one is advantaged or penalized based on the conditions at the time they launch. It also gives you a better chance to see how you did against other pilots who flew in the same air. If you continue to fly contests you will have an excellent opportunity to gauge your advancement by how you do in your flight groups.
We had one flight were everyone hit big lift. The round was won by one of our newer pilots, with a perfect 10 minutes. For that round 9:30 was the bottom of the heap. Yet, 9:30 would have won almost every round for the rest of the day, but not that one.
We had a few computer set-up issues so we went from live scoring to recording scores on paper to be calculated later. Those scores are attached.
Congratulations to George Hill, Pete Nicholson and Dimitri Katramatos for taking 1st, 2nd and 3rd respectively. And thanks to all the pilots for coming out and making this, our first ALES contest, a big success.
Best regards,
Ed Anderson
First, Last Name Contest Score Overall Score Overall
George Hill .....4130.00 100.00 --1
Peter Nicholson .....3774.62 91.40 --2
Dimitri Katramatos .....3738.91 90.53 --3
Michael Lavelle .....3581.35 86.72 --4
Bob Anderson .....3526.47 85.39 --5
Paul Zink .....3277.93 79.37 --6
Marc Gottlieb .....3150.07 76.27 --7
Frank Strommer .....3137.42 75.97 --8
Ron Macklin ......2822.18 68.33 --9
Ralph Gittleman .......2695.42 65.26 --10
Trevor Ignatosky .......2388.51 57.83 --11
Alan Cross-Hansen .......2185.57 52.92 --12
Joe Albrecht .......1711.83 41.45 --13
Phil Freidensohn .......1708.73 41.37 --14
Nelson Ramos .......1323.45 32.04 --15
Larry Margolin .......808.99 19.59 --16
Contest Report –
LISF President, Trevor Ignatosky, Co-CDs John Caramanga and Ed Anderson would like to thank everyone for participating in LISF’s first ALES contest. It took three attempts but we finally got it in. The first one, last October was blown out by too much wind. The second attempt was rained out by storms last weekend. But on Saturday, April 28th we finally kicked off our ALES club contest series.
The day was clear, with a bit more wind than would be ideal, but certainly flyable. There was concern that, having rescheduled from last week we would have a poor turnout. But as cars rolled in it became clear this was going to be a great day of flying and fun.
We ended up with 16 pilots. Neither of the CDs flew as we were busy making sure this first ALES experience went smoothly. But you can be sure we will be flying next time.
We flew four flight groups each with 4 pilots. The contest started around 10 am and was finished around 1:30. The pace was smooth and unrushed as co-CD John Caramanga ran the flight line. Pete Nicholson and Ed Anderson handled the scoring. Occasionally we did have to hunt down a pilot who was too engaged in the social aspects of the contest to realize it was their turn to fly, but that wasn’t a problem.
Some pilots were seasoned contest veterans and some were pretty new. Plots were flying stock Radian’s, Radian Pros, scratch and kit built woodies and moldies. Wing spans ranged from from 2 meters to 3.5 meters. And, while experience always shows, we were very very impressed with how well many of our newer pilots did. And we were honored that pilots from the Merokes, chose to come fly with us. For many, this was their first contest experience. If end of day comments are to believed, it sounded like everyone had a good time. (For those who don’t know, the Merokes are our brothers of the Nassau County Flying Permit. )
We had one plane lost in the woods. Hopefully it will be found. We had one plane damaged in the pits by a clumsy foot, but the repair should be quick and easy. A few planes needed some adjustments or light repairs between rounds. However, overall the flying was top notch with safety and courtesy being exhibited by everyone.
The lift conditions were very challenging most of the day. Very few pilots made the target 10 minute time, however the man on man scoring format leveled the playing field. Each pilot was scored against the three other pilots in their flight group. So even if you only go a 4 minute flight out of the target 10 minutes, if you were last man down in your flight group you won your group and were awarded the full 1000 points possible for that round. If the next pilot’s time was 3 minutes, he got a percentage based on top time for the round. So a 3 minute time in that round earned 750 points, or 75% of the top pilot’s score.
The beauty of the man on man format is that no-one is advantaged or penalized based on the conditions at the time they launch. It also gives you a better chance to see how you did against other pilots who flew in the same air. If you continue to fly contests you will have an excellent opportunity to gauge your advancement by how you do in your flight groups.
We had one flight were everyone hit big lift. The round was won by one of our newer pilots, with a perfect 10 minutes. For that round 9:30 was the bottom of the heap. Yet, 9:30 would have won almost every round for the rest of the day, but not that one.
We had a few computer set-up issues so we went from live scoring to recording scores on paper to be calculated later. Those scores are attached.
Congratulations to George Hill, Pete Nicholson and Dimitri Katramatos for taking 1st, 2nd and 3rd respectively. And thanks to all the pilots for coming out and making this, our first ALES contest, a big success.
Best regards,
Ed Anderson
First, Last Name Contest Score Overall Score Overall
George Hill .....4130.00 100.00 --1
Peter Nicholson .....3774.62 91.40 --2
Dimitri Katramatos .....3738.91 90.53 --3
Michael Lavelle .....3581.35 86.72 --4
Bob Anderson .....3526.47 85.39 --5
Paul Zink .....3277.93 79.37 --6
Marc Gottlieb .....3150.07 76.27 --7
Frank Strommer .....3137.42 75.97 --8
Ron Macklin ......2822.18 68.33 --9
Ralph Gittleman .......2695.42 65.26 --10
Trevor Ignatosky .......2388.51 57.83 --11
Alan Cross-Hansen .......2185.57 52.92 --12
Joe Albrecht .......1711.83 41.45 --13
Phil Freidensohn .......1708.73 41.37 --14
Nelson Ramos .......1323.45 32.04 --15
Larry Margolin .......808.99 19.59 --16
