[LASS Soaring] "One More LSF 5 Win On the Wall...and Its Tangerine Colored !"

[GordySoar at aol.com]

Well the calm winds forecast fell apart last nite, winds got up to about  
20mph at times but it was warm.
 
30 pilots showed up to help make sure it was a LSF5 qualifier contest in  
Unlimited.
Brian Agnew was there, Mike Popescu, Joe Melchoir, Paul Peret, the  
Clevelands came in force, Pete S. from Baltimore (Deleware as of late) and even  Phil 
from Ft Wayne....  A lot of really good sticks and nice guys.
 
The count for 2m was only 15 and Rick E who lives and breathes 2m,  dominated 
all day at it.
 
I started both classes with two perfect flights and 100 point landings...in  
fact I hit all 100's in both classes all day other than one round each the 
rotor  spanked me.
 
I am thinking that in Unlimited I dropped about 10 seconds for the 5  rounds. 
 2m was a different story, I had no fantasies about doing well  there, since 
I have only flown the plane about 6 flights since I have owned it  over the 
year or so that I have owned it.  Its an old NSP Laser that  originally belonged 
to Tom Kellevang, and then Randy McCleve.  Awesome 2m  ship.
 
So what did I fly for my Second LSF5 win?  SHARON!  Yep, in the  wind.  I had 
to switch to the World's Heaviest Carbon Supra for the last  flight because 
my elevator servo unplugged and I didn't have time to futz with  it.
 
Brian Agnew had popped off so and our group had already gone out, so the CD  
decided to put the two of us up by ourselves to close out the round, too many  
conflicts other wise with the other groups.  When we launched everyone else  
was already down, so we had freebie clues.
 
Brian went right and back, I went more right, he ran wayyy back and I mean  
wayyy back and finally found some light air, I found some but it was clear that 
 it was not going to hold together, so I burned back more directly up wind of 
 him, because I saw some small feeding birds get active in that line.  It  
turned out to be a good move because for me because I found some really easy to  
work energy!  Brian was just too far back for my tastes, but both of us  
maxxed and got our landings...well I got the 100 and he ended up with one of the  
killer turbs rolling across the landing area, and it brought his plane to a 
dead  stop short of the tape.
 
As is usual with seeded man on man, those that were chasing me jockied back  
and forth during the rounds, so it was tough to tell who was the guy to  
cover...so in the final round the CD announced that we should really make it a  
real contest by finding out own air.

Everyone else punched left and out, I saw some clear cues off to the  right 
which paid off and made me top dawg height wize, and gave me plenty of  time to 
get lined up for the landing. 
 
Fingers crossed, tomorrow's another day :)
 
Gordy
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