[LASS Soaring] Gordy's long flight and my Pumpkin

[Ryan Woebkenberg]

Wow.  Dude, you are the man!  4 hours of thermaling/slermaling/sloping.   And a tree climb.  This is stuff of heros....  
 
Pumpkin was a lot of fun today.  You guys know the conditions since you were out in it, but for those not flying today it was perhaps 70s perhaps 10-12 mph winds, pretty much directly into the winches (OK, so nobody but me would know that little tidbit), good contest stuff.
 
Marc won (I'm not sure what he was flying, but I think it might be the same plane Ed flys...  At least the rudder looked similar).  Man, that guy is really good.  Launches to the moon he does.  He did get hurt by Sieb in one round but otherwise was just about perfect.  I always thought he was a really good pilot, but I think over the last few years he has gotten even better somehow....  
 
Sieb was 2nd with his Phasor (or is it Fazer, not sure).  Nice ship.  I got to time for him in the last round (and throw the plane, my first time throwing a molded ship).  Unfortunately that flight group was a major annomely on the day in that the entire sky was up, and all 5 top pilots maxed that round, so there was nothing that could be done to make ground on the rest of the pilots except Steve nailing a solid landing on that flight moving him up a spot (I think).
 
Speaking of landings, the LZ was a bit tough on folks.  Some kind of rolling turbulence off a tree caused a lot of guys to not get the 100s they usually would.  I did OK in the LZ and have been getting the hang of landing the Psyko.  Still have a lot of room to improve though.  
 
I came in 10th out of 20.  Good enough for just under 800 LSF points.  Now I have 4,000 points with 4 contests.  I need 6,000 points and 6 contests, so I'm on pace if I can just get two more 1,000 pointers.  I'll do a write up on rcgroups here in a bit.  
 
Since I'm done with the duration/distance tasks for L4 and this is the last contest I'll be at for the season, I'm going to send off my CSS application this week.  I'll put a note in that Gordy inspired me to join so he can count me towards the folks he got to join for his Diamond.  
 
Ryan
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