ERCA Club-40 Pylon Race 1 Report

Our first club-40 pylon Race was a success !!! What a great time we had. The weather cooperated and the sun was out!! If you missed it you missed some exciting racing!

Thanks to all that participated in the event and a special thanks to the volunteers that helped  as starter and cut judges. Had to talk some into it but we couldn't have done it without you. Thanks again!

The six from our club were Marty Wittman , Wayne Wahrmund, Craig Canaday, Jim Corbertt, Marc Winz, and  Alan Wellentin. We also had fliers from The Bend club (BAM) Waldemar Frank, Tony Bass  and one from up in McMinnville  Aircraft Modelers. Eric Suing.

What we did for the main was take the top four in points and raced them together for bragging rights for the days events. They were Marty, Waldemar, Creag and  Alan(Yep four up). Alan had trouble getting started  but was soon to catchup. Now there is a lot more action with four planes in the air and there was a lot of action going on. Marty and Wademar battled all the was to the finish!!  With Waldemar coming in just in front of Marty. (That’s the second time Waldemar beat Marty buy a nose!) Marty you are guna have to work on that! 

We had nine fliers in all with three plane heats and four rounds and two main heats. That means a lot of racing going on!! Those that missed it missed some exciting racing. What fun we had. There were some close flying and some bumping going on (witch make for exciting racing) but no one lost a plane.

The logistics of setting up a race can be confusing with who races against who and in what order. Frequency conflicts, timing, counting laps (10) and who was first, second or third? Well that was taking care of by Marc Winz. Marc is the kind of guy that likes to make things easier. So he put together a system that counted laps, counts cuts and recorded times. Also he had a program that set up the matrix for each round and who flew in what lane. The program also took care of radio frequency conflicts, by not putting two frequency in the same heat.  Marc, You done good.

    Marty