Wenatchee pattern

by **Alan W.** » Tue May 28, 2013 8:30 pm

Well, Memorial day weekend brought the pattern season opener in Wenatchee washington. My daughters and I left about 6:00A.M. Friday morning and arrived about 7 hours later. Set up camp got in a couple of practice flights with my Vanquish then settled in for the night. Met a couple of guys that fly for the Canadian worlds team and a couple of guys out of Utah are also ranked quite high in the world. Great guys that really know how to fly precision. Saturday morning came and I got in a couple of wake up flights and then about 0900, I was the first to fly in front of the judges. Put in a pretty good flight but ended up breaking the landing gear plate out of my model. Not good. I figured I was grounded for the weekend but within about 15 minutes, I had 5 offers from guys saying I could fly their plane for the weekend, some of whom I was flying against. I ended up flying Jim Hillers Option 160, it's a 2 meter plane that Jim designed with roots way back in the early 90's. This one has an OS 160 two stroke. Jim's set up is pretty much identical to mine, so the model felt quite familiar, even though I had only flown it once and that was almost a year ago. The weather held for us with only a light sprinkle late Sunday morning. The scores listed below are "normalized". 1st place gets 1000 points and the subsequent placements get a number that represents their score as a percentage of 1st place. If 1st place scored 800 points in their flight and 2nd place scored 700 points in their flight, 1st would receive 1000 points and 2nd receives 875.

Finish Pilot Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Round 4 Round 5 Round 6 Final Score
1 Gary Zabriskie 1000.00 1000.00 1000.00 1000.00 1000.00 1000.00 4000.00

Intermediate Results
Finish Pilot Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Round 4 Round 5 Round 6 Final Score
1 Mike Riggs 1000.00 1000.00 1000.00 994.91 0.00 0.00 3994.91
2 Scott Stebbins 940.30 910.92 912.59 1000.00 995.16 946.67 3882.13
3 Art Kelly 936.98 945.78 979.15 832.91 1000.00 909.80 3861.91
4 Nathan Wingert 846.60 922.54 945.47 947.41 946.77 1000.00 3839.66
5 Tim Stebbins 780.27 748.26 822.77 0.00 846.77 918.43 3368.25

Advanced Results
Finish Pilot Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Round 4 Round 5 Round 6 Final Score
1 Guy Hansen 1000.00 1000.00 1000.00 1000.00 1000.00 986.53 4000.00
2 Stan Anderson 665.61 914.69 842.60 757.63 837.32 1000.00 3594.61

Masters Results
Finish Pilot Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Round 4 Round 5 Round 6 Final Score
1 Alan Wellentin 1000.00 1000.00 1000.00 992.70 1000.00 1000.00 4000.00
2 Murray Johnson 966.44 953.56 997.48 1000.00 952.16 936.28 3917.48
3 Jim Hiller 911.63 946.34 943.49 919.19 912.64 936.28 3745.29
4 Rick Bergeron 852.35 906.09 906.66 896.25 863.23 851.49 3572.23
5 Hartley Hughson 845.64 892.67 936.43 864.96 735.31 795.48 3539.70
6 Bob Benson 790.83 733.75 866.80 836.81 575.66 663.93 3228.18

Fai-f13 Results
Finish Pilot Round 1 Round 2 Final Score
1 Darin Peirce 946.10 984.96 3983.96
2 Michi Akimoto 1000.00 1000.00 3951.10
3 Dave Reaville 933.67 928.99 3767.51
4 Alexander Safarik 882.26 925.65 3602.02
5 Rex Lesher 776.12 720.97 3415.66
6 Gordon Anderson 711.44 730.16 3304.37
7 Simon Durkin 635.16 763.58 3238.03
8 Pavel Safarik 669.15 739.35 3094.67

Fai-p13 Results
Finish Pilot Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Round 4 Final Score
1 Darin Peirce 998.99 947.79 1000.00 1000.00 2998.99
2 Michi Akimoto 1000.00 1000.00 942.63 951.10 2951.10
3 Dave Reaville 911.47 976.91 930.76 926.17 2833.84
4 Alexander Safarik 919.52 878.51 878.34 867.69 2676.37
5 Rex Lesher 894.37 891.57 853.61 801.53 2639.54
6 Gordon Anderson 876.26 850.40 801.19 847.56 2574.21
7 Simon Durkin 757.55 820.28 821.96 832.21 2474.45
8 Pavel Safarik 783.70 752.01 787.34 784.28 2355.32