Day 1 Central Calif. Soaring Club Spring Contest

[Alex[_5_]]

37th Annual Avenal Spring Contest
Avenal, CA
Thursday, May 12, 2011

Preliminary
Sports Class Day 1

Task: Turn Area
ID Name Distance(Miles) Radius
1 01 Start 0.00 5.0
26 26 LstHllsKr 31.81 10.0
11 11 Coalinga 84.88 5.0
7 07 BlckwllLn 126.06 5.0
3 03 ClndrFnsh 151.49 1.0

Minimum Time 02:30

Cumulative Day Speed
Distance Remarks
Rank Points ID Name Glider Rank Points Hndcp Actual
Hndcp Actual Code Penality Points
---- ----- -- ---- ------ ----
------ ----- ------ ----- ------ ---- -------- ------
1 806 5H Hall, Morgan Duo Discus 1 806 46.61
52.14 119.23 133.37
2 786 BK Reid, Michael H-201 Std 2 786 45.45
44.56 127.76 125.25
3 785 P7 Ittner, Gary Discus 2A 3 785 45.43
49.11 122.82 132.78
4 764 2T Deane, Peter LS-8-15 4 764 44.20
48.30 119.34 130.43
5 660 YE Roberts, Larry ASG 29-18 5 660 38.17
44.65 101.66 118.90
6 601 C2 Colacevich, Sergio Ventus 2C- 6 601 34.78
40.67 112.23 131.26
7 600 WX Rogers, Walt Discus 2A 7 600 34.73
37.96 113.92 124.50
8 501 NF Smith, Steve LS-6C-15 8 501 110.74
123.32
9 433 5K Alton, Jim LAK-17A-15 9 433 90.23
100.37 AB
10 418 96S Patton, Bruce HP-18 10 418
86.86 87.74 SSA, AB

11 387 E4 Hess, Ron DG-800B MW 11 387
80.05 92.01 SSA, AB
12 376 YC Anderson, Rick ASW-27 12 376
77.59 88.17 AB
13 326 6X Leffler, Al Ventus 2C 13 326
66.49 77.76 AB
14 276 F8 Gawthrop, Bill ASH-26E 14 276
55.38 65.69 SSA, AB
15 222 SD Indrebo, Rick ASW-27 15 222
43.56 49.50 AB
16 162 JJ Sinclair, John Genesis II 16 162
30.24 31.49 MD, AB
17 151 GD Kunz, Karl ASW-20B-15 17 151
27.78 30.53 MD, AB
18 0 RM Holtz, Russel DG-1000 18
0 SSA, F
18 0 HU Tuohino, Larry PIK-20D-78 18
0 F

Codes:
AB 25pt Airfield Bonus.
SSA No SSA number on file for this pilot.
MD Flight less than minimum distance of 40 Miles
F No flight log.


Created on Thursday May 12, 2011 - 23:36 by Winscore Rev 5,
http://www.gfbyars.com/winscore

[Alpha Eight]

Bravo Alex.

The Central California Soaring Club is the club that taught me to fly,
Gary Kemp actually. It is good to see the CCSC contest (37th) still in
action. One virtual thing to do is go to their website http://www.soaravenal.com/
and move the webcams around to watch the launch. Flying in the Central
Valley especially along the coast range is a very rewarding
experience.

John Seaborn (A8)

[Alex[_5_]]

> 37th Annual Avenal Spring Contest
> Avenal, CA
> Thursday, May 12, 2011
>
> Preliminary
> Sports Class Day 1
>

Description of Day 1 flying from contestant, and CCSC club president,
Morgan Hall:


I thought everyone might be interested in how the day went.
Yesterday's practice day was a fun task 54 miles SE and then back up
to Priest Valley. Late starting seemed to work well and a nice
convergence was set up along the temblors and west in the the CA
valley. It would actually have been a very good day to run farther as
the convergence bent S towards Santa Ynez and was well marked the
farther south you went.

Day 1:

Weaker conditions called for with a top of lift maxing at 6500 (5200
was all the higher I went). The task was Avenal, Lost Hills,
Coalinga, Blackwell and back. The day started weak and at one point
half of the field was in a gaggle near Tar Peak. West wasn't working,
the valley was a bit better than the hills, but nothing was going much
more than 4500. Most of us started in the 2:40 time range. Heading
south it seemed that some people chose a more westerly track towards
Paramount while others went more direct to Lost Hills. 3 people
landed out at Paramount. 1 at Blackwell and another just west of
Blackwell. A sixth landout was at Hewiston. Almost 1/3 of the field
of 19. Several others abandoned the task. I think about 1/3 +
finished the task. In general it was a low and challenging day.
Exciting and fun, especially in retrospect, though I remember thinking
with about 50 miles of flying to go that boy I wish Coalinga had been
the last turnpoint.



More fun tomorrow,

Morgan

Some interesting weather is in the cards for the rest of the weekend.
Avenal is sandwiched between an upper level low moving north into
Southern California from the South, and a trough digging South from
the Gulf of Alaska at the same time. Our RASP forecast for AVENAL
is looking much better for Friday, Day 2. We should get a well defined
convergence along the coast range marked by a cloud street with up to
10,000ft. MSL cloud bases to the South of
AVENAL.

http://alcald.homelinux.org/RASP/AVENAL2/FCST/RASPtable.html

[fcnorton]

Thanks for the update.

I really wish I could have been there this year....please keep the
updates coming!

FC Norton