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Nephi wrap-up
At 00:50 16 August 2013, Dan Wrobel wrote:
While looking at my flights on OLC for the Nephi Camp I decided to look at = everyone's flights and their comments and put together some statistics (bas= ed on flights logged into OLC) and my own comments on the great flights and= fun times we all had at Nephi. Number of pilots: 30 Total flights flown: 104 Total distance flown: 46,284 km Average distance flown: 445 km Number of flights over 500 km: 39 Number of flights over 750 km: 7 Even though from the beginning there was only to be daily awards for OLC po= ints and task speeds I thought it would be interesting to see the cumulativ= e OLC distances for the top pilots just to show the potential of flying at = Nephi. Just remember that the total distances flown are affected by the num= ber of days each pilot flew. Average flight distance (over 500 km) 629 km Tim Taylor 607 km Bruno Vassel 579 km Joerg Stieber 569 km York Zentner 566 km Nicholas Kennedy 562 km Dan Wrobel 538 km Eric Greenwell 517 km Andy Blackburn 511 km Tom Bjork Total distance flown during the camp (over 2000 km) 3939 km Dan Wrobel 3472 km Joerg Stieber 3145 km Tim Taylor 3034 km Bruno Vassel 2996 km Bob Farris 2828 km Nicholas Kennedy 2278 km York Zentner 2068 km Andy Blackburn 2043 km Tom Bjork Wow, that is a lot of flying!! For those that think that you have to have high performance glider to fly l= ong distances, here are three notable flights: 530 km Blake Seese Laister Nugget LP-15 521 km Adam Kite Jantar Standard 498 km Johann Posch Grob 103 - Nice going Johann!! Here are the flights over 750 km: 809 km Bruno Vassel 804 km Tim Taylor 776 km Nicholas Kennedy 765 km Bruno Vassel 763 km Dan Wrobel 758 km Joerg Stieber 753 km Bruno Vassel Way to go guys!! There were several pilots that flew badge flights and a couple that flew Ut= ah state record flights: Shawn Eggleston Gold distance Charles Gillespie Diamond goal Dan Wrobel Diamond distance Bob Farris 100 km speed triangle Bob Farris 200 km speed triangle Bob Farris Distance to goal Dan Wrobel 500 km out and return Here are some of my observations about the event: Scenery is spectacular!! Conditions were outstanding (not counting the funnel cloud, thunder, lightn= ing,rain, snow and 20 kt crosswind Thermal strength was great - I heard up to 17kt but the best I saw was 12kt= .. Flying area had lots of airports and farmer's fields al long as you don't v= enture too far out into the desert. The many field around the airport made crosswind landings a cinch even if i= t is a short retrieve. Lots of cold toes - need to bring warmer shoes if you are going to spend al= l day at 15k to 18k. I had a lot of fun flying with York Zentner's 17.6m "Mega" winglets - reall= y nice having that extra L/D when coming back from way out and the paint jo= b is beautiful - may have caused some "winglet envy" Great support from the local community- City Mayor, County Commissioner and= local businesses - free T-shirts, coupons, prizes, water, hangar, wifi, ph= otographer, etc. The food prepared by the Lion's Club was outstanding. Although I was out flying at the time, the way everyone came together to he= lp out during the funnel cloud episode was commendable. I really was amazed by the newspaper and TV coverage that brought out hundr= eds of spectators that maybe will result in getting some new people involve= d in the fantastic sport of soaring. It was great that we had three of the club's Grobs down for the event and I= think that they were all flown each day with two people aboard. Great support by the Club. Great service by the tow pilots. Great support by the volunteers - CD. ground crew, weather, etc. The comments on OLC and in person were virtually all positive towards the e= vent. I think everyone had a great time. I want to especially thank Bruno for spending the untold hours and dollars = putting together this event. Without him, it wouldn't have happened. I ha= d more fun at this event than any of the contests I have been to (not to sa= y that I don't have fun at contests) and if a similar event occurs again I = will be sure to go. Dan Wrobel - DW Not to brag(too much), but added to Utah State Records out of Nephi: Tom Bjork and Fred LaSor, Open Class Multiplace, Free Distance Triangle, 385 mi, and Triangle Distance, 369 mi. (Separate flights) This summer we'll be going for speed records! Tom Bjork SF |
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