On Aug 9, 4:15*pm, Bruno wrote:
I am slowly getting around to editing more of the 18+ hours of video
footage taken while racing in the Logan, Utah Region 9 contest a few
weeks back. *Here are the first two days of video I shot. *I plan on
doing a video segment for each day of the contest. *The footage might
get redundant but since the 15 meter nationals are in Logan next year
some of you who have not flown there might be interested in seeing
more than just a few minutes of highlights. *I hope that over the
course of watching some of the action from every single day you will
get a little bit of a better feel as to what Logan has to offer.

Saturday (July 17, 2010 practice day)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImoHOsG18yI&hd=1

Monday (July 19, 2010 First Contest Day)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEgtTMFykJs&hd=1

Comments are welcome and encouraged and please click on the
"Subscribe" button above the video so you will get updates when new
videos are posted. *Please note this was my second contest so you will
see plenty of rookie mistakes. *

Bruno - B4

Thanks for all the support and comments so far left on the videos.
They are fun to share with others. Here is part 1 of 2 for Tuesday's
flight.

Second official day of the Region 9 Logan Utah soaring contest. Today
was a very weak ridge day with low top of the lift predictions, blue
skies predicted with no cloud markers for thermals and weak winds
around 8-10 miles per hour from the southwest making for weak but
soarable ridge conditions.

We all stayed on the Logan ridge and went back and forth until getting
shot down off the ridge and struggling to make it home at the end of
the day. This video is of my second leg heading back south along the
ridge racing against the very nice guy and fantastic pilot Bob Faris
"BF". It shows our two different paths taken using the ridge and the
results. He stayed about 300-500 feet in front of the ridge and I flew
right over it - at times a little too close for comfort while watching
the playback.

I was a complete idiot and at the end of the day forgot to fly through
the last mandatory turn point even though I had thousands of feet of
altitude to spare. I just spaced it and it cost me 290 points. Yikes!
A rookie mistake that really hurt but one I hope to now never repeat.

Part 2 of Tuesday is video of near the end of the day scratching on
the ridge just a few hundred feet above the farmers fields at the
bottom. It hopefully will show how important it is to stay in any
kind of lift when extremely low to avoid landing out.

Tuesday (July 20, 2010 Second Contest Day) Part 1 of 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5n6kEgbDzo&hd=1

Thanks for watching and hope you enjoy it.
Bruno - B4