SASS Summer HLG Contests

Well, the results are in, and the SASS HLG season has come to an end! Its
been a great season with a bunch of old and new faces showing up at the
field throughout the season. We had a great year without a SINGLE rainout!
In fact, I can't even remember too bad of a mid-air. Pretty good for a
bunch of sand-baggers.

The Gang, Back L to R, Bruce Kimball, Tim Johnson, Wayne Farwell, Loren Anstead
Front L to R: Jonathan, Mark Bryan, Red Weston, Tim Naugler, Phil Pearson, and Dick Barker

			Normalized Contest Scores					Final Results (best 4 out of 5):
	Pilot	1000 pt rnds	Contest 1	Contest 2	Contest 3	Contest 4	Contest 5	Total Air Time	Total Points
Expert
	Adam Weston	13	843.7143	964	796.4286	892.1429	950.7143	11884.975	24590
	Dick Barker	6	789.5714	0	923.5714	914.1429	879	11286.874	24544
	Phil Pearson	7	765.5714	909.16667	852	934.7143	772.7143	11182.786	23371
	Jim Pearson	9	688.1429	0	846.7143	903.1429	773.1429	10288.352	22478
	Bruce Kimball	3	655.8571	822	0	854.4286	773.1429	10253.614	20916
	Tim Naugler	0	107.8571	707.16667	601.7143	806	780.5714	9297.963	19561
	Steve Cameron	9	821.4286	0	913.1429	885.2857	0	8420.061	18339
	Joseph Conrad	3	944	766.5	0	0	0	8569.399	6608
	Sherman Knight	2	0	0	0	887.1429	0	3225.344	6210
	Steve Shumate	0	680.4286	0	0	0	0	2296.209	4763
Sportspersons
	Mark Bryan	15	873.7143	977	0	931.2857	964.2857	11268.502	25247
	Jonathan Bryan	9	937.8571	891.5	0	792	934.2857	10728.952	23998
	Tim Johnson	11	628.4286	782.83333	877.1429	868	857.8571	9650.422	22918
	Lauren Anstead	2	482.7143	624.33333	733.7143	618	633.2857	7119.583	17641
	Wayne Farwell	0	659.7143	483.16667	404.8571	0	465.2857	4694.408	10774
	Al Bangham	0	628.4286	0	0	0	0	2189.124	4399
	Erich Merkel	0	0	703.33333	0	0	0	1943.189	4220
	Charles Holmes	0	0	0	556.8571	0	0	1547.022	3898

On the Sportsperson side, it was a good year for the Bryans (father Jonathan
and son Mark) They pretty much swept the contests they flew with they're
armament of sidearm launched planes. Close on they're heels and winner of
the July contest was Tim Johnson. Tim remarked to me at the last contest,
that it was exactly a year ago that he first saw competition HLG, and he
knew he had to do it! Now he's building his own foam and fiberglass planes
and really reading lift well. Its great to see all the Sportspeople out
there learning and competing.

The Experts had some good battles, with 4 different winners out of the five contests!
Old hands Joseph Conrad and Phil Pearson each won one, and the oldest hand, Dick
Barker showed us all how to do it in July. However, it was yours truly who put it all
together, especially the LUCK part, to win two contests, and ultimately the season
championship. However, Its encouraging to know, the Sportsperson category was
only 600 seconds (that's one round out of 34) behind the Experts! There'll be LOTS
of fun next year!

I want to thank our sponsors for the season, DJ Aerotech (www.bright.net/~djwerks) and
Thermal-Gromit Works (www.tgworks.com) for donating HLG door prizes throughout the
season. I also want to thank the Seattle Area Soaring Society
for they're help in maintaining and retaining the field, and dealing with all the politics it
takes to have a glider club in a metropolitan area.