Friday, July 16, 2010

2010 Chelan XC Open Results

Friday Update -  The last task on Thursday was a short and fast, with many pilots getting stuck early in the task.  For all these reasons, the task was devalued and the day's winner, Dean Stratton, only earned 605 points.   The top-5 ranking changed little in the OPEN CLASS -

  1. Russel Ogden
  2. Jack Brown
  3. Andre Rainsford
  4. Josh Cohn
  5. Brad Gunnuscio
Chris Galli flew the CRAP out of his GTO on the last day, placing 3rd for the day - Nice job Chris!
The SERIAL CLASS top-5 are -
  1. James Thompson from Australia, (not bad for a guy who can't speak the language)
  2. Arnie Frankenberger 
  3. Marinus Brenkman 
  4. Chris Galli
  5. Luis Rosenkjer
Rounding out the WOMEN'S CATEGORY - 
  1. Melanie Pfister
  2. Cherie Silvera
  3. Chrissy Drunk
  4. Meredyth Malocsay
  5. C.J. Brockway

All the scores are available on the http://www.chelanxcopen.com/ website.
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Thursday Evening Update - The final task was a dash to the East to WITHRW and then to goal at Simm's Corner.  A short task that took in the neighborhood of 2 hours.  None of the scores are out yet, but you can bet the boys were racing hard today.
 Results for task 5 will be available HERE and cumulative scores will be HERE.  
Congrats to all, not only the winners, but those wherever they finished in the standings - An epic flight is a personal event and scoring has little to do with the import that a great flight can have on the psyche.
I just arrived in Seattle and hope to get a ride to Chelan in the morning.  With luck, I'll get my first high-flight on the XC3 and find the corners that are important to explore when flying a new wing.  The Chelan PWC starts on  Sunday the 18th and it looks like it will start off with light winds and more classic Chelan weather.

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Wednesday Evening Update - The task today was an out and return to near Leahy, down to Mansfield, then South to near WITH07 and back to the Soccer field at the bottom of the Columbia River gorge.  Expect to see some shakeup of the top 5 is all I'll say . . .  
Results for task 4 will be HERE and cumulative scores are HERE.
Serial overall standings are HERE and woman's overall are HERE.


Tuesday evening update -

The task today was over 100K to Wilbur (East of Almira) and over 50 pilots made it to goal.  Score aren't out yet & I'm headed for bed - The day three results will be HERE and overall will be HERE
My new Avax XC3 arrived today and I got a chance to kite it for an hour or so -  It is a nice wing, well made and easy to manage.  I'm really looking forward to flying it soon.  Seeya at the PWC.
Monday Afternoon update -
By getting creative, and typing in 'task 2' into the task one URL, I have found a scoresheet for the Sunday second task.  Apparently it was quite windy on launch, and in the air - many pilots chose not to launch, and many others ended their flights at the soccer field. For those who made it out, on course, it sounds like it was scary-fun as the winds kicked in.

As a matter of fact, only 24 pilots covered more than 20 kilometers of the 77k task.  The scores  for task 2 can be seen HERE.   
Cumulative scores are:
  • HERE for Open Class
  • HERE for Serial Class
  • and HERE for Women's Class.
 Jack Brown, one of the three pilots in goal, has a blog entry HERE

Tim

Monday Morning Update -
The Chelan winds are forecast to blow today.  I doubt a task will be called, but stranger things have happened.  



Sunday Evening Update-
It looks (from the SPOT page) like the task was canceled today.  Jack Brown & Josh Cohn took a tour and flew East, to Sims Corner then up to Leahy, ending at Sims.  The rest of the field (using SPOTS) ended in the soccer field, which leads me to think the task was called off.

The 2010 Chelan XC Open has started and I'm a spectator for this one -
It sounds like classic Chelan flying.  I can't wait to get in the air there, next week.

You can join me in living vicariously by visiting these blogs:

Results are on the Chelan XC Open website now - http://www.chelanxcopen.com/
I have a page with the Open results, updated daily, HERE.

Enjoy!


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