miataguy
Veteran
Location: Santa Barbara, CA
My Posts This: Topic Forum | As of Saturday night, 378 registered pilots. RonK sure would like 22 more to sign up on Sunday, but chances are slim. Team Hardcore (CY/TB/JK) showed up for an afternoon demo Saturday afternoon that was TOTALLY AWESOME! You just cannot appreciate it unless you were there since all 3 helis are dancing around the sky, sometimes apart and sometimes together. Some results from the day: DrTim won the scale competition with his Airwolf (Bob Harris 2nd), Nathan won the auto contest (1.75 inches for 3 landings!), RonL won the drag race, Erik Larsen won the night fly. Mike Schrock did a way high blade stop auto and couldnt quite get back enough headspeed to make it down. SPLAT! Crashes seem to be going down a little. About 6-8 per day, 3 for the night fly though. The 30,000 volts on the frequency pagers isn't quite working right.  We had cake and ice cream for the IRCHA 10 year anniversary. The BBQ chicken and ribs was excellent! The seminars today were engine tuning, gassers, canopy painting and 3d flying. I learned a lot. All in all, a most excellent day of helicopter fun! |
The flights that were actually "choreographed" to the music were pure art. I Sure felt bad for the last flyer who did a stop rotor at the end, and didnt get them back up to speed in time. That was a real shame.
