Contest - Interclub HLG Series Round 2 - August 16th, Toronto

[imack]

Round 2 of the 2008 Interclub HLG series will be held Saturday August 16th in Toronto at the "COGG field". The field is Northwest of Hwy 88 and Hwy 400, on 10th Line just east of the 20th Sideroad, at a big sod farm on the south side of the road. If you have a GPS, the coordinates are ( N 44 07.028, W 79 43.698 ). If you PM me, I can send you a JPEG that shows the flying field. The long range forecast looks promising, so keep your fingers crossed.

09:00 Registration of participants
09:45 Closing registration / Pilot's meeting
10:00 Start of tasks
Confirmation will be posted Friday evening prior to 21:00.

Task List (taken from 2008 FAI sporting code, note that all rounds have a 10 minute window):
Round 1 - Task H - A 1, 2, 3, 4 minute flight in any order
Round 2 - Task F - Three longest flights out of six, 3 minute max
Round 3 - Task C - All up, last down, seconds
Round 4 - Task A - Last flight, 5 minute max
Round 5 - Task D - Sequence ladder 30, 45, 60, 75, 90, 105, 120s
Round 6 - Task G - Five best flights, 2 minute max
Round 7 - Task B - Next to last and last flight, 4 minute max
Round 8 - Task A - Last flight, 5 minute max

Ivan MacKenzie.

P.S. For those staying over on Saturday night, COGG is holding an Open Sailplane event on Sunday the 17th.

[Oracle]

pm sent, please reply. Thank you.

[imack]

The weather looks just about ideal, so the contest will go on as scheduled. If you're in or nearby the GTA, hope to see your there.

Ivan MacKenzie.

[Madman]

Well went where you indicated and nothing near that even looked like a glider field. To be sure we stepped out of the car and looked around for planes and saw nothing. Met two others looking and no luck there. One had a GPS and he went to the house at the co-ords and they knew nothing of it.

So what gives?

Stephen

[rkhoo]

The HLG ontest did took place. But our dear imack had the wrong GPS location ;) It was on the 9th Line,not 10th Line !

We had 5 pilots and a few spectators. The contest started at 10am. We finished al rounds and ended at about 3pm.

[imack]

The 2nd annual COGG Interclub HLG meet was held on August 16th. Due to a variety of circumstances, nobody from the Ottawa area was able to attend this year, so this was more of a club DLG meet (i.e. minus the Inter). We had five competitors at the start of the contest, all from COGG: Greg Galler, Doug Pike, Ronald Khoo, Pat MacKenzie, and myself. Our Zone Director Bob Hudson and friend came to see the action, along with a few other spectators. Some spectators could not find the field, due to incorrect instructions posted by me on rcgroups.com and rccanada.ca. My apologies to anyone who missed out on the action.

Conditions were challenging all day long. The winds were fairly strong and the thermals fairly weak; a sometimes deadly combination. Just when you thought you would be going for a ride, the thermal would peter out and you would be left not so high up and a long way downwind. Landing out was a common occurrence.

In Round 1, both Greg and I broke our models. I had a backup but Greg did not, so his day was done. Most rounds (after Round 1) were flown in 2 groups of 2, but for the All-Up, Last Down round all 4 of us flew together. In the end, Doug came out on top, but by a smaller margin than usual. Maybe if I hadn’t broken my LightHawk...

Results
7,408 Doug Pike (100%)
7,189 Ivan MacKenzie (97.04%)
6,309 Pat MacKenzie (85.17%)
5,869 Ronal Khoo (79.23%)


Ivan MacKenzie.

[Jan Blom]

I'd love to try a HLG meet but I was at a wedding in Ottawa that weekend.Maybe next year!!