Author Topic: 2017 Nats Coverage (Read 21664 times)

Art Jessup · « **Reply #100 on:** July 18, 2017, 09:24:42 AM »

Congrats to Derek, beautiful airplane! I will be watching for some great flight scores from both you, Steve, and all the competitors. good luck!
artie

Dave_Trible · « **Reply #101 on:** July 18, 2017, 11:31:46 AM »

Final scores:

Dave_Trible · « **Reply #102 on:** July 18, 2017, 11:32:22 AM »

Randy Powell · « **Reply #103 on:** July 18, 2017, 01:44:23 PM »

Nice wheel pant, Dennis.

Dave_Trible · « **Reply #104 on:** July 18, 2017, 07:06:07 PM »

If there is a word about today and this week generally it's HOT. The humidity is high and at times next to no wind. Many are keeping practice sessions short and a very many are preferring to head to the grass instead of the LPad because of the extra reflective heat from the asphalt. Never seen the grass so heavily used.

Dave_Trible · « **Reply #105 on:** July 18, 2017, 07:08:01 PM »

This evening I shared a circle with Matt Neumann and Mike Haverly. Here's Matt:

Dave_Trible · « **Reply #106 on:** July 18, 2017, 07:12:52 PM »

In the morning we begin two days of qualifying rounds. I'll get there early and try to post shots of the boards. I realized I sped away from the pilots meeting yesterday without getting shots of all the flight order.

Jason Greer · « **Reply #107 on:** July 18, 2017, 07:22:36 PM »

Good luck, Dave. Thanks for keeping those of us on the sidelines informed!

Joe Bowman · « **Reply #108 on:** July 18, 2017, 08:18:34 PM »

Fly well Dave. Thanks so much for taking on the extra load to take pictures and post the happens of the day. I look forward to each days news.

john e. holliday · « **Reply #109 on:** July 18, 2017, 08:37:08 PM »

Remember to have fun while doing the best you can. Also thanks for all the pictures. I need a file in my computer for them.

Mike Haverly · « **Reply #110 on:** July 18, 2017, 09:08:20 PM »

Dave is a busy guy. When asked, I believe he said he has used or is on his third gallon of fuel. I just keep using the same jugs over and over. Way hot and humid today. L pad was stifling, the grass circles were quite nice. The circle next to us had Dave F. PW, Chris Rud, Bob McDonald and Chris Cox.

For those that haven't been here, it should be on your bucket list. Much fun.

Dave_Trible · « **Reply #111 on:** July 19, 2017, 05:55:38 AM »

Good morning all! Flying is about to start on day 1 of qualification rounds. It's warm and fair still but the forecast calls for 5-7 Mph winds before long. Circle 3 has a new twist this year- corn. Instead of beans plants off the circle it's 6-7 foot corn. This is a different visual here and could make interesting air at some point. My own field is corn on one side and air coming over it forms turbulence sometimes.

Anyway here are the boards: note ; it sorted out that group A is open only. The other three groups have advanced on the circle, who will fly before open.

Dave_Trible · « **Reply #112 on:** July 19, 2017, 05:56:08 AM »

Dave_Trible · « **Reply #113 on:** July 19, 2017, 05:56:48 AM »

Dave_Trible · « **Reply #114 on:** July 19, 2017, 05:57:21 AM »

Dave_Trible · « **Reply #115 on:** July 19, 2017, 05:59:15 AM »

As is our practice, we won't show the boards again until the flying is finished today. Good luck to everyone!

Dave_Trible · « **Reply #116 on:** July 19, 2017, 06:14:52 AM »

Dave_Trible · « **Reply #117 on:** July 19, 2017, 09:54:05 AM »

We are at about the midpoint. Group A is done for the day since there were no Advanced on that circle. The second round for the other three circles is commenced.

Dave_Trible · « **Reply #118 on:** July 19, 2017, 09:55:01 AM »

Samantha Hines in the overheads;

Dave_Trible · « **Reply #119 on:** July 19, 2017, 09:55:59 AM »

General overview into the 1-2 pits;

Dave_Trible · « **Reply #120 on:** July 19, 2017, 10:01:51 AM »

Ben Mills working it.

Dave_Trible · « **Reply #121 on:** July 19, 2017, 10:35:54 AM »

It's Matt Colan's 23rd birthday. Happy one to Matt! Said he was hoping the judges had a good present for him-told him not to hold his breath.

john e. holliday · « **Reply #122 on:** July 19, 2017, 10:42:37 AM »

Tell him the old DOC Holliday says happy birthday.

Dave_Trible · « **Reply #123 on:** July 19, 2017, 10:56:40 AM »

Jim Lynch and Charlie Reeves snooping at Tom Morris tent.

Dave_Trible · « **Reply #124 on:** July 19, 2017, 10:57:55 AM »

Lee's Machine shop

Dave_Trible · « **Reply #125 on:** July 19, 2017, 10:58:44 AM »

Tom Dixon tent.

Dave_Trible · « **Reply #126 on:** July 19, 2017, 11:00:47 AM »

Denny looking for lunch at our food vendor. Pretty good BBQ ( but it ain't KC BBQ- just sayin from a KC boy)

Chris_Rud · « **Reply #127 on:** July 19, 2017, 11:53:42 AM »

Hi Everyone!

We are making a new PAMPA website and one of the features we are testing is live score updating. You can see the test environment at https://pampa.bureaugravity.com/live-scores/

Thanks,
Chris Rud

Dave_Trible · « **Reply #128 on:** July 19, 2017, 12:50:00 PM »

Kenny Stevens

Dave_Trible · « **Reply #129 on:** July 19, 2017, 12:50:39 PM »

Eric Taylor

Dave_Trible · « **Reply #130 on:** July 19, 2017, 12:51:18 PM »

Dale Gleason

Dave_Trible · « **Reply #131 on:** July 19, 2017, 12:52:16 PM »

John Hill with Frank McMillin launching.

Darkstar1 · « **Reply #132 on:** July 19, 2017, 02:47:37 PM »

Will the live scoring update include advanced or just Open?

James Mills · « **Reply #133 on:** July 19, 2017, 03:03:00 PM »

Quote from: Dave_Trible on July 19, 2017, 10:01:51 AM

Ben Mills working it.

A big thank you to Joe Daily. Ben crashed his SV-11 late yesterday afternoon. Joe immediately told him to fly one of their ARF Noblers.

James

Tim Wescott · « **Reply #134 on:** July 19, 2017, 03:13:41 PM »

If anyone has posted video footage of Sam Hines, a friend who flew stunt until she started suffering vision problems would like to see. It may well be on Sparky's video feed -- I haven't had time to look at that yet.

Dennis Adamisin · « **Reply #135 on:** July 19, 2017, 07:48:54 PM »

Quote from: Randy Powell on July 18, 2017, 01:44:23 PM

Nice wheel pant, Dennis.

Yeah, no one notices when the pictures on the wall are hung straight either....

Chris_Rud · « **Reply #136 on:** July 19, 2017, 08:09:59 PM »

Quote from: Darkstar1 on July 19, 2017, 02:47:37 PM

Will the live scoring update include advanced or just Open?

Hi! We are testing it this year. For right now that is all we can do. We will have it next year.

Jason Greer · « **Reply #137 on:** July 19, 2017, 08:40:31 PM »

Chris,

Thanks for your work on the live scoring system. I for one really enjoyed watching the scores update in real time from work today!

Oh, and good luck!

Thanks,
Jason

Howard Rush · « **Reply #138 on:** July 19, 2017, 08:58:22 PM »

Quote from: Chris_Rud on July 19, 2017, 08:09:59 PM

Hi! We are testing it this year. For right now that is all we can do. We will have it next year.

Did you get the message I sent you (I got your phone call late)? Looks like you're doing it manually. You can go to a tabulator's computer at any time, select the appropriate sheet, hit the Update Scores button, then print that sheet, perhaps as a .pdf you can post. Appropriate sheets are:

Wednesday and Thursday: Poster
Friday: Top 20 Poster
Saturday: Open Finals, then Walker Flyoff

One caution is that the Adobe .pdf maker has historically mispaginated Excel output. I use Nitro,which works fine.

Gary Dowler · « **Reply #139 on:** July 19, 2017, 09:27:07 PM »

Shug, if you know the movie Im thinking of then at the NATS you would be "Sir not appearing in this film".......

Gary Dowler · « **Reply #140 on:** July 19, 2017, 11:56:54 PM »

Quote from: Dave_Trible on July 15, 2017, 12:01:47 PM

Oh bummer.. no Howard?

Well Sam Niebel and I teamed up for practice this morning and indeed I got that first gallon burned. Got a few shots at the LPad.

Paul decided to show and has this machine to fly this time;

That's a stunt bird I can wrap my head around!!!

Dave_Trible · « **Reply #141 on:** July 20, 2017, 06:19:27 AM »

We are just under way here this morning. It's already sprinkling and a large mass is moving this way. We'll see how far in the first round we can go before a deluge. Seems with the live feeds I won't need to input much. I'll let you know about what the weather is doing.

Dave_Trible · « **Reply #142 on:** July 20, 2017, 07:34:31 AM »

Some morning shots; Kaz Minato

Dave_Trible · « **Reply #143 on:** July 20, 2017, 07:35:50 AM »

Joe Gilbert

Dave_Trible · « **Reply #144 on:** July 20, 2017, 07:36:54 AM »

Jim Lee's Gee Bee getting pulled.

Dan McEntee · « **Reply #145 on:** July 20, 2017, 08:02:19 AM »

Quote from: Dave_Trible on July 20, 2017, 06:19:27 AM

We are just under way here this morning. It's already sprinkling and a large mass is moving this way. We'll see how far in the first round we can go before a deluge. Seems with the live feeds I won't need to input much. I'll let you know about what the weather is doing.

Hi Dave;
Keep up the reports if you can. The live feeds are cool but some of us don't have the equipment that can handle them. You have always done a great play by play, short, sweet and to the point and yet very descriptive. Some of us have to work also and can't enjoy the live feeds.
Thanks alot!
Dan McEntee

Dave_Trible · « **Reply #146 on:** July 20, 2017, 09:32:30 AM »

Thanks Dan! Need to get YOU here sometime. We are complete on 1. The other three circles are just finishing Advanced and the Open groups are about to begin their second rounds. As luck would have it the winds are just now picking up to around 8-10 and feels like more is coming. The sky is a little darker to the northwest and we will get it here sooner or later. Guessing by the size of the storm on radar we could go down for maybe 1-1 1/2 hours. Then maybe very nice (and steamy) after that.

Dave_Trible · « **Reply #147 on:** July 20, 2017, 09:34:05 AM »

.. Frank Williams new ship- always full of inovations. PA .75

Jason Greer · « **Reply #148 on:** July 20, 2017, 09:42:17 AM »

Dave,

I'm with Dan. Being at work, I can't do the live video streams, but I can keep up with the commentary and pictures that are posted here. I definitely appreciate the time that you take doing this.

The live score posting is neat also. I've already run the scores through Excel to see how the top 20 is shaping up!

Thanks,
Jason

Dave_Trible · « **Reply #149 on:** July 20, 2017, 10:04:16 AM »

And with a crack of thunder and a wall of water we are all stop here. Denny is holding till 3:00 pm for re-start (eastern). The last of the Advanced landed but none of the second round of Open has flown yet. Once we go again it will likely go past the dinner hour to complete. Most are leaving the field for now.