Matt Matt Matt,
How was it that you let those two OLD guys beat you?
Hey!!!!
Actually Matt was flying very well. His Thundergazer is one heck of a good flying design and he had a great motor run and good trim, but the circles at Huntersville are surrounded by trees that are growing very rapidly and can make even light winds very challenging. Saturday the air was turbulent enough that we could not finish a pattern with any of our Pampa planes till evening, and Classic stunt was kind of *hang on and hope* time. On my first round flight my Nakke went free flight at one point and actually hit the end of the lines hard enough to damage the leadout exit.
Sunday started out calm to almost dead, and Derek's choice of flying a PA-40 powered Nakke looked like a good one-the light small model didn't seem to have the wake turbulence issues the larger pampa planes had. Matt had to do *a lot* of backing up on his flights, and then haul ass back to the center of the circle to not hit a tree. The wind started to steady up by my second round flight and it finally chose a direction with less obstructions so it was relatively smooth. The Advanced guys quickly had their hands full as the wind rapidly increased after expert was over.(Eddy's remonstrations about lost points are accurate but by the second round I think those guys were getting nervous about the wind, which may have been only 6-8 at first but after going over the trees, parking lot, porta potty and the bleachers it was clearly getting rough out there.) By noon it was very breezy and several dust devils came through. It looked like disaster but the dust devils threaded their way between the pits and the circles without hitting anything.
I can't wait to see how Matt's plane flies in the clean air of the L pad this summer!
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