Congratulations to those who competed. We’ll look forward to seeing you next year! To see prior year rankings, go up one level and select the appropriate year.

Rank	Pilot Name	National Points	Convntn April	Chicago July	Am Flyer ABQ
1	Eric Dufour	1400	701	0	699
2	Jeff Goin	1173	673	500	0
3	Stan Kasica	1062	381	0	681
4	Phil Russman	889	479	0	410
5	Mo Sheldon	793	552	0	241
6	Tim Kaiser	756	246	296	460
7	Dell Schanze	641	0	0	641
8	Max Ladouceur	620	0	0	620
9	Igor Potapkin	575	575	0	0
10	David Sigier	492	0	0	492
11	Stefan Obenauer	351	0	0	351
12	Leon Massa	343	343	0	0
13	Mike Cannella	284	0	284	0
14	Dave Rogers	223	223	0	0
15	Rich Morris	221	0	221	0
16	Steve Tustison	69	0	69	0

Individual Events

Note: “Towards National” means that is the number of points that go into the current standings. It is based on the number of competitors.

Albuquerque Scoring Complete

Nov 29, 2005

Congratulations to the winners of the Albuquerque competition! The results have been verified by George Hawkins and the spreadsheet is included here.  This was the last competition of the year and an impressive showing of very capable pilots. 

A total of 9 competitors came to see how they compared  (11 actually, but 2 were unable to start). Thanks to Mike Thompson and CC Moissant for running things and keeping it fair.

Anyone planning their own competition can download the USPPA scoring system using the blank Excel scoresheet. This can be useful for “gaming” various scenarios to better know where your efforts should be concentrated.

Download: Albuquerque | Blank ScoreSheet.
Note that these sheets incorporate all rule changes that were made just prior to the 2005 convention competition.

#	Pilot	Total	TkOff	Spot L	T&Go	Bomb	Clovlf	Effic	FtDrg	Sl/Fast	Nat’l
1	Eric Dufour	1773	300	48	350	30	500	69	276	200	700
2	Stan Kaisca	1724	300	185	290	150	262	129	282	126	681
3	Dell Shantze	1624	300		350	149	282	114	392	37	641
4	Max Ladouceur	1571	300	66	330	103	160	89	366	157	620
5	David Sigier	1247	300		350	32	484	81			492
6	Tim Kaiser	1164	300	88	330	34	160	92	160	0	460
7	Phil Russman	1039	300		330	146	160	103			410
8	Stefan Obenauer	890	300	112		43			360	75	351
9	Mo Sheldon	610	300		310						241

Harryport Competition Completes

July 10, 2005

The flight-friendly farm of Harry Rosset enjoyed its first USPPA sanctioned competition with enough pilots to make it count towards national standings. The grass and beans made for a perfect location to set up the cloverleaf and a large round grass circle worked well for all the other tasks.

New pilot Rick Morris showed enormous promise. With only 65 flights, he showed up expertly doing various maneuvers demanding skill. Since we were looking for more competitors, he was a natural. Another up and comer, Tim Kaiser, who has competed several times now but only has 110 flights, nailed two of the spot landings – a high scoring accomplishment that netted him 2nd place. 

This event was worth a total of 500 points towards the national standings. Our next competition is in Albuquerque during the 2005 Balloon Fiesta Fly-In. 

Congrats to the competitors who braved the heat and bumps. As always, great fun, sore muscles and much flying (in short spurts!) was accomplished. Interestingly, and as usual, there was no damage until free-flying ensued AFTER the competition.

Scores from this July Harryport event are below: 

Pilot	Points	Towards National
1. Jeff Goin	2,170	500
2. Tim Kaiser	1,285	296
3. Mike Cannella	1,233	284
4. Rich Morris	959	221
5. Steve Tustison	300	69

Thanks to Harry Rosset who’s property we used and for being the Lead Judge, Also Jay Reynolds, Nick Cannella, Paul Paulikas, and Alex Varv for helping with judging.

2005 National Convention Competition

Scores from this April Convention are below:

Pilot	Points	Towards National
Eric Dufour	1,925	700
Jeff Goin	1,850	673
Igor Potapkin	1,581	575
Mo Sheldon	1,518	552
Phil Russman	1,317	479
Stan Kasica	1,047	381
Leon Massa	944	343
Tim Kaiser	676	246
Dave Rogers	612	223

Back to competition

Final National Ranking

Updated Nov 27, 2004 

Rank	Pilot Name	National Points	Paratoys Salton	Parastars Fly-By	Am Flyer ABQ	Nationals Fly-By		1st Hi Value	2nd Hi Value
1	Jeff Goin	1554	894	553	500	660		894	660
2	Eric Dufour	1450	0	750	377	700		750	700
3	Bob Ryan	1239	864	0	375	0		864	375
4	Marty Hathaway	1120	0	516	0	604		604	516
5	Richard Good	1114	0	605	0	509		605	509
6	Arnon Lufi	1000	1000	0	0	0		1000	0
7	Mike Ralph	919	0	327	0	592		592	327
8	Andy McAvin	820	556	0	0	264		556	264
9	Dell Schanze	793	793	0	0	0		793	0
9	Nick Scholtes	793	793	0	0	0		793	0
10	Mike Masterson	756	756	0	0	0		756	0
11	Eric Steele	754	754	0	0	0		754	0
12	Bill Heaner	700	700	0	0	0		700	0
13	Phil Russman	688	460	228	0	0		460	228
14	Francesco Desantis	671	671	0	0	0		671	0
15	Paul Bailey	630	0	630	0	0		630	0
16	Abe Christenson	616	616	0	0	0		616	0
17	Terry Latimer	516	0	0	0	516		516	0
18	Alan Chuculate	513	513	0	0	0		513	0
19	Mo Sheldon	471	471	0	0	0		471	0
20	Dan Kriseler	455	0	455	0	0		455	0
21	Ron Hultin	405	0	405	0	0		405	0
22	James Coblentz	393	0	393	0	0		393	0
23	Mike McGuirk	392	0	0	392	0		392	0
24	Stanley Kasica	372	0	0	0	372		372	0
25	Casey Cadwell	282	282	0	0	0		282	0
26	Tim Kaiser	195	0	0	195	0		195	0
27	Dave Rogers	157	0	0	0	493		493	0

Fall Fly-By (Ocala, FL)

Nov 19-20, 2004.

Round 1

Pilot Name	Takeoff	Spot Landing	Touch and Go	Bomb Drop	Cloverleaf	Kiting War	Foot Drag	Slow /Fast	Session 1 Total
Eric Dufour	300	450	350	65	350		400	190	2105
Jeff Goin	300	258	350	74	344	110*	381	200	2017
Marty Hathaway	300	97	350	130	284		357	162	1680
Mike Ralph	300	350	275	35			396	143	1499
Terry Latimer	300	204	195	94	326		363	138	1620
Richard Good	300	145	275	200	328		280	68	1596
Stanley Kasica	300	31	0	30	259		313	117	1050
Dave Rogers	300		0	143	50			0	493
Andy McAvin	300		0	0					300

Round 2

Pilot Name	Takeoff	Spot Landing	Touch and Go	Bomb Drop	Cloverleaf	Kiting War	Foot Drag	Slow /Fast	Session 1 Total
Eric Dufour	300	449	275	134	350	110*	378	200	2196
Jeff Goin	300	350	350	150	335	60*	358	167	2070
Marty Hathaway	300	370	350	104	300		331	139	1894
Mike Ralph	300	214	350	114	335		400	144	1857
Richard Good	200	320	275	30	323		325	56	1529
Terry Latimer	300	19	350	50	326		392	47	1484
Stanley Kasica	300	102	70	61	250		347	37	1167
Andy McAvin		203	0	128	298		200	0	829
Dave Rogers Did Not Compete This Round

*Kiting war requires a pilot to keep his wing up for 2 minutes in order to earn any points.

Fly By Final Standings
Place	Pilot	Motor	Wing	Points
1	Eric Dufour	Paratour SD 100,	Fresh Breeze Silex, Small	2,196
2	Jeff Goin	Paralite Sky Cruiser Snap 100	Fresh Breeze Silex, Small	2,070
3	Marty Hathaway	Paratour SD 100	Turbo	1,894
4	Mike Ralph	Paratour SD 100	Turbo	1,857
5	Terry Latimer	Adventure R3	Adventure Speedoo	1,620
6	Richard Good	Paratour SD 100	Gin Gangsta	1,596
7	Stanley Kasica	Paratour SD 100	?	1,167
8	Andy McAvin	Paralite Sky Cruiser 100, Muse	MacPara Muse	829
9	Dave Rogers	Fly Products Powerjet Top 80	Apco Thrust	493

 

American Flyer (Albuquerque, NM)

Oct 3, 2004.

Rank	Pilot Name/ Equipement	Wing/Motor	Takeoff	Spot Landing	Touch and Go	Bomb Drop	Cloverleaf	Foot Drag	Slow/ Fast	Score
1	Jeff Goin	Silex SC Snap 100	200	0	350	0	500	220	225	1495
2	Mike McGuirk	MacPara Eden SD Simonini	300	DQ	175	127	400	0	171	1173
3	Eric Dufour	EZ Glider SD RDM	300	236	290	0	DQ	0	300	1126
4	Bob Ryan	Sigma 5 SC Black Devil	300	375	250	92	DNC	105	0	1122
5	Tim Kaiser	FB Silex SC Top 80	300	DQ	120	0	DNC	DNC	164	584

Parastars (Fly-By Ranch)

Apr 7,8 2004; revised Apr 15, 2004.

Pilots	Kiting	Foot drag	Efficiency	Slow/ Fast	Takeoff	Pwr Off Land	Bomb Drop	Touch & Go	Thur Culum	Wed Cumul	Highest Cumul	% of highest score	Natl Points	Plc
Eric Dufour	110	169	159	215	300	231	100	330	1615	1828	1828	100.00%	750	1
Paul Bailey	10	90	120	300	300	350	15	350	1535	1327	1535	83.98%	630	2
Richard Good	0	0	367	216	300	290	26	275	1474	1453	1474	80.66%	605	3
Jeff Goin	35	0	93	246	300	367	59	250	1349	1182	1349	73.82%	554	4
Marty Hathaway	0	150	0	203	300	156	100	350	1258	1206	1258	68.86%	516	5
Dan Kriseler	60	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	60	1108	1108	60.64%	455	6
Ron Hultin	0	70	32	0	300	162	93	330	987	858	987	53.99%	405	7
James Coblentz	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	10	957	957	52.38%	393	8
Mike Ralph	10	167	0	0	300	0	66	255	798	790	798	43.64%	327	9
Phil Russman	10	0	0	0	400	0	0	0	410	556	556	30.42%	228	10
MinPilots: 5, MaxPilots: 15, competitors: 10, Competition Worth: 750								Highest Score:		1828	1828

 

Paratoys 2004

Feb 7, 2004

Pilots	#	Foot drag	Takeoff	Pwr Off Landing	Bomb Drop	Kicking Sticks (Slalom)	Touch & Go	Cumul	% of highest score	National Points	place
Arnon Lufi	2	355	300	370	134	550	350	2058	100.00%	1000	1
Jeff Goin	1	272	300	375	78	540	275	1840	89.40%	894	2
Bob Ryan	9	350	280	156	106	535	350	1777	86.36%	864	3
Nick Scholtes	7	345	300	151	DQ	486	350	1633	79.32%	793	4
Dell Schanze	4	345	300	DQ	149	488	350	1631	79.27%	793	5
Mike Masterson	8	150	300	368	DQ	464	275	1557	75.63%	756	6
Eric Steele	11	297	300	0	146	460	350	1552	75.41%	754	7
Bill Heaner	15	353	300	DQ	DQ	438	350	1441	70.00%	700	8
Francesco Desantis	12	0	300	234	111	481	255	1382	67.12%	671	9
Abe Christenson	10	218	180	97	74	522	175	1267	61.55%	616	10
Andy McAvin	5	0	300	169	DQ	400	275	1144	55.60%	556	11
Alan Chuculate	3	0	0	236	DQ	509	310	1055	51.27%	513	12
Mo Sheldon	6	250	180	0	DQ	410	130	970	47.12%	471	13
Phil Russman	13	380	60	DQ	DQ	467	40	947	46.02%	460	14
Casey Cadwell	14	400	180	DNC	DNC	DNC	0	580	28.18%	282	15
									Highest Score:		2058
					MinPilots:	5			# of Competitors:		15
					MaxPilots:	15			Competition Worth:		1000

2004 Standings Finalized

Nov 27, 2004

After five events spanning the entire country, the cumulative scores have been totalled. And the verdict is… (click here for National Standings.)

Finals Completed

Nov 21, 2004

The final USPPA competition for 2004 is behind us. Cooperative Florida weather gave contestants warm blues skies for two days of practicing and competing. On Sunday the pilots relaxed to a cross country about the surrounding area.

Congratulations to Eric Dufour who took the victory after two rounds, Jeff Goin garnered 2nd place and Marty Hathaway stepped up to 3rd.

It was a very enjoyable time for the 9 pilots who competed and built friendships even in the face of a strong desire to do well. The results are included under “National Rankings“.

Pictured Left is Terry Latimer, new to competition, who is stretching for a spot landing. Above right is the gold “Paramotor Man” Necklace, given to each of the top 3 winners.

Saturday afternoon included two rounds of the kiting war and, in spite of light conditions for much of it, both rounds had the necessary minimum kiting time (2 minutes) to count.

The National Standings will be updated shortly to reflect these scores. Schedules for the 2005 competitions have not been set but there will be one in April and another in November, again at Fly-By Ranch.

Here are just a few bits of the many memories captured in the brief time together.

1. The Judges are recovering a a humorous moment.
   2. Marty Hathaway enjoys a Sunday cruise. Elisabeth is flying the trike beyond him.
   3. Eight of Nine competitors meet the camera, it was the shots that FOLLOWED these that were memorable. We’ll have those eventually!
   4. There is a free ride.

High Attitude, High Altitude

Oct 8, 2004
by Jeff Goin

Just launching from 5200′ above sea level is a challenge. Results are under National Rankings.

We had the requisite five competitors including a new pilot who had never flown one. Second place was earned by another new-to-competition pilot Mike McGuirk.

As with all these events it was fun just to get together with like-minded fellow flyers. And it’s always a learning curve. There will be two rule changes to make judging more objective. They are:

1. The bomb drop minimum altitude will be dropped. You can come in as low as you want as long as nothing touches except the bomb. Where it stops determines your distance. So if it touches the cone and bounces off, that is still where it is measured from.
2. The touch and go now has a maximum distance. Stepping outside of that distance zero’s the step score (but not the target portion of the score).

Petroleum To Airspeed:
The Ultralight Nationals Completes

Sept 24, 2004
by Jeff Goin

The scores are posted. Congratulations to David Sigier of Canada who earned the most total points and the victory.

Details are forthcoming but the order is David Sigier, Jeff Goin and Dave Rogers, a new pilot who came to Scottsburg with only 20 flights and a desire to learn. We’ve not heard the last of this up and coming pilot!

The last swoop of David Sigier’s “Japanese Slalom” ended two days of the most perfect weather served up to light fliers. Conditions were such that it was possible to fly all day on both days allowing completion of every planned task.

The last Task was quite the crowd pleaser – a low level course involving 4 sticks where contestants rounded corners and kicked sticks in precise fashion within feet of the ground.

We certainly both wanted to win but didn’t let that interfere with tank fulls of fun along the way. Returning from the “Outlanding” field we flew together and David hammed it up a bit with “Big Ears” as seen on the top picture.

A most unique task consumed the entire morning airborne. It involved getting maps, directions, a sealed envelope and orders to “fetch” certain turnpoints. Once identified, straight lines were drawn on the map (while in flight)  connecting the points. If done correctly, their intersection gives the new destination – where you should go land. An awaiting marshal recorded the landing time and took your map for scoring. It was like a road rally in the air. Afterward, pilots were free to fly back to the comp field or ride back in a vehicle. Of course we flew back.

A buffet style banquet and awards ceremony with live music completed the evening. Several awards were given by USUA’s Dale Hooper and Tom Gunnarson including one that went to PPG pilot David Rogers for flying accomplishment in his pre-ppg craft, a Quicksilver MX.

The amount of planning and time that went into this became apparent – it was enormous. And it was designed to make it fun for the pilots.

The people who made this happen gave unprecedented levels of participation including publicity and participation by the city of Scottsburg. It was very, very clear they wanted us there and made us (the PPG pilots) feel welcome in what has been primarily a fixed-wing event.

Any pilot that has enough skill to consistently launch and land can compete in these events. Most of the event does not include the low-level work that some fear and even what’s there can be flown up high just for practice. Next time we can hopefully have more participate – it is a LOT of work to organize and my hat is off to Tom Gunnarson of USUA and all the other folks who have made this possible.

Contestants were David Sigier (Top 80 Miniplane & Nervures Wing), Dave Rogers (Fly Products Top 80 Powerjet & Apco Thrust wing) and Jeff Goin (Top 80 Paralite Sky Cruiser with Silex wing).

Flying navigation tasks are fun – it’s like a rally, you’re given these incredibly accurate maps and instructed to “go fetch”. Flying within 500′ of the point scores a hit which will be read later by the scoring people through your GPS (sealed so you can’t read it).

National Geographic videotaped a feature on two ultralight pilots and was present for much of the proceedings. We plaud the USUA for going to the effort of putting this on.

Friday Day 2

1. Dave Rogers and David Sigier get their gear ready on the launch “Deck”. Getting airborne proved challenging in the hot, humid conditions.
2. After flying around and “S” shaped course and marking points for a line, I wound up missing one and had to revert to the “Secret Envelope” – it showed the destination to be this beautiful airport snuggled up to the Ohio River.
3. Reading maps is a completely different skill than the low level maneuvering required for “flight precision”; but it is just another skill to master where getting there is indeed much of the fun.
4. Epic Helmut Head.
5. David Sigier shows up a few minutes after I did. He found all the points but drew the lines wrong and landed out. I was following my one line (in hopes to find the landing site) when I saw him land and circled down to see if that was the site (or if he had problems). He was fine and I figured this wasn’t the site so I climbed back up,  opened my “secret letter” and followed its directions to the outlanding site. He corrected his error and relaunched to head there himself.
6. The Marshall, Rick, had driven to the airport to collect our maps and GPS’s.
7. Larry Beckley, the nicest guy you’d ever want to meet. You’d like him even if he didn’t open up his beautiful airport for this insanity. He is also a commercial airplane pilot and ultralight instructor seen here by his trainer.
8. We ate, the band played and –
9. A few took the opportunity for fancy footwork.
10. 
    The banquet beckons. Many Chickens gave themselves up to the growth of human girth.
11. Dale Hooper, USUA president played MC for most of the festivities and gave away a number of USUA awards.
12. Tom Gunnarson, competition director, pulled himself away from scoring long enough to present a few awards himself.

 

Thursday Day 1

1. 
   A color guard marched to attention in the opening ceremony with a performance of the National Anthem and prayer. This was a very nice touch given what goes on around us and helps put the freedom we enjoy in perspective. It was moving.
2. The three PPG contestants L to R: David Sigier with his brother Chris, Jeff Goin and David Rogers
3. 
   David Rogers returning from a navigation task.
4. Jeff Goin reading the map.
5. One of the waypoints turns out to be a “VOR” which is used by overflying jets. I hope this didn’t disturb their signal!
6. Sunshine pours over a dewey blanket of ultralights parked on the flight line.

Wednesday 09/22/2004

 

1. 
   Pilots measure out each other’s fuel with Marshal’s supervision. The first task: take a limited amount of fuel on a triangle, do a touch and go on the “deck” then go hunt for other check points.
2. The City of Scottsburg is providing a web cam atop this pole and Larry, the airport owner is providing wireless internet for pilots.

1. David Rodgers, PPGer from the Tallahassee area, refuels his fly. All competition pilots are flying top 80 motors.
2. We’re being nice to this group: the Marshals.

 

Big Win For Four

July 14, 2004

by Kevin Tayler

Four strokes that is. The relatively new Bailey 4-Stroke motor made a big competitive splash this year in Europe when Michel Carnet (four times British Paramotor Champion) and Paul Bailey, its creator took consecutive winning titles. Michel garnered the highest score in the French Nationals and then two weeks later was beaten into second place in the British Nationals by Paul Bailey. They were flying Bailey Aviation 4-Stroke motors and Paramania Action wings.

Pictured right is Paul Bailey, the 2004 British Champion.
Photo by Pascall Campbell Jones.

The British Championships, held in rural Norfolk, were concentrated into two days’ flying with 20 finishers (including two Belgium entrants). Bailey and Carnet were in a league of their own throughout and one or other was always going to take the title. Their strengths and weaknesses balance each other out and it was impossible to say who would gain the upper hand until the final scores were calculated. Paul Bailey is cool and determined, giving little away and always performing consistently, especially on those notorious forward launches in nil-wind or shifting-wind which he nailed every time. Michel, with more to lose, made some uncharacteristic launch and landing errors but was true to his free-flying background with a great thermalling task, airborne on two litres for an hour longer than most other pilots.

A complex low moved across the area, making it difficult to judge the weather. Conditions allowed two days of competitive flying, but not without drama. At a crucial moment in the middle of a fuel-economy task a huge cunim produced a rush of cold air and dragged the wind dramatically from SW to N, meaning that pilots who’d flown their into-wind legs at the beginning were also battling the wind on the way back, with the result that many landed out. On another occasion the whole field was laid out ready to launch into seemingly flat conditions to fly a 62km circuit when a deafening rumble of thunder and flashes of lightning ripped through the sky, directly upwind. Task aborted. Ten minutes later it deluged.

Competition Director Mike Campbell-Jones responded with some multi-tasking, an innovation in paramotoring which involves cramming as many challenges as possible into the same flight. We launched in pairs, raced flat-out for 10km, descended to ground level for measured fast/slow runs, moved over to the kicking-stick slalom, then powered up to 500 feet for a timed accuracy landing. In the evening we did the same thing all over again.

The best task was the ‘cat’s cradle’, a complex piece of navigation and route-planning on limited fuel. Numerous turnpoints were specified in different sectors and the trick was to fly the largest possible distance between points while optionally collecting bonus scores by returning to the field to kick a stick after every three strikes: all on 6 litres within a time window. This required detailed preparation as well as masterful flying and a thorough knowledge of one’s equipment, and it was notable that the two competition leaders planned and flew exactly the same route as each other (clearly the optimal one), without any cross-referring.

We are grateful to those who supported this year’s Nationals, including Sky Systems, the BMAA, FFPLUM, Bailey Aviation and Paramania.

Pos.	Name	Wing	Engine
1.	BAILEY Paul	Paramania Action	Bailey 4-stroke 150
2.	CARNET Michel	Paramania Action	Bailey 4-stroke 150
3.	PARKINSON Julian	Paramania Action	PAP Top 80 1400
4.	CAMPBELL-JONES Pascal	Paramania Action	Vortex
5.	GLASSE Henry	Paramania Action	Fly 115
6.	HINZER Karl	Hathor Symphony	Bailey JPX 320
7.	CREHAN Simon	Paramania Action	PAP Top 80 1300
8.	KELLY Robbie	Paramania Action	Bailey JPX 320
9.	CASTON John	Paramania Action	Bailey JPX 320
10.	PUSHMAN Brian	Hathor Legato	DK Whisper GT
11.	KEMP John	Hathor Legato	Bailey Solo 210
12.	TAYLOR Kevin	Paramania Action	Fresh Breeze Airboss 122
13.	KELLY Jansy	Paramania Action	PAP Top 80 1100
14.	BEVERIDGE Brian	Sky Lift	DK Whisper GT
15.	DENT Piers	Silex	Fresh Breeze Airboss 122
16.	HALLATT Paul	Paramania Action	Fresh Breeze Airboss 122
17.	KEENE Tom	Paramania Action	H&E Zyclone
18.	HAIRS Dave	Paramania Action	Adventure F4
Guest	Johan Bossuyt (BEL)	Paramania Action	PAP Top 80 1400 TD
Guest	Stefaan Michils (BEL)	Paramania Action	PAP 1400 AS

First Dedicated Competition Completes

Fly-By Ranch, NW of Orlando, Florida

Photo at right by Bud Johnson – Competitors L to R Ron Hultin, Dan Kriseler, Paul Bailey, Mike Ralph, Jeff Goin, Marty Hathaway, Richard Good and Eric Dufour holding “Tiny”. Phil Russman, an excellent pilot, competed but slipped away from the photo (“I’m not gonna be in that thing after my performance!”)

This is the way to run a competition! Starting April 8th we flew two days of  very challenging conditions without as much as a broken propeller.

A new task has been added that mirrors the FAI’s “Slow/Fast”. This has you fly between to gates as slow as possible the first time and then as fast as possible the second time. Scoring favors the greatest DIFFERENCE between the two.

The event, held at Fly-By Ranch near Ocala, FL was a complete success. Ten pilots put their skills to the test, braving gusty Florida winds and thermals, and did an outstanding job. Unfortunately, high winds precluded running the “cloverleaf”, a high point task where the pilot kicks a center stick and flies around the four corners of the course.

Judging was excellent. With the practice day on Wednesday we were able to work out most bugs by both pilots and judges. Art Runzo was the Competition Director, David Friedrich the Lead judge and George Hawkins did the scoring. Four teams of judges watched over the tasks and kept impeccable records.

No mercy was shown to anyone as task DQ’s were handed out to all when the judges felt they were necessary. Preliminary scoring is complete thanks to George Hawkins. There were 10 excellent pilots flying in the very challenging conditions. Facilities at Fly-By make it easy to coordinate with a large briefing room at the edge of the field (far right Phil & Elisabeth let me interrupt).

The pictured judges formed their favored expression, “DQ”. George Hawkins, Christianne Moisan (CC), Art Runzo, David Friedrich, John Broda and Ed Chikitani made this the best judged event ever. CC earned her reputation as “Miss DQ” when Jeff Goin landed after a 4-second flight in the endurance competition due to a fuel line problem. She DQ’d his next effort since the rules have no allowance for a “second attempt”. Appropriate but still painful!

First Event

Our first competition is “in the bag”. Running of the tasks went very well at the Paratoys fly-in as each pilot got to fly his routine without significant waiting. There were no injuries and the most serious occurrence was related to a non-participant.

Due to the challenge of running these events during big fly-ins, they will be held primarily as as dedicated events with only very limited other flying allowed. This makes it safer for the competitors and non-competitors and improves the ability of judges and pilots to better acclimate to the rules.

Recent Changes

A new Pilot Reference has been added under “Rules”.

As the competition evolves the primary means to that evolution is through rules changes. The most recent revision attempts make it both safer and more fair.

One attempt to improve fairness changes the efficiency competition to reflect the innate ability of smaller motors to fly longer on less fuel. They will still confer some advantage but it will be greatly reduced. This scoring was applied to the Toledo competition and, as a result, a pilot flying a 184 cc motor tied with a pilot flying a 80 cc motor.

Kicking Sticks has been modified so that pilots have only one try but can kick either of the first two sticks to make their run count. Before this the pilot could have up to three tries but that caused pilots to be doing low altitude circles while other competitors had to overfly the task. This also makes it far easier to judge

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As of June 4, 2014,. The Two Highest Scores are Additive for “National Points”

Here is the approved spreadsheet with all tasks.Thanks to George Hawkins and Glen Boyd for validating the scoresheets. Their resulting spreadsheet is available below. There was only one small change that did not effect the standings.

 

Final Standings
Place	Pilot	Points	Towards National
1	Jeff Goin	2,173	650
2	Chad Bastian	2,141	640
3	Ryan Shaw	2,010	601
4	Bryan West	1,604	480
5	Alex Donaghy	1,588	475
6	Chad Vermilion	1,546	462
7	Jiri Sindler	1,410	422
8	Shane Denherder	1,267	379

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These scores reflect all competitions run in 2003. For pilots competing in multiple events, their highest two scores are retained. The 2003 overall winner was Eric Dufour.

2003 National Standings – Final
As of Oct 10, 2003		The Two Highest Scores are Additive for “National Points”
Rank	Pilot Name	National Points	Parastars FL	PPGer Detroit	Harryport IL	FlyOhio Toledo	Am Flyer ABQ	1st Hi Value	2nd Hi Value
1	Eric Dufour	1936	1000	0			936	1000.0	936
2	Jeff Goin	1800	500	633	800	700	1000	1000.0	800
3	Mo Sheldon	1629	788	0			841	841.1	788
4	Nick Sholtes	1605	715	0	292		890	889.6	715
5	Dan Krisler	1421	771	650		585		771.0	650
6	Wally Shilts	1298	700	146	598	243		700.0	598
7	Bill Heaner	912	0	0			912	912.0	0
8	David Sigier	809	809	0				809.0	0
9	Fernandez	756	756	0				756.0	0
10	Jack Kimble	746	0		474	224	272	474.0	272
11	Dell Schanze	699	0	0			699	699.0	0
12	Justin Elliot	600	0	0	0	600		600.0	0
13	Stefan Obenauer	581	0	250		331	124	331.0	250
14	Steve Mayer	556	556	0				556.0	0
15	Gary Shoaf	467	0	332		135		332.0	135
16	Ricky Guerra	362	362	0				362.0	0
17	Mike Cannella	345	0		345			345.0	0
18	Phil Adkison	329	0	128		201		201.0	128
19	Kermit Weeks	324	324	0				324.0	0
20	Phil Russman	323	0	0			323	323.0	0
21	Wayne Mitchler	319	0		319			319.0	0
22	Eric Rys	297	0		297			297.0	0
23	Eric Braun	283	0	0	0	283		283.0	0
24	Mike Brown	260	0	0			260	260.0	0
25	Bruce Brown	241	0	241				241.0	0
26	Tim Doughty	239	0	0			239	239.0	0
27	Bob Peters	228	0	0			228	228.0	0
28	Christine Doughty	197	0	0			197	197.0	0
29	Harry Rossett	132	0		132			132.0	0
30	Andy McAvin	125	0	0				125.0	0
31	Don Jordan	103	15	0	88			88.0	15
32	David Davidson	99	0	0			99	99.0	0
33	Ron Estrada	82	0	44	38			44.0	38
34	Manfred Hornig	59	59	0				59.0	0

 

2003 ABQ Competition

Pilots	Kiting	Foot drag	Takeoff	Pwr Off Landing	Bomb Drop	Kicking Sticks (Slalom)	Touch & Go	Cumul	% of highest score	National Points	place
Jeff Goin	0	464	300	350	53	605	250	2023	100.00%	1000	1
Eric Dufour	0	600	300	DQ	84	600	310	1894	93.62%	936	2
Bill Heaner	0	274	300	257	144	600	270	1845	91.19%	912	3
Nick Scholtes	0	401	300	372	74	603	50	1799	88.96%	890	4
Mo Sheldon	0	552	300	150	89	560	50	1701	84.11%	841	5
Dell Schanze	0	0	200	144	139	657	275	1415	69.95%	699	6
Phil Russman	0	0	200	143	135	0	175	653	32.28%	323	7
Jack Kimble	0	0	300	DNC	0	0	250	550	27.19%	272	8
Mike Brown	0	0	300	96	79	0	50	525	25.96%	260	9
Tim Doughty	0	0	300	DNC	84	0	100	484	23.95%	239	10
Bob Peters	0	0	300	110	50	0	0	460	22.76%	228	11
Christine Doughty	0	0	200	114	85	0	0	398	19.69%	197	12
Andy McAvin	0	0	200	DNC	54	0	0	254	12.54%	125	13
Stefan Obenauer	0	0	0	DNC	0	0	250	250	12.36%	124	14
David Davidson	0	0	200	DNC	0	0	0	200	9.89%	99	15
Highest Score:		2023
# of Competitors:		15
Competition Worth:		1000

 

2003 FlyOhio Toledo Competition

2003 FlyOhio Toledo Competition
Pilots	Kiting	Platform	Foot drag	Beam Walk	Efficiency	Takeoff	Landing	Bomb Drop	Kicking Sticks (Slalom)	Touch & Go	Event	% of highest score	National Points	place
Jeff Goin	50		641	0	160	300	250	0	600	350	2351	100.00%	700	1
Justin Elliot	25		605	0	108	300	65	50	500	350	2002	85.19%	596	2
Dan Kriseler	110		300	0	56	200	275	126	600	275	1942	82.61%	578	3
Stefan Obenauer	0		381	0	1	300	9	82	DNC	310	1083	46.07%	323	4
Eric Braun	0		0	0	108	300	231	82	DQ	255	976	41.51%	291	5
Wally Shilts	0		0	0	0	300	59	147	DQ	290	797	33.89%	237	6
Jack Kimble	0		0	0	0	300	DNC	82	DNC	350	732	31.14%	218	7
Phil Adkison	0		0	0	7	0	200	200	DQ	255	662	28.18%	197	8
Gary Shoaf	0		0	0	55	300	DNC	113	DNC	0	468	19.91%	139	9
0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.00%	0	10
0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.00%	0	10
2003 FlyOhio Toledo Competition									Highest Score:		2351
									# of Competitors:		9
									Competition Worth:		700

2003 Harryport Competition

Pilots	Kiting	Platform	Foot drag	Beam Walk	Ball Play	Takeoff	Landing	Bomb Drop	Kicking Sticks (Slalom)	Touch & Go	Event	% of highest score	National Points	place
Nick Scholtes	0		0	0	0	300	0	15	DNC	350	665	36.56%	292	8
Jack Kimble	0		0	0	0	300	0	128	400	250	1078	59.24%	474	3
Don Jordan	0		0	0	0	200	0	0	DNC	0	200	11.00%	88	10
Wyatt Petersen	60		0	0	0	300	81	100	200	235	976	53.66%	429	4
Wally Shilts	0		264	0	0	300	100	0	500	195	1359	74.69%	598	2
Jeff Goin	110		420	0	0	300	83	56	500	350	1819	100.00%	800	1
Ron Estrada	0		0	0	0	0	0	37	DNC	50	87	4.78%	38	11
Mike Cannella	0		0	0	0	300	DQ	110	200	175	785	43.14%	345	5
Wayne Mitchler	0		0	0	0	300	94	0	0	330	724	39.83%	319	6
Eric Rys	0		0	0	0	300	0	0	200	175	675	37.11%	297	7
Harry Rossett	0		0	0	0	300	DNC	0	DNC	0	300	16.49%	132	9
										Highest Score:	1819		–
										# of Competitors:	11
										Competition Worth:	800

2003 PowerdParaglider.com

Pilots	Kiting	Platform	Foot drag	Beam Walk	Ball Play	Takeoff	Landing	Bomb Drop	Kicking Sticks (Slalom)	Touch & Go	Event	% of highest score	National Points	place
Phil Adkison	0		0	0	0	100	0	65	0	230	395	19.73%	128	7
Bruce Brown	0		0	0	0	300	0	92	0	350	742	37.07%	241	5
Ron Estrada	0		0	0	0	100	0	37	0	0	137	6.84%	44	8
Jeff Goin	110		300	0	0	300	325	63	500	350	1947	97.32%	633	2
Dan Kriseler	60		562	0	0	300	79	49	600	350	2001	100.00%	650	1
Stefan Obenauer	25		0	0	0	200	100	84	300	60	769	38.45%	250	4
Ray St. Louis	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.00%	0	9
Gary Shoaf	0		0	0	0	300	100	121	400	100	1021	51.05%	332	3
Wally Shilts	0		0	0	0	200	100	30	0	120	450	22.49%	146	6
0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0.00%	0	9
0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0.00%	0	9
										Highest Score:	2001		–
										# of Competitors:	8
										Competition Worth:

Endless Footdrag, May 2015

Final, approved, Scoring Spreadsheet Standard, Novice.

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2015 USPPA Competition (Standard)

2015 USPPA Competition Scoring (Novice)

Final Standings
Place	Pilot	Points	Towards National
1	RYAN SHAW	1,560	550
2	BRANDON FEREBEE	1,330	469
3	JIRI SINDLER	1,318	465
4	WIL BROWN	1,315	464
5	BRYAN WEST	1,281	452
6	JOHNSON QU	1,030	363

 

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Congratulations to those who competed in the Endless Footdrag competition near Fort Smith, AR.

Final Standings
Place	Pilot	Points	Towards National
1	ADRIEL MARTIN	2,081	1,050
2	CHAD BASTIAN	2,027	1,023
3	JIRI SINDLER	2,016	1,017
4	DORAN MARTIN	1,984	1,001
5	DELVIN MARTIN	1,924	971
6	PAUL LUNDQUIST	1,902	960
7	ETHAN MARTIN	1,866	942
8	SCOTT MAGES	1,699	857
9	MIKE TIFFEE	1,641	828
10	AARON BUTLER	1,452	733
11	BRITTON SHAW	1,256	634
12	IAN KNIGHT	1,133	572
13	CHRISTIAN GORDON	710	358