Hi all,
I am sitting in the lobby of the hotel wondering just how to
summarise today's events. Its been an emotional roller coaster and I
have had rather too much beer, which means that I might lapse into
passages of rather turgid catalogue of events. Sorry, but I enjoyed the
beer!We have finished all of the flights for
WAC 2007. And we still have Wednesday morning to spare. So, its good to
get the contest finished early, but a little frustrating for those who
did not make the cut (the bottom 25% of pilots were excluded from flying
the Second Unknown). Especially, those who have spent perhaps $35,000
shipping aircraft here. Anyway, WAC flights are finished. Results
processing is not, so I am afraid that I cannot tell you who has won or
give you results for the British team yet. I will try to update you in
the morning.
Nick flew first this morning and put together a solid
programme. No zeros that I could see, although the first and second
figures had significant errors. His performance seemed to improve
throughout the sequence, at least from our viewpoint, but it will be
interesting to see what the judges made of his flight. It was all flown
well above the base of the box - on a day when many people got low. The
second Unknown proved to be a tricky sequence to position in the box.
Tom was disappointed with his flight. He zeroed the
rolling circle and the last figure (did a one and a half negative snap
instead of a single snap) and we think he may have been called low and
been given some box outs. Tom is really flying well - his technical
execution of figures is as good as any of those of his competitor
pilots, but he needs luck and better positioning to come together in one
sequence and then I am sure that he will win an individual medal at an
international contest soon.
 Mark put together a well positioned accurate flight
and seems to have scored well with the judges. He has worked very, very
hard in training for this competition and this seems to have paid off in
this flight. His airshow experience enabled him to position the sequence
well and Mark retained excellent rhythm throughout his performance. I am
sure that Mark is going to get a good final ranking in the results
table.
Gerald had a good flight as well. He is really putting
in excellent sequences. I am not sure how the judges saw the flight, but
we could not see many mistakes.
Anyway, I will let you know more in the morning.
Best wishes,
Steve |
