tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-243032532011-04-21T19:49:56.624-07:00Mirnoreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24303253.post-1142694506119839042006-03-18T06:44:00.000-08:002006-03-18T07:23:04.953-08:00<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/643/2518/1600/N231.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/643/2518/320/N231.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Sportsman<br /><strong>Rank--- Pilot----Tot %pp</strong><br />1st David Watson 85.51<br />2nd David Groft 81.00<br />3rd Andrew Wright 80.79<br />4th Neville Hogan 80.34<br />5th Bill Crawford 77.08<br />6th Kevin Hickling 76.24<br />7th Karen Greenfield 74.73<br />8th Birdie Saurenman 71.78<br /><strong>9th Phil Abrams 70.71<br /></strong>10th Craig B. Wisman 70.48<br />11th Bryan Scheible 67.61<br />12th William Wilson 64.79<br />13th Tom Fox 62.96<br />14th Dennis Thompson 52.99<br /><br />We had three days of absolutely beautiful weather during the First Annual Pocono Mountains Aerobatic Contest. The event was a resounding success thanks to the teamwork of everyone who attended. I am incredibly proud to be leading this 2 year old Chapter who's members came together to put on one incredible contest.<br />HUGE Thank You to:<br />The Pocono Mountains Municipal Airport Authority, Vern and Eric Moyer and all of Moyer Aviation for allowing us to hold our event at their Airport.<br />Tom Fox for taking on the tremendous task of Volunteer Coordinator. We couldn't have done it without him.<br />Colleen Fox for being the most organized Registrar ever.<br /><br />Bob McGraw for keeping our ramp safe and efficient.<br /><br />John Clipp and Matt Chapman for getting all our aircraft tech'ed thoroughly but quickly.<br /><br />Ann, Kristen, and Kathleen Fox for running registration and judges line paperwork so efficiently (and when word gets out about how easy the are to look at, we'll get ton's more competitors).<br /><br />Ray and Lois Rose for driving 6 hours each way to Chief our inaugural contest.<br /><br />Greg Dungan for flying up to Chief Basic and Sportsman (and give the Rose's a break).<br /><br />Danny Adams and Aviat Aircraft for devoting the entire weekend to helping Pitts pilots learn about and increase the performance/safety of their aircraft.<br /><br />Dennie Thompson for building us the nicest hot box panels in the sport.<br /><br />Joe Fox for transporting all our equipment to/from the contest site.<br /><br /><strong>Phil Abrams for staying on top of our Boundary Judge changeovers.</strong><br /><br />FAA Monitor Mac Boyd for spending his entire weekend helping and learning about aerobatic contest operations (and we even got him on the judges line as a recorder).<br /><br />But most of all, all the competitors who volunteered, flew and enjoyed the wonderful fall scenery of the Pocono's.<br /><br />See you again next year!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24303253-114269450611983904?l=philabramson.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Mirnoreply@blogger.com