Start of the 2012 XC Season

Submitted by Fred Hermanspann on Tue, 04/10/2012 - 00:00

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Despite a very wet March we have now seen a few good days and last Saturday - April 7 - was the best yet. Daniel Dyck took one of our L-33s up to 9000 ft during a 3 hour flight and Mike Berwald entered his first OLC flight with a 2 hour flight in the other L-33. And a whole armada of fiberglass sailplanes went exploring to the Northeast where the best conditions were with a number of personal best performances for this year. In the end Btrad Hill maintained the lead in the 2012 WBC, a further endorsement of his new Tetra. However he is being closely followed in the standings by Ron Clark and Dan Housler. 2012 promises to be an exciting year for the WBC competition and we may see some new west side records.

So here is the preliminary listing of the 2012 WBC as of April 8 based on OLC analysis:

Place	Name	Sailplane	Points	Dist. - km
1	Brad Hill	Tetra-15	413.5	388.1
2	Ron Clark	LS-3	408.8	371.9
3	Dan Housler	Cirrus 17.7	399.2	338.2
4	Dan Teifke	ASW-19	243.6	209.5
5	Marty Gibbins	ASW-19	239.7	213.0
6	Dave Reusch	Std. Libelle	220.9	174.0
7	F. Hermanspann K. McCrary	Chinook	180.8	148.5
8	Chris Young	LS-8/18	164.4	148.7
9	Mike Berwaldt	L-33	112.4	88.2

Only flights with at least 100 OLC points are listed. We can expect this list to grow substantially.