The WBC 2013

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Halfway thru the soaring season it is time again to look at our yard stick for west side XC soaring - the Willy Burhen Cup (WBC 2013).  This little friendly competition amongst west side soaring pilots is now in its 10th year and still gaining momentum.  It is based on the best west side soaring flight of any pilot according to the OLC rules and has proved to be quite a stimulus for exploring the challenging XC potential of Western Washington. So here are the results for the WBC 2013 as of July 15.  Only flights with over 150 OLC points are listed.  There are 15 entries so far, 13 from Arlington (ES) and 2 from Bergseth (PSSA).  As the OLC rules give now quite a bonus for triangles, the triangle distances are listed also.  Large triangles are difficult to fly in Western Washington but provide an incentive to get away from yo-yo flights.

 


WBC 2013


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


ranking


pilot


 


date


sailplane


OLC HC


OLC pts.


distance


speed


tri dist.


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


km


km/h


km


1


Ron   Clark


14-May


LS-3


107


545.7


499.2


68.4


282.4


2


Dan Housler


14-May


Cirrus 17.7


100


536.6


458.0


63.4


261.9


3


Chris Young


14-May


LS-8/18


110


446.6


421.4


73.1


203.6


4


Brad Hill


14-May


Tetra-15


110


446.3


418.2


61.0


242.4


5


Fred Hermanspann


14-May


Chinook


98


425.5


355.2


67.3


205.8


6


Noel Wade


Apr. 30


DG-300


104


375.6


366.2


78.9


81.4


7


Kevin Finke


Apr. 16


ASW-24


107


319.6


277.5


61.5


215.0


8


Travis Brown


14-May


Krokus


106


310.7


281.3


57.2


160.1


9


Phil Rose/ Heinz   Gehlhaar


14-May


DG-1000/20


110


278.0


300.8


72.1


13.2


10


Kenji Ominato


6-Jun


LS-6


111


253.8


237.9


51.2


145.8


11


Chris Klix


 


LS-7


108


200.2


176.3


 


133.1


12


Movses Babayan


14-May


G102


96


188.9


155.2


31.8


87.2


13


Tim Henneghan


10-Jun


ASH-26E


117


188.0


191.3


74.6


95.8


14


Dave Reusch


23-Mar


Std. Libelle


98


160.6


167.0


71.2


99.3


15


Howard Glover


14-May


Std. Libelle


98


155.1


129.5


56.6


75.2

Looking at the results it is immediately clear that May 14 was by far the best day so far – 9 of the listed flights were flown on that day!

Arlington is easily maintaining its number 2 spot in Region 8 in terms of accumulated

OLC points (behind Ephrata).  Lets keep those flights coming in!