PCD - Post Contest Depression

now while I am sitting in the office after contest, watchin out of the window when people get tows and fly out there, I can only think back the past summer. Most of it you can read from here, some of the things are better left untold :)

Anyway yesterday we flew the last contest of the season. The weather did give us a bit of  a hard time in the morning, but late afternoon we were able to start the flights and managed to pull all 3 rounds for both sportsman and intermediate. Yes I know sportsman flies only 2 rounds, but since there was possibility and will, they flew an extra round just for the practice, it did not affect on the scores but as a judges, we gave them scores and feedback, which I hope was usefull to them.

Contest was a bit of challenging to arrange, since in the intermediate every pilot flew the same plane, our acro and in the sportsman everyone flew another plane, ASK 21. There was supposed to be a Pilatus B4 and PIK-20 D in the sportsman, but due some technical errors, all 5 pilots flew the same ASK... So, we started with a sportsman pilot, next was intermediate, then sportsman again, intermediate and so on... that way we were able to get the fligts done in one day, and I have to say, with  2 towplanes and 2 towpilots... those guys did an awesome job. So thank you Kimmo & Kimmo :D

The last flights were flown late in the evening, we are lucky here that we have a lot of sunlight even now, and the sun sets a bit after 8 so we could keep on flying till then. And yes, I know you are getting excited who did what in the contest, so here are the brief results.



Sportsman Overalls
Rank   Pilot                               Known #1   Free #1     Totals     O/all %
1         Janne Nyyssönen           1061,67       1076,00    2137,67    72,96
2         Petri Mikkilä                  1049,33       1048,00    2097,33    71,58
3         Erkki Soinne                   989,50        960,67     1950,17     66,56
4         Mika Laajalahti               830,67       1003,83    1834,50     62,61
5         Tomi Ylinen                    847,67        980,67      1828,33    62,40

Intermediate Overalls
Rank  Pilot                              Known #1    Free #1     Unk'n #1    Totals   O/all %
1        Ville Sulkakoski            1492,17          1308,00     1144,00      3944,17   80,00
2         Toivo Huovinen            1515,33         1248,17     1144,67       3908,17  79,27
3         Sami Mäntyharju          1471,83         1278,67     1144,67       3895,17  79,01
4         Mikko Luukkanen        1452,83         1240,33     1199,00       3892,17  78,95
5         Jukka Pelto-Aho          1426,83         1252,17     1056,17       3735,17  75,76
6         Jyrki Viitasaari              1407,17         1128,50     1174,67       3710,33  75,26

So a big thanks to all in the contest, the organisation, contest director, startline director, office, judges, pilots and of course all the volunteers working here this weekend. I hope you enjoyed this as much as I did.
Now it is soon time to head home and start another week at work. The next event for me will be the RC  Freestyle contest in Jämi in few weeks, after that an aerobatic camp in Oripää and then it looks like the season is really over. How do I survive the winter?