Welcome to The Governor's Cup 2008
The 2008 Guv Cup season is closed! Congratulations to Aero Club Albatross - yet again - for taking the trophy on both the North and South Courses. PGC again took second place in the south course, and BSA was close behind in third. BSA continues to recruit accomplished XC pilots and looks like it could become a force in upcoming seasons. I have to verify the 2008 scores, but at this time it looks like Richard Kellerman from BSA took first place honors in the south course flying his new ASG-29. Erik Mann from ACA took second in his LS-8, and third went to Greg Leslie - an independent - flying an ASW-27. Looking at the North Course, the first place team was again ACA, followed by an eclectic mix of independent pilots that will be known going forward as "The Rogues Gallery ", with Valley Soaring in third. Bill Thar took highest pilot honors flying a SparrowHawk for ACA, Greg Leslie of "The Rogues" took second in his ASW-27, and third went to Ryzard Kaleta from the ACA club flying a PW5. BTW, the most northern pilots in this group were Raphael Warshaw and John Dezzutti from Valley Soaring - nice to see you guys involved. (Also, Tony Benson from ACA was just kidding you VS guys with that 'lipstick' comment.) Ron Schwartz also deserves a mention as he flew the highest handicapped speed - which generated 1000 points - in his 1-26D. Hmmmm ... interesting that many of the little wingers wound up at the top of the score sheets. Overall, activity in 2008 was down a bit from the highs seen in prior years. WX and just general life issues seemed to be the factors here. We anticipate some course changes for the 2009 season as Kutztown will no longer be available as the airport was sold. Making Blue Mountain Academy a TP with a large turn area has been proposed - and seems to have some merit. We will circulate the idea to the teams for review. We all have to thank John Cotter (XJ) and Dave Johnson from PGC for setting up a great GC site. XJ generated new scores so quickly that people thought the process was totally automated - although it was a goal - we're not quite there yet. Thanks again, guys !!! I have been talking to people to see if we have enough support to schedule a winter GC Banquet ... but have to admit support is not wide spread. The holidays are a busy time of the year for folks - so we are considering the concept of a summer GC Bar-B-Q ... sponsored by each GC Club on a rotating basis. Let us know what you think. See you next year !!! GC, Good Finish !!! KK
The 2008 Guv Cup season is open! This years teams include:
Please register and add your sailplane make and model - you can do this when you upload your first flight. Your Competition ID at registration is the primary key used to identify you and link you to a club and sailplane. Create two Competition IDs if you belong to two clubs and will be uploading flights for both. For Example, QV could be QV-PGC and QV-BSA. Create a unique team ID when you submit a two place TEAM FLIGHT ... PGC1, PGC2, Bob-Bill are possible example formats. Team submissions assume you will be flying the same type of aircraft on each flight. Richard Kellerman (QV) will be generating weather forecasts for the weekend - we're still setting this up. The XJ blipmaps are up...covers GCup south task area and
all the way out to Mifflin. Thanks again to Dave and John for doing all the work needed to setup the data collection and scoring systems. Ken Kochanski - KK (3/1/2008) Tech Notes: Please enable JavaScript on you client. Link to prior flights/scores at Erik Mann's Guv Cup Site
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