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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white">HFT had their monthly contest Saturday and it was a lot of fun, albeit there were not enough to really make a contest but we made do and it worked quite well!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white">I'll let Greg tell the story which I copied from RCGroups:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white"><a href="https://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?1453645-Montana-ALES/page115#post42395701"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">https://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?1453645-Montana-ALES/page115
- post42395701</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white">Greg wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white">Results? Well, Jon Garber was flying so you know the results of that.</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><br>
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<span style="background:white">Unfortunately, there weren't enough people for a 'real' contest. Jon, Curtis, Hal, and Greg were the only ones flying. Everyone else was camping, or doing family things, or getting ready to drive to the NATS, or doing whatever
gets done in the beautiful Montana summer time.</span><br>
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<span style="background:white">We flew four rounds of 'all-up, last down' with an altitude bonus. </span><br>
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<span style="background:white">Oddly enough , Hal Aasen won, using his ALES limiter set to 200m! That's the past two F5J altitude penalty contests where the 1st place (after Jon in zeroth) has gone to two different pilots flying to 200m (100 point penalty).
Hmmm. The conservative bird catches the worm. </span><br>
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<span style="background:white">Results looked something like this:</span><br>
<span style="background:white">0th place - Jon Garber - Ultima 2 - 3597 pts.</span><br>
<span style="background:white">1st place - Hal Aasen - Shadow 2 - 3425 pts.</span><br>
<span style="background:white">2nd place - Greg Douglas - Explorer - 2781 pts</span><br>
<span style="background:white">3rd place - Curtis Suter - Red Merle VIII - 1167 pts </span><br>
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<span style="background:white">Curtis had some bad luck in some tremendous sink, and had to power up to get over the power lines W. of the field to land. We all thought he should have gone UNDER the power lines, but Curtis wasn't willing to give that a try. </span><br>
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<span style="background:white">We all had a great time, flying with friends and being out in the beautiful Montana summertime. We all went to lunch afterwards at Lakeside restaurant on Hauser Lake on the Missouri R. , where I enjoyed a staple meal. Literally.</span><br>
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<span style="background:white">Next monthly club contest is Sat. Aug. 24th. </span><br>
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<span style="background:white">--</span><br>
<span style="background:white">Greg<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white">PS
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white">I'll add that Hal won Round 3 by a large margin, 308 points over Greg who was in second place! Go Hal! In Round 4 Hal was 2nd to Jon by 0.88 points! Go Hal Again!
Look out, I think he's liking that Shadow2 with Xplorer bags. ;)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white">Launch height averages were:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white">1st Curtis 89m<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white">2nd Jon 100m<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white">3rd, Greg 127m<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white">4th Hal 200m<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white">So as Greg said, it's not always about the low launches it's about making time and being the lowest launch. Making time is paramount to anything else.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white">Look forward to next month as always. I won't be in town for the contest.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white">Is there a CD volunteer?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white">Curtis<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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