The Buzzard: January 2008

FIRST SOLOS:

Seth Dunham: First Solo

Ben Hirashima: First Solo - 6/2/07

Paul McDonald: First glider solo

Bill Gage: first glider solo

NEW GLIDER RATINGS

Mike Voie: Comml Glider, 4/13/07

Bill Gage: PPG (12/21/07)

Dmitry Chichkov: PPG ( 12/21/07)

Johan Larson: PPG 7/25/07

FAA WINGS:

Morteza Ansari;; Mike Mayo; Richard Duggan; Shannon Madsen; Charlie Ferguson; Bruce Roberts; Taylor Nichols; Johan Larson; Buzz Graves; Peter Kelemen

BADGES AND BADGE LEGS

A:Seth Dunham; Bill Gage; Ben Hirashima; Paul Mc Donald;

B: Ben Hirashima; Paul Mc Donald; Mike Voie; Mark Violet; Dmitry Chichkov; Taylor Nichols; Larry Suter

C: Larry Suter; Taylor Nichols

Bronze: Larry Suter:

Silver Altitude: Taylor Nichols; Dale Roberts; Larry Suter

Diamond Distance/Goal: Shannon Madsen

World Distance Award (40,000 XC km): Yuliy Gerchikov:

Diplome #7 (750 km is a new diplome category) Rolf Peterson: 750 km

AIR SAILING CAMPS,

Thermal Camp: Larry Suter; Taylor Nichols: Thermal Camp; Mark Violet:

Cross-Country Camp; Jason Proctor:

NCSA 2007 AWARDS

Note: There are 2 classes: i: Adv + ii: Std

Winner in previous year in ii: std becomes "adv"

TOTAL GLIDER CROSS-COUNTRY STATUTE MILES -2007:

i. Adv:

1. Ramy Yanetz: 12, 393 sm

2.Yuliy Gerchikov: 11,072 sm

3. Rolf Peterson: 5,411sm (excludes powered X-Country flights in motorglider)

4. Morteza Ansari: 3,480sm

ii. Std:

1. Shannon Madsen: 5,474 sm

2.Mike Mayo: 4087 sm

3. Peter Kelemen: 890sm

4. Larry S: 553 sm (using the OLC dist on flights with a single leg 10sm or longer)

TOTAL GLIDER HOURS IN 2007:

Adv:

1.Ramy Yanetz: 277 hr

2.Yuliy Gerchikov: 229.1 hr

3.Rolf Peterson: 127hr (excl 39.9 instr)

Std:

1. Shannon Madsen: 137.5hr

2. Mike Mayo: 127hr

3 Morteza Ansari: 82hr

LONGEST DISTANCE FLIGHT ANYWHERE:

i. Adv:

1. Ramy Yanetz: 632 sm

2. Yuliy Gerchikov: 582 sm

3. Rolf Peterson: 526.6 sm Parowan, UT - North Ruby Mtns., NV - Parowan, UT

4. Morteza Ansari: 311 sm out of Air Sailing

ii. Std:

1. Shannon Madsen: 532 sm

2. Mike Mayo: 370sm

3. Peter Kelemen: 180 sm Trk - Herlong - E. Quincy - Mt. Rose - Squaw valley - Truckee 180 sm

4. Monique Weil: 114sm

LONGEST DISTANCE USING ONLY CLUB SHIPS:

1.Shannon Madsen: 236 sm in SS

2.Mike Mayo: 191 sm /: Truckee - Spooner - Susanville - Truckee - in 81C

3.Monique Weil / Ramy Yanetz: 114 sm

4. Peter Kelemen: 34sm

5. Larry Suter: about 30sm on a Diablo Wave day: Diablo-Antioch Bridge, Los Vaqueros, Byron

LONGEST (DISTANCE) FLIGHT FROM BYRON:

i. Adv:

1. Ramy Yanetz: 332 sm (500KM triangle) Willows-Mt Stakes-pasco egg hunt

2. Yuliy Gerchikov: 269 sm

3. Morteza Ansari: 56sm

ii.Std:

1. Shannon Madsen: 238.6 sm

2. Mike Mayo: 211sm

3. Monique Weil: 114sm -FB - 8/4/07

4.Larry Suter: Antioch Bridge is about 15 sm from Byron

LONGEST (TIME) FLIGHT FROM BYRON

Adv: 1. Ramy Yanetz: 7.2hr

2. Morteza Ansari: 6.9hr

3. Yuliy Gerchikov: 3.6hr

Std:1. Shannon Madsen: 6.3hr

2. Mike Mayo: 4hr 6 minutes

3. Monique Weil: 3.5hr

4. Larry Suter: 2.8 hr

HIGHEST ALTITUDE ACHIEVED:

a) FROM ANYWHERE:

i. Adv:

1. Ramy Yanetz: 18,000'

2. Morteza Ansari: 18,000'

3. Mike Green: 17,500'

ii.Std:

1. Mike Schneider: 20,200'

2. Roy Moeller: 17999'

3.Shannon Madsen: 17,999'

4. Mike Mayo: 17,999'

5. Larry Suter: 16,500'

b) FROM BYRON:

i Adv:

Mike Schneider: 20,200' Diablo wave 1/21/07

Ramy Yanetz: 18,000' Diablo wave 1/21/07

Yuliy Gerchikov: 15,064' -1/1/07

ii. Std:

1. Roy Moeller: 18,000' ft Mt Diablo on 1/21/07

2. Monique Weil: 13,500' on 8/4/07

3. Shannon Madsen: 13,200 feet (wave to the west of the radio tower ridge)

4. Peter Kelemen/Ken Pruchnick: 12,600' 1/14/07 wave Mt Diablo

FASTEST AVERAGE X-C SPEED ANYWHERE?

i. Adv:

1.Yuliy Gerchikov: 105.3 mph over 532.22 sm in 5:20:20

2.Ramy Yanetz: 102 mph in: 300 mile leg fromCerro Gordo to near Susanville

3. Rolf Peterson 83.97 mph over 254.9 sm in ASW20

ii. Std:

1. Shannon Madsen: 87.5 mph over 532 sm

2. Morteza Ansari .: 66.5 mph (over 350Km out of Air Sailing)

3.Peter Kelemen: 45 mph over 180 miles.

FASTEST SPEED WITH NCSA SHIPS:

1. Shannon Madsen: 37.4 mph over 236 sm (egg flight to Williams in SS)

3. Morteza Ansari: 36 mph in SS

LONGEST DISTANCE/TIME FLIGHT IN a 1-26

1. Larry Suter: 77sm, May 31(sic): Air Sailing, Stead, Tule etc (OLC dist)

STATE RECORDS:

Rolf P: Pending Utah State Records:

15m Class and Open Class - Free Out and Return - 497.1 sm

Sports Class - Free Out and Return - 448.9 hsm (handicapped sm

CONTESTS:

Rolf Peterson: Region 11 Contest (finished 3rd in Sports Class)

Air Sailing Sports Class Contest (finished 8th)

Morteza Ansari: Air Sailing Sports Class: 5th

TOTAL NUMBER OF FLIGHTS IN 2007

1.Larry Suter: 94 (tried for 100-TP had other ideas)

2.Ramy Yanetz: 62

3.Taylor Nichols: 51

4.Yuliy Gerchikov: 49

LANDOUTS:

1.Shannon Madsen: Five unplanned airport landings:

Dayton Valley; 2 times at Carson City; Bishop; Tracy

2.Ramy Yanetz: 5 unplanned, 3 planned landouts

3.Rolf Peterson: 1 unplanned landout at Eureka; NV flying out of Ely, NV --flight: Ely-Tonopah-Eureka - 314.9sm

4.Mike Mayo: 2 undesired landouts

TOTAL FLIGHTS LISTED UNDER NCSA on OLC:

NOTE: Pilots are strongly encouraged to post their flights on the NCSA page in OLC, to help the club rankings.

TOTAL FLIGHTS LISTED UNDER NCSA on OLC

1. Shannon Madsen 8,581km 26 flights

2 .Jim Conger 8,437km 28 flights

3. Morteza Ansari 5,579.km, 20 flights

4. Uwe Kleinhempel 3,183.km ..10 flights

5.Buzz Graves 3,489 km...... 12 flights

6.Michael I Green 569 km .. 5 flights

GRAND TOTAL NCSA OLC : Grand Total 29
,835.86KM 101FLIGHTS

-NCSA ranking for 2007: 27th out of 132 clubs
thanks to the 6 club members who listed their OLC flights under NCSA

TOTAL GLIDER INSTRUCTIONAL FLIGHT/HOURS GIVEN?

Monique Weil: 286 flights/102.3 hours

Dave Cunningham: 182 flights/ 86 hours

Rolf Peterson: 164 flights/39.9 hours

TOTAL TOWS/HOURS AND FLIGHTS?

Ken Ferguson: 171 tows in 35 tow hours

Tom Hail 157 tows in 33.8 tow hours

Dennis Vied: 20 tows in 4.0 hr

PILOT OF THE YEAR:

Adv: Ramy Yanetz

most XC miles (12,393sm), longest distance (632sm), - PASCO: -Longest O&R Distance Award: - 460 sm. Most hours (277hr) Longest flight from Byron 4/18/07 - 535km to Willows, Mt Stake and back to Byron.

Std: Shannon Madsen :

- Two round-trip flights from Byron to Williams to retrieve the PASCO Egg
5 flights over 500km:

(1) First 500k: Hollister-New Cuyama-Hollister (first day flying at Hollister) - 580km

(2) Diamond Distance/Goal flight: ASI-Mammoth Lakes-ASI - 570km

(3) Best flight to date: Truckee-Cerro Gordo Pk-ASI-Truckee 857km, 140.9km/h

(4) ASI-Bishop-ASI with 70nm final glide - 663km

(5) Truckee-Quincy-Patterson-ASI-Truckee - 554km

INSTRUCTOR OF THE YEAR 2007:

Monique Weil

List of 2007 Instructors:

Mike Schneider,

Rolf Peterson,

Boris Deianov,

Dave Cunningham

Buzz Graves,

Richard Pearl,

Monique Weil

TOW PILOT OF THE YEAR 2007

Ken Ferguson

List of 2007Tow Pilots:

Uwe Kleinhempel

Ken Ferguson

Tom Hail

Boris Deianov

Brian Forsyth

Dave Stroh

Thomas Daniel

Bruce Walters,

Don Brown

Rolf Peterson

Mike Schneider

Dennis Vied

NCSA SPARK PLUGS OF THE YEAR 2007: KP AWARD:

1. Bill Bullis, Ever present, ready to help with anything: stealth worker on TP and gliders; helping run the line;
Others deserving of mention:

Richard Duggan, always ready to volunteer - Work Day Boss; Chef; FM for "Intensive weekdays"; Johan Larson: BUZZARD editor; Charlie Ferguson: fabric and other repair - built table from cracked wing spar of 16YKen Ferguson and Willy Snow: "can do" guys - worked on temp AS repair in Truckee, flew crippled ship back

MOST IMPROVED PILOT OF THE YEAR 2007:

Larry Suter (: Highest ever in any kind of small plane (16.500'); longest flight in a glider:(4hr) 77sm, May 31(sic): Air Sailing, Stead, Tule etc (OLC dist)

MOST IMPROVED PILOT OF 2007 USING ONLY NCSA GLIDERS

Mike Mayo: Truckee - Spooner - Susanville - Truckee in 81C. =191 miles

Survived Third Year as NCSA President:

Bill Levinson

NON FLYING AWARDS winner is the judge for next year -

--BEST PHOTO - Shannon Madsen -

--BEST ARTICLE: - Shannon Madsen

1. Shannon Madsen: "My 2006 Flying Season Experiences" published June 2007 in West Wind

2. Bill Levinson: "2007 Women's Soaring Seminar" published Sept 2007 in West Wind

3. Ramy Yanetz: "Cross-Country Flying from Byron" published in West Wind, , March 2007

4. Larry Suter: "Thermal Camp, 2007" ncsa Buzzard

5. Roy Moeller: "Byron - October flight to capture the Egg" published Dec 2007 in West Wind

6. Johan Larson: Editor of Buzzard, NCSA newsletter blog; largest number of articles, book reviews, old photos, links to historic documents etc in Buzzard.

---Monique Weil