The Ben Lowell Aerial Confrontation flew over the weekend at Lamar, in the high plains of Eastern Colorado.  Judges Betty Stewart, Dick Bevington, and Pat Fogarty braved a judge line littered with prickly pear cactus to grade all of the flights.  Mike Forney was Chief Judge for Primary and Sportsman.  Paul Thomson was Chief Judge for Intermediate and Advanced.  Chris Leach acted as contest director with help from Registrar and Scorekeeper Ron Duren, IAC Chapter 12 members DJ Molny, Betty Stewart, Dan Peters, Marc Connolly, and all present.

 

Primary had two first time competitors Chad Ollinger and Patric Coggin.  Chad flew Paul Thomson's Super-D, which Paul also flew for patch.  Patric flew his RV-4.  The first and second flights had Chad barely ahead of Patric, the third shows Patric ahead of Chad by half a percent.  Chad accumulated the most points for first place.

 

Sportsman had a full field of seven pilots.  Paul Thomson from Kansas in his Super Decathlon won all flights and overall primacy.

 

It was Giles vs. Giles in Intermediate.  Doug Lovell (me) flew in from New York to participate in Sportsman, then volunteered to make a contest with Steve Bergevin in Intermediate.  Steve won the first two flights, but turned himself around on the Unknown.  Doug flew without zeros on the Unknown to pull the contest in his favor.

 

DJ Molny and Mike Forney faced off in Advanced.  DJ flies his Giles 200, Mike his S1T.  DJ won the known by a good margin.  Mike came back most of the way with a win on the free.  On the Unknown, each zeroed a different figure, 30K and 29K.  DJ got the better scores to pull off a win.

 

If you wonder about lack of penalties, the boundaries at this contest are well marked, but inaccessible.  There were no boundary judges.  Any penalties you see will be breaks.

 

Coming up this weekend on the IAC Contest Calendar, http://www.usnationalaerobatics.org/iacdb/ContestListing.asp -- the Bear Creek Bash in Rome, Georgia; the Wildwoods Acroblast in Cape May, New Jersey; and the Coalinga Western Showdown in Coalinga, California.  If you are at Coalinga flying Advanced, you will compete against IAC President Doug Sowder.

 

Find complete, official results, scores, grades, and statistics for the Ben Lowell Aerial Confrontation at https://iaccdb.iac.org/contests/426

The Ben Lowell was the first contest to try the "Submit to IACCDB" button at the bottom of the "Standings" tab of the IAC JaSPer scoring program.   Provided there is an internet connection, the button posts current standings for your contest directly to https://iaccdb.iac.org/ for all to follow.  Thanks to Bwana Bob Buckley for this feature and continued support for IAC scoring.