Hey guys, we just completed the 2nd Annual Plum Island IMAC in MA (Northeast Region). Beautiful weather, a fair to good turnout of 19 Pilots made for a great event at a great venue. I'm so glad we were able to continue this event. It was close to death with very few registrations on line. Thankfully a rally at another event in Maine pushed it over the edge. I was thrilled to see at least 6 new faces to the event, 2 new Basic pilots (Zach and our own [MENTION=271]Enterprise[/MENTION]- go Matt! Who placed 3rd in Basic at his very first event- woohoo! and one "trainee" I had as a caller, scribe and "shadow" judge. 3 pilots I had been working with to get to their first event could not get there- next time for sure!
Nice event for me personally. Came in first of 4 in my first Sportsman and second event! Probably will head to Intermediate. Also, we had a Basic pilot do freestyle with a small electric along with Dean and Cody (our unlimited pilots). Zach also used this 48" 3DHS Edge in his final round when his 50cc had a loose muffler (great improv Zach). Cody asked if I was going to do a freestyle. I had music but nothing prepared or practiced. When I saw Zach go up there with no fear or care that he was using a smaller plane, the 16 year old motivated me to "do one for the old guys!" I ran through an "unknown" freestyle for about 5 min and set out in front of my peers and judges and spectators. Final "encouragement" from my friend and RC mentor Cody- "it's a nice plane don't wreck it!" Lol. It tool the edge off. It went OK and I came in 3 of 4. More an act of getting feet wet and getting over the nerve barrier. I had a great weekend at an incident free event hosted by our new Plum Island Airport RC club. Good stuff.
Trying to put together an instructional video implementing the score sheets now. May take a while. Standby.