The 2015 Willy Burhen Cup

Submitted by Fred Hermanspann on Fri, 04/10/2015 - 16:58

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As usual, the XC season for Evergreen Soaring started in March; however it did not really start in earnest this year until the beginning of April. We had a number of days with exciting soaring conditions that combined strong lift with showers and overdevelopments,that required shifting between survival flying and racing. Altogether one would call that spring soaring with flights extending to over 5 hours. For three pilots this was a chance to test their off-field landing skills (without problems) while others posted their best west side flights ever. Several pilots from PSSA joined in this spurt of XC activity and added to the competition.

So here is the WBC 2015 as of 4/10/2015 for flights with over 100 points:

ranking	name	points	date	sailplane
1	Ron Clark	442.2	4-Apr	LS-3
2	Brad Hill	424.9	4-Apr	Tetra-15
3	Dan Housler	412.7	4-Apr	Cirrus 17.7
4	Noel Wade	405.3	4-Apr	ASG-29
5	Kenji Ominato	325.4	4-Apr	LS-6
6	Kevin Finke	301.6	5-Apr	ASW-24
7	FredHermanspann/ Kathleen McCrary	286.8	4-Apr	Chinook
8	Tim Heneghan	251.6	2-Apr	ASH-26E
9	Dave Reusch	190.1	8-Apr	Std. Lib.
10	Bob Spitzer	179.8	4-Apr	Std. Lib.
11	Bruce Byrkett	122.7	8-Apr	LS-6
12	Thomas V d Velde	120.4	7-Dec	DG-300

Note, that this list includes a flight by Thomas V., that was flown in December in the Mount Pilchuck wave. And just for the record, Ron Clark flew the first serious XC from the Pilchuck wave to Mount Baker and back on Mar. 27.

Let’s see this list grow!