Final Competition Flight

On Sunday morning we had a final competitive flight. The pibal released by the officials had a predominantly southerly direction, while my forecast had more of a westerly component. We drove south of where the three targets were (hesitation waltz, a judge declared goal, and a hesitation waltz) and lost the pibal in a localized stratus deck at ~1500 feet. The wind direction off the pibal we launched was more out of the west than the south, so we relocated and launched a second pibal. This time, Ashley (one of the crew members) was able to follow the pibal to 5000+ feet. We got the balloon launched with a few minutes to go in the launch period and made our way to the first target. Al had a 14 meter drop on the first target, and made our way to the second target which was a gravity drop. Al had a 0.5 meter gravity drop and won the task. One of our team members Andy Baird had a1 meter drop and finished second. Congrats to Al and Andy!!
Our team also did well on the third target.
Final Results are:
1 Joe Heartsill
2 Johnny Petrehn
3 Nick Donner
4 Paul Petrehn
5 Owen Keown
6 Phil Glebe
7 Andy Baird
8 Kinnie Gibson
9 Jeremy Rubin (rookie of the year)
10 Steve Lombardi
11 Steve Jones
12 Al Nels
13 Joe Zvada
14 Jeff Bennett
15 Chase Donner
18 Todd Isley
20 Cory Bloom
24 Brad Craig
31 John Jensen
33 Christine Bertsch
41 Jim Thompson

Congrats to all!!