22nd Southern Rotary Classic

[Ando]

Hello gentlemen, first post here and great looking site. Since its based off of FG, its gotta be a great group of people!!

Thought I would share our upcoming event in September.

Our website is: http://mtpleasantrc.com/node/37

Here is all that will happen and is written by one of our club members that is doing a great job promoting our event:

"The Southern Rotary Classic three day helicopter event & World Class 3D Exibition in Mt. Pleasant Texas will be held Sept. 19-21, 2008

We had a speculator event last year and things are off and running for another HUGE event this year as well. Therefore I am posting the dates for the event so if anyone needs to plan time for their vacation they can do so.

Most of the well known pilots that were here last year have indicated they will return. We already have confirmation from the following pilots that have said they plan to come.

Bobby Watts
Bert Kammerer
Jason Krause
Daniel Jetschin
Curtis Youngblood
Alan Szabo Jr.
Matt Botos
Carl & Tyler Bonta
Gary Travis
Darrell Bell
Jamie Robertson
Anthony Jager
Vic Campbell
Zack Hayes
Ron Lund
Nathan Spencer

We expect commitments from many more pilots. We will also have the same great contest as last year and possibly some new ones as well. There will be night flying both Friday and Saturday night with demos by the big boys Saturday afternoon and Saturday night. A dinner is again plan for Saturday evening. And we would like to invite all the scale pilots to attend because we will have some special things plannned for the scale guys too. Vendors and Manufactures will be welcome as well."

On top of this, we will be having some good seminars this year.



Again, great looking site!!

Andrew

[Sleepyc]

Wow, looks like you have a slammin event set up.
The pilot list is very nice.
Make sure to take lots of pictures, we'd love to get a full report for the site!

[Ando]

Thanks, I will try my best to get some pics for here. We are looking forwards to this year, gonna be a nice amount of people this year!

Andrew

[Trex Pilot]

I would'nt mind going to that shindig :)

[Ando]

Well Mr. Trex Pilot, make your way on down...it will be great this year!!! If you have any questions, let me know.

Andrew

[Malves]

I'll definitely be there. I signed up for the non-sponsored pilot contest.:D

[rwp]

This is a great event.

[jolio55]

Sounds like it would be a great time!!

[evlfkrjohn]

I went there once about 7 years ago. Let me start by saying i've been to many heli flyn's and the src is by far the best in my opinion. I had a very good time and even picked up and old scale hirobo cobra which really made my weekend. I met quite a few people including Ron Lund which I still see and talk to almost every year at the may-day flyn in Sulphur Louisiana. If you can get away and go to the src, by all means get out and go!! You'll have a blast! Hell, I even joined IRCHA while there:)

[Ando]

Malves, sounds great!! Glad to hear you are comming to play!

evlfkrjohn, Thanks for the good/positive remark. Glad to hear you enjoyed last visit. You gonna try and make it this year?

Event time is comming up soon and everytime I check the list its getting larger and larger!! Remember, if any of you guys have any questions regarding our even, location, or what not, dont hesitate to ask if you wanna come. Terry, the promoter of our even and getting most of the pilots coming to our even, has had a nice thread going on Runryder also filled with good detail about the event.

Thanks guys,
Andrew

[Ando]

Events getting closer fellas!! We have alot of interest this year, so looks like its going to be great again!

Here is the Unofficial schedule that Terry has provided


"Unofficial Schedule

FRIDAY

8 am Registration

10 am Pilot meeting, a little later on Friday to give people more time to arrive

Open Flying, All Day


4:00 PM Sacle guys given an hour on north side of flight line central to fly themselves

5:00 PM 3D demos 450 class demos from some of the top pilots



SATURDAY

8 am Registration

8 am to 9 am open flying

9 am Pilot meeting

9:30 Prelims Nons Sponsored Demo contest, north end of field

10:00 HYPERformanceRC Seminar by Carl Bonta

10:00 Novice contest, several already entered

10:30 am Auto Rotation class and seminar begins, Nathan Spencer and others

11:25 am Auto contest begins

11:45 engine tuning seminar Matt Bottos

Open flying Continues

1 PM Finals Non-sponsored demo contest, 3 to the Finals, max 3 mintues routine, bring your own music, or some can also be provided

World Class 3D exhibition (4 to 5 minute routine flown to music) In NO particular set order yet, these are some of our possible 3D demo pilots. Dylan Richards, Alan Szabo Jr., Anthony Jaeger, Bert Kammerer, Daniel Jetshin, Jamie Robertson, Jason Krause, Matt Botos, Nick Maxwell, Tyler Bonta, other top 3D pilots have indicated they are coming as well and even though they might not do demos they will be flying throughout the day.

2:30 3D flying seminar, Jason Krause

3 PM scale static judging

3:30 Turbine Seminar, Gary Travis

4:15 PM target drop contest

5 PM scale flight judging, also would like to possibly give the scales guys some more flying time on north side of flight line central

6 PM dinner at the field, Prizes and drawings will be given out Saturday evening, including t-rex 500

7:45 RAVE Helicopter to be given away just prior to night fly must be present to win, no raffle ticket needed.

8:00 PM night flying starts



SUNDAY

Open Flying all day"

[Ando]

This weekend guys!! Looks like we are gonna have nice weather!

Hope to see some of you guys there.

Andrew

[Malves]

It was AWESOME!!!! Great flying from everyone.:)

Here's my walk of shame after I smashed my 450 during the non-sponsored demo contest. Still good enough to get 3rd place, thou.:D

[Ando]

Great to hear you had a good time Malves!! If I remember right, the pilot count was in the 120's. Here is just a small amount of pics from this weekend:

Andrew