Re: What is going on with 2024 the SCCBC season?

On 6/27/2024 3:55 PM, Alan wrote:

On 2024-06-25 10:34, Tom Elam wrote:

Dear Alan,
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Last year, 2023, April-June, there 3 weekends, 9 races at SBBC. Total unique CW driver entries were 97, OW 37. These are typical for an entire season for 2021-2023. In April-June 2024 unique driver entries are 14 OW and 49 CW, about half prior years.
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These stats are from the SBBC season championship records.
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Wow, quite the drop. What's going on, Alan?
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And, BTW, you entered 11 out of a 71 2021-2024 races. None last year of course, but also none this year and 11 out of 34 in 2021-22. Have you retired? I thought you were looking forward to getting back this year. Not so much?

 So great to see you taking such an interest in my life, Liarboy!
 I wonder if I might take a little interest in yours.
 Done much flying lately?

Well, yes. Two very different flavors. Full scale last 6 months, 36 hours logged including 2 family visit trips to Georgia, some CAP hours, and just passed a VFR checkride. The Christmas return flight from Georgia was IFR all the way home and an instrument approach into Indy Metro. Now good for 2 another years on my BFR, taking me almost to my 80th birthday. At this time I am also IFR current and capable, but those are perishable skills. I'll be taking an IFR skills test checkride before the end of September.
RC model flying has been active since the weather improved in April. Some of that is documented on my YouTube channel available at:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcvZXi-36GQkeHr0FdB4cTg
My latest YT video is rendering as I write this. That one is on programming my 3 meter Fox sailplane for solo hand launch. It will be up on the channel by end of today.
Tomorrow I am scheduled to go to the AMA annual Fun Fly in Muncie and do some instructing with beginning RC pilots. I also just passed my Part 107 Remote Pilot/commercial drone license FAA refresher, and good for another 2 on that front years too.
So yes, done a lot of flying. Some airline flying in the near future too!
We will be flying to Vancouver next month to catch a train to Calgary then flying home from there. August takes us to France, Luxembourg and a Viking river cruise to Basel. Flying home from Zurich. Ten day trip in all. So still traveling too.
How about you, doing any racing lately? I know the answer to that, at least for SBBC events. Null, zero, nada since 2022. Going anywhere outside Canada this year?