Thread: Something different to do

Roger H,
This is for you too. Give it some thought for some fun and games at the Fly-In.

You know back in the good Ol'e days when I flew more ultralights we had fly-in's and I would put on a little games for fun competition.
It made everyone go practice which made them all better.

1. We had a line drawn on the runway and who ever could touchdown with their mains closest to the line. Done with power.
2. We had a idle only for the same line. You had to be at idle when you turned on final.
3. We had a real dead stick (engine off) spot landing.

These first three were so competitive that if your wheels were not within 6' you did not place in the top 3 people. These 3 exercise when practiced will make you very very good. I know some don't like a full engine off, but you could do the first two.

4. We had a bomb drop from 100'-300' depending with a target on the ground. Lots of fun.
5. We would have a team of 2. A pilot and a ground person. The pilot at 100' dropped a raquetball and the guy on the ground had a big fishnet . The type with a handle. You got points depending on how many bounces it took before you caught the ball. Fewer bounces more points. Loads of laughs to watch guys chasing that ball. Funniest Home Video stuff.

Roger H,


How about a rally type event. Two person teams. Preselect 5-6 targets or spots on the ground at between 5-10 miles apart for spacing. Each target is in a sealed envelope. You can't open the next target envelope until you believe you have found that particular target. Give each team a compass heading and an airspeed and time to target in each envelope. You can't open the first envelope until roll out on takeoff. They take off and have to locate the target and right it down. When they find it they open another envelope and have to find the second target and so on. They can not open another envelope until they locate each target. When they have found all 5-6 targets they come home. The fastest time with all the correct written targets wins. This would be about navigation, speed, time, working together as a unit and target acquisition.

I'll only do this if you're going to be there!!!

Roger H