I dislike the fact that we have had three days of bad flying
weather. Florida weather is usually very consistent and we average 5½ flying
days during a competition over a seven day period. We likely will get 4 days of
flying. Also some flying days are vastly superior to others and we have had some
great flying days during previous Green Swamp Sport Klassics. But so far not
this year.

To keep pilots from committing hari-kari we have Mitch's landing clinic (which
did get in some flights before the wind picked up on Wednesday). He has also been
lecturing to packed houses about landings.

Jonny and Zac had a joint seminar going back and forth answering pilots'
questions. Tom Lanning spoke on cross country by the numbers. Larry Bunner gave
a class on Skew-T charts. Christian Ciech answered pilot questions in a simple
and straight forward manner to so many pilots that there wasn't room to get
around. Steve Kroop from Flytec USA held pilots in the palm of his hand for four
hours, also showing off new products from Naviter that will be available by the
end of May. He almost didn't get them back. Owen Morse gave a short lesson on
juggling.

Mitch is doing a landing clinic every morning using the electric winch tow with
videos of each landing for stop action reviews.

Some of us took up other sports during the windy Wednesday:

Heather Simon, John Simon, Zac Majors, Davis Straub, Augusto, Greg Dinauer, and
in the middle Rick Cizauskas. The day was topped off by a rousing night of hard
core karaoke. The guys are already doing the landing clinic at 8:04 AM.