Our November club contest was a simple "fly a lot and time yourself". Here's how it works. The tasks were: first round 3 minutes followed by rounds of 5, 7, 9, 11 minutes. You had to land somewhere between 3 and 4 minutes to get credit for the 3 minute round (time yourself). Minutes only were needed - NO seconds. The landing points were: zero points if off the carpet, 5 points if on the carpet but not in the circle, 10 points if in the large circle and 15 points if in the small inner circle. The remaining rounds (5, 7, 9, 11) were scored in the same manner.

Before you could advance to the next round you must have made the time for the previous round. In other words you needed to successfully complete your 3 minute flight before you could attempt your 5 minute flight. If you did not get at least 3 minutes you had to try again for the 3 minutes, etc. until you finally completed that task. I set the contest completion time for 12:30, a 90 minute flying window. The total flying time was 35 minutes - assuming you made the task times on the first try for each round. You could launch any time the winch was available. Enough of the rules - here are the results.

Ray DiNoble 24 minutes(3, 5, 7, 9 minutes) and 50 landing points
Ed Jennings 24 minutes(3, 5, 7, 9 minutes) and 35 landing points
Rick Stone and Roger Taylor tied at 15 minutes (3, 5, 7 minutes) and 10 landing points
John Wynn 3 minutes and 5 landing points.
Tibor DNF.

We actually ran out of flying time (12:30 dead line).

This is an easy contest to score as you only need to check-off the completed rounds and write-in your landing points. Timing yourself is a bit different but I don't think anyone had any problems doing this. The 60 second spread between making your time and landing means no hurry to get down and little if any stress on the pilots.

We'll do this again in the near future.