March 29th - Poker Run!

[trigger_fsx]

This was loads of fun! Can't wait for the next one. Thanks guys!

[tngarner]

What a blast. Having others on CTAF was great. Pilots were coordinating and counting off positions. Wow really cool. It was like flying for real on a Sunday. Thanks Ken and Chris. Great work!!!!

[stevekirks]

Just landed at Big Bear and got my last card....

Made the Agua Dulce to Crystal flight in an X-Plane Piper Cub, following the power lines and roads until I found the airport. Made the first three flights in the Lancair Legacy on FSX and boy, that's a fast plane. Final flight was in X-Plane in a freeware DHC-6 that's actually pretty good. It was fun to try different things, especially staying off the tried and true IFR magenta lines.

Thanks everyone especially Ken's website that supported everything!

I'm looking forward to that free day of VATSIM membership.

[Talan2000]

Chris and Ken

Thanks very much for setting this up. I'm always impressed with your coding wizardry Ken and your solid commentating & aviating skills Chris!

BZ

Todd

[ChrisS]

BZ

Thanks. Ex-Navy?

[Peter Grey]

And here are the results:

Place Name Hand
1 Ray Flush
2 Ken 3 of a kind 3
3 Mike 2 Pair A/J
4 Lee 2 Pair J/2
5 Ryan K 2 Pair 10/8
6 Carl 2 Pair 9/8
7 Steve K 2 pair 8/4
8 Brooks 2 Pair 5/4
9 Kris 2 Pair 4/3
10 Ryan J Pair of Ace
11 Peter Pair of King
12 Mark Pair of Q
13 Todd Pair of Q
14 Shawn Pair of J
15 Gilles Pair of J
16 David Sp Pair of 10
17 Steve D Pair of 10
18 Ahmad Pair of 9
19 Dan Pair of 8
20 Jacques Pair of 7
21 Patrick Pair of 7
22 David Sa Pair of 6
23 Breden Pair of 6
24 Nathan Pair of 5
25 Sanjiv Pair of 5
26 John Pair of 3
27 Ulli Pair of 3
28 Neil Pair of 2
29 Brian Ace High
30 Paul Ace High
31 Artem Ace High
32 Nelson Ace High
33 William Ace High
34 Chris S King High
35 Darrin King High
36 Brent Queen High
37 Dwayne Queen High
38 Wadah Jack High
39 Ben 10 High

[Geoff]

Hi guys,

What a blast! I arrived about a half hour late at Big Bear City; my Piper Archer 2 is no speedster. I had an Ace high (with a ten kicker), which puts me around 34th place, I guess. I arrived too late for the official results, but I hope history will record my participation in some way.

Like Nelson, I had never experienced CTAF communications before, and I had a great time -- and learned a ton about how CTAF operates in practice.

The biggest challenge for me was my lack of X-Plane scenery after the first two airfields. The last three all had threes on the runways and ramps! Big Bear was especially challenging -- it was like landing in a hillside forest. But I managed.

My silliest mistake was contacting Santa Barbara approach to transition their Charlie when I was about 5000 feet above the Charlie shelf, without mentioning my altitude! I left out the one crucial piece of info the controller needed. The controller was nice about it, though; just asked me to squawk VFR. Now I know to report that all-important altitude.

Anyway, thanks to Chris and Ken and Peter and all else for setting this up! I hope we can do something similar again.

[ChrisS]

I had a blast today as well. Thanks to all who participated for making it such a great event. There was some great work on the CTAF frequencies and some pretty good flying all around. I think everyone really captured the spirit of the event, which is the best thing of all.

[kullery]

46 Pilots started
40 completed (although 1 was DQ'd for being 30 minutes late)
211 flight legs
TOTAL DISTANCE - 8,466 NM
TOTAL FLIGHT TIME - 73:12:00
Approximately 20 different aircraft types

Fastest time (not that we're counting) 1:03 (Brenden)
James May award - originally presented to Gilles @ 02:27:00 with special consideration to Geoff @ 02:47:00 (but he was 30 minutes late to the finish!!!)

Thanks to all that participated......really enjoyed it!!!!

[zengei]

Ah man, without that Queen of Diamonds I would have been in last. Can't even lose properly.