Venice IMAC 2008
Overall, there were 42 pilots flying in the Venice IMAC 2008 contest. In no particular order they were: Chuck Wise, Mariano Barrios, Luis A Bosch, Lorenzo Garcia, David Alvarado, Rob Joyner, Yasunobu Muraki, Ed Merino, Jerry Gleicher, Stephen Day, Gregory C Baggerly, George Brod, Richard Chandeck, Ramon De Zubiria, Butch Hall, Tom Heller, Jim Hess, Ernest Meridith, John Nelon, Sergio Schinoff, Matt Scott, Forrest Waller, John Wedeman, Michael Jackson, Chris Kersey, Kevin Wilson, Oscar Cepedes, Alvaro Younguas, Patrick Silva, Gary Willis, Jim Woodward, Alan Cook, Pedro Jordan, Monty Huff, Mike Remsberg, Joe Wedeman, Alex Bruhn, Anthony Fandino, Juan Romero, Bill Kersey, Gerry Dale and Kenny Willis.
These pilots flew a grand total of 479 judged sequences.
Mariano Barrios won Basic. There were 10 pilots in Basic.
- The winning order was:
- (1) Mariano Barrios,
- (2) Chuck Wise,
- (3) Ed Merino,
- (4) Stephen Day,
- (5) Lorenzo Garcia,
- (6) Luis A Bosch,
- (7) Jerry Gleicher,
- (8) David Alvarado,
- (9) Yasunobu Muraki
- (10) Rob Joyner.
- They flew 6 known sequences (3 rounds). The scores ranged from a low of 2,831.5 to a high of 3,995.9 (a range of 1,164.5 points).
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Ramon De Zubiria won Sportsman. There were 20 pilots in Sportsman.
- The winning order was:
- (1) Ramon De Zubiria,
- (2) Oscar Cepedes,
- (3) John Nelon,
- (4) Matt Scott,
- (5) Sergio Schinoff,
- (6) Butch Hall,
- (7) Kevin Wilson,
- (8) Alvaro Younguas,
- (9) Richard Chandeck,
- (10) George Brod,
- (11) Gary Willis,
- (12) Jim Hess,
- (13) Forrest Waller,
- (14) Chris Kersey,
- (15) Gregory C Baggerly,
- (16) Michael Jackson,
- (17) Patrick Silva,
- (18) John Wedeman,
- (19) Tom Heller and
- (20) Ernest Meridith.
- They flew 4 known sequences (2 rounds) and 1 unknown round. The scores ranged from a low of 1,394.7 to a high of 3,938.1 (a range of 2,543.4 points).
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Anthony Fandino won Intermediate. There were 8 pilots in Intermediate.
- The winning order was:
- (1) Anthony Fandino,
- (2) Mike Remsberg,
- (3) Gerry Dale,
- (4) Monty Huff,
- (5) Juan Romero,
- (6) Bill Kersey,
- (7) Alex Bruhn and
- (8) Joe Wedeman.
- They flew 6 known sequences (3 rounds) and 1 unknown round. The scores ranged from a low of 2,886.5 to a high of 4,946.9 (a range of 2,060.4 points).
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Jim Woodward won Advanced. There were 3 pilots in Advanced.
- The winning order was:
- (1) Jim Woodward,
- (2) Pedro Jordan and
- (3) Alan Cook.
- They flew 6 known sequences (3 rounds) and 1 unknown round. The scores ranged from a low of 4,797.3 to a high of 4,994.8 (a range of 197.5 points).
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Kenny Willis won Unlimited. There was 1 pilot in Unlimited.
- The winning order was:
- (1) Kenny Willis.
- He flew 4 known sequences (2 rounds).
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The tightest competition was for 3rd place in the Intermediate class, with only 1.0 points difference between Gerry Dale and Monty Huff.
Nice Flying guys...