VARO News 020705

VARO Racing again!
Welcome to another season of VARO racing which was kicked off with an excellent display of racing skill and competition in the T-6 Class. The Silver and Gold races in the T-6 class were probably the most competitive races I have ever seen during a VARO event. It was a close competition between Maple One and Salami for the Gold victory but in the end after a slow start Salami edged out Maple One by about a second to take the KMHV Gold. Aside from Salami's first win in his first official race we also had another rookie pilot that made it into the gold Asp. Asp had a rocky start to the evening but he managed to make it into the gold. Another notable pilot racing in the T-6 class for the first time was Roscoe. Roscoe was with VARO in the early days and we are glad to have him back out on the pylons. With all this close racing the T-6 class may shape up to be some of the closest racing ever seen at VARO.

After the T-6 race finished we quickly got started with the F-1 races but unfortunately a file discrepancy was noticed and the race was canceled in order to keep everything fair. The discrepancy was not intentional and the problem has been fixed. Hopefully we will have a successful F-1 race next time. Pilots who participated in the F-1 races will receive participation points.

Overall I felt that the races went very well, we had a pretty good turn out and with only moderate connection problem we raced 4 clean t-6 races and a couple of F-1 Races. For those pilots that were able to participate well done, those who had connection problems preventing them from connecting, I sincerely apologize and I hope the problem does not persist, and for those pilots that didn't make it I hope to see you all racing the unlimiteds and jets this Saturday.

Complete Events scores can be found on the "Winter Series" page.

Other News
Changes to the Event format.
After running a two class event with four races in each class and ending way over the 2-2.5 hour goal, I have decided to remove the heat race from the schedule. Instead all pilots will be positioned in the bronze race. The fastest pilot will still be placed in the silver and we will still use the last place "knock out" format where the last place pilot is eliminated and the remaing pilots move on(note: you still must finish the race in order to move on, in the case where the entire field crashes the pilot who completed the least amount of laps will be eliminated). What does this mean, pilots are guaranteed bronze race points for one. It also should help speed the classes up and help us finish the event in under the 2-2.5 hour goal.

January Pilot of the Month
Jimi has been named pilot of the month. Sometime this week I will be with Jimi and get the name of all he aircraft he flies in order to put is Pilot of the Month Image up in the POM section of the website. So if you see Jimi online congratulate him and maybe talk a little air racing with him because Jimi is an excellent pilot and does a great job helping keep things running here at VARO.

Cross Country Racing
I have started work on the cross country code for the Transponder. Its not that much different from the normal Transponder code so I hope to have it finished in the next week or so for testing very soon. My goal is to have the Cross Country series up and running by the 1st week of March. Along with working on the Transponder code I will also be planning the route across starting somewhere in Florida and eventually finishing at KMHV in California.

Race Reporter Wanted!
VARO is in need of a Race Reporter! What does a race reported due? Well thy provide a recap of all races that will be posted to this news page. Race Reporter's are only limited by their imagination the main goal is to cover the races so that other who weren't there could get a feel for what happened. So we are looking for someone with good writing skills, you don't need to be an English major or journalist, you just need the ability to capture an event with words. Any pilots interested please send me a message through the forum or talk to me online.