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2020 Region 11 Soaring Awards

2020 Awards

Here are the 2020 Award Winners. Due to COVID-19 we did not have an Awards Banquet in 2020 but these awards will be presented at a banquet in 2021.  See the WestWind 2020 End of Year Edition for further details.

These PASCO members won PASCO Awards for their contribution to soaring or their soaring achievement.

Specific award page links on the left have a complete list of all the previous winners.

 

PASCO Distance Awards - 2020

Longest Distance

 

John Cochrane 

Truckee to Mt Inyo to Luning to Doyle to Truckee 

558 SM

Longest Straight Out #1

 

Pilot: Matt Gillis
Crew:Dani Cerne

8/15/2020 Truckee to Bend, Oregon and more... 

370 SM

Sawyer Award - 2020

Kurt Thams 

10,295 pts

Most Improved XC Pilot - 2020

Brent Davidson 

Prior longest flight 186 km
2020 longest flight 462 km

Longest Silver Distance - 2020

Dalton Stradtman

110 km - Tonopah to Hadley

Region 11 OLC results - 2020

OLC R11 Champion

(best 6 flts)

1st - Keith Essex
2nd – Jim Payne
3rd – Ramy Yanetz

7,656 pts
7,241 pts
7,008 pts

OLC R11 - All Flights

1st - Jim Lee (36 flights)
2nd – Ramy Yanetz (47 flights)
3rd – Keith Essex (24 flights)

24,658 pts
24,317 pts
22,618 pts

OLC R11 - Speed Champion

(best 6 flts)

1st - Keith Essex
2nd – Jim Lee
3rd – Jim Payne

1,062 pts
1,004 pts
960 pts

OLC R11 – Longest flight

Jim Payne/Alan Coombs

2,360 km

OLC R11 – Airfield

1st - Minden
2nd – Truckee
3rd – Ely
4th – Williams
5th – Holister

205,606 pts
86,290 pts
82,258 pts
64,922 pts
35,629 pts

PASCO AWARDS

The Pacific Soaring Council (PASCO) presents two kinds of annual awards:

  • Flight Awards
  • Merit / Recognition Awards.

Description of Awards ->

 

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