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Wow Verne,
<br>What a hassle for you and Andrew, but despite the hardships you guys
overcame.Big congratulations are definitely in order. Kudos!
<p>Verne Koester wrote:
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<font face="Arial">Thanks Anthony.
It's been a looooong tough week. Andrew and I both had to judge on Wednesday
plus we both flew. Then it was off to AMA headquarters to get Andrew's
Unknown schedules, a process that took until 9:00 pm to complete. We worked
on those in the hotel until about 1:30 am before calling it a night. Back
up at 5:30 to head out to our respective Finals sites with every intention
of calling for each other. District 4 came thru huge on that with spotters
equipped with walki-talkies at each site keeping track of flight orders
so we wouldn't miss our turn to fly. At one point, Mike Pavlock was waiting
in front of the FAI site with vehicle running while Andrew flew and I called.
As soon as he landed, we handed off his equipment to our FAI site D4 helpers
and jumped into Mike's car. He raced us over to the Master's Finals site
with the pilot preceding me already halfway thru his schedule. We jumped
out, took a breath, and it was my turn to fly. Never quite settled in on
that one but we'd have never pulled it off without everyone's help. Of
course, we had backup callers available if needed, but both felt more comfortable
with doing it the way we've been practicing every day for the last 3 weeks.
It was especially important to me since I was flying at "Spaghetti Junction"
(X runway - left side) where I can never find a straight reference line
to the runway and have to rely on my caller to tell me whether I'm coming
in or going out so I can adjust. Anyway, the whole process probably sounds
kinda nerve-wracking but it was sorta calming for me. I had no way of knowing
how anybody else in my Finals class was doing so all I had to do was go
up and try to put in my best flight. Best part of all was no hand shaking
in the Finals which I was concerned about since I've never gotten there
before. All in all, I was pretty calm and had no time to just sit there
and worry about it.</font> <font face="Arial">Verne</font>
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<a href="mailto:aabdu@sbcglobal.net" title="aabdu@sbcglobal.net">Anthony
Abdullah</a></div>
<div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:discussion@nsrca.org" title="discussion@nsrca.org">discussion@nsrca.org</a></div>
<div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, July 24, 2004 5:36
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<div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>Subject:</b> Re: Address</div>
Congratulations Verne!!!!!! As well as the rest of the D4 competitors!! Anthony
<p><b><i>Verne Koester <<a href="mailto:verne@twmi.rr.com">verne@twmi.rr.com</a>></i></b>
wrote:
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Don,
<br>It's <a href="mailto:verne@twmi.rr.com">verne@twmi.rr.com</a>
<p>Verne
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<br>From: "Don Ramsey" <DONRAMSEY@COX-INTERNET.COM>
<br>To: <DISCUSSION@NSRCA.ORG>
<br>Sent: Friday, July 23, 2004 9:54 PM
<br>Subject: Address
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<p>> Anyone know Verne Koester email address?
<br>>
<br>> Don
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