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SAFECON Region IV - 2009 Results

Hello everyone! Thanks for all of your support and prayer this past week! We had a great time competing at the Region IV SAFECON, hosted this year by Delta State University in Cleveland, MS. Although the weather was pretty lousy for the first couple days, we did get to fly in the landing and message drop competitions on Friday (unfortunately, the navigation event and the last heats of message drop had to be canceled because the weather took so long to clear up).

The complete official results have been posted to the NIFA website [Here]

Because of the cancellation of the navigation event (typically our highest-scoring flight event) in addition to the poor East Texas weather throughout the weeks leading up to competition (which canceled most of our landing event practices), this year's first place win really came down to our outstanding ground event performance. Despite placing fourth in flight events, we still earned more points overall than every other team. Excellent work, Sting!

This year's teams:

Central Texas College - Killeen, TX
Delta State University - Cleveland, MS
Hinds Community College - Bolton, MS
LeTourneau University - Longview, TX
Texas State Technical College - Waco, TX
University Of Louisiana - Monroe, LA


Here's how we did:

Overall School Ranking

Overall Ground Events Ranking

Overall Flight Events Ranking

E6B Computer Accuracy Event - out of 35 Competitors

Aircraft Recognition (ACID) Event - out of 35 Competitors

Simulated Comprehensive Aircraft Navigation (SCAN) Event - out of 35 Competitors

Aircraft Preflight Inspection - out of 14 Competitors

Ground Trainer (Simulator) Event - out of 14 Competitors

Message Drop - out of 27 Pilot/Bomber Crews

Power-On (Short Field) Landings - out of 32 Pilots

Power-Off Landings - out of 33 Pilots