After dinner, President Chris Harshman covered the agenda items, and then I introduced our speaker, Skylor Piper. Skylor had a very interesting program, as he talked about his experiences, flying an RV-8, competing at the Reno National Championship Air Races. He also discussed the annual ‘Pylon Racing Seminar’, which is a ‘racing school’, held every June. He has a GoPro camera mounted in the rear of the cockpit and we saw some excellent videos of the race, from his perspective. It was awesome!! I took 2 pictures, shown here.
Skylor is qualified as a Sports Class Flight Lead, as well as a Sport Class Pylon Racing Instructor. As such, he provides training, evaluations, and the signoffs of the requirements that prospective ‘rookie’ racers need, in order to compete at Reno. It was an excellent program!
Thank you again, Skylor, for presenting!
John Mahany
Program Chair