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 Posted - 09/29/2007 : 10:14:03 AM
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It was a great weekend at the Long Island Silent Flyers field. Saturday September 22 was forecast to be mostly sunny, but it started the day with heavy fog on the ground. At 6:45, as I rolled onto the field I could not see the cars that were parked 500 feet away on the other side of the field.
Around 8 am the fog has lifted, the winches were being set-up and all looked right with the world. There was a 5-7 mph breeze and it was more cloudy than expected, but we were there, planes were being set-up, so all was right with the world.
The day continued toward cloud cover as we approached noon. Lift was not abundant but it was there if you looked. The Experts were making their times, the Sportsman were doing well and the Novice pilots were learning about the fun of flying contests.
A little after lunch the clouds completely closed, and it started to rain. In the middle of the fourth round, we had to stop for a rain break. Everyone huddled under tents and planes were covered as best as possible.
We got enough of a break to finish the 4th round before it started to rain again. After a short while, CD Frank Strommer declaired the contest complete. That was around 3pm. By 3:30 the rain stopped for good and we actually saw some patches of blue.
Most people packed up for the day. However one of the club winches stayed out and hand launched gliders were pulled out, so flying continued, just for fun. Some one on one coaching was going on and people were smiling and making dinner plans.
Thoughts turned to Sunday.
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Ed Anderson
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Posted - 09/29/2007 : 10:18:54 AM
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PHOTOS FROM THE LISF 2 CONTEST IN NY
All photos courtesy of Rudi Oudshoorn of LISF
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Posted - 09/29/2007 : 10:20:15 AM
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Posted - 09/29/2007 : 10:22:28 AM
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Posted - 09/29/2007 : 10:40:17 AM
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From: GordySoar@aol.com
To: Soaring@airage.com
Cc: soaring@louisvillesoaring.org
Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2007 12:14 AM
Subject: [RCSE] "Murder On Long Island!"
Okay so it wasn't murder, maybe just crushed.
Today was supposed to be sunny and windy at the LISF MOM contest...but instead it was calm and overcast and after 4 rounds...rained out.
But it was 4 fun rounds with some really challenging conditions...well challenging to me :-).
I pulled three really nice flights out of my butt, but the second round got stuck...er was short, well longer than everyone else cept for New Jersey Louis.
Perfects pull hard..and his is no exception...
He was in my group...I launched first then the others...His line broke and even though John H said no relights on line breaks at the pilots meeting, it was clear the Louis was just tapping up the line easy, so Louis allowed him another launch..which also broke the line. He got off at about 100' and his caller saw a hawk on the opposite side of the field, you know the side opposite the side the rest of us weren't on and getting murdered :-)
I squeaked out a 5:48 out of 10 and a max landing, but Louis flew really well, catching the thermal and sticking with it to get his full 10...and when its Man On Man...man o man....does that hurt :-)
I whined and squealed like a little piggy but to no avail....Louis just flat out flew the rest of us on that round.
At the end of the day it was that sneaky, quiet as a church mouse Tony G that stole the day....he averaged 2 seconds off perfect and only one landing that wasn't a max out of all the massive amount of rounds flown before the rain came (4 :-).
We all had a ball and tomorrow is gonna be sun, warm and calm...so a fitting day to finish up the weekend.
There are two JR 2.4's flying that I know of....both in glass nose ships. One thing I learned from Mike Lachowski...the 2.4 9303 is pure digital, so a lot faster getting the data from your thumbs up to the ship, versus a 9303 with a 2.4 module which converts the old signal pulses. And the 9000 RX has a port to plug in a 'checker' which allows you to see if you had signal bit loss AND reads the on board voltage too. About the size of a Chiclet gum...simple to use and provides some nice info too.
"It was mine to lose....and I did" First heard at the 2006 TNT, then again at SWC,Tangerine and a few other since ;-)
Gordy
Syosset NY
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Posted - 09/29/2007 : 10:42:49 AM
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Sunday arrived with bright sun and eager pilots. The photos above are from Sunday.
We had a little more breeze but it was nothing compared to last year's gale force winds. A few planes found the trees. There were a couple of crashes including the now traditional destruction of a Spirit Elite, as performed by Mike Lavelle.
We had a great day of flying.
If you were not there, you missed a great time. We hope to see you next year.
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Ed Anderson
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Posted - 10/01/2007 : 7:17:53 PM
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Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 21:06:20 EDT
From: GordySoar@aol.com
Subject: "I Killed On Long Island Today!"
Weather???? 83 with light winds....eat your hearts out!
Louis cheated for the win and the over all same as yesterday....he out
scored us all again :-)
Jeff Stiefel put up the most amazing 'save' I've seen in a long time, might
even be better than some of the saves I did when I was a newbie even :-)
Started with a wrong decision off the launch, then a crush all the way back
to the landing zone, (the wind was out of the opposite direction so the
landing zone was craddled in front of a tree line maybe 400' back.
He made to about the land tape area, altitude at around 20'....he got a bump
and we all saw it but most importantly Jeff saw it. He took a wrap and it
looked good, so he stayed at it as it wound from side to side, gaining maybe a
foot or two, then losing it...at one point he was low enough to nearly have
hit the portapotty!
He took it back into the crook of the tree line, rising above the smaller
trees of the line. He moved back, nearly hooking a tree top, then forward
hoping to re-core which he did....a few more wraps and he was up and away to
spec
out. The adrenaline rush killed him as he was in first place but ended up
missing the landing :-(
Mike Lacowski (losing his TNT virginity in a few weeks! Yep an Easterner
flying west of the Mississippi!)
took second, flying steady at about 2.4 turns a flight :)
Louis and clubmate Lesick both flew Perfects. The mix of planes pretty much
split between Supras and Perfects.
I flew the World's heaviest Carbon Light Supra yesterday and decided to fly
my Volz Powered Sharon today...ever the considerate guest, I left just enough
points on the field so that there would be room for good piloting to take the
top spots..over all I ended up 6th out of a few hundred pilots I think :-)
The most exciting thing is that two pilots signed up to start their LSF
tasks adventures!
Next stop....Texas TNT! From reports, TNT might be one of the highest
attended events of the year!
A good time had by all, hope to see you in Texas!
Gordy
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Ed Anderson
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