[LASS Soaring] Fwd: LIFT Club's April 7th Postal Contest "OUR
FIRST CONTEST?"
Edwin Wilson
ewilson1 at bellsouth.net
Wed Mar 14 20:47:12 MST 2007
I'll better that. Who going to step up and CD this? Should be fun.
GordySoar at aol.com wrote:
> Okay guys, who has the balls to do this postal?
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> Gordy
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> A reminder, the LIFT Club's participation in the International Postal
> Contest will be held on April 7th 2007 at the LIFT field on
> Renolds Rd. just south of US 72 in Lealand county.
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> The International Postal Contest is an "invitational" event which is
> flown by a number of clubs throught-out the world twice a year,
> on dates as close to the first of April and September as the weather
> permits.
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> The Postal Contest is an open flying type event. No pressure, no
> trophies, just five 6 minute flights when you call them any time
> between 10 am and 4 pm, and fun flying and good conversation in between.
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> Once you call an official flight you have a 9 minute window (after
> release of the plane form the line at launch) to attempt to get the
> most towards a 6 minute flight, that is, you can relaunch within the
> first 3 minutes. Landing are scored on the FAI Landing tape which
> allows for 100 points within 1 meter of the landing spot and 5 points
> less for each meter out from the spot.
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> All Contestants are recored on our report and a good showing of
> members helps to show were an active club. The 5 highest scoring
> members are used to rank our club against the other participating
> clubs of the world.
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> If you have other thing to accomplish that day you can come early or
> late and get your flights in and leave.
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> Hope to see you there.
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> Thermals
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> Larrys
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