[LASS Soaring] "LASS First Club Contest in The Box!"

[GordySoar at aol.com]

Today was a soaring day to die for in Louisville.
 
Okay lets back up some.... I get to fly with you guys and am envious of the  
clubs who have monthly or more club contests.

The North Jersey guys have so many that they are almost burned out from  
contests...well that what they say but you'd have to pry them from their dying  
schedules to get the to stop :-)
 
So this winter I got on the band wagon and started dropping hints to our  
board of directors... a bunch of codger and fogeys who aren't willing to  make a 
decision :-)  Ben Wilson (DLG up and comer, wood builder  extraordinare and TD 
caller to die for, Bruce Davidson, DLG master  champ...etc)
 
Okay so they ain't so old and they too wanted to get monthly contests  going, 
in fact EVERYONE in the club was for it, we just needed to 'do it'.
 
At our last club meeting (we only meet in the winter) it was voted on and  
decided....the problem was again, doing it.  So when I got home from my  recent 
Bahama trip on Thursday, checked the weather and wham!  48 and light  winds 
with sun...following cold and windy....that spells thermals.
 
I posted a note to our group calling for a three round addem up and with a  
straight get the cob webs out first round of 4mins. 100 point landing  tape.  
My post said, "fly what you bring".  
 
That meant the two guys who enjoy flying their SP400 F5J planes were in  too. 
Instead of using the winch, they simply got to winch launch eyeball height,  
shut off their motors and did the task.  No climb time, no trick  altimeters, 
just have your timer agree that its about the same as the winch was  getting 
planes.
 
I flew the most amazing MPX Easy Glider for my 4min round but really didn't  
have anything about it dialed in, so fell short in morning cold air by about a 
 minute, but got a landing.
 
Ben Wilson stepped up to back up my usual half hearted attempts at being  CD, 
helping with the winch set up and landing tape.  He flew one of Denny's  
Bubble Dancer laser cut kits with a few mods made by midairs and trees, but  still 
in excellent flying condition.
 
Tony Utley flew his favorite AVA and showed that practice and contests  
really do make a difference in scores and 'luck', he had some really great  flights.
 
Little Lee campaigned his new Spirit Elite 100 full house ship, again  
beating his mentor's score (multi-Nats RES and Nostalgia Champ Ed Wilson) and  just 
a few contest points off of finishing his LSF2!
 
The big surprise was our own baby plane tosser, Bruce Davidson.  He  flew his 
trusty Agea to first place in the bonus round of 10mins we thru in at  the 
end, he put a hurt'n on my lazy attempts at club glory with some very  precise 
scores, what was most amazing was his times, 2 seconds off most all day,  not 
bad for a guy who fly's unlimited about twice per year!
 
We all like it a lot when he can get away from the mules goats and business  
to come play.
 
Lee's mom ended up as a timer for about all of us at one point and electric  
clubmate Jason showed up thinking about buzzing around all day but ended up 
also  working timer buttons.
 
Everyone is very pumped about the camaraderie and fun we had.
 
There are going to be three new CD's soon in our club!
 
Ben and I are both working on LSF5, I have my contest wins out of the way,  
so our goal is to work at his, and of course the other parts of the goal  too.  
Good to have someone in the club to work together at it.
 
Contests good :-)
 
Wish you call could have been there!
Gordy



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