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

[Brian Kopke]

Sorry I missed it guys.  I was a little under the weather - I know excuses,
excuses.  Next time.

Brian

On 3/18/07, GordySoar at aol.com <GordySoar at aol.com> wrote:
>
>  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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