[LASS Soaring] "Murder On Long Island!"

[GordySoar at aol.com]

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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