[LASS Soaring] New years day postal, I'll try to be there!

Tue Dec 1 18:31:52 EST 2009

In a message dated 12/1/2009 5:24:58 P.M. Central Standard Time,  
dion9146 at insightbb.com writes:

RCGroups has a  voluntary New Year’s Day Postal Woody contest that I’ve 
also signed up for, so  I will definitely be flying on Saturday the 1st.  That 
is  assuming I survive the night before in one piece. 
Dion 

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From:  soaring-bounces at louisvillesoaring.org  
[mailto:soaring-bounces at louisvillesoaring.org] On Behalf Of Hank & Kathy  Gullett
Sent: Tuesday,  December 01, 2009 6:13 PM
To:  LASS Soaring List
Subject: Re: [LASS Soaring] We can all  learn something (again) from those 
guysfrom Dallas area!  SLNT
Sounds chilly, but  interesting. 

Hank 

Kathy  & Hank Gullett

1119  Blackberry Dr

Lawrenceburg,  KY 40342

_kandh2 at me.com_ (mailto:kandh2 at me.com) 

On Dec 1, 2009, at 6:10 PM, _nex12go at aol.com_ (mailto:nex12go at aol.com)   
wrote:

Great input.   What do you guys think?  

Thanks  Gordy

I also liked this  excerpt from the article which is as  follows:

"Whether you set up  a 20 second approach or a 30 second approach, the key 
is to put the airplane  abeam your shoulder at the set time, then fly your 
approach pattern.  

I personally fly a  30 second approach. My model is abeam my shoulder at 30 
seconds heading  downwind, I turn base at 20 seconds and turn final at 15 
seconds. Then I  modulate my speed to bring it home on time. If you do this 
without practice on  a calm day, I assure you that you will be within a 
couple of seconds of your  target time. Practicing the approach and landing will 
get you there  consistently in varying wind conditions. 

So the number one  rule of getting better contest finishes is to practice 
landings with a clock.  "

Also

The first year I  started flying was about 5 years ago and it might have 
been my first  contest as well.   It was in Bloomington, I think on New Years 
Day.   It was a bit chilly but it was fun.  Unfortunately it was their last 
year  to have that contest.  Anyway my point is would there be any interest 
in  a contest on Saturday January the 2nd?  I know it seems nuts but old man 
 winter is going to be around a long time.  I think we can devise some  
equitable contest rules to meet everyones  needs.

Tell me what you  think.

Tony

-----Original  Message-----
From: _GordySoar at aol.com_ (mailto:GordySoar at aol.com) 
To: _soaring at louisvillesoaring.org_ (mailto:soaring at louisvillesoaring.org) 
Cc:  _RCSE at googlegroups.com_ (mailto:RCSE at googlegroups.com) 
Sent: Tue,  Dec 1, 2009 5:47 pm
Subject: [LASS Soaring] We can all learn something  (again) from those guys 
from Dallas area!  SLNT 

I snipped this from  their recent newsletter (some really excellent 
reporting from John Luetke on  his memories of the TNT and his recent conquest of 
the LSF5 8 Hour Slope  Task!).  
_http://www.slnt.org/Newsletters_files/November.09.pdf_ (http://www.slnt.org/Newsletters_files/November.09.pdf) 

And a cool days gone  by club photo to see if you can find Waldo 
(themselves in the  photo).

Tim Bennett  Reported on the Annual MOM TD Unlimited  Contest and tells of 
a unique scoring alternative that might be fun at your  club!  It puts 
flight groups up to be scored against each other (in  same air conditons) for 
most comparable skill measurements yet keeps the  scoring super simple.  Here's 
the  article:

On Sunday the 8th,  at Southfork, we held our Annual Seeded Man-On-Man 
contest for unlimited  Sailplane. We set up six winches with parachutes into the 
southeast wind and  launched groups of three or four models for ten-minute 
maximum flights using  ten point scramble scoring. The longest flight 
getting 10 points the next  longest getting 9 points the third longest earns 8 
points and so on. Everyone  in the flight group achieving the maximum time gets 
10 points. We flew five  rounds. After the first round, the lowest scoring 
flyers flew in the first  group followed by the next higher scorers and so 
on with the highest scorers  flying in the last flight group. Landing scores 
were used for tie breakers  only.
November Unlimited Contest
Tim Bennett CD
The day started with  a pretty heavy overcast that kept times down and 
flight groups short. only a  few flight groups saw more than one maximum score. 
One especially exciting  flight was turned in by Julian Tamez with his 
High-End featuring a climb out  from less than six feet altitude at about three 
minutes into the flight. I  think HKM sold a few airplanes on that one.
Proving the validity of the  contest format, the top spots were decided by 
flight scores, not landing  points. I think next time we will use the club 
winches with retrievers as we  can get models into the air just a fast with 
less messing around between  rounds shagging chutes.

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