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ISR Glide-In - June 17th

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Fred:
Hello there,

Some bad news on the wind front for tomorrow's meeting !
So far, the forecast is a 5 km/h south east wind for Mt Leinster.

Very light wind and nit the best direction !

For those of you who are coming from far away, I don't think the day will worth the trip as this is not sure that we can fly other things than electric planes/gliders...

But no worries, we will organise another event later this year (summer).

We will still be with Joe at the slope tomorrow morning with cakes and coffee. I'll bring electric planes and light gliders and try to have some flying :D

Fred

Alan_Perse:
Yup, looks like the wind will be very light indeed Fred. The website I use www.xcweather.co.uk says it will come from the northwest up untill 10am and then it will swithch around to southeast from then on.  :(  :( . Not sure I'll be able to make it anyway, not feeling well. I'll have to wait and see.

Fred:
I'm finally back to the office ! Forgot the camera, so pictures tomorrow !
Now, about the meeting...

Well, I can say that was a dream day for Peter !  :D
Finally, the weather was not bad at all. we even had some decent wind at time, and sun !

Peter flew all day with his F3J type gliders, Joe flew his electric glider to show us the lifts, then flew pure glider, Anthony had a great time practicing flights over and over with his Daisy, and for me, I flew the nano Floh at the start of the day to finish with the EasyGlider (ok, not to mention 2 catastrophic launches with the Destiny... The lead moved backward on a previous landing... But just to say that the weather was decent enough to launch the Destiny).

And between glider flights, and to entertain the crowded, we had some flights (and some close calls too  :P ) with Joe's Acromaster and my Formosa.

Overall, I think we were really lucky, as all the forecast shown a bad day for slope soaring.

We've also decided to organise another glide-in day later this summer...

Alan_Perse:

--- Quote from: "Fred" ---We've also decided to organise another glide-in day later this summer...
--- End quote ---

Oh Great. I hope I can make that one. How many people were there Fred and was there many spectators.

Peter:
That was a very enjoyable day - just shows you can never tell what the conditions are going to be like until you get there!  Thanks to Joe for organising the Fly-in and Fred for the coffee...excellent.  :clap:  :clap:

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