ISR Glide-In - 22-23 May2010 ****IT'S A GO!****

[joe]

Looks like summer is arriving in Ireland. Typical! Always does when I'm not there.
I know the wind forecast is light but, it has the making of a very nice weekend on the slope. A little dynamic and hopefully lots of thermals. Kick back, relax, enjoy the sun and a gentle breeze. This is summer soaring. Maybe you take a walk down the slope, maybe you speck out. Hone those piloting skills. Nice smooth delicate flying. Probably as rewarding as RC soaring gets. Forget that it is a slope event and call it a thermal meeting. Now you have the perfect weather!! Bring the DLG's, bring the floaters, bring the efficient machines.
Shame I'm missing this one. Flying, BBQ and a big red sunburned face on Sunday evening!  :!:  :!:
Enjoy.......ya lucky B*******

[Happy Days]

I’ve just sent an email to the secretary of the MCFC to ask if we can use their flight ground this weekend for an afternoon of aerotow. (As you know I’ve got a little Cessna that can tow gliders up to about 2mtr.)

The matter is complicated slightly because one of the committee members, who lives very close to the flying ground, lost his father this week in a car crash. So in deference to his bereavement there might be ‘No Flying’ at the ground this weekend.

I’ll let you know the outcome.

K

[joe]

Shame it's not going to work for you lads John. It is a long drive and I'd be thinking the same meself. On a selfish note, it may workout for me as I might get to fly with you lot later in the summer after all!  :wink:

[billscottni]

We don't need to wait for the next fly in.
If we get a good forecast we can get down anytime. :?:
Plus: Your all welcome in the North anytime.

[bearpjk]

Alright Fred, you and the guys have a good weekend on Mt. L.  I'll skip this one and hopefully join you some other weekend.

[billscottni]

Fred, left one room booked in your name at Moss house. Hope you have agood weekend

[rogallo]

Hi Fred,
  Les and I had a good long chat too. Sorry but we are both fowl weather flyers( ie chickens :oops: ) and will not Travel either. Sorry. Hope to see you some other weekend

ralph and les

[gerryb]

hi fred,

i had a good long chat with myself and we both decided not to travel
on the weekend either.  pity to have such  fine weather and no wind .  hope
to see everyone at tountinna fly- in on june 12th.

[DennisZ]

I'll be there closer to noon.
will have a bungee with me ... if it has not rotted yet

[Happy Days]

Bungee!…..doesn’t have quite the same ‘ring’ as Banzai, does it. Never mind. I think bungee’s are going to be the only way of  exploring for potential thermals this weekend provided we have visibility. So far today, as yesterday, Big L is covered in mist.

I’ve fitted a tow hook into the lightest loading plane I posses and I’m reading all about thermal flying. Apparently, the first plane into a therm has the right to choose the direction of rotation for following planes. A kind of ‘help yourself’ one way street! (I think this book could double as a guide to driving through Dublin)

K.

[DennisZ]

Bungee!…..doesn’t have quite the same ‘ring’ as Banzai, does it.

here is what it looks like

[IceWind]

You can always e-power the planes...

(let me run away... fast...)

[Happy Days]

Yes,….please do run Nando, and the faster the better! :lol:

I have to say Dennis that bungee looks in very good order. I had one once but decided thermal flying wasn’t my style so I sold it. So I’ll be relying on yours. I don’t see a securing peg anywhere in the picture, assume you do have one? :?:

[DennisZ]

 that bungee looks in very good order.

That picture is from the shop. Mine is one year old, the rubber piece is not exactly of high grade.

[DennisZ]

. I don’t see a securing peg anywhere in the picture, assume you do have one? :?:

"securing peg" ? do you mean the "anchor" ?
here is my "setup"