Saturday Flying [7/26/08]

What started out as a poor day (800 ft cloud bases) turned into a beautiful one with CU's and lift popping everywhere. We gave 3 introductory rides, half a dozen instructional rides and a couple of our members flew the Grob. Ed fixed the broken aileron spring in the Blanik 303BA by crawling into the fuselage. You are our hero, Ed! I introduced a 14 year old to soaring and I think he's hooked! So far this week we've had 3 people express a serious interest in joining our Club. Let's keep up the good work!

George

Fwd: Thursday Soaring [7/24/08]

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From: ZASoars
It's on ,

Lynn Joyce has offered to tow - first t/o 12:30 . So far we have 4
confirmed pilots . Come on out and join us . Conditions should be
good.

ZA.

Fwd: MID WEEK FLYING - UPDATE [No Flying Wednesday, But Try Thursday 7/24]

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From: ZASoars

Fellow Pilots ,

Wednesday flying is cancelled due to unfavorable wind conditions at
flying levels ( 3000+ msl ).

HOWEVER Lynn Joyce has kindly offered to tow beginning 12:30 tomorrow
( Thursday ) . Please let me know if you will be there to make Lynn's
trip worthwhile . So far we have George / Ron and Todd ( I think ) .

Hope you and more can make it !

ZA.

Fwd: Soaring Wednesday

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From: ZASoars
Folks ,

The forecasts continue to look good for Wednesday and Larry Miller has
agreed to tow for us . I suggest we plan for the first take off at
1:30 pm.

Come on out and join the three or four who have already indicated they
plan to soar !

Ron (ZA)

Fwd: Wednesday Soaring [7/23]

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From: ZASoars

If you have looked ahead you may have noticed that this coming Wed
looks like a good soaring day . I believe we can get a tow pilot so
would like to ask who might be able to fly that day . If you can, let
me know and I'll confirm with our willing tow pilot and announce the
time .

Ron (ZA).

Fwd: Membership Meeting

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From: Gerald Simpson
CISS membership meeting on July 17th at the MCL Cafeteria in
Castleton. The program will be a demonstration and discussion of the
Worldwide Online Contest. The meeting will start at 7:00P.M. Come
early for food if desired. Hope to see you there.

Gerry Simpson

CALL FOR ACTION: CISS Sinks In OLC Ranking!

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From: ZASoars

ALERT
______

CISS has dropped in the US standings and at this stage of the soaring season we are now in 54th position !

It is noted that Dan De Witt and ZA both posted flights this week but many of our great cross country pilots are AWOL . We need your help to get us back into the listing of the top 50 clubs in America .

From a review of the standings it looks like we could easily make it back onto the first page with a little help from our friends . All you have to do is post your flights after each flying day !

For those of you who haven't checked the On Line Contest recently try logging on to http://www.onlinecontest.org/olc-2.0/segelflugszene/index.html

and check out who the big cross country fliers are ( in the world ) .
Or if you feel so inclined scroll to just the US , or check out our Region ( 6 ). You can also check out who the best clubs are in each region - and if you do you'll feel proud when you note CISS is number 2 - behind just Caesar Creek in SSA Region 6 !

Ron Clarke .

Editor's Note: It looks like we are 47th in the USA as I write this, but 2nd in Region 6 (behind our neighbors 150km to the southeast).

Fwd: Monday flying

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From: ZASoars

Folks,

[Monday July 14] should be good and Larry Miller has kindly agreed to
tow beginning 2pm. Let me know if you too can make it . We have at
least 2 sailplane pilots lined up to fly so far.

Ron (ZA).

Fwd: Sat July 12th Operations Cancelled Due to Inclement Weather

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From: VTSoars
Date: Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 8:01 AM

[O]perations will be canceled today due to inclement weather. After
discussing with the tow pilots, aviation forecast and radar suggest
that the band of T Storms that approached our area this morning will
be with us most of today. This front should pass-through today and
will bring better WX tomorrow[.]

Brad

Club Meeting Thursday July 17th

Our Next CISS Club meeting will be Thursday, July 17th at MCL Cafeteria in Castleton. Come for dinner at 6 pm or for just the meeting at 7 pm. (The Fisher's Train station was not available).

George

Thursday Flying

Larry Miller can tow for us Thursday, July 10th . Towing starts at 1 pm. Please let me know if you plan to fly.

See you at Alex!

Contest Update

Contest scores here.

July started off appropriately with a “bang”, when on Tuesday six pilots took advantage of post cold front conditions that produced lift to 7500’ msl. Tom Ruble, on only his second flight this year in the SZD 55, trounced the field with a speed of 57 mph. Get a load of his statistics: avg glide ratio 44:1 26% of the flight thermalling, 74% running and he did the whole 67 mile flight using only 8 thermals, for average glide exceeding 8 miles. Most significant, however was his 27 mile final glide from 5300 ft msl. Congratulations Tom!

Ron Clarke introduced new member Gordon Watters to the thrill of cross country soaring, taking him on a 61 mile trip in the Grob 103. While they could not contact the lift that went to 7500, they achieved very respectable speeds and proved the Grob is a competitive glider in skilled hands.

Now what we need are some days like this on the weekend for a change!

Thanks to Larry Miller for coming out to tow -- he qualifies for the MVP award for Tuesday.

-DT