CISS Member Nyal Williams receives FAA Award

Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award

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The Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award recognizes pilots who have demonstrated professionalism, skill and aviation expertise by maintaining safe operations for 50 or more years.

Based on these criteria, the FAA has awarded Nyal Williams this prestigious award. Congratulations Nyal !

Announcing CISS Labor Day Contest

CISS First Annual Labor Day Contest

CISS is hosting a four day cross-country soaring contest during September 3-6 for 15 gliders. Our club members will have first priority entry status until June 15, at which time we will open up the attendance to other glider pilots in neighboring clubs.

The Guidelines http://docs.google.com/View?id=dcn38s27_0gq6qkfgv for the contest are attached, and the purpose is to introduce racing to the entry level pilot. A structured contest with low stress, high enjoyment, education and challenging enough to make it exciting will be the main features. The rules and scoring will be similar to the ones used in our usual year-long contest, but assigned tasks will be used every day. IE, you will be racing against each other ! The rules will be posted on the club website in a week or so.

The club Grob 103 and the PW-5 will be made available to fly by qualified CISS members and team flying (different pilots may fly on different days) will be permitted (no, make that encouraged !). If you would like to fly one of these gliders, a sign up sheet will be posted in the clubhouse on Saturday May 15. First come first serve, and the first person will be assigned Day 1, second pilot Day 2, etc.

As for private owners, you have been flying all over the skies for the past few years, now is the time to spread those wings in an organized contest ! Please use the attached registration form http://docs.google.com/View?id=dcn38s27_2cnt4phc5 to sign up for the contest. Send the entry form and check, made out to CISS to:

Don Taylor, CISS Contest Manager 4915 Windrift Way Carmel, IN 46033-9510 email: don_taylor@earthlink.net

Fly-In Breakfast, Saturdayk May 15

Don’t forget the May 15th Fly-In Breakfast at 9:00a.m. All members are encouraged to invite all of their power pilot friends to fly in and join us for breakfast. Power pilots make excellent members for our club- get them out and talk up the club to them. Also bring as many family members as you can and invite all of your friends. I am encouraging all of you to help make this a successful event.

We will need some volunteers on Friday afternoon to do some preliminary setup and cleaning of the hangar.

Saturday morning we will also need volunteers to clear out the hangar, setup tables and chairs, getting the club aircraft out to the launch site for rides, starting coffee, and food servers. Brad Hayes has volunteered to be in charge of aircraft and auto parking and he will be needing help.

Let’s make our club visible and recruit new members- they are the lifeblood of our club.

Gerry Simpson, President CISS

No Operations May 2

Operations are closed today, May 2, owing to low ceilings and forecast rain.