This coming weekend including Friday Sept. 3 through Monday Sept. 6 our club will be conducting a cross-country soaring contest with 9 participants including one guest from Michigan. It has often been suggested that we get our feet wet with a small competition to prepare for hosting a sanctioned SSA Regional Contest in the future. Our Board approved the event back in the early spring.
Six of the club private owners will be flying their ships along with Tod Herrli flying the PW and Olaf Tessarzyk flying the Grob 103. Don Taylor is the organizer, Ron Clarke and Josh Daisey will handle ground ops and John Earlywine will be the weather guesser.
There will be a contest pilots' meeting in the upstairs clubhouse each morning around 10am followed by assembly and gridding at the takeoff end of the runway. A rapid launch will take place in about a 40 minute window between noon and 2pm depending on the lift conditions. Ron and/or Josh will work with the normally scheduled ground crews and towpilots and instructors to smooth this all out. Heightened vigilance on the ground and in the air will be important !
Except for the launch timeframe, instruction and other club flying in the Blaniks should be conducted more-or-less as normal. The PW-5 and Grob will possibly be available prior to the launch and after they return to the field. This is an exciting first step for our club and we appreciate the forbearance of the larger membership during this time. Come on out and watch !
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