Gold Distance Times Two

Monday, July 6th 2009, was one of the best, if not the absolute best in Indiana this year.
Cloud bases to 6500, thermal strengths of 5 knots average, and best of all, the conditions lasted from about 11:30am to about 7:00pm.
Knowing that the day was going to be good, Gerry Simpson and Dan Dewitt decided to give a try to the 300Km gold distance.
We spent about 2 hours Sunday evening planing for the flight.
The wind was predicted to be about 15mph from the North-West, so the flight plans contained long legs along the expected cloud streets.
Alex-Frankfort-FoxStation-Randolph-Alex for Gerry.
Alex-Frankfort-Wabash-Randolph-Alex for Dan.
Monday morning, Gerry, Dan, Jack Hensel and I went to the airport to assemble and launch.
Gerry Simpson took off at 12:20; Dan Dewitt at 12:36.
Five hours and a few minutes later Gerry Simpson landed. Two minutes later Dan Dewitt landed.
Both, YES! BOTH! Gerry and Dan, PV and IZ, had successfully completed their declared 300Km tasks.

Congratulations to Gerry and Dan, from all of us at CISS.

Mario

Fwd: Flying Mon July 6th.

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From: Dan DeWitt

Short notice !!!!!!! Flying today staring 12:00 noon.  Good conditions!!!!!

Fwd: Visiting Pilots at Alexandria

Several glider pilots stopped by at Alex to see our field and in some
cases to rig and fly the Indiana skies today (Friday 6/12) . All of
them had been down flying in the Region 6 contest at Caesar Creek and
were returning home . These are the kind of folks we all should
encourage to come and fly with us . Each of them purchased a temporary
weekend membership ( $25 ) and paid for their tows ( They need to be
SSA members ) . All were most impressed with our facilities and some
asked about us maybe hosting a "Regionals " sometime in the future.
Tell your Glider friends from out of state to come visit us and take
advantage of the " Weekend membership" plan.
Thanks to George for extending the invite to these glider friends .

Ron (ZA)

FlY-IN BREAKFAST UPDATE

If it was not stated in the previous communication . We have some cooks in our club who really know how to prepare PANCAKES !

Come on out early ( 8 am ) and help us get everything ready for the breakfast which starts at 9 am . The weather still looks great and with any luck we will all get to sample JOSH and GINA's pancakes once the fly-in guests have eaten !

FLYING FOLLOWS for the rest of the day .

Ron and Dan

Board Meeting Correction

The next Board meeting will be Saturday, June 20th, 9 AM at Alex, not June 13th as previously posted.

George

Fly-In this Saturday

Members all , Hopefully everyone in the club is planning to attend our Saturday morning Pancake Breakfast "Fly in " that we have arranged for this coming Saturday the 30th. THE BEST NEWS IS THAT THE WEATHER FORECAST LOOKS GOOD !

We are expecting a large number of Power pilots to fly in and we hope to convince a good number to consider joining our fine club. Be ready to talk up gliding whenever you can .

Breakfast will be served beginning 9 am and we will be offering reduced rate " Experience Gliding " rides after the breakfast . We need all the help we can get EARLY - to get the tables prepared , the equipment out to the field and of course prepare the breakfast ! Please plan to get to the field by 8 am or even 7:30 am if you can make it as we will need lots of help .

Dan and Ron.

Winching Done

There will be no winching on Monday, May 25th. We are done with our two week winch introduction during which 22 people took 80 flights. The Board will discuss winching at its June 20th meeting - so let the Board know how you feel about winching (pro and con). Thanks to everyone who made our winch experience a success!



George

Winch Launch Videos

Mario has posted a collection of videos here.

Monday Winching

We had another great afternoon of winching today thanks to Tod H. , our trusty winch operator. Larry M. renewed his winch endorsement. Larry P. flew three very successful flights with Ed Lossing as instructor. Kurt was out mowing and guttering and got in a couple of flights. His professional assessment of the winch: "Whoopee!" We had NO rope breaks and NO weak link breaks. We are starting to get the hang of this thing.

I'll send an email to let you know when we are winching again.

George

Winching on Monday

Those who want to practice their winching skills are invited to Alex Monday, May 18 from 3 to 6 pm. Let me know if you plan to come. We have winch instructors and an operator (Thanks Tod Herrli!). So come out out.

By the way -we had very successful first weekend of winching. We had 42 winch launches - some to 1100 feet, several that got away and thermalled (though that was not our goal.) Thanks to everyone who showed up, worked hard and had a lot of fun!

George