We decided to get a little more "serious" about hand launch in our club since we have had a required critical mass of HLG diehards for a while now (about 4-5 pilots). So we planned 2 practice contests this spring to warm-up for the new season and be ready when the real competitions start.
We will have the first "public" contest next weekend, March 19, Saturday. The plan is to just have a 1-day mini-contest with as many rounds as we can run from about 9-10am till 4-6pm. I know this is kinda a late notice, but if you live relatively close to North Carolina, please consider coming to our practice contest. I know there are a lot of new HLG pilots om the East Coast that are just keeping quiet, South Carolina, Virgina, North Carolina. Please speak up and see if you can drive down here for 1 day. We can do some sort of a clinic or seminar for beginners where everybody gets to ask questions and complain about how he can't launch well and can't thermal well, and we all listen, knod our heads in agreement and try to find the answers to the questions or just tell the person to go and practice more :-) Kidding. Seriously, if you have never been to a HLG contest, this is your chance to learn about it in a friendly atmosphere. We expect at least 2 people from Charlotte, NC, and a few "non-regular" semi-local guys at the contest. Right now we are hoping to have about 8-10 people. Phil Barnes himself and Dr. Denny Maize promised me that they might also come to meet the old friends and practice with us, if not for this contest, than maybe for the next one in April. The second warm-up contest is planned for April 16, Saturday. If there is enough interest, we can possibly make it a 2 day event. Send me an e-mail if you are interested in coming. Directions to the field can be found on our last year's official contest page http://olgol.com/contest. Thermals, Oleg. RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
