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Reminder the LIFT Club Meeting is next - Tuesday November 8th - 2011 at the HayLoft

 The November LIFT Club Meeting will be held this comming Tuesday, November 8th - 2011 at 12 noon at the HayLoft Inn.
 

The HayLoft is located on the South side of M 72, about 4.5 miles east of the LIFT Field.

Please join us for lunch (not required) and meeting, same time.

Subject will include, Should we change our meeting day - time- Place, Working on it, and who is building what.

Have not heard from a number of members especially thoose working during the day, how about some feedback on our survey.

Hope to see you there.

 

First Annual LIFT Fly In Saturday October 8th and Sunday the 9th

Peter & Lee Ann Baumeler and Bob & BarbRobinson are planning to camp this weekend Friday and Saturday Oct 8th & 9th on the LIFT Field, and fly all day Saturday & Sunday.

Any and everyone is invited to join in the camping and or flying.  They will also be available to help with sorting out problems with your planes or radios.

They will be having a cookout Saturdy evening and your invited to it too.

LIFT Club Meeting October 11th

The May LIFT Club Meeting will be held this comming Tuesday, October 11th - 2011 at 12 noon at the HayLoft Inn.

 The HayLoft is located on the South side of M 72, about 4.5 miles east of the LIFT Field.

 Please join us for lunch (not required) and meeting, same time.

 Subject will include, replacing rotted post in field parking lot, Programming fundamentals of compter transmitters, and who is building what.

LIFT Late Summer Dual SoarIn Scores - MOM

Here are the results to the Final Score for LIFT's Man On Man Late Summer Soar In held September 10th & 11th, 2011.  There is both an excel and pdf format:

Excel Results
PDF Results
 
We flew 2-Meter & Unlimited classes Man on Man separately each day. Trophies to 5 places and Sportsman (combined) to 3 places & a High Overall 2 day trophy each class.  1st places also received a special monogrammed patch produced by Barb Robinson.
 
Saturday started with sunny skies and a promise of low winds from the north east and a temp of 60 moving to the mid 70's during the day.  We flew 5 round of each class with the first being 6 minutes and the rest being 8 minute tasks, with a 100 inch/point landing tape.  Flight groups were seeded Man on Man  up to 5 pilots with landings added after normalizing. The first 4 rounds were some of the best soaring weather I have ever seen making it a landing contest.  However the wind was picking up and the last round of 2 Meter was difficult with the high time of 4:28 flown by Peter beating the rest of us by at least 30 seconds.
 
Sunday started sunny but breezy with prediction of the wind from the south east around 6 mph increasing to around 12.  Soaring was spotty but doable with roaters in the landing area.  We flew 5 round of each class with the same format as Saturday.  The wind picked up in the 2nd round and was at least 25 mph at 400 feet, more lead needed.  The wind and landing roaters continued to increase in the 3 and 4th rounds.  We ended the contest around 3pm, to have the annual LSF awards dinner at a local restraurnt.

Fall 2011 International Postal Challenge ( IPC ) To Be Held Sat 9-17-11

 

A reminder,  the LIFT Club's participation in the International Postal Fall 2011 Contest will be held on Saturday September 17, 2011 at the LIFT field on Renolds Rd. just south of US 72 in Lealand county. 

Hopefully the weather will cooperate, look good at this time

Friday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 60. 

Friday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 46. 

Saturday: Sunny, with a high near 63. 

Saturday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 52. 

Sunday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 68. 

This Contest is open to all members of LIFT at no cost. 

It is a Team event with our club being one Team, challenging a number of other International Clubs

The International Postal Contest is an "invitational" event which is flown by a number of clubs throught-out the world twice a year, on dates as close to the first of April and September as the weather permits.

The Postal Contest is an open flying type event.  No pressure, no trophies, just five  6 minute flights when you call them any time between 10 am and 3 pm, and fun flying and good conversation in between. 

Once you call an official flight you have a 9 minute window (after release of the plane form the line at launch) to attempt to get the most towards a 6 minute flight, that is, you can relaunch within the first 3 minutes.  Landings are scored on the FAI Landing tape which allows for 100 points within 1 meter of the landing spot and 5 points less for each meter out from the spot.

All Contestants are recored on our report and a good showing of members helps to show were an active club.  The 5 highest scoring members are used to rank our club against the other participating clubs of the world.

If you have other things to accomplish that day you can come early or late and get your flights in and leave.

If the weather turns bad for Saturday, I'll send an email Friday Afternoon.

Hope to see you there.

 

IPC Contest: