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Early Summer Contest

The LIFT Traverse City, MSL #2,  Early Summer R/C Soaring Contest will be held this coming weekend June 11th & 12th at the LIFT Feild.

Classes will include 2 Meter, Standard, Unlimited, and RES/Nostaliga .  Trophies awarded to 3 places

in each class,   High Overall trophie in each class awarded for those flying both days.

Planning on flying 4 rounds each day.  100 point ( 100 inch ) landing circles.

Pilots meeting will be at 9:30 am., flying to begin as soon as ready afterwards.

Newsletter

Thanks to Brian Amato LIFT now has a newsletter. We will post here when a new newsletter is issued, as well as put links to all of the newsletters on the new Newsletter page. You can view the May 2011 issue here: May 2011

If you have any ideas or content please contact Brian.

LIFT Club Meeting - May 10th at 12:00

The May LIFT Club Meeting will be held this Tuesday, May 10th - 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.

Hope to see you there.

The weather does not look good, probably no flying after the meeting, I will not be bring a winch, I may put my radian in just in case.

UPDATE 4/22/11! Spring IPC Contest

Do to very poor weather prediction again the spring IPC contest is postponed again.

The planned date for the IPC is being moved to Saturday April 30th 2011

That is the LIFT Club's participation in the International Postal Spring 2011 Contest will be held on Saturday April 30, 2011 (weather Permitting) at the LIFT field on Renolds Rd. just south of US 72 in Lealand county.

 
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 looks bad for Saturday we will try for Sunday, I'll send an email Friday Afternoon.
 
Hope to see you there.

 

LIFT Club Meeting - Tuesday April 12th at 12:00

The April LIFT Club Meeting will be held Tuesday, April 12th - 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.
 
A report on the progress in getting the mower repared, observation on the Toledo R/C show and discussion the upcoming IPC will be held.
 
Hope to see you there.
 
Mays meeting is planned for Tuesday May 10th 2911,

 

IPC Contest: