Re: [RCSE] SOAR OVSS #8 Fred Fredrickson contest

2006-09-11 Thread S Meyer
It was tough conditions with overcast and threats of rain all day. But the rain stayed away long enough for us to squeeze in 3 rounds. Marc Gellart captured the coveted two day overall win with a win on Sunday. And he did it without his Insanity on Sunday. Hats off to the hard working

Re: [RCSE] Soar Utah

2006-09-11 Thread clarence
I am sorry but one day at work I got a whole bucket of ball from the driving range and a club to go with it, so I felt it was a fun activity to hit balls from the top of the copper pit and see what your longest drive could be. well I forgot to add the one mile drop to the bottom of the pit

Re: [RCSE] OVSS Scores

2006-09-11 Thread AJ Bhatta
Congrats to Marc from the BSS. AJ 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

Re: [RCSE] What about a BBQ at the Soaring Master's????

2006-09-11 Thread Danny C Williams
Joe Good to hear... Is anyone putting a list of what to bring??? Dr. Danny Williams D.C."Silence is golden, But Duck tape is silver"Colorado Springs, Colorado Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 14:33:16 -0400From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: Ben Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED]Cc: Soaring@airage.comSubject: Re:

[RCSE] Tullahoma Contest

2006-09-11 Thread DClevel130
For those coming to the Tullahoma Fall Soar-In this weekend (September 16/17). We will have winches available at the club field Friday afternoon for practice. See you then. Don Cleveland CD

Re: [RCSE] OVSS Scores

2006-09-11 Thread tony estep
- Original Message From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Congratulations to the new OVSS Champ, Marc Gellart. === Great flying by an all-around good guy. Marc dropped 13 points out of 5000 -- hard to beat that performance. MVSA still claims Marc as an honorary member. You

[RCSE] Bummin - for sale 1/3 scale DG 800

2006-09-11 Thread Daryl Perkins
Guys, A recent boat catastrophe (Outdrive explosion)is forcing the sale of my brand new, in the box, 1/3 scale DG 800. This is without a doubt the finest model I have ever seen. Until you've seen one, you have no idea how nice the fit and finish is, and how STIFF this thing is. All carbon wings -

[RCSE] OVSS Scores

2006-09-11 Thread soarx4
The OVSS scores are in after this past weekends OVSS #8 the Fred Fredricson Memorial Thermal Challenge, hosted by SOAR. The overall winner was Marc Gellart, Mr. OVSS himself. And unless my my math is bad, Marc has wrapped up the Crystal Eagle for himself this year. Congratulations to the new

[RCSE] SMOM scoring program...

2006-09-11 Thread Les
Anyone out there have an actual program they use specifically for SMOM contest scoring? (Or just MOM for that matter.) Or do you just use excel and some special layouts/macros? -Les RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send subscribe and unsubscribe requests to [EMAIL

Re: [RCSE] SMOM scoring program...

2006-09-11 Thread Rick Eckel
I use an Excel spreadsheet. Its flexible and fast and any input errors can be seen and corrected easily. Rick At 04:14 PM 9/11/2006, Les wrote: Anyone out there have an actual program they use specifically for SMOM contest scoring? (Or just MOM for that matter.) Or do you just use excel

Re: [RCSE] SMOM scoring program...

2006-09-11 Thread tony estep
I also use an Excel spreadsheet. It computes scores and normalized scores, arranges competitors in order of standings, and sets up the flight group for the next round instantly as soon as times are entered. Anybody who wants a copy is welcome to it, just email me. In order to set it up for the

Re: [RCSE] SMOM scoring program...

2006-09-11 Thread Raschow
In a message dated 9/11/2006 4:14:58 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anyone out there have an actual program they use specifically for SMOM contest scoring? see http://www.dh-web.com/scoring/. It does require a bit of manual work to do seeded (overide the program

[RCSE] Cheap Battery Packs for JR TX's

2006-09-11 Thread Ben Wilson
I had CheapBatteryPacks (http://cheapbatterypacks.com) make a couple of TX packs for me last year (Nov) for my JR 8103 TX. I figure I'd give them a seasons worth of use and let you all know what happened. I used SPAA2300 cells (which they are now sold out of) and the packs they made for me

Re: [RCSE] Soar Utah

2006-09-11 Thread Greg Smith
Golf is a smaller sport that is distracting some RC Sailplane pilots form the sport. Don't expect it to go to far! Just thought it was interesting to see where priorities are. -- Greg From: Jim Deck [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 09:31:35 -0500 To: Greg Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[RCSE] Last flight of the day

2006-09-11 Thread Jim Laurel
We had a fantastic day soaring yesterday at 60 Acres South in Redmond, WA USA! Hour long flights punctuated by speed runs, aerobatics, then climbing back up to a speck in the abundant lift. You only get a few days like that a season. At the end of the day, Russ Light had an awesome

[RCSE] Have Sailplanes will travel for contest...around NJ

2006-09-11 Thread GordySoar
Hi guys, I am sort of based around Atlantic City but my pickup will travel 3 or 4hours for a contest, this weekend. Anything going on ?Gordy Rockaway Beach New York this week

[RCSE] Clarification- ESL Contest was tough on me today and Deleware's top pilot too!

2006-09-11 Thread GordySoar
Just the facts folks: Gordy was 14th in a field of 22 ESL Expert class fliers. The first place in Sportsman Class (14 entries) beat him too. We had 9 in RES (including 3 Novices) for a total of 44. Good Lift! Skip Schow AMA143, LSF 166 (V #46) CD Okay, It was gonna come out sooner or later,

[RCSE] SMOM spreadsheet

2006-09-11 Thread tony estep
I have been deluged with requests. I will forward the sheet late tonite or tomorrow morning to everyone who asked, but now I realize that I better add some instructions to it, so give me a little while to do that. RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send subscribe and

[RCSE] FS: Tsunami X-tail

2006-09-11 Thread Bob Vixie
For Sale: Tsunami X-tail white/red I've flown this plane a couple of seasons at a grass field (Denver). It's had a pretty easy life. Never crashed. The flange the nose cone slips over has a crack in it (pic 2180). Not sure how that happened. Over all, this plane is in excellent shape. I'm

[RCSE] Oly 650 or Sagitta 600 kit...

2006-09-11 Thread -Les
Anyone have an Oly 650 or Sagitta 600 kit (complete) they are looking to sell? Drop me a note with a price if you do. Thanks! -Les -NWSS RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send subscribe and unsubscribe requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and

[RCSE] Starting to get it, and a few questions...

2006-09-11 Thread Jay Hunter
Gang,For the first time in a long time I was upset that I couldn't fly. I had planned on sneaking an hour in to fly after work, and my wife called me with a minor issue. As we all know, you have to take care of work and family and then we can fly. And for whatever reason something clicked

Re: [RCSE] Starting to get it, and a few questions...

2006-09-11 Thread S Meyer
At 10:57 PM 9/11/2006, Jay Hunter wrote: Ok, now the questions... 1. To the competitive pilots, how often do you practice a week? 1 day a week for an hour? several times a week? How long are your sessions? Practice is over-rated. 2. How often does the wind change during a flying session?

[RCSE] F3J Team Commemorative Shirts and Hats

2006-09-11 Thread Jim Monaco
The US F3J Team had a great performance and we thank all of our supporters. After all the bills are in and the accounting completed, we had a small deficit in the budget. In an attempt to make up some of the deficit we are offering commemorative shirts with the signatures of all of the