On Feb 1, 9:31*pm, Frank Whiteley wrote:
On Feb 1, 10:57*am, Mike Schumann
wrote:
On 1/31/2010 1:55 PM, JS wrote:
Reno 2012, sounds promising. But of course there can be nasty weather
in the Sierras too! Most locations are a gamble in winter.
* *Perhaps there will be a wave camp before and after the Reno
convention? And there's always skiing/boarding.
* *The posts about winch launching seem to indicate people would spend
extra time on that, if a site would support it. Perhaps the 2011
symposium can be somewhere warm and close to the gliderport. It only
takes a hotel with a banquet room to host such an event, or motels
close to an airport with hangars...
Jim
On Jan 31, 6:14 am, Mike
wrote:
If you want to get more attendance from glider pilots who are not "hard
core", then it might be useful to think about co-locating the event with
some other venue or attraction that would entice more people to attend.
I would suggest Naples, FL as a great venue for 2011. *Don Ingraham's
winch experiment down here is a rousing success, and will hopefully
become an annual event. *Besides winching, Immokalee offers lots of
other options, including an Acro box, etc....., not to mention golf,
beaches and warm weather!!!
--
Mike Schumann
I hear Don arrived with the Arcus early this morning, but it rained
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Hi Frank - indeed, you are correct. Do you have a network of spies? We
arrived in Naples at about 5AM after driving for 15 hours straight
from Little Rock. The Arcus/Cobra pulled like it wasn't even there
behind Barry's F150. MPG went from 18 (no trailer) to about 15! That
seems extremely good to me, especially given that the Arcus is over
1000 LBS. At one point a guy on a motorcycle slowed next to the truck
and gave us a big thumbs up and then took his hands off the grips and
drove ahead on cruise control with his arms out like wings banking
gracefully back and forth from lane to lane ahead of us. We laughed
pretty hard. Everyone was too terrified to pass him for about ten
miles. We slept hard for about five hours after we arrived and then
washed the trailer and tucked it into a hangar at the Immokalee
Airport (KIMM). Barry has business back in Mpls (I just took him to
the airport), so we won't fly it until he returns on the 12th. It
feels a bit like waiting for Xmas.
There's still enough space on the winching schedule for a half dozen
winch endorsements/BFRs the last 10 days of February down here in
sunny, warm, palm-tree lined, breezy, sandy, beachy Naples. :-)) Then
we go up to Seminole and the Seniors.
Here's the winching schedule -
http://plus.calendars.net/xcsoaring -
SIGN UP and WARM UP!
Sure was fun seeing everyone at the convention.
-XS-