Day 7 at Chilhowee

report is available on the SSA site and at SoaringCafe.NET

TA

Frank,
Bravo on another great contest daily reporting. Many of us have
really enjoyed reading your reports every evening and wishing we were
there racing with you guys (and winning gals). Please keep em coming
at the future contests.

Very nice work indeed! Not bad flying either - sorry about that early
land out in the contest.
Bruno - B4

On May 12, 9:29*pm, Frank Paynter wrote:
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TA

Another Sports Class Nat.'s is in the bag! It was a tough one - at
least for me - as the weather did not cooperate or maybe it is just a
lack of flying ability on my part. I would like to take this
opportunity to thank our hosts Sarah and Jason who did everything to
accommodate the racers and their crews. The same goes for the rest of
the volunteers from the CD, scorer to the gate-and ground crews,
whithout whom a contest like this would not be possible.
One new service I had never experienced at any of the other contest
sites was the handling of the gliders between the trailer area and the
grid. If you were crew-less (like me) and left the rigged glider with
the full tow-out gear by your trailer, the ground crew would move it
with a four-wheeler or a golf-cart to the grid! I felt like being
spoiled!
I would also like to point out that the small hick-ups (like the
temporary outage of water, telephone and internet) were not the fault
of the organizers or operators but some inept work-crew laying a new
water line and every possible thing was done to restore the services
quickly. Stuff like this just happens and we made the best of the
situation.
In summary, the Cilhowee Gliderport is definitely on my list of places
to come back to and fly for a weekend!

Uli Neumann
Libelle 'GM'