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Announcement: M-ASA Weekend Open (USA East Coast)
Come race with us!
The Mid-Atlantic Soaring Association (M-ASA), serving the greater Washington/Baltimore/Harrisburg area for more than 50 years, will host several "M-ASA Weekend Opens" each season at its Mid-Atlantic Soaring Center (W73) in Fairfield, Pennsylvania (about 8sm WSW of Gettysburg). These will be in addition to our three annual events: the Region 4 North Contest in May; the 10-Day Weekend in July; and Oktoberfest. Over the years, M-ASA has established a strong community of cross-country pilots who participate in the club's Task Day Championship. Every weekend of the season, weather permitting, we conduct sailplane races from our Fairfield facility. Tasks are designed to accommodate the wide range of pilots and sailplane performance represented by the more than 160 members and 80 privately owned gliders in the club. We want to extend an invitation to cross-country pilots of all experience levels flying in the mid-Atlantic, southern New England, and the Ohio Valley to come race with us. Be our guest for a weekend of racing, socializing, and having fun at one of the country's most charming gliderports. Here's how it works. The club's task day chairman will keep an eye on the weather and the status of the P-40 TFR. On Thursday morning, if it looks like we're going to have a nice weekend and the TFR will be inactive, we'll declare a task day weekend and publicize it via the RAS and an e-mail blast. Let us know if you intend to come, and we'll save you space on the grid. Non-member pilots are asked to pay a nominal fee ($25 for a 30-day limited membership). This will entitle you to tows at club rates (about $15 to 2,000 agl) behind one of our Pawnees, camping, use of showers and other facilities, and as much beer as you care to drink from the community barrel. Saturday night we'll conduct a pot luck barbeque on the airfield, and follow up with other diversions. How good is the soaring here? When it's good, it's really good. Last weekend we conducted two three-hour MATs. Saturday's winner flew 360 miles at 81 mph. Sunday's winner flew 240 miles at 75 mph. The previous weekend we only raced on Sunday: the winner flew 122 miles at 56 mph. We've seen speeds of over 100 mph on ridge days, but low to mid 50s is typical (high 50s to low 60s with water). If you live within several hours drive of Washington DC, keep an eye out for our announcements. If you'd like to be on the e-mail list, reply to this post. We'll be looking forward to seeing you in the skies above Fairfield real soon! Want to know more about M-ASA? Follow this link: http://www.m-asa.org Chris O'Callaghan (OC) M-ASA Task Day Chairman |
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Hey Chris,
Please add me to your mailing list. I will be out of CONUS for most of July, but am interested in later in the summer. jeff |
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