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| Volume 3, Issue 5 |
June, 2004 |
Last Saturday, June 5th, Larry Pennington had an excellent 3-hour, silver distance out-and-return flight with Wabash airport as the turn point. The conditions that day were perfect for cross-country soaring and Larry knew how to take advantage of them. Two thumbs up! Look at the GPS plot 
On the same Saturday, June 5th, Chris Carpenter disappeared in the skies over Alexandria. He took off, gathered some altitude and then...puff! He was gone. Five hours and 300km later, Chris was back after drawing the most beautiful equilateral triangle over the state of Indiana. Obviously, Chris believes that it is not the distance that counts, but how close you approach the perfect equilateral. Look!!  CISS CROSS COUNTRY CONTEST KICK-OFF We finally got the cross country contest started this year, with four pilots combining for about 320 miles on May 8. Conditions were outstanding, with achieved heights of over 7,000 ft agl. But it was not a day to be below 4,000 feet unless you like flogging around in the gusty chop. Bedwell has quickly learned to get the most out of his new/old ASW-15 and Mike Warren will be dangerous if he ever makes time to squeeze in more flying. It’s a close race for second place with three pilots separated by only 73 points at this time. Hopefully the wx will improve and there will be many more days and pilots in the weeks to come. By this time last year we had already notched 3 contest days with 5 pilots. If any one wants to participate, call Don Taylor about the minimal rules. Here are the scoring details so far and the beautiful GPS graphs  Don
Taylor. THANKS To Darren Bedwell for the graphs of Larry Penningtons flight, and the cross-country contest. To Gerald Simpson for the pictures of the club members. | |||
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