Well it seems that the Whistlestop is closed till April due to lack of business, or maybe just a good excuse for a vacation.
Breakfast this Sunday will be at Mickey’s Roadside Cafe in Enfield NH.
Mickey Dowd used to own the Lyme Inn and he’s had this restaurant for almost 10 years. Food and service is very good. We usually meet in the back room.
If you’d like to suggest a location for a future breakfast spot please let me know.
We meet at 9:30.
-Andy
Breakfast next Sunday February 9th will be at Eaton’s Sugar House in South Royalton VT. These guys serve up a wonderful breakfast and certainly best known for the Pancakes and REAL Maple Syrup.
The link above will get you to a Google Map and it’s exit 3 off 89.
We meet at 9:30.
We’ll go back to the regularly scheduled breakfasts at the Whistlestop starting on the 16th.
-Andy
Just a reminder that Breakfast is at 9:30am at the Whistlestop this Sunday.
This is our normal meeting place for breakfast until someone suggests another restaurant or offers up their home.
Hope to see you there and best not to arrive late.
-Andy
Congratulation to Karl for passing his flight test today.
Bill & Karl 11/20/13
Thank you to Bill Stinson for braving the cold.
Thank you to Rick for bringing another glider pilot into the world.
-Andy
Behold our new-to-us Blanik L-23 N331BA
This is a very well maintained 15 year old glider that will be at Post Mills just as soon as everything is worked out. It has a new canopy, very clean inside and out and ready to fly.
More pictures available on the Sugarbush Soaring Web.
-Andy
N331BA
Adirondack Soaring invites you to our 1st annual Lake Placid Wave & Flying
Encampment. Our soaring club has voted to try a different site for an
encampment this year. Lake Placid, NY. The Canadian’s have been coming
down for years. This year’s event will be held from Thursday, September
26th thru Tuesday, October 1st. Stay the entire week or come just for the
weekend. This event allows clubs to gather and enjoy camaraderie through
various social events. Please pass this note on to others in your club
that might be interested. We also plan on having a BBQ this year under the
pavilion at the airfield. Please e-mail me if you plan on attending, as
we would like to make sure we have enough towplanes for the event. There
is limited space.
There is an office area with bathrooms and showers. Lake Placid Airport
also has an area for bonfires at night.
For those of you that are not interested in camping on the field, here are
some listings of some of the local motels:
http://www.lakeplacid.com/stay/lodging
More information:
http://www.flymsc.org/Lake_Placid_V2/index.html
This site is courtesy of our Canadian Friends at Montreal Soaring.
Tows are being provided by Adirondack Soaring Association. You must be a
member of the SSA (Soaring Society of America) to meet our insurance
requirements.
Tow Costs:
2,000 ft $35
3,000 ft $45
4,000 ft $65
Please pass this on to anyone in your soaring club or community that might
be interested in attending.
If you are planning on attending please e-mail me at:
tim@adirondacksoaring.com
Tim Hanke
Operations/ Treasurer
Adirondack Soaring Association, Inc.
2017 Barrett Road
Ballston Spa, New York 12020
-Andy
Tuesday was a slacker day, here’s Gregs report. – Andy
PMSC Members,
Four Post Mills pilots (Me, Tim, Mark, and Karl) decided to take advantage of the last day of this incredible air mass and call a slacker day on Tuesday. Andy agreed to tow on an extended lunch break, so we assembled at the airport and had four gliders ready to go just after noon. The forecast looked very good, but at launch time the sky was blue and there was little sign of lift. Since you miss 100% of the shots you don’t take we all took off and struggled in weak broken lift. Everyone soared and Tim (after a very wise reflight) and I eventually scratched high enough at the rt. 244 gap to make the jump to good clouds over Smarts Mt. And that’s where the fun began. Strong climbs to great clouds, with cloud base eventually over 11,000 feet. No that is not a typo, 11,000 feet. We got a late start due to our early struggles, but were able to make up time and flew North East over Cannon, Twin, Washington, Carter, and eventually outran the good clouds over the Mahoosuc Range. We turned at our intended turn point at Old Spec, and began the trip home. This is where it got interesting again. Heading back to the Presidential range we both lost considerable altitude, and I ended up lowish downwind of the Presis on the Carter range, unable to get to the sunny upwind side of Washington. At this point landing at Gorham seemed likely. Tim was doing much better, but we both eventually caught back up with good clouds and had a high easy time flying back to just past the Lebanon airport, our second intended turnpoint, then on to PM. The original goal was to go back to Gorham, for a 500k, but it was way too late. Landing just before 7 pm, this was obviously a great day, that was even better for me because of team flying with PM. It’s always smart to tag along with the experienced locals.
JD:
http://www.onlinecontest.org/olc-2.0/gliding/flightinfo.html?dsId=2956434
PM:
http://www.onlinecontest.org/olc-2.0/gliding/flightinfo.html?dsId=2956332
Sky Out,
Greg (JD)
Post Mills Soaring Club 