Eastern Soaring Leage Event - Photos
08-01-2003, 04:16 AM
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Eastern Soaring Leage Event - Photos
Our club, the Long Island Silent Flyers, www.lisf.org, recently hosted a competition sponsored by the Eastern Soaring League. I thought you might enjoy seeing some of the photos I took of the event. This is what pushed me over the edge from an Electric Parkflyer to a glider.
ESL Event Photos 6-2003
These were fantastic pilots. I was lucky enough to work the event. I timed many of the pilots and actually learned enough to help some of them find good thermals. They were very generous with their insights into flying and thermal hunting.
I was so impressed, I had to learn how to do this type of flying. So now I am learning to hi-start launch my GP Spirit 2 Meter and hope to progress to the electric winch soon.
It seems silly, but I am just amazed how the Spirit just floats off of the hi-start line and then just majestically sails across a sea of air. Like some schooner on the ocean, it just floats, as if suspended by some unseen string, traveling in silent beauty. I dream about it.
Our club holds a club contest each month. Perhaps in September I will be able to compete.
Then, later in September we have another ESL competition coming. While these are unlimited class events, there is nothing to prevent a 2 meter from entering. I could never hope to place well however I might enter the competition just for the thrill of it all.
I am having so much fun flying!
ESL Event Photos 6-2003
These were fantastic pilots. I was lucky enough to work the event. I timed many of the pilots and actually learned enough to help some of them find good thermals. They were very generous with their insights into flying and thermal hunting.
I was so impressed, I had to learn how to do this type of flying. So now I am learning to hi-start launch my GP Spirit 2 Meter and hope to progress to the electric winch soon.
It seems silly, but I am just amazed how the Spirit just floats off of the hi-start line and then just majestically sails across a sea of air. Like some schooner on the ocean, it just floats, as if suspended by some unseen string, traveling in silent beauty. I dream about it.
Our club holds a club contest each month. Perhaps in September I will be able to compete.
Then, later in September we have another ESL competition coming. While these are unlimited class events, there is nothing to prevent a 2 meter from entering. I could never hope to place well however I might enter the competition just for the thrill of it all.
I am having so much fun flying!
08-03-2003, 11:54 PM
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Eastern Soaring Leage Event - Photos
ahhhh yes, your hooked.
you have found the wonderment that the sailplane brings to the aviation world. It is truly a machine of beauty, technology, and finesse.
Wait until you get into the big ones
JB
you have found the wonderment that the sailplane brings to the aviation world. It is truly a machine of beauty, technology, and finesse.
Wait until you get into the big ones
JB
08-04-2003, 06:03 AM
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Eastern Soaring Leage Event - Photos
I am only into my 2 Meter Spirit a few weeks, but the magic of watching this thing fly, silently, is amazing.
I have been warned that sailplanes are more addictive than power planes. I am begining to feel it already.
I have been warned that sailplanes are more addictive than power planes. I am begining to feel it already.
