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Title: Aerotow and Slope Weekend
Post by: rogallo on April 12, 2011, 13:58:14 PM: Hello everyone,
Cork MAC are holding their glide in this weekend, Aerotowing on one day and sloping on the other, By all accounts it will be Kinsale but as always the final decision is to be made on the day.
If interested drop me a line

Ralph
Title: Aerotow and Slope Weekend
Post by: gerryb on April 12, 2011, 21:56:35 PM: hi ralph, i'm free to fly on the sat. is the aerotowing on on sat and if so where will it be held? gb
Title: Aerotow and Slope Weekend
Post by: rogallo on April 13, 2011, 09:44:38 AM: HI Gerry,
sorry for not replying to your text, still looking at the weather, I think that we will be on the slope on the Saturday (Kinsale) and flat field on the Sunday ( Bandon) as the winds are SW on sat and have an Easterly element on the Sunday. Since the longest runway is East West this is the one used for flat field work.

Sorry this may not suit you. I'll give you a buzz this evening

Ralph
Title: Aerotow and Slope Weekend
Post by: gerryb on April 13, 2011, 13:34:24 PM: hi ralph, i'll still travel on sat, just want to know where flying is happening.
Title: Aerotow and Slope Weekend
Post by: joe on April 14, 2011, 09:12:00 AM: Would love to come ralph but I'm out of the country til next week. Have a good weekend. Hope the weather holds. See ya in June.
Title: Aerotow and Slope Weekend
Post by: rogallo on April 14, 2011, 21:06:45 PM: No worries weather looks like dry and warm. Will sort something on the day. Electrics towing and winching will be the order of the.day. will see you in June Joe.
Title: Aerotow and Slope Weekend
Post by: Alan_Perse on April 15, 2011, 09:24:11 AM: Hi Ralph. Unfortunately I won't be able to come which is disappointing as I have never been to the Cork Fly-In before. Hopefully next year. Hope everyone has a good time. Don't forget to take lots of pics
Title: Aerotow and Slope Weekend
Post by: rogallo on April 15, 2011, 10:30:08 AM: No Worries Alan, you might get to Cork someday :lol:

Chris, Saturday is the flat field day, flying from 11.00am BBQ on site

All Welcome

Please note MACI insurance is required to fly on our site as requested by our landowner.

Ralph
Title: Aerotow and Slope Weekend
Post by: Alan_Perse on April 15, 2011, 11:48:39 AM: Quote from: "rogallo"
No Worries Alan, you might get to Cork someday :lol:

I'm not sure Ralph. It seems a world away to me :P :P :wink:
Title: Aerotow and Slope Weekend
Post by: rogallo on April 18, 2011, 10:11:06 AM: Well, the weather was great, sun sun and more sun. Ger Buckley and a friend of his from Roscrea joined us (23 in total) on the Saturday, not to be outdone by Richard et al we also BBQed all weekend long, so far no reports of food poisoning.
Ger had fun aerotowing a beautiful Fox. As the winds were slack both days were held at our club site.
Plenty of Radians and Radian Pros spent hours picking their thermals to rest on.
Two large tugs were in attendance, a Piper Cub with Jack "the Hacker" Kelleher in command and yours truely with a Piper Super Cub.

Many thanks to all who attended and sorry we did not get to travel North.

Ralph
Title: Aerotow and Slope Weekend
Post by: Alan_Perse on April 18, 2011, 12:01:50 PM: Glad to here that everything went well. Got any pics?
Title: Aerotow and Slope Weekend
Post by: Richard Boyd on April 18, 2011, 13:11:35 PM: Hi Ralph, super report !
Warm weather, plenty of flying and well burnt food !
What else can anoraks like us ask for !
Well done to the crazy Cork flyers.

Richard
Title: Aerotow and Slope Weekend
Post by: gerryb on April 18, 2011, 23:18:07 PM: well, all i'll say is who ever didn't travel sure missed out on a cracking weekend! great company, great food, great flying, what more could you ask for. thanks to ralph, les, kev et al for the best of cork hospitality. hope to see you all on the slopes of tountinna before very long. gb