Not long now…Two Oceans Slope Soarers Aerobatic Event 2010

Get ready to book your place! limited entries opening soon…
Get ready to have a blast and as much fun as we did last year.

Perf guys have a Mig blog going

Remember last year at Hermanus, when Sean Ruth and the Port Elizabeth Radio Flyers

arrived with a squadron of Mig 7 correx gliders, well they are at it again!

and this year promises to deliver a bumper crop of gliders on the slope.

Have a good squiz at their blog, all around the Mig building process.

http://correxmig.blogspot.com/

And we sure as hell look forward to seeing the guys again at Hermanus

for the slope fly in at the end of November.

Maybe it blows north west again! and we can get down to Die Kelders again.

Man what a jol that was.

Not too far away now!

Spring is just a few more cold fronts away

Back in the office on Monday looking at a grey sky and the forecast for 3 more days of this weather!
Spring is supposed to have arrived, but traditionally we are in that transition period,
that pretty much lasts thought to the end of September. At least 2 weeks away.

However there are those awesome days when the sun kicks out from behind the clouds.
Saturday was one of those great days. A nice little westerly blowing through the
Chapman’s Peak car-park site had a few of us tossing out glass ships and then
creating a wee bit of mayhem in the combat zone later with EPP.
A gentle day, no surprises at all and a very nice way to burn off some time.
Talking of burning… biggest surprise was getting home and realising that after a day of staring into the setting sun,
one was magically blessed with a tan that left your sunglasses shape neatly imprinted around your eyes
and hence, left you looking somewhat like a raccoon caught in the headlights.

Sunday dawned very grey with a new cold front well set in and a persistent drizzle that
carried through to lunchtime at which time most guys felt the cabin fever gathering and made
a headlong dash for the Chappies once again.
We were rewarded with cold Westerly to West North West conditions, maybe not the best conditions ever,
but certainly flyable and in between the showers, the gathered crew of at least 10 of us had a really great day
in the ice cold conditions. Basically we flew every thing we have. Not bad.

So the outcome for the weekend: A raccoon style tan on Saturday amid glorious spring weather…
and frostbite with runny noses on Sunday, amid a classic Cape storm.
Nice one mother nature!

Steve's new Sting is somewhere out there

The ever growing Impala fleet gathers in the storm. Bumper cars deluxe coming up!

4×4 Impi’s

Malcolm Riley just finished his Impala dress up as no4 and now needs to

do some serious practice in the formo flying. There are soon to be added two more to the ranks

of the Impala family as I hear it. that’s a lot of planes in the air at the same time….This is gonna be fun!

Pretty hey! The glider… not Malcolm

invader Toucan tries to broach the Impala line, we got you surrounded! now just back up quietly …

Being blown away by the nature of things

The second Two Oceans Slope Soarers Aerobatics League event too place
on Sunday the 6th of September.Predictions were for a strong North Wester,
but on the day it just turned on really hard. Would be no lie to state that conditions
were in the 50km/h+ range!
This made for some trying conditions to say the least and the only real chance one had
of staying in the competition was to somehow fashion a lead sled for the conditions.
The results speak for themselves as the first 5 gliders were all of the lead sled glass ship variety
and managed the conditions so much better, while a few of us got blown away… literally.

Damian’s well weighted up Voltage worked a treat, Steve’s lead sled 3m Sting cruised
and Malcolm’s Opus just screamed its way through the routine.
Well done to Bill Dewey for some pretty darn fine landings on the day in really testing landing zone conditions.
Notably, the K-Factor system worked very well and supplied the chance to work the
risk and reward scenario. Damian, Steve and Malcolm all worked the conditions
and the K-Factor to their advantage on the day, so well done guys.

Congratulations to all participants on the day and a well done to TOSS for yet again
enabling the cause of slope aerobatics and competitive gliding.

Final results for the day

First Place Damian ( The Yeti ) Hinrichsen

Second Place Steve (The Sting) Meusel

3rd place Malcolm( The Screamer) Riley

Hurricane alley in the evening sunlight

Tinus and Grant doing the stare down

Jeff trying to work his way into 1st position, it didn't work!

The gathering crowd followed the gathering storm

Combat heat followed the competitive heats

Contest Judge Kurt toiled hard on the scores all day. Thanks Kurt.

Aerobatics League event moved to Sunday 6th September at Chapmans Peak

Hi Guys
The TOSS aerobatics League event has been moved to Sunday 6th September,
based on the prediction for an awesome North Wester and we are planning on holding
it at the Chapman’s Peak site, starting first rounds at 10 AM sharp.
ALL PARTICIPANTS TO BE REGISTERED AND PAID UP SAMAA MEMBERS, PLEASE.

Check out the TOSS weather- line on Sunday morning for final confirmation,
but at this stage we are good to go at Chappies.
Remember ZAR 50-00 entry fee to pay the judge
and see you there.

“Leave nothing but footprints; take nothing but pictures”

Doing a bit of surfing the net and came accross a sloping site on the net
that had two very good sayings that could be applicable to our sloping and its future.

“It should go without saying, but please treat all flying sites with the utmost of respect and care, as current or future access to them is by no means guaranteed”
…goes without saying that we could very well lose sites like Chapman’s peak in the blink of an eye
…should we take said eye off the ball. We need to look after what we have, keep a level
of respect for the slope site and for the landowners, concessionaires, and parks rangers
that are tasked with managing the area…

“Leave nothing but footprints; take nothing but pictures”

just a thought…