Who's going to Visalia?

[Mr B....]

I hope that all of you come to this great event in Visalia, CA this Oct!

I talked with the Beer Garden Man the other day and it's going to be bigger and better than last year. He did say bring a cup! I got mine (48oz).

I am working on the Stars and bars Marauder for a raffle prize!

Saturday night flying is the best!

Hope to see you there.

Let's go FLY, Fishing!

Merrill Brady
Downey, CA
AMA 276833
LSF 7247 Level V #116

[LVsoaring]

I'll be there

[onethermal]

You know I will be there. mmmm beer garden, good memorys.

Clarence

[Robglover]

You said the magic words. Bubba loves the beers.

[slozuke]

I'm new to staying into the night. I usually come up for the day on Saturday and head back at the end of the day.

Ah, but not this time! I'm coming up on Friday night and staying until Sunday.

So...tell me about the beer garden. I'm verrry interested!!!!!

[fearfactorfred]

Sounds like fun to me. Count me in !! Going to try and sell a few planes and hopefully buy a Supra if I'm lucky :)

[Mr B....]

I was told that the Drew Master will have 15 home made types on tap. All will be free to taste "BUT" there is a ICE fund! He will need lots of ice.

[jtlsf5]

You said the magic words. Bubba loves the beers.

And I thought I said the magic words, "you gotta get yer self back out to Visalia, soon..."

JT

[Robglover]

And I thought I said the magic words, "you gotta get yer self back out to Visalia, soon..."

JT


Yeah Jim, that definitely factored in to the decision.

We had a "wardrobe malfunction" a few nights ago. At 3 AM our overloaded closet shelf/rod brackets pulled out of the wall and emptied their contents onto the floor. While digging through the aftermath I discovered a ten year old Visalia T shirt from the last FSF I attended. Once every ten years is probably all you guys want to see me out there, so I get to come play again this year.

I'll be bringing plenty of fundage for "ice"
Hide the Women Folk and Beer, :D

[dlgdude]

Woohoo! I get to hang out with Bubba again!
I'll finally get to give him sh*t for being becoming futbubba to his face.

Bubba and I are going to need to find a golf cart for the raffle...

-lex

[DLD]

Mr. B,

I''l be coming to Visalia. The las time I was there was 1996, and I'll be flying the same planes! They're out of date and heavy, but I'm just coming for fun and to see everyone.

David Layne

[davidjensen]

SASS will be there in force (at least a dozen of us). Most of us will arrive Wed evening or Thurs morning.

[lenci1938e]

LVSoaring...Come down to the Superskeg.com booth and introduce yourself to me. We will be selling Tim McCann's skegs. I purchased that Olympic kit you had for sale a few months ago.

Shawn

[Bill Ervin]

Shawn, LVSoaring is making the trip with his lovely wife so he may be stuck

having to do "girlie stuff". LOL

[Mr B....]

For the last few years we have been having a after dark party. This is a pot luck style dessert get together. Make something or bring something good to eat! I will be making a chocolate cake topped with cream and berry's!

I will be doing some GOOD cooking all week end!


Let's go FLY, Fishing!

Merrill Brady
Downey, CA
AMA 276833
LSF 7247 Level V #116

[LVsoaring]

Shawn, LVSoaring is making the trip with his lovely wife so he may be stuck

having to do "girlie stuff". LOL


Alas, the beer swilling will likely be disallowed by the boss. After a hard day of watching me and everyone else fly, she'll be ready for a proper sit-down dinner at a nice restaurant. The price I pay, I suppose, for a gal who doesn't mind my playing with model airplanes. :D

[LVsoaring]

LVSoaring...Come down to the Superskeg.com booth and introduce yourself to me. We will be selling Tim McCann's skegs. I purchased that Olympic kit you had for sale a few months ago.

Shawn


Yeah Shawn, I remember ya.... I thought that was you I saw on the CVRC website roster for the Fall Fest I'll see ya there!

Rick

[Bill Ervin]

Alas, the beer swilling will likely be disallowed by the boss. After a hard day of watching me and everyone else fly, she'll be ready for a proper sit-down dinner at a nice restaurant. The price I pay, I suppose, for a gal who doesn't mind my playing with model airplanes. :D


I've been there buddy ;) But at Visalia I'll be a bachelor for three whole days! :p

[Bill Ervin]

And when I get back I may be single again!

[glderguy]

Are you a fly fisherman Merrill?
Walter

[OVSS Boss]

There is no other kind of real fisherman is their Merrill?

Marc

[jtlsf5]

Marc,
What type of fly do you use on a 120# Marlin?
JT

[Mr B....]

YES!

There are three things that Cajun's do best!

Partying, Cooking and Fishing!

[glderguy]

Cool Merrill. That dinner looks pretty darn good! I do a little fishing myself, lots of fun.
Walter

[claude60]

Entries have now closed for the Fall Fest.We will post the final frequency and flight group assignments on the 23rd. You can go to the club website (cvrcsoaring.com)and look under Fall Fest to see what your flight group you are in. You can also verify your frequency choices and timers. If there are any errors they should contact Phil Hill at phil.hill@comcast.net

[Mr B....]

This is going in the Visalia raffle prize's Boys!


I have to say it's to bad that I am giving this one away!


It's a nice flying Marauder!


Merrill

[georgeg]

This is going in the Visalia raffle prize's Boys!


I have to say it's to bad that I am giving this one away!


It's a nice flying Marauder!


Merrill
Its really nice looking, too!

[Monster Mash]

So Merrill, how much beer will it take to get that Marauder from you?

The beer garden will be open Saturday night with free beer for everyone who wants to taste some homebrew. We will have some mead for the ladies also!!

Visalia will be a great time as usual!!

Craig

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g309/BelgianBrewer/Portable%20Bar/PortaBar13.jpg

[Mr B....]

Hey everyone I would like all of you to meet THE BEER MAN! (MONSTER MASH)




Buy tickets for the raffle! Thats the only way to get this one.

Merrill

[onethermal]

[QUOTE=Mr B
I have to say it's to bad that I am giving this one away!


Merrill[/QUOTE]

Yes it is sad but I will give it a good home and you can come up for
Soar Utah 2008 and visit it.

Clarence

[davidjensen]

T-Minus 2 weeks and counting

[Silent-AV8R]

I heard that the landing this year is a 1-inch spot, In or Out, ZERO flight points for a miss. Your timer cannot count down and you have to be blindfolded and facing away from the spot as well.

It just seems to get tougher every year!!!

[Monster Mash]

I heard that the landing this year is a 1-inch spot, In or Out, ZERO flight points for a miss. Your timer cannot count down and you have to be blindfolded and facing away from the spot as well.

It just seems to get tougher every year!!!


I think they decided against the blindfold and will allow the use of a mirror as long as you land inverted.


From what I understand the landing will be 3 circles going from large to small, kind of like the triangle they used to use.

[LVsoaring]

When you say large to small, I'm hoping you mean about 200ft, 100ft and 50ft. Maybe then I can get some landing points!

[Mr B....]

NO! It will be like a snow man laying down with out the ice!


Merrill

[davidjensen]

I heard you have to fly through a 4M hoop on your way to the landing spot.

[bobby legue]

Are you guys on drugs? The only item that is comfirmed is the upside down landings on the picnic table. That and the "not hit the potatoe salad" thing.
Bob

[Monster Mash]

NO! It will be like a snow man laying down with out the ice!


Merrill

I heard it was more like a snow angel, the timer lays down and makes a snow angel and you have to land between his legs.....

[Bill Ervin]

I heard it was more like a snow angel, the timer lays down and makes a snow angel and you have to land between his legs.....

Make sure to sharpen your skegs!

[Silent-AV8R]

I just got an update from a reliable source who tells me that I had it all wrong. It is in fact a series of circles that look like crime scene tape outline around a snowman laying on his (her?) side.

Your timer can count down for you, in Russian, and you must turn your transmitter off when you cross the berm over the grass.

Amusingly enough we will likely not notice a real difference in the quality of most of the arrivals under these circumstances.

Next year there will be a lottery to choose the top 10 who will then do Paper-Scissors-Rock to determine the winner. Then we'll drink beer the rest of the weekend!!!

[Mr B....]

Don't hit the chair!

[LVsoaring]

[QUOTE=Silent-AV8R]Your timer can count down for you, in Russian, and you must turn your transmitter off when you cross the berm over the grass.

Amusingly enough we will likely not notice a real difference in the quality of most of the arrivals under these circumstances.

QUOTE]

Sadly, I think that at least in my case, this is probably true! :o

[Mr B....]

I have that Paper-Scissors-Rock game! We can play that this year.

[onethermal]

NO! It will be like a snow man laying down with out the ice!


Merrill


The ice landing could be more fun :) but I am not into drinking warm beer :mad:

Clarence

[davidjensen]

T-Minus one week and counting.

[Monster Mash]

The camper is packed, plane is trimmed and 15 kegs of beer are prepped and ready to go.

I'm just marking the days off the calender now...

[onethermal]

I started the load up today and will head out wednesday morning...Then 773 miles
to party time. :)

Clarence

[Silent-AV8R]

15 kegs of beer are prepped and ready to go.


You are my hero :D

[Robglover]

The camper is packed, plane is trimmed and 15 kegs of beer are prepped and ready to go.

I'm just marking the days off the calender now...
I'm gonna be your friend, I sense that we have a symbiotic relationship. :D

[jtlsf5]

I'm gonna be your friend, I sense that we have a symbiotic relationship. :D

I guess I'll always know where to find you!!

[Robglover]

I guess I'll always know where to find you!!
Yep, and you'll be happy to know that you'll have a timer who is very relaxed and happy.
BTW - FedEx tracking shows my box-o-toys to be on a truck headed to your hacienda for delivery. I hope they don't break anything, I'd hate to see you having to repair stuff for me. :p

[claude60]

Just came from the field, the grass is mowed, the landing zone is freshly watered and the wind was blowing out of the north. Big thermals this morning when you could stay with them.

[tewatson]

I'll be there ~09:00 Thursday AM. Looking forward to four days of flying.

Tom

[jtlsf5]

I'll be there ~09:00 Thursday AM. Looking forward to four days of flying.

Tom

Don't you mean 2.2 days of flying?
JT

[Mr B....]

It looks like I will be pulling in sometime Thursday morning.

I hope that the wife will let me go fishing!

Merrill

[davidjensen]

Any body have the long range weather forcast for Wed thru Fri.

[Robglover]

Any body have the long range weather forcast for Wed thru Fri.
Looks like it's going to be pretty terrible. :cool:
http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=visalia%2C+ca

[ChuckA]

Forecast for Thursday can't be right. It says the wind will be NW. I don't think I have seen a north or northwest wind more than once or twice in the 10 years I was able to fly there. Launches and landings were almost always downwind. :)

[jtlsf5]

Looks like it's going to be pretty terrible. :cool:
http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=visalia%2C+ca

Yep, bring your longjohns, could get pretty chilly in the wee hours...

JT

[SilentEric]

Looking forward to my second Visalia contest. Hopefully I'll do better than 140th, but the beer may have had something to do with the last result (not!). I've been flying for only 4 years, but this is the best event I have ever attended. The beer garden was definitely a great plus to this event. Hope to see everybody there. I will hopefully make a few new friends. I love this hobby!

Eric

[Monster Mash]

It looks like it will be pretty wet in the mornings as usual and the weather is going to be just as nice as always for this event.

3 days, 6 hours and counting.... :)

[onethermal]

Heading out at 2am wednesday...Gone Soaring

Clarence :)

[claude60]

Was out at the field today at 4:30 and this is how it looks. The grass being mowed in the spectator area one last time. A couple of pop ups allready put in place, And a competitor getting those last landing practice.

[davidjensen]

Visalia or bust. SASS has at least 14 members coming to the event. Time for some beer.

[Mr B....]

Sad day for me! I had to put my big black truck in the shop today. It needs some TLC and a new tranny $$$$$$$!

It looks like I will be tenting it this year. The wife didn't like that!

Merrill

[charliedude]

Can some one tell me how to get there or give me a web site for time and location?
Sounds like a great time
Could you pm me

[georgeg]

Can some one tell me how to get there or give me a web site for time and location?
Sounds like a great time
Could you pm me
Here is the link to the CVRC web site: http://www.cvrcsoaring.com/

[Monster Mash]

Sad day for me! I had to put my big black truck in the shop today. It needs some TLC and a new tranny $$$$$$$!

It looks like I will be tenting it this year. The wife didn't like that!

Merrill


Bummer Merrill, If you lived closer I would have towed your trailer up for you..

[claude60]

Was out at the field tonight around 5 PM and we have a few people starting to show for the big weekend.

[webguyjv]

Visalia will be a great time as usual!!
Craig
HAH! Well there's a man that's known for understatement :p

CRAIG! You ARE the Man at Visalia!!!

I have really enjoyed visiting you on Saturday evening these past few years. I look forward to seeing you this coming Saturday. I can't wait to see what your brewery has been cooking up this past year.

I have a question -- you mentioned 15 kegs packed to go -- but I only counted 12 taps on your bar. Maybe my counting is bad (with only ten fingers, I get confused some times hahahaha)... :p

Drive safely, Craig. See you on Saurday ;-)

John

[Monster Mash]

The bar has 13 taps but the past few years we had some beers run dry so this time we're bringing back ups. :D

We should be pulling in around 10:30am Friday

[flying_flip]

We should be pulling in around 10:30am Friday
I'm planning on leaving early Friday morning (4am) Should be there before noon :)

Phil

[Mr B....]

Heading out today with a pit stop at mom's for the night. Will be showing up at the field Friday morning sometime around 10:00.



Let's go FLY, Fishing!

Merrill Brady
Downey, CA
AMA 276833
LSF 7247 Level V #116

[dlgdude]

On my way. Pulling in around 12:30...

-l

[claude60]

A few photos of Friday night.

[davidjensen]

Just got back and downloaded these pics. It took us only 10 hours to go from Redding to Seattle. It was cold at night and wet when we woke up but the thermals were there and I saw a few pilots pull rabits out of their butts. As usual the event was run almost flawlessly.