2014 PASS Dues are Due, see page 6 for application PASS Banquet Pg. 4. Flying Field news for PASS Meeting Notice for February 11th.

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1 West Wind Vol Issue 2 February Newsletter of the Portland Area Sailplane Society Inside this issue: PASS Dues Pg Floater Schedule Pg. 2 Serene Hills Air Park Pg PASS Dues are Due, see page 6 for application PASS Banquet Pg. 4 St. Paul field directions Pg. 5 PASS 2014 Application Pg Contest V-f Sched. Pg. 7 Salem Indoor Schedule Pg. 8 February 2, 2014 Sunshine greeted the contestants at the first February Floaters contest of 2014! Terry Erickson was happy to celebrate by doffing his shirt for an early suntan! Terrific lift in the afternoon made flying fun!!!! HL Results Jan. 25th Pg 9 February Floater results Pg 10 February Floater pictures Pg 11 Feb/Mar/April Events Pg 12 Club Officers & Officials President Bruce Rose Vice President Jim Gibson Treasurer Tom Culmsee Secretary Tom Fowler Director Bob Nelson Director Sherrell Steinhauer Contest Coordinator Richard van Dijk LSF Coordinator David Portwood Librarian Don Lawson Web Page Editor Keith Ragsdale Newsletter Editor Roger Breedlove rogerzzzz@gmail.com Flying Field news for 2014 The Hollin Farm field is no longer available. Be sure to read your notices about the assigned field for each contest event and flying. We are using the Rye grass field at St. Paul, 5357 St. Paul Hwy, St. Paul, OR. See pg. 5 for directions. We also use the A field in Salem at Kuenzi Turf. Again check your s each week. PASS Meeting Notice for February 11th. The next regular club meeting will be on Tuesday the 11th, at the Pizza place! Usual times... Gather at 7:00 and start at 7:30 PM. Round Table Pizza, SW Barbur Blvd., Portland, OR

2 P a g e 2 PASS 2014 February Floater Contests Kevin n Sherrell, CD The schedule Feb. 2th, location St. Paul field Pilots meeting at 11:00 AM Feb. 9th, location St. Paul field Pilots meeting at 11:00 AM Feb. 16th, location St. Paul field Pilots meeting at 11:00 AM Feb. 23rd, location St. Paul field Pilots meeting at 11:00 AM Field is located at 5357 St. Paul Hwy NE, St. Paul, OR The tasks. Note: Tasks are to be announced later. Get that RES ship ready! Co CDs this year are Kevin Martin and Sherrell Steinhauer. We are talking real sunshine at those February Floaters contests. Check out these pictures. Terry and Kevin a suntan. are getting an early start on

3 P a g e 3 Serene Hills Air Park Analysis by Jim Gibson Serene Hills Air Park By Jim Gibson, Aero-Tow CD and Coordinator Last weekend I made a field trip to the Serene Hills Air Park in La Center, WA. The air park is the flying field for the Serenity Flyers RC Club. The field owner and driving force for the field and club is Steve Canter. The flying field is located on a portion of Steve's property where he has leveled off two intersecting runways that generally run N-S & NE-SW. The runways are on a north facing slope on his property that is generally wide open to the north and is really very picturesque. See the enclosed photos to get a general idea of the field. The runway in the photo is the shorter of the two ~225 feet. The other runway is ~275 feet. The runway is stabilization fabric used under roads. The purpose of my trip was to talk to Steve about utilizing the flying field for our aero-tow events. Steve is very interested and supportive in having club members come up and fly. The field is great for electrics, ALES and slope flying. The field is not quite long enough for setting up a winch, but a hi start would be possible so long as launching was to the north. Landing could be a test of piloting skills due to the north facing slope and the wind direction. Aero-tow might be possible by utilizing the grass field to the west of the runways, but again might be a challenge for landing. It might be fun to schedule a fun fly(fossil Fliers??) at the field this spring so Steve can see the type of flying we do and we get a chance to fly at a new location. As I noted previously, Steve is very interested in having fliers use the field. As with any of our fields fliers need to be AMA members and contact Steve as the field is on his property. I've noted the web site link and Steve's phone number below for interested fliers. Steve Canter Phone:

4 P a g e PASS annual banquet by Bruce Rose The 2014 PASS annual banquet was held on Saturday evening, January 25 at Denicola s Restaurant in southeast Portland. About 45 club members and guests enjoyed a pleasant evening of conversation, Italian food served family style, spirits and awards. Dave Johnson was recognized by his fellow club members for his long standing contribution to the club in conducting the monthly raffles and the annual big honkin raffle. To recognize his contributions, Dave received a gift certificate co-sponsored by Tammie s Hobbies. Roger Breedlove was also recognized by the club members for his many contributions to the club once again this past year. Some of the contributions Roger has made for many years are dogging members so that he can regularly publish a great newsletter, taking meeting minutes when the secretary is not in attendance, coordinating the Fossil Flyers Club activities and distributing information to the club members via messages. Roger also received a gift certificate which was co-sponsored by Tammie s Hobbies. The 2013 competition season winners were acknowledged and their names have been added to the perpetual trophies. Overall Season Points Terry Erickson Hand Launched Glider Craig Robinson F5B Dan Fiedler February Floater Dave Portwood ALES Mike Skeen (this will be a new club trophy) PUTZ Dave Portwood Bruce Alber awarded attendance raffle prizes which were co-sponsored by Tammie s Hobbies and Coyote Hobbies. Dave Johnson conducted the Big Honkin Raffle and distributed a large collection of prizes including RTF airplanes and rotorcraft and gift certificates from local merchants. Dave added an interesting change to the raffle this year. Each member was able to put their raffle tickets in a bag associated with a particular prize. Tickets for a prize were drawn only from the bag for that prize. Most, if not all, of the attendees appeared to be please with the change Dave instituted. Special thanks go to Tom Culmsee for organizing the banquet and doing a fantastic job once again. By Bruce Rose, President

5 P a g e 5 St. Paul Flying Field Directions Note these directions are from Portland south. Entrance to the road by the farm house off the St. Paul highway shown in first picture.

6 P a g e PASS Member Application

7 P a g e 7 Pass Contest Schedule 2014, V-final 01 Richard van Djik, Coordinator Field codes are ECE = Eugene Cracked Earth, MSP = Molalla State Park, WTF = Willamette Turf Farm, KSF = Kuenzi Sod Farm, SPF = St. Paul Field, TBD = location to be determined Special note on field assignments for events. The designated field for each event will be called by the CD prior to the event. So you will be notified either by newsletter or or both for each event for the designated field.

8 P a g e 8 SALEM INDOOR SCHEDULE 2013/14 NOTE...There is NO indoor fly in February because of the PASS club February Floaters contest schedule. Saturday :00pm to 2:00pm First 1/2 hour open fly Next hour pylon racing CD David Portwood Last 1/2 hour open fly Place same as last year Claggett Cr. Jr. High 1810 Alder Dr. N.E. Keizer, Or For more info call or Dan Fiedler fiedlerdg@msn.com Or David Portwood, CD portwood@aracnet.com

9 P a g e 9 Place Name Score 1 Craig Robinson David Portwood Robin Robinson Richard van Djik Keith Ragsdale Terry Erickson 3868 Handlaunch Results Jan Terry Erickson, CD Craig s new HL bird!! Snipe by Vladimir's Models, Craig sez Although not totally comfortable with the low time Snipe, I flew it in the first round. This was a 5 x two minute max task and it made all maxes and most of the last flight to win the round. I flew it again in the second round but it decided to roost in the bare naked Cottonwood tree half way through the round (shouldn't have named it after a bird...). I finished that round and the rest of the contest with another plane. The Snipe launches well and flies great! Just a few more tree dings to repair and it will fly again. Looking forward to warmer days! Club meetings held on second Tuesday of every month from 7:30 to 9:30 P.M. at Round Table Pizza, SW Barbur Blvd. Visitors are welcome. Visit our web page at For current event information, call the PASS Voic : To change outgoing message or to listen to received messages: 1) Dial ) During the greeting dial 0PASS (*7277). Note this password is new for ) Listen for the recorded prompts (changing the greeting is under user options ) Please always begin the outgoing message with: This is the Portland Area Sailplane Society telephone message center, SPONSORED BY TAMMIES HOBBIES IN BEAVERTON, OREGON.

10 P a g e 10 February 2 Floater results by Kevin Martin February 2 Floater results Kevin and Sherrell, Co-CDs A very nice day for early February mostly sunny with a high of 47. We flew a 5 minute ID followed by four rounds of 8 minute ID. Sherrill devised a challenging landing task that few people were able to score. Robin Robinson was landing champion for the day by hitting points on two rounds. Ken Eaton was the only minor casualty of the day by landing well up in a tree. Fortunately he was able to climb the tree and dissemble the plane and lower to the ground with a string piece-by-piece. He then reassembled it and flew the remaining rounds. 1 David Portwood Sherrill Steinhauer Tom Culmsee Robin Robinson Dave Johnson Del Delashmutt Jason Hood Kyle Kroker Ken Eaton John Long Keith Ragsdale John S. (new guy!) Mike Skeen Tom Brightbill DNF 8 Richard Van Dijk Kevin Martin DNF 9 Jim Gibson Terry Erickson 1816 Good lift... Waiting line for the winch. A good sign!

11 Page 1 1 W e s t P o r t l a n d A r e a W i n d S a i l p l a n e S o c i e t y February 2 Floater pictures Lots of sunshine and sunglasses for the day! Typical Sunday in February...

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