The 2016 great american aerotow

[Charlie]

Good morning fellow AeroTow enthusiasts

The Great American AeroTow is open for business!

Breakfast at the field will be ready 8 to 8:30

Hope to see you there

Charlie

[Swiss1]

OK Charlie, we will have to see pics and video to make sure it is happening

Jeremy and Ben
SCCAAA TT TN

[Sinkhappens86]

The Kremer aerotow team is enroute. Should be there around 1900.

Need to have Charlie install AC in the camper for this weekend, gonna be a hot one.

[Csessa]

Now that is what I call HOT! Got here around 1, and a few folks were tuning up their gliders. Got,in some flights and made some repairs. Big day tomorrow.

[Charlie]

Breakfast is at 8 am
Pilots meeting is at 9am

Let's go flying

[French1]

Guys sorry to not be able to make it,

Wish you a lot of good time

Hope to be able to join next year

Stéphane

[Swiss1]

So, what's happening

Jeremy and Ben
SCCAAA TT TN

[Steve P]

Fantastic day of flying. The humidity is off the charts, but lift is abundant given temps are in the mid to high 90's.

Totally uneventful day. Tugs did a great job, no sailplane damage. Everyone dripping wet and smiling.

[lenb]

Fun day to day at the SKSS field. Certainly could do with less humidity, but what the heck, still better than sitting in an office.
Thanks to our tow pilots today. Standing in the heat all day is not easy.
Flew the Quintus today, lots of lift and even a fair amount of sink.
Ended the day soaking in Charlies Pool until we all got wrinkled.. Thanks Chuck!


Len

[Charlie]

Breakfast today starts at 7:30
We have eggs anyway you want them
Coffee cereals sausage bacon fruit
Whatever we have it

Pilots meeting at 9am

[Charlie]

Saturday afternoon Awards Banquet , Crab feast and Catered BBQ location has changed to My house by the pool
Starts at 4:30

See you there

Charlie

[French1]

Guys,

we need pictures of the fun! I really miss that beautiful field!

Stéphane

[Swiss1]

I think it's fiction French1!

[ARUP]

Fun day to day at the SKSS field. Certainly could do with less humidity, but what the heck, still better than sitting in an office.
Thanks to our tow pilots today. Standing in the heat all day is not easy.
Flew the Quintus today, lots of lift and even a fair amount of sink.
Ended the day soaking in Charlies Pool until we all got wrinkled.. Thanks Chuck!


Len

Did y'all look like a bunch of raisins after the pool fest?

[JimD]

In spite of the heat and humidity, we all came to fly and fly we did! Scot, Steve, Phil, and Len all did extensive amounts of towing launching uncounted numbers of sailplanes.

As for my numbers, we did 10-1/2 hours of flight time burning about 1/2 gallon of gas per hour. Tow circuits were averaging about two minutes (the SKSS field has a very efficient layout) so we did over 300 launches.

When you add in the numbers from the other tow pilots, I am guessing we exceeded 1000 launches!!!

Amazing 😎

[Csessa]

Well Tony and I were the only ones flying today. I think Tony was just discharging some batteries and I was waiting for my grandson to get picked up. Home she now, but the car will not be unpacked until tomorrow. Thanks to all to tow pilots for braving the sun and heat out there for hours at a time. I was good for 1 10 min flight per hours.

My grandson enjoyed his time with us Saturday although the best part was Charlie's pool. He really likes the flying and all those complements get him going. He was a little scared when we had to get this stick out of the bird house.

Thanks to all you glider pilots for being such good companions.

Finally thanks to Charlie and the SKSS guys for all the effort to,put on such a large event.