ELY Nevada

Does anyone have info about what's going on in ELY in 2009? Who's
going, is there a tow plane, etc....I'd love to fly out of these for a
week this year...............
Tom

wrote:
Does anyone have info about what's going on in ELY in 2009? Who's
going, is there a tow plane, etc....I'd love to fly out of these for a
week this year...............
Tom

Call these people:

http://www.elyjetcenter.com/

They run the towing operation.

Uhmmm....

I bet there is lots of X-C soaring, folks climbing to (and beyond!)
flight levels, landings in the dark (did you know some pilots carry
headlamps in the cockpit for use IN FLIGHT!!!!???), in the boonies,
in the silver sage (did you know that millions of acres of NV are very
nicely landable- thanks ElyDan!) Lift at 10 AM and 10 PM, huge T-
storms, mega-gliders and moto-gliders that get rigged, tied down, and
never flown, excellent beer, amazing wine and discussions in many
languages, GARLIC chicken at Grubb's (is it Genetic??? Who ARE these
people???). Folks calling MAYDAY cause their noisy bit won't. (This
motorglider X-C thing is so lite...., I mean, come on... A new name:
Virtual Soaring! WaterWings of the Air!). "1000 km" OLC-slut flights
that are never out of glide of Ely, Epic amazing flights to Grand
Canyon and Return, to Tehachapi, to Jackpot (Again???), to TPH, to the
Moon! But not to Area 51. Solo flights with 2 people in the
aircraft! Or maybe i is a ghost. Hookers, Mormons,Tweakers,
Gliderscum, Legends, Wannabee's, and WaterThieves from LostWages -
Some of them are the same people! Hungarians, and Yuppies, and Poles,
and Czech's-not Slovaks, and Slovaks-not Czech's, Japanese, and Dutch,
and people from San Jose and kindergarten friends from .DE but live in
LA and talk smack at each other. At least they both limp now. But
sadly, no ElyDan or TomStowers (sniff, sniff). There might be
vortices, shelflift, and Tuaregs that open, close, and start with no
hands. Thepesky Tuareg may even try and pick up your wife! There
might be garnets on Garnet Hill and lift in the Rubies (NOT!) but
certainly ducks and herons. Jim,Jim,Jim,Jim, and Jim can be see there
flying simultaneously (Who Are these People???) - or it might be the
mushrooms in the Polish dish. You might see an eagle duke it out in
the middle of 50 with a JackRabbit. Or they may have both been
aliens. Bring guns, ammo, wine, water, money, money, and sunscreen,
the Polish cabbage and wild mushroom stuff, and a pocket ChiHuaHua to
go with your KimoBear. Did you know you can buy stainless, metric,
philips-head seat pan screws for AS-W20's at the hardware store????
It's true. How about a metric stainless 13mm wing nut? Yep. Wire
mesh to make a garnet sifter? That too! It is in the basement!
ASH's commonly dodge storage sheds, even after 7K ft and 300+ hp. It
is amazing.

Not much going on in ELY, move along, nothing to see

............with so little going on there, I better not go...........

On Jan 30, 9:30*am, wrote:
...........with so little going on there, I better not go...........

The only thing missing is an informative web site, last seen couple of
years ago I think...
This is all I found:
http://www.elysoaring.com/
http://elysoaringcenter.com/

Ramy

That's a lot of excitement!
But is there still a barbecue in the breezeway of the terminal
building?
Jim
(who has never seen the Pawnee roll 45 degrees in turbulence at 300
feet AGL half a mile off the end of 18, knowing I'm next and full of
water)
I miss that place. Have to go back... With my "noisy glider" this
time.

On Jan 30, 9:01*pm, JS wrote:
That's a lot of excitement!
But is there still a barbecue in the breezeway of the terminal
building?
Jim
(who has never seen the Pawnee roll 45 degrees in turbulence at 300
feet AGL half a mile off the end of 18, knowing I'm next and full of
water)
I miss that place. Have to go back... With my "noisy glider" this
time.

OOOOkaayyyy, so WHEN does the Ely gathering happen? I gave up trying
to get my truck back from my wife and bought another one, so I can
actually GO to some of these things.
TIA