General Announcements

[Celwin]

Received official notification today that at 12 noon on Friday, stage 3 restrictions will be in place. This means up to 100 at our field, but we'll still need 4 square metres per person.

Are we keen to resume pylon racing on Sunday the 19th? I know of at least 5 keen pilots.

[Celwin]

Merry got a call from Bunnings. We have been invited to run a BBQ fundraiser on Saturday the 1st of August. There are extra requirements, but as yet I haven't talked to her to see what is required. Only one other group has been invited to run one. They really like us!

George will be doing a ring-around to ask for volunteers. I'll send out an email about it in the next day or so.

We are going to commit to running a pylon racing day on Sunday the 19th of this month (July). There are enough members who are keen, so we'll see how it goes.

[gbar7217]

On the 19th of July, the club is planning to have a Scanner racing day with pylon/time trials racing in between race breaks. Some members have expressed a disdain for Scanner racing but if we were to put on a glider, scale or warbird day they would participate. Guys this is a club "event", we are trying to get members to participate in all things flying, just because some members feel that it is not their cup of tea they should boycott the day.
If the Scanner flyers decided that Glider competitions were not in their interest, we would see the slow fracturing of our club, no one would be willing to have a go. So come on guys let's pull together and show the other clubs that we are still alive.

[Celwin]

The AGM is just around the corner...
Anyone want to wear the secretary's hat? Anyone??

[KENNYGLIDE]

Just thought I would put this early post of Gregs up . ..has helped me a lot when downloading photos ................................If anyone takes a photo of anything and wants to share it on this forum you may have problems with file sizing. I have found that my camera takes a photo at around 13 megapixels and a max of 21megapixels. To get around the file sizing I send an image to myself in an email. The email received back had reduced it to 200kbs. I then saved this reduced image it to a folder on my PC named "WAM photos".

Now to get this image into a posting, go to the bottom of the page/thread/reply you are editing and locate the "Attachments" section. To the right of New Attachment: click on (Browse ...). Now navigate to where you saved your image from the email (In my case to a folder called "WAM photos"). Select the correct file and click on Open. The name of your path/file name should now be seen to the left of the word "Browse". Now click on "Add Attachment" to upload your image to the forums upload directory. You can now add this image as an attachment to you message or place it directly into the text as an image.

That's how I am doing it now. Will try another way later on. As the file attachment the forum will only allow you to upload a max of 500kbs. If anybody can find another way of downsizing photos without buying a program please inform us.

[KENNYGLIDE]

Not having much luck with the above instructions ...have done it before,but not happening this time .... if someone could put some instructions up would be good .... i have quite a few pics waiting in the folder ...i have checked ,they are under 500kbs.

[gbar7217]

Hi Ken, I use "Image Resizer for windows" its a free program. If you right click on your photo that you want to send, a drop down list appears with image resizer and you choose what size you want and it appears beside your previous image. You click on the image and it downloads into your post. easy peasy!!

[gbar7217]

   
It is just this easy.

[Celwin]

I just bought this really cool engine mount (Covid $'s... YAY!!).

I've been fiddling around with wooden mounts to test and run-in my engines for over a decade. I used to use an aluminium mount from an old trainer, but it fatigued around a screw hole and broke clean off when I was flick-starting it, so back to wooden ones. Trouble was, the wood ended up full of holes as almost every engine is different in some way.

This new mount should solve that problem for a lifetime...

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I just downloaded the Image Resizer. Works far easier that what I was doing, by cropping and reducing pixels until the MB size was right.

Thanks Greg.

It's still a fiddly process going back in to do a full edit though, but there's nothing we can do about it. "It is what it is" (quote by the famous US president, Trump, regarding the death toll from COVID-19 in the US).

[KENNYGLIDE]

Nice bit of kit Marcel.....looks xxy..I am having a problem finding an image resizer to suit my Windows XP...