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July Photo Contest — Cast Your Votes

It is time to start voting!  The highlights of the Rules regarding voting are: Voting by registered Café members will determine the top 10 photos each month. Registered members can cast one vote per photo each day. You can vote for as many photos as you want each day. The Café editors will review the voting and award a…

The Café Forums Are Here!

As promised, we have added Forums to The Soaring Café. We are proud to announce that the Forums are officially open! It is our hope that they will provide a venue to discuss topics of interest and engage in conversation as well as debate, but with a reasonable sense of decorum. We encourage everyone to…

2014 Photo Contest is Here!

The Soaring Cafe 2014 Photo Contest is here. There will be a prize each month for the best photo as determined by vote of Café members. Cash prizes will be offered each  month. Start looking through your photos for submission. Rules and entry forms can be found here.

LAUNCHING of a new Café

… and, why are you making me log in? When you visit SoaringCafe.com later this week, it’s going to be a little different. We’ve been working behind the scenes for many weeks getting ready to launch our new and improved site. The biggest change you’ll notice, is that in order to read complete stories and the…

Soaring Car Tags (Updated)

Leo Benetti-Longhini has been collecting photos of “personalized” car tags at soaring and hang gliding sites around the world.  We hope you enjoy them as much as we have.

Youth Soaring Development Camp in Omarama

Every year, Youth Glide New Zealand holds an annual Youth Soaring Development Camp in Omarama for around 20 young pilots (25 years and under). The aim is for young pilots to gain concentrated experience and training in what is one of the best soaring sites in the world. Going to Omarama for the Youth Soaring…

Updating Soaring Cafe in 2013

Rand and I are very excited about the upcoming soaring season. We spent some time this weekend making some small changes to the Café and we thought we should tell you about them. But first, we want to thank you for all the emails and comments we receive letting us know how much you like…

George Young is the iGlide Give-Away Winner for Week 4

Wow! This is exciting.  Thank you so much. I live in Madison CT, and fly with Greater Boston Soaring Club (GBCS) out of Sterling airport (3b3) in sterling MA.  A short 2 hour drive from Madison. :-) I have been flying for about 8 years.  I bought a Discus B N44UU for my 63’rd birthday. …