The Minden Soaring Club (MSC) has announced that it will again be offering youth scholarships to encourage youths between the ages of 14 and 21 to help finance flight and ground instruction in preparation for obtaining a private glider rating.
If you’re interested in the German ultralight soaring scene, we strongly recommend Klaus Burkhard’s site. UL-Segelflug.de was launched in early 2013 and already has attracted thousands of readers.
SoaringNV will host a wave camp April 5-9, 2014. The goal of this camp is to train glider pilots to safely and successfully fly in wave conditions. For the experienced wave pilot, the camp is a chance to meet like-minded pilots, mentor glider pilots new to wave flying, and get some time in Minden Wave.…
One of the pilots in our local soaring club was surprised to discover that he was sharing a thermal with an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV).
A friend of mine commented the other day that he couldn’t find a decent logging application that could create log entries from IGC files. I have a fair bit of experience with automating Excel spreadsheets using VBA (Visual Basic for Applications), and I was bored out of my skull (it’s winter, don’t you know), so…
Today (Monday Dec 30, 2013) is the last day of the 4-day 2013 Condor Xmas Cup, an online racing adventure in beautiful New Zealand. This is the sixth year of this world-famous soaring contest, hosted by Erik Praznovsky of Slovakia (http://www.virtualsoaring.eu). This year, 157 pilots from 27 different countries entered the event (Just as a comparison,…
CNN.com has a story about soaring featuring two of our club members, John Shmoldas (7X) and Chuck Griswald, taking Wounded Warriors up for a glider ride at CrystalAire in Palmdale, CA. — Andy McKittrick
Dutch born now Australian resident Dan vanderMeulen achieved a dream to re-join the ranks of solo glider pilots on Sunday 28th October 2013. Dan commenced his gliding in his country of birth Holland in 1967 and last flew solo in Holland in 1973, with a growing family and immigrating to Australia just some of life’s…
We received this report from Mitch Polinsky summarizing a truly remarkable string of record-breaking flights from Utah and Nevada that he made last summer. Bravo to Mitch on his annus mirabilis in soaring!
Looking at some of the recent OLC flights from New Zealand there is a number of high mileage flights. It is early spring in the Southern Hemisphere and the small but enthusiastic Auckland Aviation Sports Club has managed to exploit some robust Spring South Westerly's allowing them to do a remarkable flight affectionately called the "Coast Run". In the…
