Clubs & Sites

A category for Soaring Clubs and Sites around the world. Add something about your favorite soaring place.

GTA Race at Monroe, GA

Report for the GTA race at Monroe, GA August 23-24 A Class Cumulative Score Rank Points ID Name                  Glider 1      1999   FS Silva, Fernando ASW-27 2      1933   BZ Mittell, John      ASW-27 3      1759   H6 Ruf, Chris         303 Mosquito 4        965   FP Pin, Francois    ASW-27 5        915   DL Linnekin, Dennis ASW-27 B Class Cumulative Score 24-Aug-14 23-Aug-14 Rank Points…

Tullahoma, Tenn GTA Race – Day 3

I’m writing this from the comfort of my home office back in Columbus, Ohio.  I got home about 3am Ohio time this morning, after an uneventful drive back from the Tullahoma.  We got in a 3rd day on Sunday – a 2hr TAT.  Conditions were variable – OK to very good to the north of…

Tullahoma, Tenn GTA Race

I’m sitting in my Micro-Castle here at the Tullahoma GTA (Georgia-Tennessee-Alabama) race site, on Saturday July 5, waiting for my brain to wake up and smell the coffee.  Tullahoma regional airport (KTHA) is a great soaring site, with lots of ramp space for assembling gliders, huge runways with at least two separate grass runways, and a…

Perry (Wagener, SC) Airstrip Review, Part III

In our last episode, we saw the melding of the Spartanburg and Perry airport/airstrip waypoints, the correction of old photo era turnpoint offsets, and other minor corrections.  The result was a pretty complete and robust Perry waypoint database, which was then published in its various file formats as ‘Perry2014a’ on John Leibacher’s wonderful Worldwide Soaring…

Minden, Nevada Airport Review

Last September, I did a full review of all the Minden, NV waypoints, as my (now) normal preparation for flying at a new site. When it was done I had identified more than 20 airports/airstrips that I deemed ‘problematic’ in one sense or another (nonexistant, too narrow for 18m, brush growing on or near the…

SOARING COUNTRY Black Forest Gliderport (1972) [Video]

This is a 16mm movie made at Black Forest Gliderport in 1972 and has been lost until I was sent a VHS copy. I digitalized and posted it on YouTube for historical purposes. Black Forest closed in 1985 and the original films disappeared along with the buildings. Little signs remain and the land is now…

Welcome to the MSE Gliding Club!

I had been planning for weeks that during the summer holiday I will visit the “Hármashatárhegy” airport in Budapest as I am interested in the work of other aeroclubs, their airplanes and the teams and also the popularity of gliding in the country. However, I was surprised when I realized that on Friday morning I…