Other News

Virginia’s Blue Ridge Soaring Society Hosts Open House

by Bill Elliott • October 7, 2013

We returned to New Castle, Virginia today to pick up our motor home and continue on to Chilhowee Gliderport in Tennessee, where we will stay for the week and the Oktoberfest. The weather was beautiful (in contrast to the Region 4 South contest hosted by the Blue Ridge Soaring Society two weeks earlier). Coming around…

by Bill Elliott • October 4, 2013

If you might be interested in attending a 3-day weekend simulator-based thermal and cross-country soaring clinic in Huntsville, Alabama, then read on. It’s an open invitation for everyone. This announcement is to gauge interest in such a clinic.

by Bill Elliott • October 1, 2013

On Saturday, 28 September, Australian pilot Paul Tridgell flew his first Gold Height gain in the morning, then on a second flight in the afternoon flew his first Diamond Height gain!; is this a world first?

by Bill Elliott • September 25, 2013

Ready for the WEDNESDAY-news straight from my “office” in Holland. Now straight… is a bit much said, as I am late!!! Problems with my laptop again; the user profile service did not accept me on my own laptop. Could not do a thing! The PC doctor just left and it took him an hour to get…

by Bill Elliott • September 16, 2013

This is *the* glider-specific FIRC, sponsored by the Soaring Safety Foundation and Rich Carlson, and with all new presentations from those used two years ago.
You do not have to be a CFIG; this FIRC renews airplane and helicopter only instructors too. It is great information for anybody. Non-CFI’s are welcome.

by Bill Elliott • September 15, 2013

In the last six years SoaringNZ has become a fixture in gliding circles. Every two months a glossy magazine, chock full with quality articles on gliding, gliders and gliding people has been arriving in letterboxes both in New Zealand and around the world. SoaringNZ is changing. The new format will have more content and more…

by Bill Elliott • September 15, 2013

Paul Remde of Cumulus Soaring just announced that Peter Zander has authorized him to replace internal batteries and do logger re-seals for Zander GP940 and GP941 flight recorders. He charges $30 for that service.

by Bill Elliott • September 10, 2013

The Chilhowee Soaring Association is pleased to announce the Sixth Annual Sequatchie Ridge Badge and Record Camp, to be held March 18-27, 2014 at Marion County Airport (APT) in Jasper, Tennessee. The Sequatchie Valley provides some of the finest post-frontal ridge soaring in the USA.

by Bill Elliott • September 8, 2013

We, here in Holland, had a “try out” of the National Air Games at Teuge last Sunday [ only one day] and they turned out to be a success even with the tough wind. It showed that several air-sports can operate from ONE field, also here in Holland. Due to the wind, balloons and parapentes could not…

by Bill Elliott • August 30, 2013

Frauke Elber invites our readers to check out the August issue of Hangar Soaring, a quarterly publication of the Women Soaring Pilots Association. The cover story is about 2013 WWGC Bronze Medalist Sarah Arnold’s impressions of the competition, held this summer in Issoudun, France.