Treasure Coast Soaring is a fast-growing, instruction-centric club located in Vero Beach, Florida. With an abundance of small airports and farm fields in the area, we are in an excellent location for budding cross country pilots to spread their wings.
keep readingSky Sailing is Southern California’s preeminent soaring destination offering rides, rentals, instruction, and aerotows 7 day a week.
Located at Warner Springs, in northern San Diego County, where fantastic thermal, ridge, convergence, and wave conditions are very common.
Rental choices include Schweizer 2-33, 1-26, and 1-36, or Grob 102, and 103.
Also offering Cross Country Instruction in a Duo Discus with FES (Front-End Sustainer).
keep readingThe Edmonton Soaring Club (ESC) operates off of a grass strip near the town of Chipman, Alberta, northeast of the city of Edmonton.
ESC is an innovative club with a number of tremendous programs to develop pilots, especially youth – the host of the oversubscribed ‘Western Canada Youth Development Camp’. Leaders at ESC liked the idea of a program to support XC pilot development, especially one that can stand the test of time, and requires little to no management by members with too much management obligation as it is.
ESC uses 3 triangle tasks that build on each other to define their Proving Grounds using the club as a start/finish point and 3 distinct turnpoints per task.
The Lakeland Aeroclub is a High School flying club that promotes youth pilots to fly gliders and tailwheel aircraft.
Members of the club have the opportunity to receive hands-on experience in any aspect of aviation.
Membership is available to any high school student between the ages of fourteen and nineteen, who express an interest in aviation, are of good moral character, and are academically achieving.
The Lakeland Aero Club exists to provide an opportunity for local youth to get involved in, and create a future in aviation.
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Join members of the Proving Grounds team on Sunday nights (8:30EST) for a friendly tour through various Proving Grounds installations from around the world organized through a Condor Club soaring competition.
There will be 16 racing tasks, with your 10 best scores defining your overall place in the competition. The real winners will be novice pilots who take this opportunity to discuss and practice soaring strategies, even how to use their flight computers through the event! Join the voice chat using the Discord platform to talk strategies, tools, technique and so much more.
Two practice weeks kick off on November 20, the first race is on December 4th!
The Condor soaring simulator is an incredible tool to help introduce XC soaring and task flying to pilots interested in flying tasks in real gliders. It’s an effective way to gain comfort with a flight computer – setup, task definition, and use in flight.
The Proving Grounds ‘Task Master’ Chris is the leader of the contest, fresh off a great 2022 racing season in real life – 2nd in FAI Class at the Canadian National Soaring Championships, 1st at the SSA Region 8, and 3rd at the US Club Class Nationals.
Club de planeur de Quebec (CVVQ) is located near Quebec city between the plains of the St-Lawrence river and the wooden mountains of the north.
keep readingZVC Volkel is a club in the southeast part of the Netherlands and has been located at Volkel Air Force Base since 1955. When the military base is closed, we can fly. These are all weekend days, weekdays after 5 p.m., and on public holidays.
keep readingNestled in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains, we lease an elevated 2100′ landing strip known as Bergseth Field. From this unique site, ridge lift is very close by, and the Enumclaw Plateau offers thermals and unparalleled views of Mt Rainier, the surrounding farmland, as well as lakes, and the Puget Sound.
keep readingMix of 1 club glider (PW-5) and 6 privately owned gliders flying from the Alberni Valley Regional Airport on beautiful Vancouver Island.
keep readingNorthwest Soaring Club is a small, inviting soaring club in Northwest Michigan.
We trace our roots back to the 1930s when nearby Frankfort was one of the premier gliding sites in the USA.
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