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.

Lakeland Aeroclub Soaring Task Sheet (Nov 2023)

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.

With the opportunity to chat with other pilots sharing the same task, some of the benefits otherwise only available through dual flying mentoring flights can be shared.

The bottom line is, using Condor as a task flying / XC soaring training tool can be powerful to help novice time building glider pilots become soaring pilots. Since this is also the goal of the Proving Grounds, we will be organizing flights to actively support pilots looking to become more adept at task flying through a Condor competition as we tour across America flying tasks at sites with Proving Grounds installations and Condor Scenery.

The critical items:
– Please register for the competition on Condor Club – Current Competition
– Task information will include a link to a Discord channel to share audio, the link will be provided to registered pilots
– Join the Discord channel up 15 or so minutes before the task start time for support with Condor, XCSoar, or Proving Grounds
– At the time of the task find the ‘Proving Grounds’ server from the Condor 2 server list

The tasks for the competition will always be the largest Proving Grounds task at a given soaring site, and you can find the task sheet for each club at soaringtasks.com, by searching for the club we’ll be flying at, or locating the blog post under “Resources”.

Useful Resources:
– How to get started with Condor
– How to set up your XCSoar device with Proving Grounds in America
– How to set up your XCSoar device with Proving Grounds in Canada
– Using XCSoar with Condor (I find that the IP address of my device changes, so if you can’t connect on a successive attempt confirm that the IP is the same, or update the command in 4) d)

After the flight:
When you’ve completed the flight, there are a few things to do to see how well you did:
1) Upon exiting the flight you’ll enter Condor’s ‘Debriefing’ area with the opportunity to “Analyze Flight” – click that
2) If you click “Save” toward the bottom left of the ‘Flight Analysis’ panel, you’ll be able to save your .ftr file, which you should do, then upload it to the competition on Condor Club (see the Current Competition link above)
3) If you click “IGC export” toward the left of the ‘Flight Analysis’ panel, you’ll be able to save your .igc file, which you should do. Attach the .igc file to an email and submit it for scoring to the Proving Grounds bot for the site we were flying at
4) You might also consider uploading the .igc file to skylinescondor.com for analysis and sharing

We hope you’ll join us, and that participating in this friendly competition will be informative on task flying, XCSoar configuration, using the Proving Grounds, competition strategy and keeping you excited for the sport of soaring!

If there isn’t a landscape for the area where you fly, request some local terrain – ensure it encompasses the Proving Grounds from the folks at Soaringtools.org.

All references to “Condor” refer to the most recent version of the software.

It’s composed of 65 passionate members that fly every week-ends and often on weekdays. With two tow planes, four two-seaters, 2 single-seaters, and over a dozen private gliders, CVVQ is an active club where passion and fun are in the front row.

CVVQ Proving Grounds Task Sheet (July 2022)

The club has more than 70 enthusiastic members. We have 7 gliders, a super Dimona as towplane, and a 4-drum MEL winch.

Zweefvliegclub Volkel Proving Ground Task Sheet (July 2022)

The club averages about 30 members and has a 2 place PW-6, a 2 place Blahnik L23, and a single place PW-5. We own a SuperCub for launches.

Puget Sound Soaring Association Task Sheet (Sept 2022)

Alberni Valley Soaring Association Task Sheet (April 2022)

We trace our roots back to the 1930s when nearby Frankfort was one of the premier gliding sites in the USA.

From May-Oct, we operate out of Wexford County Airport in Cadillac, Michigan in the heart of one of Michigan’s most beautiful travel destinations.

Northwest Soaring Club Task Sheet (April 2022)

TSA has approximately 180 flying members including many youth members who participate in the club’s youth soaring program.

We own our airfield just south of Midlothian, TX (TA-11). Improvements to the site over the years include a brand-new clubhouse (complete in 2022), a large tow plane hangar and workshops, covered hangar space for fifty gliders, and a 4,300-foot paved runway.

Today, TSA without question has the finest facilities of any dedicated glider operation in the United States!

We fly all year long on weekends and Thursdays with our fleet of 3 Pawnee tow planes, 3 ASK-21 trainers (primary instruction and intro only, not to be used for XC), 3 PW-5 single-seat gliders, a Duo Discus for advanced training and XC, and 2 Schweizer 1-26’s.

Texas Soaring Association Task Sheet (March, 2022)

We have a fleet of 10 gliders and one TMG that can also be used for aerotows.

Aero Club Salland Proving Grounds Task Sheet (May 2022)

Since our beginnings, we’ve been driven by the same ideas as many nonprofit organizations: support, empowerment, progress, additionally, the love of flying.

Come visit us at Windham Airport (KIJD), or ctsoaring.org!

Connecticut Soaring Association Task Sheet (May 2022)