AOPA also has a number of scholarship opportunities.
https://www.aopa.org/training-and-safety/students/aopa-flight-training-scholarships
Several NESA juniors have received SSA scholarship awards. While there is no guarantee, you definitely won’t receive one if you don’t apply. So, use the winter to put together an application or two.
RR flew a 7:40hr Wave flight out of Springfield on Friday. Southern turn at Baines, MA, Northern turn just a couple of miles before the Canadian border.
Regularly scheduled operations and introductory flights are now closed for the season.
Thanks to everyone that came out and flew this year. It was certainly a challenging year for weekend weather, but some good soaring was had too.
Members can use the club email lists (nesa and/or midweek) to coordinate any off-season flying and/or towing.
Information about the clubs annual winter meeting and dinner will be sent out soon.
All – A reminder for everyone to come out and fly this Saturday. Everyone can take part including solo & non-solo students. We will run both 2-33’s with instructors back-seat so everyone can participate. Cookout and results end of day.
Make up to 4 flights, log your best two.
Can you do better than last year’s winner?
Saturday, October 28th is the big day and the weather looks excellent!
As we now close into the end of our soaring season, the sailplanes need a wash before hibernation. Starting at 10am we will get all the gliders clean followed by a burger/dog lunch. After our bellies are full, we will start the spot landing contest.
Spot landing is closest to the touchdown point (not before but beyond) and stopping closest to the stopping cone. The Grand Prize will be a free 2500’ tow. Second place a SSA bucket hat and third place you get to drive the golf cart.
Cost of spot landing flight is a pattern tow, but no flight (glider use) fee. Pre-solo students can compete with CFIG on board.
During the day, a clean 2-33 will be available for flight instruction.
Come one, come all and show off your washing, eating and precision flying skills!
Colby VonKannewurff earned his private pilot certificate today, completing a checkride with NESA member Daryl Smith in a Connecticut Soaring 2-33 at Windham airport, down in CT. Alasdair Crawford was the recommending instructor. Most of you know Colby as a NESA fixture at KVSF for the past several years. He just started his freshman year at UConn. Way to go, Colby!
The October Member Meeting is scheduled for the 28th and is the final meeting of the soaring season. We will wash the gliders, have a spot landing contest (Contest Rules), and grill burgers. This month the meeting will have a rain date of Sunday the 29th, as we want to get the ships cleaned before they go into their trailers for the winter.
Additionally, if we are able to fly into November, Sunday the 19th will be our last day, again assuming the weather cooperates.
We have up to 7 more weekends of flying. Hope to see you out there!
Please remember the monthly member meeting is Saturday, September 30 at 10 am. We will have a brief recap of the Board meeting scheduled for later this week and answer any question you may have. We will not grill so we can get folks in the air earlier in the day.
Hope to see you out there!
Eight members attended the meeting this morning. We discussed the current scheduling system in an effort to ensure the instructor on duty can adequately cover the students signed up for the day. We also talked about the need for adequate ground ops personnel to run wings, etc. We grilled burgers at the end of the meeting, then club members took a dozen tows with Bill towing and Jerry instructing.
Tomorrow looks promising for flying. Hope to see you out there!
In one of the most reliable ways of ensuring rain next Saturday, NESA is planning to hold our monthly member meeting. The meeting will begin at 10 am. We will have a brief discussion, fire up the grill for burgers, then go fly.
Hope to see you out there!