A picture from the weekend courtesy of new NESA member Rick Beck who got his first flights with Charlie Freeman on Saturday. Rick lives in Walpole, NH and is a CFI and received his glider rating in 2019.
Greg Hunter flew Saturday and found lift over a small fire and stayed up for around an hour.
One weekend left before we retire until spring. Come out and fly!
Gorgeous fall weekend – calm winds both days – perfect training conditions with lots of Junior activity…
Ben got his 90 day solo endorsement renewed Saturday and flew the 1-34 today. Colby flew the 1-26. Sebastian flew the 2-33 with Bill and got to Box the wake for the first time.
Big thanks to the whole crew this weekend for help disassembling the CAP Blanik yesterday and the Orange NESA 2-33 today. Remaining ships will remain on the line until the weekend of the 20th which will be winter disassembly.
Thanks also to Bill for servicing the Callair brakes this morning.
Only a couple of regularly scheduled activity weekends left in the season so come out and fly!!
Your NESA Board of Directors met last night and set Saturday, November 20 as the official end of the season and gliders-into-storage day.
There are two more weekends before the 20th, so there should be some soaring still to be had. Get your name on the scheduling calendar and come out and fly!
Two nice flying days this weekend. Very quiet Saturday, but a good level of activity Sunday. Not too many weekends left in the season so get out and fly while you can.
We have a new 1-26 pilot! After successfully completing the 1-26 pre-solo written and a ground briefing/cockpit briefing, Colby made his first two 1-26 flights today. Looked rock solid on take-off and two nice spot-landings. Congrats Colby!
This just in from Bill Batesole…
Sunday 10/3 -The VSF weather stayed mostly dry with a high ceiling. Ben flew two flights in the 1-34. No problems. He did a great job in the glider.
Two nice flying days this weekend. Sat was a perfect calm training day but with some lift around. Sunday much breezier with a mix of thermal and wave soaring. Lots of activity in addition to the training flights with YZ, i1, 5E, B9, Q2, FE all having some good long flights. CAP orientation flights both days also.
Next weekend is October already, so time to come out and enjoy some good fall soaring.
The latest SMS Bulletin has been published summarizing safety lessons and reminders from recent events and submissions. Please take a read!
The SMS Bulletin library is located available here: SMS Bulletins
Well, it’s all over. Thanks to the many NESA, PMSC, GBSC, CAP and other volunteers who helped us pull of a sucessful week of fying and seminars. Hope everyone got lots of Wings credits!
Lot’s of great presenters and seminar topics – including Club Safety Culture, Mountain Wave Flying, Advanced X-C tecnique, EPIC flight stories, techniques for blue days to name a few. Presentations are available here.
A great team of instructors from NESA and GBSC and stellar XC mentors including Karl Striedieck, Roy Bourgeois, Rick Roelke and Kempton Izuno.
With the help of both the NESA and PMSC tugs we had 137 launches for the week (109 WSPA + 28 NESA) or 548 aircraft movements! Zero incidents and lots lots of folks getting to fly sailplane types new to them. We operated seven two seaters (2 x Duo Discus, 1 x Blanik L-23, 1 x K-21, 2 x SGS 2-33A and a PW-6U) plus many club and private single seaters. Bill even checked out several participants who got to fly in “003”, his 1-26 serial #3 which was assembled specially for the event.
The week finished out Friday night with a catered banquet held in one of the hangars.
Back to regular club flying next weekend – Sign up now!