Nice day, calm winds on the ground, a little light wave to play with at altitude. If you haven’t joined the winter Soaring mailing list, don’t miss out on flying days – sign up!
Bill, Alasdair, Tim, Andy Lumley and Jerry did their best to exercise as many flying machines as possible.
The traditional way to work off Thanksgiving for Soaring pilots. This was the 80th annual Snowbird!
Spectacular weather Sat. and some fun spot landing practice. Thanks to Valley Soaring for letting me fly their 1-26. Good fun although had to skip the Banquet in the National Soaring Museum and run for home Saturday night before Sundays snow 🙁
Snowbird Scores: Results
Next year we need a NESA team.
Let’s plan on holding our own spot landing contest at VSF Memorial weekend 2020. PMSC you have been challenged!
Regular scheduled operations are closed for winter.
But… In the mean time, Gift Certificates remain available for both Introductory flights and Three flight introductory lesson packages. These can be bought on-line from the club website and make great holiday gifts. Flights can be redeemed anytime during the 2020 flying season.
And… The towplane has just had its annual inspection and is being kept insured to allow for some limited winter towing operations for private ships (basically when Tim predicts a wave day!).
Thank you to the huge crew that showed up today to help with getting all the club ships put away for winter everything was done in record time.
It was a perfect weather day to take care of it, the sun took the edge of the cold and Bill and Fitz even managed to get a little Cub flying in after everything was done. Awesome.
You are cordially invited to attend the 80th Annual Snowbird Contest 29-30 November at Harris Hill Soaring, Elmira, NY. Contest includes awards for precise duration flights and spot landings. Chili and a warm fire follows the first day activities and a dinner and awards banquet follows the second day activities.
More Info: Snowbird Contest Flyer
Jan 11th – Club Annual Meeting and Dinner (Maclaomainn’s, Chester). Details coming soon.
6/26 – 7/5 – Region 1 Sports class contest. We need volunteers and tow-pilots to staff the week!
8/3 to 8/7 – Aviation Careers Education Camp (ACE). We need volunteers and tow-pilots.
8/24-8/28 – Womens Soaring Pilots Association Seminar. Guess what – we need volunteers, instructors and tow-pilots.
More details to come on all of these, but we have some great events lined up for next year to bring in visitors and fellow soaring pilots so plan to help out!
Fairly quiet weekend here at KVSF with many folks either still at or travelling back from Wave Camp.
Still, we managed to get several instructional flights in both days. It really is nice, now that we are operating our own tug, to be able to keep operations going at the home field at the same time as wave camp is running in Gorham.
Thanks to Bob Iuliano and Alasdair Crawford for providing the towing and instruction both days.
Greg made a short trip across the river and paid a visit to Claremont Airport today in the 1-34, landing runway 11. Alasdair promptly arrived with the Callair and after a quick turnaround, they quickly departed back to Springfield.
What a great day for flying!
Couple of nice flying days so far.
Friday B9, WQ and the Andy K. in 1-34 all had nice long flights. Alasdair towed.
Today i1 (Walter), B9, Andy K in the 1-26 and Greg H in the 1-34 again all had nice long flights. Our new junior member Colby had his first lesson (over an hour) in the 2-33 with Alasdair. It was nice to see all the NESA aircraft in the air at one time 2-33, 1-26, 1-34 and the Callair. A good club day. Thanks to Bill for towing.
Tomorrows forecast looks good, Jerry will be here to tow and/or instruct. Come on out and fly.