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Breakfast
Breakfast tomorrow is at the Whistlestop.
April ridge soaring in Mifflin
This is from Rick Rolke and aimed mostly at those with their own gliders and those with a license who could use the clubs 304 (maybe). ———————— Somewhat to my surprise I have been getting emails about the Mifflin trip … Continue reading
A Record Hang Gliding Ride on the Texas Wind
From the New York Times. These guys set a record for distance and was truly an amazing flight. (Posted for Bob Aliber)
EBA Breakfast Report
EBA turnout was less than stellar with only 5 members showing up (Andy, Bill, Christopher, Mike and Tim) which was disappointing as usually it’s more like 15 or more folks showing up. See the calendar page for the schedule. -Andy
NESA Annual Dinner
PMSC and or anyone interested is welcome to attend this event. NESA (New England Soaring Association) annual dinner is Saturday 1/26, $29 each – pork, turkey, fish, or veggie lasagna. Checks payable to NESA c/o: Dave Carton PO Box 46 … Continue reading
We have a new waypoint database
and it’s on the World Wide Turnpoint Exchange. The geographic area of this database is quite large. You’ll find it useful whether you are flying out of Post Mills, Springfield, Morrisville, Franconia or Gorham. The whole database is just a little … Continue reading
Recommended reading
I’ve added 3 books to our Library at the request of Tim Chow. The titles are Introduction to Cross Country Soaring, Thermalling and if all else fails Off Airport Landings all by Kai Getsen. These are pdf files which you can … Continue reading
New title added to our library
I just added Flying the Bald Eagle Ridge to the library located in the Safety and Training section of our website. Thank you Kevin for loaning the book so Moshe could digitize it to pdf. Enjoy! -Andy
For Sale – 1976 Grob 102 Astir CS
From: Saratoga Soaring <saratogasoaring@gmail.com> Date: Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 9:01 AM Subject: For Sale – 1976 Grob 102 Astir CS To: Saratoga Soaring <SaratogaSoaring@gmail.com> See http://www.saratogasoaring.com/G-102/index.html for additional details.
Blanik L-13 Update
From Blanik America The FAA sent yet another engineering stress analysis request to the developers of the German repair kit rather than accepting that which has already been approved by the European FAA counterpart, EASA. This adds an extra complication … Continue reading