Hi everyone. Hope you are all enjoying the festive
period.

Has anyone had any experience of gliding in Canada?

Rachel

54 years worth --- but not at this time of year :>))

Rachel Hine wrote:
> Hi everyone. Hope you are all enjoying the festive
> period.
>
> Has anyone had any experience of gliding in Canada?
>
> Rachel
>
>
>

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Charles Yeates

Swidnik PW-6U & PW-5
http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/yeatesc/world.html
>

There are a number of places to soar in Canada Rachel . You can check
out http://www.sac.ca/sac-club.html for a list of clubs.

I also invite you to check out where I fly ...

www.soartherockies.com

www.canadianrockiessoaring.com


Keith


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Hi Rachel,

You might want to check those 2 clubs:

http://www.vsa.ca/

Awesome location, next to Hope (150 km East of Vancouver). Very
interesting area. Ridge, thermal and wave flights available. Club
atmosphere is great, VSA is not a commercial operation and has around
65 members, lots of gliders available.

http://www.pembertonsoaring.com/

Commercial operation 60 km North of Whistler (the Winter Olympic 2010
site). Great mountains all around the place. It is 3 hours drive away
from Vancouver. Hope is only one hour.

I have heard of a nice club in Invermere British Columbia Rockies.
Great location but you might need to stay there a full week as it is
700 km East of Vancouver. http://www.soartherockies.com/

Then if you like flat land you have many club between Halifax and
Calgary. But if you'd like to do some ridge flight it is most probably
going to be between Calgary and Vancouver.

I hope that helps.

Matthieu



Rachel Hine wrote:
> Hi everyone. Hope you are all enjoying the festive
> period.
>
> Has anyone had any experience of gliding in Canada?
>
> Rachel

In Ontario, check out http://www.sosaglidingclub.com/
or http://www.yorksoaring.com/
or http://www.geocities.com/ggsa_ca/club/begin.htm



"keithw" > wrote in message
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>
> There are a number of places to soar in Canada Rachel . You can check
> out http://www.sac.ca/sac-club.html for a list of clubs.
>
> I also invite you to check out where I fly ...
>
> www.soartherockies.com
>
> www.canadianrockiessoaring.com
>
>
> Keith
>
>
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> fly -
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Where are you from Rachel ?..Are you hoping to take a vacation to Canada
and do some X/C flying ?. Bringing your own glider ?

Keith


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I would like to fly in the Rockies or the Cowley wave. As a
U.S glider pilot and CFIG, what do I need to do to be able
to fly a C-registered glider and/or take passengers.

Pete Brown
Anchorage, Alaska,

keithw wrote:
> There are a number of places to soar in Canada Rachel . You can check
> out http://www.sac.ca/sac-club.html for a list of clubs.
>
> I also invite you to check out where I fly ...
>
> www.soartherockies.com
>
> www.canadianrockiessoaring.com
>
>
> Keith
>
>
> --
> keithw
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Posted via OziPilots Online [ http://www.OziPilotsOnline.com.au ]
> - A website for Australian Pilots regardless of when, why, or what they fly -
>

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Peter D. Brown
http://home.gci.net/~pdb/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/akmtnsoaring/

The Soaring Association of Canada, http://www.sac.ca , has a lot of information on soaring in Canada. In particular, it has a page which lists most or all of
the clubs in Canada. The club list page can be found at
http://www.sac.ca/sac-club.html

In general, soaring clubs pretty much shut down for the winter in Canada and
re-open sometime in the spring.

Hope this helps!

Anyone hear an echo in ths room ?.....ha ha ha


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Hi Rachel, If you are going to be in the Toronto area try the South Ontario
Soaring Association (SOSA) I flew there some years ago. A good contact is
Terry McElligott. You can contact him by E-mail at
You will find Terry is a great guy and used to work at a radio station that
played nothing but jazz. Cheers, Ron Baker (Back home in sunny Australia)
"Rachel Hine" > wrote in message
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> Hi everyone. Hope you are all enjoying the festive
> period.
>
> Has anyone had any experience of gliding in Canada?
>
> Rachel
>
>
>

If you are a US registered glider pilot and complete a Badge Leg
qualifying flight while in Canada, how to you satisfy SWMBP - you know,
She Who Must Be Pleased - the SSA Badge Lady?

Roy Clark, B6 wrote:
> If you are a US registered glider pilot and complete a Badge Leg
> qualifying flight while in Canada, how to you satisfy SWMBP - you
know,
> She Who Must Be Pleased - the SSA Badge Lady?

You submit the claim to the badge chairman of the Soaring Association
of Canada (Walter Weir) who reviews the claim and provides a
recommendation to the SSA Badge Lady, who makes the final decision. If
you have a logger, submitting a second floppy of the .igc file is a
good idea. All the necessary documentation (standard FAI claim forms,
etc) used in Canada are on the SAC webpage, at www.sac.ca., under SAC
services link, then documents link.

I did the reverse, two badge legs flown in the US, and my claims went
from Judy to Walter, in very short order... I greatly appreciate the
additional effort on both their parts. Really, it's no big deal for
the pilot claiming the task; you get the bonus of two experienced sets
of eyes confirming your accomplishment.
Dan
High Flights Soaring Club
Colorado Springs

Thnks Dan, I'll print out the documents and plan to send them in after
the flight.