Gliderport below IFR arrival route into Newark?

[Helge_Zembold]

Hi everyone,

apporaching Newark (KEWR) yesterday on the FLOSI2-arrival, I noticed an airfield with at least ten gliders aligned close to the runway just in the vicinity of point CRANK (N41°25.00'W074°23.33'), which we crossed in 6000 ft. Google maps did not help me much, I also could not find any suitable airfield in OLC. Which airfield did I see? Could be interesting to visit during a stopver...

Thanks for you help!

Helge

[Peter von Tresckow]

Helge_Zembold > wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> apporaching Newark (KEWR) yesterday on the FLOSI2-arrival, I noticed an
> airfield with at least ten gliders aligned close to the runway just in
> the vicinity of point CRANK (N41°25.00'W074°23.33'), which we crossed in
> 6000 ft. Google maps did not help me much, I also could not find any
> suitable airfield in OLC. Which airfield did I see? Could be interesting
> to visit during a stopver...
>
> Thanks for you help!
>
> Helge
>
>
>


Don't they give you airline guys VFR sectionals anymore??? :-)

Looks like you were looking at the Middleton airport and Valley Soaring
club.

Never flown there but sky vector and google work well

Pete

[Bob Cook[_2_]]

Yeah, the closest glider port to those coordinates is Randall....Valley
Soaring Club

If you are in Newark, other possibilities are Blairstown
Airport/Gliderport, (about an hour and a quarter drive)....Check OLC...#2
airfield!!

Also Wurtsboro, which is 7days a week operation, just beyond Randall

A bit further out is PGC, and VanSant...

Cookie





At 12:48 03 May 2013, Peter von Tresckow wrote:
>Helge_Zembold wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> apporaching Newark (KEWR) yesterday on the FLOSI2-arrival, I noticed an
>> airfield with at least ten gliders aligned close to the runway just in
>> the vicinity of point CRANK (N41°25.00'W074°23.33'), which we crossed
>in
>> 6000 ft. Google maps did not help me much, I also could not find any
>> suitable airfield in OLC. Which airfield did I see? Could be
interesting
>> to visit during a stopver...
>>
>> Thanks for you help!
>>
>> Helge
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>Don't they give you airline guys VFR sectionals anymore??? :-)
>
>Looks like you were looking at the Middleton airport and Valley Soaring
>club.
>
>Never flown there but sky vector and google work well
>
>Pete
>