SAC website (www.sac.ca) shows a club in Winnepeg but nothing anywhere near the Minnesota/Canada border. It's all trees and lakes on that side of the border too. Curious, are you a lumberjack or something?

I recall some posts about the Canadian nationals being flown by US pilots and getting the certificate converted wasn't too much trouble.

My wife spent a lot of time in that area, canoeing and guiding in the Boundary Waters just up the road from Grand Marais. She also did a few long canoe trips into Canada. It's beautiful for sure. I was amazed when we were paddling in the BWCA and could see the bottom of the lake! Not used to clean water down here in the middle of the country.

Bring warm clothes, no matter what the calendar says. I was there on July 10 and it was below freezing in the morning.

On Thursday, April 12, 2012 2:19:04 PM UTC-5, Mike Philpott wrote:
Thanks Guys,

That's the part where I will be working, just a few miles south of
the Canadian border and well to the north of Duluth. I visited the
place last week and it is gorgeous and I fully agree about lakes
and trees.

Is there anywhere over the border in Ontario? I don't know how
my UK and US licenses would fare in Canada.

Maybe I'll try to sample some floatplane flying instead.

Mike



At 18:50 12 April 2012, Tony wrote:
On Thursday, April 12, 2012 1:21:00 PM UTC-5, Mike Philpott
wrote:
Hi,
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I'm a UK based glider pilot and I will be working in the
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part of Minnesota in late April and for most of May.
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I have a US airman's certificate for sailplanes as well as
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Is there a gliding club in the northern part of Minnesota
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welcomes limeys?
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Advice would be greatly welcomed.
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Thanks,
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Mike

Red Wing Soaring Association (http://www.rwsa.org/) is in
Osceola, WI, on
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far as I
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w, the furthest north glider club in Minnesota. That said it is
still in
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much north of
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re there are a lot of trees and not a lot of fields. Some flights
have
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n done to the north, as far north as Duluth, but there is still a
lot of
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nnesota north of there with even more trees and water and
fewer fields.