Nearest Location

On Monday, June 10, 2019 at 7:46:09 PM UTC-4, wrote:
I am 13 years old and I want to learn to fly a glider. The one problem is that the nearest gliding school near me is 1 hr and 40 minutes away and this is way too far. I was wondering if there was a way around this. I have looked for different places but they are all too far.

FYI I live in eastern TN and the closest place is in Knoxville TN.

Thanks

If you are an EAA Young Eagles participant, you can take several online glider training courses through GLIDERBOOKS for free.
https://www.eaa.org/en/eaa/youth/fre...es/Gliderbooks

If there is any sailplane activity in Knoxville, I would be very interested in knowing about it.

I googled “Knoxville gliding school� and didn’t find anything related to sailplanes.

Matt

If there is any sailplane activity in Knoxville, I would be very interested in knowing about it.

Matt, Unfortunately there is no longer any training in Knoxville. Chilhowee will probably be the closest spot and they are great.

There used to be Smoky Mountain Soaring and we had training, but we no longer have a 2 seater.

There are a few of us that fly single seat ships out of Knoxville Downtown Island airport, a couple of 2 seat touring motor gliders, a couple of pure gliders, and I have a self launch single seat DG400.

I would highly recommend either Chilhowee, Chilhowee.com, with Sarah and Jason, they have a bunk house and discuss with them if you want to do a concentrated course, or go to Seminole Lake Gliderport in Clearmont FL. They have several apartments set up and also do concentrated courses.

Fell free to call me is you like. (eight six five) two one six - three four five nine

Kevin Anderson
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