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On Apr 13, 10:26*pm, T wrote:
On Apr 13, 7:37*pm, Fred Blair wrote: What are the minimum experience levels required at your club before a member is allowed to get out of gliding distance back to the home gliderport, i.e. go cross country? Thanks, Fred Houston, TX Defining x-c as "outside of gliding distance" back to the club airport or "more than one thermal away". We ask our students to stay close, we make sure they have good thermaling techniques before we encourage them to go farther. Our mandate is that they don't leave the valley, which keeps them 7 to 10 miles around the airport. We have 2 dry lakes within 5 miles, this encourages them to "travel" keeping those lakes within glide, wet/dry lake permitting. We will aero retrieve from those lakes for the same charge as a tow from the home airport. Students don't leave the valley, but they can get away because of the dry lakes as a safety net. Around here the only place to safely land is the club airport or the dry lakes. After their check ride, we work on going to the next valley. T Bronze is good. One of our students (a few years ago), with CFI-G approval and crew, flew a 100k Kolstad Century flight which helped get her a Kolstad College Scholarship. (She took the check ride three days later). This year the Kolstad Scholarship is $5000. 14-20 years old to qualify. Deadline September 30th. More at http://www.ssa.org/myhome.asp?mbr=75...w=blog&id=2390 Suggested Schedule for Preparation of the Application: JUNE Collect REFERENCES, names and addresses of THREE who have known the applicant for a reasonably long time. Gather LETTERS OF RECOMMENDATION from soaring acquaintances (THREE is good). JULY/AUGUST STATEMENT by applicant to include: INVOLVEMENT in SOARING CLUB, SCHOOL, COMMUNITY Present PLANS for further EDUCATION and eventual VOCATION SOARING ACHIEVEMENTS SAILPLANES FLOWN, AWARDS WON, SSA BADGES, FAI, FAA LICENSES SEPTEMBER REVIEW and SUBMIT YOUR APPLICATION Get those fledglings flying. |
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