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What happened to gliding at Great Barrington, MA?



 
 
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Old December 20th 10, 03:45 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Papa3
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Default What happened to gliding at Great Barrington, MA?

Was looking at some old Soaring magazines the other day, and I noticed
a number of badges earned from Great Barrington in the 1980s and into
th e1990s. So, I'm assuming there was some sort of regular operation
there for a while. Any ideas what happened to this operation?
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Old December 20th 10, 05:57 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Andy[_10_]
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Default What happened to gliding at Great Barrington, MA?

On Dec 19, 7:45*pm, Papa3 wrote:
Was looking at some old Soaring magazines the other day, and I noticed
a number of badges earned from Great Barrington in the 1980s and into
th e1990s. * So, I'm assuming there was some sort of regular operation
there for a while. * Any ideas what happened to this operation?


That was a location for Nutmeg Soaring for a period of time.

I got my Gold altitude there June 1, 1985 flying the club ASW-15. Mike
Opitz was with me flying his DG-300. We got trapped under an overcast,
ridge soaring upwind of the field. Eventually we got high enough to
make a downwind run and caught a thermal to cloudbase. Once there we
moved out to the upwind side of the cu and ridge soared up the face of
the cloud to 12,500 feet. Memorable flight.

9B
 




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