Soaring

airport hopping is good if there are airports. i often fly where there aren't airports and in low enough performance gliders that i can't reach them anyway but we have a lot of good fields around. I've got 7 landouts this year...but i'm the weird one in the group.

102 would be a fine glider for starting out XC.
 
Well my first xc would be 100km in a triangle with Airports as ends. I would never be more then 11 miles from home and 5 miles from another airport. At 5000 feet I can safely make it back home at any point on the route. At 4000 I can make at least one airport. The only member of the club to do this so far is the club president but he was flying his mini nimbus.
 
that sounds like a good start. Tell Tom hi from me.
 
Go for it Sean. Do it a couple of times and then challenge your club president to a handicap race against his mini Nimbus.
 
Better yet come up with an Annual Trophy or Plaque to put the names of each club member that completes the task each year. You can adjust the task each year to keep it interesting but challenging to the members.
A trophy for whoever does it the fastest will encourage members to keep trying it.

Brian
CFIIG
 
tonycondon said:
yea! and then...beat him :D
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That should be the plan.
Also if your club has high retrieval costs, that is obviously a discourager to xc soaring. It's a club; change the policy. Sounds like the president is ok with xc work. Maybe you and he together could get them lowered. Both the Grobs are fine for xc. Getting them doing xc could increase their usage and improve income for the club.
 
We have a XC Trophy each year, farthest distance out, need not be round trip.
We do not charge for someone to take the trailer to go retrieve. We have LS4 and SGS 1-26 trailer. No trailer yet for the Grob 103.

Tradition is that the retrieve crew gets dinner paid for by pilot and gas costs. If you are so far out that an overnight is needed, it's all on the pilot. Our private owners in the club have a retrieve person on stby with the truck gassed and the trailer hooked up. Just in case they don't get back.
 
our club has a whole boatload of travelling trophies. i love it. we award at least the following:

longest distance flight
longest distance flight in a wooden wing glider
fastest speed on 100km, 200km and 300km course
fastest average handicap speed over 2 closed course flights
winner of the annual kowbell klassic
most notable non-achievement
highest combined score in 4 categories in 4 flights (altitude, handicapped speed, handicapped distance, and duration)
greatest advancement in soaring ability which goes to a pilot who didn't have a silver badge at the beginning of the year.

we also have a weekend each month that has a specific task and the highest score at the end of the season is recognized

then there is the governor's trophy which usually recognizes some particular achievement or effort put forward that wasn't covered under one of the other trophies.
 
tonycondon said:
our club has a whole boatload of travelling trophies. i love it. we award at least the following:

longest distance flight
longest distance flight in a wooden wing glider
fastest speed on 100km, 200km and 300km course
fastest average handicap speed over 2 closed course flights
winner of the annual kowbell klassic
most notable non-achievement
highest combined score in 4 categories in 4 flights (altitude, handicapped speed, handicapped distance, and duration)
greatest advancement in soaring ability which goes to a pilot who didn't have a silver badge at the beginning of the year.

we also have a weekend each month that has a specific task and the highest score at the end of the season is recognized

then there is the governor's trophy which usually recognizes some particular achievement or effort put forward that wasn't covered under one of the other trophies.
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Cool, My favorite is the "most notable non-achievement"
Might have to consider adding that one to our list.

We currently have the Luis Stur Trophy which is an Annual Goal Flight, anyone who completes it get there name on the Trophy, If no one completes it then it goes to the longest flight using airports as turnpoints.

We also have the Roger Frank Trophy for the pilot that flies a 300km Triangle the fastest (handicap) for the year.

Brian
 
tonycondon said:
our club has a whole boatload of travelling trophies. i love it. we award at least the following:

longest distance flight
longest distance flight in a wooden wing glider
fastest speed on 100km, 200km and 300km course
fastest average handicap speed over 2 closed course flights
winner of the annual kowbell klassic
most notable non-achievement
highest combined score in 4 categories in 4 flights (altitude, handicapped speed, handicapped distance, and duration)
greatest advancement in soaring ability which goes to a pilot who didn't have a silver badge at the beginning of the year.

we also have a weekend each month that has a specific task and the highest score at the end of the season is recognized

then there is the governor's trophy which usually recognizes some particular achievement or effort put forward that wasn't covered under one of the other trophies.
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That would be nice but we have about 30 members. 20 of which stay current (fly once a month) and about 10 who fly on a regular basis (mainly students, CFIGS, and myself)
 
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