Photo Credit; Susumu Morita

I hope everyone is well at this time. As the Safety Meeting is remotely attended by each member at their home, I would like to contribute the following.

Most aviation publications that I read regularly have articles written about accidents and...

Adrian Soaring Club has selected Saturday May 23rd for the start of the 2020 flight operations.

To respect the social distancing requirement of the current Covid-19 pandemic, the Safety meeting has been cancel. Each member must review the Safety Meeting presentation, p...

Photo Credit; Jean-Marie Deschanps

The club operations officially closed November 25 for the 2019 season after a full weekend of flying before closing, we reopen April 1 2020. We flew only 4 days in November and canceled ops 7 days due to weather, total flights for the...

Photo Credit; Tom Shipp

This has not been a good month for glider flying, 8 operation days canceled due to weather, either wind, rain or both with only 42 flights, total flights for the season is 510. Last month we canceled 7 op days and completed 62 flights.

 
Our soari...

Photo Credit; Brandon Schultz

Our soaring season appears to be coming to a close early with just 62 flights this month compared to 113 in August and 7 operation days canceled due to weather. We have completed 468 flights this season which is past the break even for reve...

Photo Credit; Tom Shipp

August was a great month for the Club, 113 flights compared to 99 last month and 406 total flight during the 2019 season, we are near the break-even number.

Mark Geudtner passed his Private Glider test with DPE Kerry Brown, Nate Kemppainen was app...

Photo Credit; Susumu Morita

We have transitioned from a rainy Spring to hot hot days that some like and some don’t like but sunny days mean fly days. The club did 99 flights this month, the exact number as last month, a total of 293 flights for the 2019 season. Only 2 O...

Photo Credit; Susumu Morita

Weather for soaring operations this month improved with 99 flights of mostly student training. We canceled 6 Operation days due to weather, an improvement over prior months. Total flights this soaring season is 194 which is less than prior ye...

Photo Credit; Jean-Marie Deschamps

With no good weather this month for operations, the club did 44 flights compared to 51 last month and canceled Ops 9 days. Our best soaring day was May 5th with 21 flights and 7K altitude. May 8th was another good day with strong therm...

Photo Credit; Jean-Marie Deschamps

There was good member attendance at the April 6 safety meeting with presenters Rick Clark, Matt Schultz and Tom Shipp. The presentation on the K13 stall while turning base to final was a good example of what not to do; overshoot the ru...