The Soaring Safety Foundation (safety affiliate of the SSA) will conduct a Glider Flight Instructor Recertification Clinic in Seattle, WA on February 2 and 3, 2008. You need not be a CFI-Glider to attend. Clinic Hours: Saturday: 8:00 AM to 5:30 PM Sunday: 8 AM to 5 PM. For more information or to...

The Soaring Safety Foundation (safety affiliate of the SSA) will conduct a Glider Flight Instructor Recertification Clinic in Charlottesville VA January 12 and 13, 2008. You need not be a CFI-Glider to attend. Clinic Hours: Saturday: 8:00 AM to 5:30 PM Sunday: 8 AM to 5 PM. For more information or...

The Soaring Safety Foundation (safety affiliate of the SSA) will conduct a Glider Flight Instructor Recertification Clinic in Anchorage, Alaska, on Saturday January 15, and Sunday January 16, 2005. Location: Downtown Anchorage Clinic Hours: Saturday: 8 AM to 5:30 PM Sunday: 8 AM to 5 PM. You need...

Announcement: There will be a CFIG Wannabe training session on Monday January 30 2006 from 3 PM til 6:30 PM for CFIG candidates and those thinking about becoming CFIG candidates. This course is offered in conjunction with, but occurs before, the SSA national soaring convention in Arlington,...

USA /SSF CFIG Recertification Clinic / Long Beach, CA The Soaring Safety Foundation, in cooperation with RESCO, will conduct a Glider Flight Instructor Recertification Clinic in Long Beach, California, on Saturday April 24 and Sunday April 25, 2004. Clinic Hours: Saturday: 8:00 AM to 6 PM ...

The Soaring Safety Foundation (SSF) will cooperate with your gliding organization to present a gliding safety seminar to pilots in your city. The SSF will provide an instructor to present four to six hours' worth of presentations to help you and your fellow pilots identify and reduce risk factors...

The SSA website listing of 2008 contests shows a 15M nationals at Mifflin in May. This is an error. The listing that shows the contest in Uvalde in August is correct.

#1. Doug Jacobs, DJ, 60.81 mph. #2. John Murray, LX, 59.62 mph. #3. Jerzy Szemplinski, XG, 59.42 mph. #4. Thomas Kelley, 711, 57.33 mph. #5. Monty Sullivan, 56.56 mph. Task was TAT min. time 2 hrs. Several landouts, some late arrivals. Looking better as its drying out. Top 10 slots have a 66...

16 took tows to a possible 3,000 agl afternoon of 1-2 kt cloimbs. A 1 turn mat short task was called. More updates will happen, watch the SSA website and 18 Meter blog on Facebook.

Pilot's meeting started 10 am. Mark, our CD, and Kerry, our CM, simply know how to put on a show. Brief, to the point and excellent side shows for weather, griding, and taxiway/ tow out use, etc. The weather, well some of the models are good, others need to be trashed. A lot of conflicting...

Pilot's meeting @10 am went quick again. Mr. Bruce Taylor (from AU) won the first practice day at 88 plus mph. XG Jerzey was second at 86 mph then came the rest of the flock hanging out around 80 mph. Scores on the SSA website were not updated in time for the meeting. Today is the second practice...

Congratulations to Gary Ittner and Phil Gaisford on winning the US 18M and Standard Class Nationals. Scores are still preliminary. Very close contest for both classes. Peter Deane was only 2 points behind Phil (about one turn in a thermal over the contest). Chip Garner was only 19 points behind...

Way to go Mark! http://www.soaringspot.com/wgcrieti/results/standard/daily/day2.html http://usteamrieti2008.blogspot.com Chris Fleming F2

http://www.ssa.org/files/member/2010%20Rules%20Committee%20Meeting%20Minutes.pdf John Godfrey (QT)

The proposed changes to the 2013 competition rules are posted on the SSA website. http://www.ssa.org/files/member/2013%20Rules%20Changes%20Summary.pdf The deadline for comments to the Rules Committee is January 18, 2013. For the committee, John Godfrey (QT)

All, The results of the annual competition pilot poll for 2015 are available at: http://www.ssa.org/files/member/2015_SSA_Pilot_Opinion_Poll_Results.pdf http://www.ssa.org/files/member/2015_SSA_Pilot_Opinion_Poll_Results.pdf John Godfrey(QT), RC Chair

All, The proposed changes to the US Competition Rules for 2015 have been posted on the SSA website under "Sailplane Racing Rules and Process" and can also be accessed via the link below....

Mr. Ray Galloway (P1) asked for me to post the following note: There has been much discussion over the differences between the FAI rules and the US rules. This is partly due to the fact that the US is the only country that does not follow FAI rules. At the 1985 WGC the US team was among the top...

From a very good friend visiting us from Germany, it is interesting to hear his perspective. After a couple of hours at the FAA Offices to upgrade his US certificate and seeing the security coming and going, he remarks: " It is like the Soviet Union 20 years ago" We know it's not quite that bad,...

Anybody able to recommend a USA company that can do automated panel cutting (from CAD)? Or maybe in Canada? Fiberglass panel, typical glider panel overall size, flat surface with uniform depth flange. Thanks!