Ricardo,

I run the scenic glider ride business in Hollister,
CA called Bay Area
Glider Rides. I can help get you scheduled with the
Hollister Gliding Club
though. They had removed their e-mail address because
of the spam and
where wanting people to call now. I can understand
not wanting to call
from France though.

The Hollister Gliding Club only provides training and
tows and then once
the student earns their license they join the Bay Area
Soaring Associates
(BASA) which has gliders for members to fly out of
Hollister and some
Sierra locations. So we do not have a glider for rent
other than dual with
an instructor. The glider available for training is
a Schweizer 2-32 which
has a 34:1 glider ratio. You could also try finding
a BASA club member to
fly with and offer to pay for the tow. Right now they
have a Grob 103 in
Hollister(an hour drive from Monterey) and a DG-1000
in Truckee (about
4.5 hours from Monterey). The best way to find a BASA
member would
be to post something to the Hollister Gliding Club
Yahoo Group which you
can find a link to sign up for at http://www.soarhollister.com


BASA's web site is http://www.flybasa.org

If you wanted to enjoy a scenic glider flight over
the Monterey Bay area
with someone else we do offer 2 passenger rides but
their are no
controls in the passenger area for this glider ride
option. The options for
these rides can be found at http://www.BayAreaGliderRides.com
there is
an e-mail contact on my web site that will reach me
also.

Sorry for the e-mail confusion. If you can think of
where you found the
bad e-mail please let me know and I will try to get
it removed.

Thank you,

Drew Pearce
Bay Area Glider Rides


At 20:54 20 June 2007, Kloudy Via Aviationkb.Com wrote:
Ricardo Rocha wrote:


Does anyone know if this would be possible in this
region?

Thanks a lot,
Ricardo
There is Williams Soaring also. Not quite as far away
from Monterey as
Minden.

http://www.williamssoaring.com/
But not Sierra quality soaring either. O_o

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