On May 15, 4:55*pm, GARY BOGGS wrote:
Thank you all for responding to my last post about glider operations
at other airports. *I am refining that request. *I am looking of any
written operational plans for glider operations at public airports
with a single runway. *The airport owners at my airport are not
letting me stage our gliders at the take off ends of the runway. *We
have more than enough space for safe staging areas at each end, and
have been staging near the take off end of 25 or 07 for decades,
without complaints, but now the owners want us to load and unload
passengers in the parking area and tow the loaded sailplane 3000ft to
the end of the runway. *For a while they were saying they would not
allow us to use any wing runners past the hold short line! *It's very
difficult when non-pilots try to make the rules! *This is an airport
with very little traffic, especially when the wind is blowing, which
is when we do most of our soaring.

Please send me any written operational plans for staging gliders close
to the take off ends of airports with single runways

Thank you.

Gary Boggswww.nwskysports.com

Can't you get some help from the SSA? I'm sure if this management
group could hear of the many, many gliderports that stage along the
runway, they may begin to understand. How about requesting some of
your "powered" friends who fly there to speak on your behalf? Are
these managers even pilots? If so, there may be some influence to be
had from the powered community based there. These are probably things
you've thought of already, but I thought I'd throw them out there.
Seems a shame to have to deal with these "arbitrary" limitations.