On Saturday, April 11, 2020 at 8:48:07 PM UTC-5, WB wrote:
On Saturday, April 11, 2020 at 9:12:15 AM UTC-5, wrote:
Ok let me reorient this post back to topic. As of today it looks like alot of clubs and comm ops ARE flying in a limited manner, heres my list:
Central AL Soaring/Birmingham area- solo flights
Coastal Soaring/pensacola- all ops
Moriarty- solo
Sunflower/KS-solo ?
Treasure Coast/S FL-solo and ?
Seminole/central FL-solo and ?
Mississippi Soaring/jackson area- solo

Anyone else flying?

Hey Dan,

Southern Eagles Soaring, Butler, Georgia flew today (Saturday, April 11). We only did around 6 tows. Everything that launched stuck for most of the afternoon and we aren't doing training right now so not so many tows. We conducted "minimal operations" as mandated in the Governor of Georgia's shelter-in-place rules. We limited the size of our group while indoors (not much of that), only did single pilot tows, no 2 people in a glider ops of any kind. We had a spray bottle of diluted rubbing alcohol to clean everything and we took everyone's temperature. That turned out to be kind of a hassle. I got one of those talking infrared thermometers. We taped it to a long stick to maintain our social distancing. It was very difficult and somewhat painful to get the thing inserted, even with lots of KY lube. It seems to me that it was poorly designed for it's purpose, being relatively large for a thermometer and shaped like a pistol. Also, once inserted the little electronic voice was so muffled by the intervening anatomy that it as very hard to hear it. Maybe I need to review the instructions.


The same people who distrust the gooberment also demand the gooberment to come up with solutions.

Also, KY isn't the best lubricant (I say this based you decades of corporate and military experience), try albolene. It's water soluble and, according to upper management, doesn't leave as nasty an aftertaste.