travel time to gliding site / club?

Almost exactly 1 mile from my house to my glider club's airport.

Why would anyone want to live further?

Kirk
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On Thursday, March 28, 2019 at 10:53:11 AM UTC-7, kirk.stant wrote:
Almost exactly 1 mile from my house to my glider club's airport.

Why would anyone want to live further?

Kirk
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Very good, Kirk. But Mark's way home via the brewery is hard to beat.
For me 9.5 miles / 15km / 15 minutes to the Segelflugplatz.
A brewery detour on the way back adds about 0.3 mi / 0.5km / an hour?

Resurrection of an old thread... By a single-seat Bocian!
Jim

6 miles 10 min. $12.00/winch tow to 2k 80miles xc to Grand Canyon with outstanding views

It's roughly 3 hours one way from my house to either of the two places I fly: Chilhowee Gliderport and the Blue Ridge Soaring Society (New Castle, VA).

The travel time is major impediment to my flying, sadly.

Matt

On Tuesday, May 20, 2008 at 6:25:08 AM UTC-6, Nigel Rotherham wrote:
Hi everyone :-) GR8 to have service 'back'!
Question for any / all interested: What is your travel time / distance
(round trip?) from home to gliding / soaring club - site? Not that will
make any difference to actual journey I need to take but knowing what
fellow enthusiast 'endure' to enjoy our fantastic sport / hobby will
probably make me feel 'much better' (s a factor in choosing which club
to join here in South Africa)! From my home (Benoni) must allow 4 hrs
(approx 350 Km) average for any of the 'local' clubs...
Thanks in advance. FLY SAFE! very best regards Nigel R

Very few "local" options for me. The closest is 217 miles one way (349.2km), and the other is 231 miles (371.7km) in the opposite direction. However, I'm working on starting something truly local, within 3 miles of my home. Hopefully this summer!

All these emails make me realize how lucky we are in Boulder, CO. Our little airport is right in town, there's great infrastructure (university, great restaurants, breweries; Denver and Denver Int'l are just 40 min away, etc), we have an active club w/ ~150 members and excellent club equipment, we fly on any day of the week, 12 months per year; there are great soaring conditions (10-15kt thermals from April to October up to 17,999; wave from November through March; 300+ days of sunshine/year). Cost of living, while high compared to the Midwest, is much cheaper than London, US East Coast, or Cali metros. And we're right at the foothills of the Rocky Mountains... Maybe you should consider joining us here? We'd love to have you! You could just ride your bike to the airport. :-) Cheers, Clemens