XC Soaring camps

On Aug 23, 12:24*pm, RAS56 wrote:
Looking for recommendations/ advice wrt attending some of the xc camps
put on by various organizations/clubs in the USA.

My time schedule is such that weekend club flying is not going to get my
skills level to where I want it to be in the time frame I'm dealing
with, so am looking for an "immersion" type of experience to truncate
the process.

I'm aware of the program out at Air Sailing, feedback on it would be
appreciated and suggestions or reviews of other sites would also be
appreciated.

A Central US location would be a bonus to keep road time to a minimum
from my Texas residence.

Thanks in advance!

RAS

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RAS56


Hi,
There are numerous X-C cross country flying camps in Europe at
reasonable prices. If you're you looking at spending $3 grand for 5
days of duo discus flying; you're better of going to places like
St.Auban in France, including the reasonably priced airfare 7 days of
flying there will be still cheaper. And on the off days there is whole
lot to see... You can also view charter link on the segelflug.de /
kleinanzeigen tab. On average you can get a Duo cross country flying
at 200 Euro per day, unlimited hours.

Cheers,

GK

Thanks to all for the replies, I greatly appreciate it.

Looking at my logs, maybe it's not as bad as I thought...actually closer to 60 glider hours is what I've bagged. "under 100" was true, but not totally accurate.

Frank, I do fly Condor, have flown it with you in fact! You may remember at KAQO I responded to your query about making it a more effective training platform by suggesting a 12 or 24 volt electric fence controller wired to an appropriate part of the pilots body to make the stress of bad decision-making in Condor equal to that in RL! ;-))

I do appreciate all the input, maybe a little offsite dual to get me spooled up and build confidence would be in order; self-confidence, decision-making and stress management are what I know are my weak areas at this stage of my soaring experience.

Sure would be great though, to learn it in my own aircraft, with my own nav system and in conditions like we have here, not in a soaring Mecca like Minden...

RAS