UK Glider pilot visiting Minnesota

wrote:
Hi Folks,

Just looked at this thread again.

Thanks for all your answers. No, I'm not a lumberjack but I can do a
fairly poor impression of the Monty Python lumberjack song after a few
beers. I work in Television and we were making a TV series from near Ely MN for the BBC.

I did not manage to locate any gliding club and fully agree that the
opportunities for cross country are extremely limited. When I was there,
the sky was full of lovely cumulus clouds. It is worse than looking out
of an office window at a good gliding sky. How bad is that??

I did find a floatplane facility and treated myself to a couple of hours
of tuition and hooning. Interesting stuff although I would have been far
happier in my Ventus.

Thanks again for your help and wishing you happy soaring!

Mike

Yeah nothing close to Ely. You'd have to find a club around Minneapolis.
Just out of curiosity can you tell us what the BBC was doing up in Ely???

Pete