Soaring already DOA for the season???

Finger Lakes Soaring in Upstate, New York (340 miles from NYC) is shut down until further notice. Most of our CFI-Gs are past 60 yrs. We always start the season off with a Spring Check Ride, with an instructor, for all members including the instructors. As the club instructor most advanced into geezerhood, I'm not getting into an enclosed cockpit with anyone for a quite a while. Our season may have to start with solo only for experienced pilots and no instruction.

Chuck Zabinski

This thread really is illuminating.
Thanks, maybe.

Aldo Cernezzi
(from Northern Italy)

Hello from Shanghai. I’m a pilot for one of the US cargo carriers here for work. I thought I would share my experience since there seems to be quite a disconnect between where we are in the US versus the thinking here..

Before we left the airplane for the hotel we were required to put on masks and had our temperature taken. Every person we encountered, leaving the airplane, immigration, health, customs, had full contagion suits on with eye protection. We rode in a car that had been fully swabbed down between rides. Arriving at the hotel we entered through a special door for foreigners and followed a roped off lane to a designated elevator. Everyone at the hotel had full suits on. They took us to the 34th floor were we stood isolated as they took our passports and credit cards to the lobby to get us keys. For the last 40 hours we’ve been shut in our hotel room with only room service. When they deliver the food they are wearing the suits and take our temperature.

In other words they are worried about us infecting them and they are serious about this virus. Overkill - maybe but they’ve got a handle on this. I’m concerned that the problem in the US will be made worse by our failure to take decisive action.

My club, Harris Hill, is shut down. That’s a bummer because just last week I was happily sanding new gelcoat on my fuselage to Bob Marley tunes all alone midweek in a huge hangar. But I guess I’d hate to infect one of the oldsters in the club since they are some of my favorite souls on earth.

There has been no decision made to cancel or postpone the WGC this year. There also seems to be no word from the SSA about the nationals. Anyone know anything?

Sean Murphy

On Sunday, March 29, 2020 at 6:49:35 PM UTC-7, wrote:
Hello from Shanghai. I’m a pilot for one of the US cargo carriers here for work. I thought I would share my experience since there seems to be quite a disconnect between where we are in the US versus the thinking here.

Before we left the airplane for the hotel we were required to put on masks and had our temperature taken. Every person we encountered, leaving the airplane, immigration, health, customs, had full contagion suits on with eye protection. We rode in a car that had been fully swabbed down between rides. Arriving at the hotel we entered through a special door for foreigners and followed a roped off lane to a designated elevator. Everyone at the hotel had full suits on. They took us to the 34th floor were we stood isolated as they took our passports and credit cards to the lobby to get us keys. For the last 40 hours we’ve been shut in our hotel room with only room service. When they deliver the food they are wearing the suits and take our temperature.

In other words they are worried about us infecting them and they are serious about this virus. Overkill - maybe but they’ve got a handle on this. I’m concerned that the problem in the US will be made worse by our failure to take decisive action.

My club, Harris Hill, is shut down. That’s a bummer because just last week I was happily sanding new gelcoat on my fuselage to Bob Marley tunes all alone midweek in a huge hangar. But I guess I’d hate to infect one of the oldsters in the club since they are some of my favorite souls on earth.

There has been no decision made to cancel or postpone the WGC this year. There also seems to be no word from the SSA about the nationals. Anyone know anything?

Sean Murphy

The SSA certainly doesn't know anything. That's just an organization that collects dues and uses the money to print a rubbish magazine.

On Sun, 29 Mar 2020 18:49:32 -0700 (PDT), wrote:


There has been no decision made to cancel or postpone the WGC this year. There also seems to be no word from the SSA about the nationals. Anyone know anything?


Yes.
Preliminary decisions have been made, and the final decision about the
WGC at Stendal is going to follow soon.

At the moment all pure glider fields in Europe are closed as well as
most other General Aviation Airports. Gliding is essentially shut down
in all of Europe at the moment for the foreseeable future.

Draw your own conclusion if a WGC in Germany is going to take place.

Cheers
Andreas

On Sun, 29 Mar 2020 18:49:32 -0700 (PDT), wrote:


There has been no decision made to cancel or postpone the WGC this year. There also seems to be no word from the SSA about the nationals. Anyone know anything?

WGC at Stendal has been cancelled (postponed to 2011) today, together
with all other competitions in Germany.

https://www.daec.de/news-details/nat...oder-abgesagt/

Andreas,

Check SSA Contest Committee announcement on 1 April from Andy Blackburn. Rich

On Sat, 4 Apr 2020 07:13:14 -0700 (PDT), Rich Owen
wrote:

Andreas,

Check SSA Contest Committee announcement on 1 April from Andy Blackburn. Rich

Got a direct link? The latest one I find is from 2020-3-31.

BTW: I'm from Germany and took part in the conference call on
2020-3-26 where the German Aero Club (DAeC) decided to cancel all FAI
competitions in Germany in 2020. Do you have more current information?
The official announcement of the DAeC is dated 2020-4-3.

Cheers
Andreas

Andreas,

Sorry, should have included the link.

https://www.ssa.org/files/member/Gui...ganizers. pdf

Cheers,
Rich

On Sun, 5 Apr 2020 03:30:23 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

Andreas,

Sorry, should have included the link.

https://www.ssa.org/files/member/Gui...ganizers. pdf

Cheers,
Rich


Thank you very much!

Moving all events ahead one year is the thing that is done all over
Europe, and I think it's a good idea. If other countriesfollowed,
things would stay synchronized at least (in Germany we have a two year
interval of major competitions which act as qualifications for WGC's
and EGC's).

I wasn't involved in the final decicion about the WGC, but in the
discussion leading to that decision one major point was that it
probably would be problematic to ship the gliders across the borders.


Stay safe!
Andreas