I've had an email from the Aero Sports Federation of China who state
that there is Soaring at the Datong Aero Sports School. Datong is in
Shanxi Province and is about 260km W of Beijing. I have a contact phone
number but I'm told they don't speak much English. I'm hoping to get
an email and/or web address.

E-mail:
http://www.datong-flight-base.com
Tel:0352-6015396 (when I translated with Babelfish it suggested this
was the fax number)


Nice! Can you give me the phone number? My wife is Chinese so I can get
her to be the intermediary over the phone. Feel free to e-mail it to me
(mike at mikeash.com) if you don't want to post it publicly.


I delayed posting the info as I asked the ASFC for permission to put
the details on the NG and they have responded with their
website/contact details above.

I'll be contacting Datong soon to enquire about flying there using one
of our local contacts (and trying to get prices for local pilots as
well as the "waiguoren price" As I'm here until July/August 2007 I
hope to make a few trips there.

I look forward to hearing about your experiences in Datong. The
question of Gliding in China has been posted in this NG a few times
over the last year with few answers and if you get time it would be
good to "file a report" here or on your website for future reference.

Safe Flying!
--
Neil