Yesterday, Dave, Mark V., and others organized a training session followed by a radio operator license exam.

There was a 1 hour "lecture" followed by the exam, resulting in 13 pilots successfully receiving the certificate. Thanks to Don Kuehn for helping us in this initiative.

For those who missed this training, you can follow up with Mark Voysey, who is now an approved examiner.

Study guide:
https://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/smt-gst.nsf/vwapj/ric21-upd-oct-2011.pdf/$FILE/ric21-upd-oct-2011.pdf

The 2017 Precision Landing Contest was a great success. We flew almost 80 flights, the operation running all day long. We had a great day.

Here are the official results by class:
Un-licensed pilots:

• 1st place: Logan Orosz with 22ft
• 2nd place: James Woods 30ft
• 3rd place: Charlie Honey

Licensed pilots:

• 1st place (three way tie): Herrie TenCate, Mark Luscher, Martin Brassard 1.5ft
• 2nd place (two way tie): Ray Wood, Paul Fish
• 3rd place: Alex Depoutovitch

The BBQ was also well attended and all the cooking was done by the Junior Team. They ran a very efficient dinner there was no waiting and everyone ate way too much. Well done guys! The club is donating all proceeds to the Junior Team fund to help them with insurance, bursaries, contest fees, etc.

​We all look forward to even more participants next year.

Photos by Martin Brassard

SOSA finished the 2017 soaring season with a strong September that raised our total distance recorded to over 44,000 km. This put us in third place in the club rankings behind Canadian Rockies and Montreal. It is great to see that we have the largest number of participating pilots (42) in Canada.

The graph shows that 2017 just passed 2013 in total km. Let’s hope that the fall flying holds strong for a few more weeks and that next year brings many cross country soaring days.
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