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Radio Operator Certification

15/10/2017

 
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

Precision Landing Contest - Results

1/10/2017

 
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

October Mid-Week Towing

1/10/2017

 
As we move into a quieter part of the year, there are towpilots that have volunteered to be available most days throughout October.

The schedule is shown here:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OFTLiFHjkTnbrpdFJI_jUK75OGjMNMPgCXqTCxk3z6c/edit#gid=1099502040

To avoid the situation where a towpilot arrives at SOSA and waits all day while no glider pilots come out to fly, the daily flying planner in freeflight will be used. If no one has posted to the daily flying planner before 8 am on a given day, then the towpilot is relieved of duty for that day and will not be at SOSA to tow.

OLC - September 2017 Results

1/10/2017

 
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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Friday Winch Operation

1/10/2017

 
With sunset occurring earlier each week, it is now time to call off Friday winching for the season. 

As we move through the fall, we'll plan to start winching every Sunday starting in November and continue as long as the weather cooperates.

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