Soaring the Northern Appalachian Ridges

Aero Club Albatross is thrilled to announce that we will be hosting a set of lectures addressing wave and ridge soaring techniques. This second lecture (February 17th) will cover ridge soaring.

We will host the seminars at the Warren County Library, which seats up to 70 attendees and is only five minutes away from Blairstown Airport. Pilots are more than welcome to fly over and hitch a ride with a club member to the lectures.

Lunch is included. Aero Club Albatross members can attend the lectures for $20. For our friends from neighboring clubs, the cost of attending the seminars is $40. Any pilots that join ACA as Associate Members ($66) can pay the member's price for the seminars ($20). If you plan on attending both lectures, that's only $26 more than attending as a non-member. Becoming an associate would allow you to tow behind our club towplane, attend club social functions such as the Picnic and Banquet, subscribe to the club e-group and use club facilities/tools.

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Ridge Seminar- February 17th

10:15-11am Ridge Soaring Theory/Technique- Robert Cook

11:15-12pm: Ridge weather- Prediction and dangers- Daniel Sazhin

12pm-1pm: Lunch

1pm-1:45pm: Soaring Blue Mountain NW- Panel consisting expert ridge pilots: Robert Templin, Ron Schwartz and Jonathan Leal

2pm-2:45pm: Soaring Blue Mountain SE- Bill Thar

3-3:45pm: Operations. Ridge guidelines + getting checked out. Guidance for visitors and club members- Rob Dunning: Safety Committee Chairman

4:30-5:30pm Social Hour- Buckhill Inn