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Posted: 4/18/2014 12:03:56 AM EDT

How many glider pilots do we have on ARFCOM? I thought it might be neat to post up some photos from the 2014 soaring season.

I'm a student and I'm shooting for my certification this year. I flew most of last summer in this Grob 103.
So far: I have 5 short solo flights and a couple of great thermal & wave days under my belt. I'm hooked!

Posted: 4/18/2014 5:16:11 PM EDT

[#1]

I was a passenger in a sailplane once.

Or I have been an instructor and/or student for 87,000 simulated engine out emergencies in various singe engine planes. Do either of those count?

Posted: 4/19/2014 6:07:44 AM EDT

[#2]

Commercial Glider here. Haven't had a chance to use it much the last few years though. Sure miss it.

Posted: 4/19/2014 7:10:22 AM EDT

[#3]

Flew about 10 hours in the Schweizer 2-33 back about 10+ years ago. Since then, have gone on 3 flights in Oahu. One was an aerobatic. Fun stuff.

Posted: 4/19/2014 10:53:05 AM EDT

[#4]

I got a chance to ride in a Puchacz glider abouut 10 years ago, and another short ride in another one about a year later. It is a bizarre feeling watching your powerplant fly away....

Posted: 4/20/2014 6:10:22 PM EDT

[#5]

Planning on picking up my glider add-on this year. Looks like a blast, just haven't had the time the last few years. Hopefully, add glider to my CFI certificate in a few years rather than sit through another american flyers FIRC.

Posted: 4/23/2014 1:54:21 PM EDT

[#6]

It's a friggin' gorgeous day for thermal soaring.
Out my office window, all I can see are beautiful flat-bottom cumulous clouds for miles and miles.

I want to go flying!

Posted: 4/24/2014 6:10:50 PM EDT

[#7]

Flown r/c sailplanes for 30 years. Waiting on the sorta local glider club to get their act together so I can add that rating.

Posted: 4/24/2014 11:11:52 PM EDT

[#8]

I would like a glider rating. It seems so nice to fly something smooth and quiet. I love helicopters, but they are neither smooth or quiet.

Posted: 4/28/2014 8:59:44 AM EDT

[#9]

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I would like a glider rating. It seems so nice to fly something smooth and quiet. I love helicopters, but they are neither smooth or quiet.

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Gliders are indeed quiet, but they're bumpy as hell on a good thermal soaring day! Atmospheric instability makes a lot of lift, but also a lot of turbulence.

Wave flying is super smooth, but you have to fly through some horrendous rotors to get to the waves. Last time I went, if I would have taken my belt harness off I probably would have been bounced right through the canopy!

Posted: 5/1/2014 12:10:49 PM EDT

[#10]

I had my first lesson yesterday since the Fall season ended. Holy smokes, did I have some rust to knock off my piloting skills.

I fully understand now why there are mandatory check-rides at the start every season!

Posted: 6/8/2014 9:10:30 AM EDT

[#11]

Gonna bump this one more time before I let the thread die off :) Must not be many glider guys on this forum, but just in case one sees it today.

I flew a soaring solo yesterday. Weather wasn't great for thermal activity, but I had lots of great practice trying to ride the few thermals I found!

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