Welcome to the Finger
Lakes Soaring Club Website.
The
FLSC is a not-for-profit organization, formed
to promote the sport of soaring. The
club has a long history. It was
founded in 1949 by 10 pilots living in
Rochester, NY. The club moved to Batavia, NY
during May of 1954 to provide better
accessibility to Buffalo based
members. In 1963 the club moved
to its present location in Dansville, NY and
shortly thereafter changed its name to Finger
Lakes Soaring. We have
approximately 40 members, ranging in
experience from beginning students to
nationally ranked competition
pilots. Membership is open to
anyone interested in soaring and willing to
participate in the volunteer operation of the
club. We have a fleet of
6 gliders, along with two
towplanes. The
club operates from the Dansville Airport, which
is approximately 50 miles south of Rochester,
NY. Our flying activities begin
in early April and extend through
November. Weather
permitting, flight operations usually occur
on weekends and holidays during these months,
with impromptu operations on weekdays.
2008 REGION 3 SOARING CONTEST
Finger
Lakes Soaring Club will host the 2008 Region
3 Soaring Contest in Dansville, NY.
Contest
dates are Sunday August 17 through Saturday
August 23 with Saturday August 16 being a
practice day.
Kai
Gertsen is the CD and registration manager
for this event and can be contacted at KiCrew@frontiernet.net
All
contestants are requested to read and
understand the REGION 3 Safety Briefing
(Microsoft Word document)
which can be
found here: Region 3 Safety
Briefing
Click Here for the
Contestant list. (As of July 28)
June 2008 "The DOPE"
available (0.7
M pdf).
2008 Soar Fest
Schedule
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July 2 |
Kick off the
Soarfest |
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July 3-4 |
Open forum |
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July 5-6 |
Normal
weekend activity |
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July 7-8 |
Preparation
for the VSA Regatta. |
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July 8 |
Welcome VSA
members and their birds arrival. |
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July 9 |
Start of VSA
Regatta events (registration,
breifing allow late comers to
arrive). Evening activities TBD. |
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July 10 |
VSA Regatta
events. Evening activities TBD. |
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July 11 |
VSA Regatta
events. Evening activities TBD. |
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July 12 |
VSA Regatta
events. Evening activities TBD. |
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July 13 |
Recover from
evening activities and general clean
up with normal club activities |
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July 14 - 18 |
Open Forum |
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July 19
- 20 |
Normal
weekend activity |
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July 20 |
End of
Soarfest :-( |
Introduction To Cross
Country Soaring
Kai Gertsen has
logged more than enough miles in a glider to
fly around the world four times.
To our great benefit, he has organized all
this experience into the following three
booklets now available electronically here in
PDF format.
Pilot Operating
Handbooks (also available under
the FAQ's menu)
Members Only Section
- Forms
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The Finger
Lakes Soaring Club has most of our
forms available online.
Just select "Members Only"
from the above menu and then select
"Forms".
The forms are in ".PDF"
format for your convenience. |
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Club members
should send all checks to: |
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Finger Lakes Soaring Club |
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C/O Charles Zabinski |
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8531 Oatka Trail |
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Leroy, NY 14482 |
Finger Lakes Cross
Country Soaring
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Doug Cline,
CFIG, has a web page that will serve
to support the FLSC Cross Country
Program. It also contains interesting
references that members may wish to
read.
Doug's web page describes the FLSC
cross-country program, as well as the
latest results. In addition, there
are links to sources and articles on
weather forecasting, flying
techniques, and safety issues that
are related to both cross-country and
contest soaring.
Click
here to
go to Doug's Cross Country web site! |
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