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| Shenandoah Valley Soaring |
| Vol.7, No.1 | Eagle's Nest-Waynesboro | February 2000 |
To encourage our members to take advantage of the great opportunities for soaring in the Shenandoah Valley, Jim Garrison will present the remaining three sessions of his "Cross Country Soaring" course on March 18, 25, and April 1.
Each of the 2-3 hour sessions will begin at 9:00 a.m. in the Augusta County Library. Please let Bud or Jim know if you plan to attend so enough copies of the handouts can be made. We will provide a complete set of handouts for the course at the first session. They will be Xeroxed on 3 hole notebook paper so you can place them in a notebook (not provided) to keep the set together. The Xeroxing expenses will probably come to $3-$4 per set, so be prepared to pay that as a reimbursement.
(Note: The first session on flying Cross Country in Ridge and Wave lift was held on January 15. See item following this one.)
Current plans are to hold the sessions rain or shine at the Fishersville Library beginning at 9:00 AM on Saturday mornings. We will start SATURDAY, MARCH 18 and hold the next sessions on MARCH 25 and APRIL 1, 2000. Classes will conclude at about 11 AM so we can fly. We will meet in the downstairs meeting room used for the Wave Class. Food and coffee will be available.
Directions to Library: The Augusta County Library is located in Fishersville on Hwy 250 Between Staunton and Waynesboro. From I-64, take Exit 91 and go north on Hwy 608 to Hwy 250 (1.5 mi). Turn left heading west on Hwy 250. The library is located on the left, just past the railroad bridge. The library's phone number is (540) 885-3961.
The schedule is outlined below. The general plan is to only have one class each weekend so that we only have to travel to Fishersville once/weekend. If it is raining, we may be able to hold a morning and afternoon session to help get ahead of schedule.
Saturday, January 15, Jim Garrison presented a classroom session on wave and ridge flying to about two dozen soaring pilots who included, besides SVS members, about a half a dozen members of the Tidewater Soaring Society and two from Blue Ridge Soaring Society. The session, part of Jim's larger course on cross country soaring, was held at the Fishersville Library.
Afterward, many of the class participants went to Eagle's Nest, where a major focus of attention was Hal Loken assembling his Genesis 2 in a bone-chilling breeze and flying its maiden flight at Waynesboro. On arriving at Eagle's Nest, incidentally, we found only the concrete slab remnant of the old office building and a trailer sitting in front of the slab. The office was demolished to make way for a new airport office, which already is taking shape.
The final SVS Board of Director's meeting (before our annual membership meeting) is scheduled for 6:00 p.m. at Gordon Aylor's house on Saturday, March 18. Bob Lock has promised to present a written financial report covering the period since he became treasurer. Dave Miller will present a proposed slate of officers for the coming year.
I am also planning to schedule a combination dinner and annual membership meeting for 6:00 p.m. at the South River Restaurant on Saturday, April 8. We will be seated in a separate room and, after the dinner, we will conduct our annual business meeting.
The Petersburg Spring wave Camp will soon be here. We plan to bring the 1-26 to Petersburg on Friday, March 3. It will remain assembled and available to all SVS members until March 12. If there are any further questions, don't hesitate to call Bud (804) 964-9055 evenings, or (804) 978-5645 at work.
(Feb 6) hi guys,
Don't want to make you feel bad, but the soaring was good here this weekend. Yesterday I made a flight with a fellow from MASA for about 2 hrs. After tow the vario pegged out at +10 and we were at 14000 ft. in no time. Could not find wave, although it was around somewhere. Today was another good one, I heard someone calling in from 13000 ft. I hope your field will dry out soon, so you can fly again. We have hard surface ramp and taxiways. So we are spoiled. Will let you know about my next exciting trip.
Note: Tow pilot schedules are posted on our home page http://cfw.com/~klaser/svs.html, as are other neat links, such as the on-the-hour weather observations at Shenandoah Valley Regional Airport. Worth a look before making the trip to Eagle's Nest, expecially for those east of the Blue Ridge.