John and David,

Neat to hear about your soaring adventures, particularly via the
Calhoun Airport Association new, not often used email discussion list.
You demonstrated how it can be used.

Bring on the sailplanes/gliders.

Chuck Goodrum


--- In czlapa@yahoogroups.com, "davidkcampbell56"
<davidkcampbell56@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Folks -
>
> We had a great day at D73 today!
>
> Started the day out looking like it might be a bit blue - but Qs
were popping by noon. Lift
> was phenomenal early in the day, and continued right until end of
day ops. Cloudbases
> were reported at 7300 AGL.
>
> Scott Andersen and Joel worked on and completed Joel's C badge. In
addition, Tom West
> completed Silver distance, duration (5 hours), and altitude
requirements. A lot was
> accomplished today - so keep your eyes peeled for the announcement
in 'Soaring.'
> Congratulations guys!
>
> The rides went great; 2 Fast rides (instruction and intro flight) ,
and 3 Discovery flights.
> Scott really pulled double duty today - with FAST instruction on top
of C badge work.
> Thanks to both Scott and David for great work with prospects.
>
> Club ships really got a workout with 14 flights. All total, we had
15 flights when you
> include Tom's tow.
>
> Today was a great team effort - thanks everyone for pitching in and
making it a GREAT
> day. (Mika, Gonda, Dan, David, Scott, Andrew & Bill Provine,
John... I'm sure I'm forgetting
> others)
>
> We look forward to seeing you all next Saturday - April 28th for our
ride day.
>
> John Andrew
>
> Below added by David Campbell:
>
> Note that Tom West had seen me do five hours a few years ago, and
had flown much of
> the day with me that day. I was up giving three rides...one was the
mandatory 30 minute
> ride, one was 18 minutes because he got a bit green, and the third
was 2 hours, 10
> minutes, allowed to go long because nobody needed the glider, and
limited only by the
> call to come down and be properly shuffled into the hangar..but I
hung out until Tom West
> made his five hour flight by a good margin. He had just completed a
cross country that
> included a 50 kilometer leg for the Silver Badge.
>
> Mid Georgia is all about cross country soaring, and some of the
membership raced at a
> regional meet held at Perry, S.C.
>
> To me, soaring is mostly about my Creator and His creativity, and
less about the ships
> involved...KCZL would do well to add trained, disciplined soaring
interests to its list of
> possibilities.
>
> Steve Wood is very interested in demonstrating his singleplace
DG-400 motorglider here.
>
> David K Campbell
>