Tows Available at Ephrata Starting Labor Day Weekend

[Dave Reusch]

Dear Fellow Purist Glider Pilots ,

The SGC Pawnee has been repaired and will be operating Labor Day Weekend and, if demand warrants, the following two weekends. 

Please sign up to indicate your interest: 10c0c4ea9ac2ca3fece9-sgcschedule

You may need to log in to the SGC website to access this. Should the link not function you can find the signup under SGC:   Events + 2022 Ephrata Operations

Of course also most welcome are any motor glider pilots who find their prop’s, engines, batteries, or fuel systems temporarily ill disposed.

[Noel Wade]

Thanks, Dave!

  

I've signed up and will be bringing out the mighty DuoDiscus, for her first few flights in the PNW. :-) 

  

Hope to see folks there!

  

--Noel

  

[Noel Wade]

Thanks, Mahlon!  

  

FWIW, I'd love to fly the Duo a few weekends in September so let's see if we can get 5+ for more than one weekend. :-)

  

Dan - Welcome! If you have a chance to come out to Ephrata, we'd love to have you! I help put on cross-country mentorship events and assist people in getting comfortable flying at Ephrata (and throughout WA state). In fact, that's the reason I recently sold my racing sailplane and bought a DuoDiscus - I am so serious about mentoring pilots and getting more folks flying cross-country that I "put my money where my mouth is". So if there's anything I can do to help you soar more and reach your goals, please don't hesitate to reach out!

  

--Noel

noel...@gmail.com

425-749-0515 (cell, text is best)

  

On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 8:01 AM M Hull <mbhu...@yahoo.com> wrote:

Hi Dave - all,

Adding a new pilot to this list - Dan Holden.  Dan has a significant amount of flying experience (has a Pitts and has completed Acro School in Ephrata) and went to Williams this summer and added gliding to his ticket.  He is already a Tow Pilot and brings that qualification to the table too.  He's applied to join Evergreen and has already joined SGC.  He purchased a decked out Libelle 201 from someone at Williams a month back and has already flown it down there multiple times.  I had a chance to fly with him in the Grob last weekend at KAWO and we had a great hour long flight - working it from 1500' (headed to downwind and of course the best thermal we had popped up) back up to 2700' in very light/spotty lift.

He has a Phd in Experimental Physics and worked as a researcher in Atmospheric Electrics mostly in New Mexico for the US (now retired).  He won't tell you that (his friend at Skagit told me), so, you know a little more about his background.  He is also the president of our hangar association at Skagit:-)

He's expressed interest in flying at Ephrata in September with us so I thought to add him here for the latest info on the effort.

Hoping we can get 5+ for the 3 weeks proposed!!  I'll bring my 1-26, but, not for one weekend - to much handling etc...

Thanks,

Mahlon