Soaring in Prague?

Matt Herron Jr.

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Sep 23, 2009, 1:03:38 AM9/23/09

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I will be heading to Prague in the Czech Republic in a few weeks on
business. Any soaring operations in the area that might give me a
check ride in a two seater? Looks pretty flat from Google Earth, and
at those latitudes I am not expecting a lot of late season October
lift. But sight seeing might be nice...

Matt

Peter Wyld

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Sep 23, 2009, 6:45:03 AM9/23/09

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Zbrasvalice 49�48'53.27"N 15�12'13.31"E
about 60km SE of Prague, home of HpH, http://tinyurl.com/l4mnvq

and see this article
http://www.pacificsoaring.org/articles/Zbraslavice.html

Ralph Jones

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Sep 23, 2009, 8:49:34 AM9/23/09

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On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 22:03:38 -0700 (PDT), "Matt Herron Jr."
<ma...@digitalshorts.com> wrote:

>I will be heading to Prague in the Czech Republic in a few weeks on
>business.

Ask your boss to give me a job...;-)

Utterly beautiful city. The view of the castle from the Old Town
across the Charles Bridge is breathtaking...

rj

Martin Gregorie

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Sep 23, 2009, 9:41:54 AM9/23/09

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Sazena - 36 km north of Prague, 50 19 18.06 N, 14 15 46.87 E, just off
the main road that runs NNW to Dresden. The pinpoint is on the gliding
club's hangars. When I was there in 1997 they had an Antonov A-15
assembled in the hangar.

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Nick Olson

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Sep 23, 2009, 12:30:04 PM9/23/09

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Check out http://www.aeroklub.cz/souradnice-letist-v-cr.html
gives you a map with web links to all Czech aeroclubs - beautiful country.
Prague is a beautiful city somewhat spoilt by tourism though and quite a
seedy underbelly to it!

Tim Mara

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Sep 23, 2009, 6:52:44 PM9/23/09

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Great soaring site! You'll be quite impressed with the way their club
operates and the facilities there..plus Czech Republic is an ultra cultural
experience and has old and also ultra new...while you're there check with
HpH and see if you can't arrange a demo flight in the 304S.....I'm sure
they'll be happy to accomdate you...and once you do give us a full report!
Tim

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Vit Hradecky

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Sep 24, 2009, 12:49:56 PM9/24/09

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I would recommend the airport in Benesov (aka Nesvacily) about 40 min
from Prague. There are two gliding outfits:
* Glider Aerobatic Club: http://www.aero-gac.cz/
* F-Air: http://www.f-air.cz/

GAC has a couple Blaniks, a G103 Acro, an ASK-21, VSO-10 (single
seater), and may or may not still have a Fox.
A couple years ago F-Air had a Blanik, VSO-10 and a Discus-2T for
rent, but don't know if that's still the case.

Both are commercial operations with easy scheduling and good
availability of gliders and instructors.

Matt

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Sep 26, 2009, 1:56:21 AM9/26/09

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Thanks to everyone for your responses. As usual I am surprised by
just how much info members of this forum can provide. It's also clear
there are strong international roots here as well. If I manage to
take advantage of a day off in Prague, I will try to provide a little
feedback to the list of my experience.

Cheers,

Matt