Group-on flights cancelled Mile High added

[ANDRZEJ CHICEWICZ]

Fantasy solution by Andy

Mile high ride ? its means club member gone be waiting longer

For next tow ,no good idea .

My proposal : purchase chip motor glider for daily riders :Where?

https://www.aviatorshotline.com/aircraft/experimentalhomebuilt/pzl-szd-45a-ogar-motor-glider

 

Info:

OGAR GLIDER

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xstkbdAs3zE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdILsZHlm7E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGU2nSnQbdg

and everybody gone be happy

 

require more analyses by experts !

 

[ANDRZEJ CHICEWICZ]

Fantasy solution by Andy

 

[John DeRosa]

I believe that the “mile high” option is a good idea and will not greatly impact our tow operations.
Other clubs – Several clubs that I know of have this “mile high” option and they report those rides to be about 10% of all their “day member” rides.  As we had a total of 57 day member rides in 2019 this would mean about 6 of those rides would be a mile high. 

Time – A 3,000ft AGL tow takes about 10-15 minutes round trip.  The additional 1390 ft to get to 4,390ft AGL (5,280ft MSL) would probably take an additional 15 minutes round trip. 

Bottom line – All our “mile high” tows would add up to a YEARLY total tow time delta of about 1-1/2 hours.  Not very much. 

John H DeRosa
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[John Lincoln]

I don’t have an issue with the mile high club scenic ride for day members. I do wonder a bit about John D’s math though. In this case I think of the mile high club as being a tow to 5280′ agl. An additional 2280′ above a regular scenic day ride tow to 3000 agl which would be 3890 msl. Top of a mile high tow being 6,170 msl. Of course we could save a bunch of tow time by offering the One Kilometer Club scenic ride. That would only add an extra 280.84 feet to the regular day member scenic flight! All kidding aside a cool thought about the mile high tows is if we took the day member to Marengo in the Lark and then of course flew back to SSI. They would get a bit of a taste for cross country as well as seeing some countryside. John Lincoln

[Dennis Burke]

Question…..would any of you Private Glider members think of doing that
5280 cruise,….without a transponder of some sort?

[John Lincoln]

Dennis, I wouldn’t hesitate to do the 5280 cruise. I can’t because I’m not a commercial rated pilot. I fly without a transponder now so that wouldn’t bother me either. Marengo is away from the class B airspace too. I would like a two way radio but we have hand helds for that. Finally it’s approximately 7 miles from Marengo to SSI. That is a 7:1 glide ratio if the tow is to 6170 msl. If we go with towing to 5280 msl the glide ratio is 8.42:1.  Actually even the 2-33 shouldn’t have any trouble with either glide. It would be a lark in the Lark!!! John Lincoln

[Anonymous]

informative and professional message
A1 safety and professionalism attitude that goes with the wise and very old statement: “There are Old Pilots and Bold Pilots but not very many Old, Bold/Careless Pilots

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