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Hello Denny,
FAR 91.159 has a couple of key words in it that would apply to gliders. The first is “or while turning.” Gliders, at least here in the midwest, spend much of the time turning whether thermaling or searching for thermals. The second key words are “in level cruising flight.” Gliders, are always either descending or climbing. There may be an exception if in ridge lift where you might be able to maintain a constant altitude, as the same goes with wave lift. Cloud streets may also provide level flight.
This is why glider pilots must constantly be looking out for other aircraft. The rule helps glider pilots give them an idea of where oncoming aircraft might be coming from and at what altitudes.
Example; you are flying your glider in a westerly direction and maintaining an altitude between 4500 and 7000 feet MSL (lift band). Oncoming VFR powered aircraft traveling between 0 and 179 degrees magnetic should be at 3500 ft, 5500 or 7500 ft . IFR traffic should be at 5000 ft or 7000 ft. The glider pilot should be very aware and searching the sky for traffic while transiting through those key altitudes.
§ 91.159 VFR cruising altitude or flight level.
Except while holding in a holding pattern of 2 minutes or less, or while turning, each person operating an aircraft under VFR in level cruising flight more than 3,000 feet above the surface shall maintain the appropriate altitude or flight level prescribed below, unless otherwise authorized by ATC:
(a) When operating below 18,000 feet MSL and –
(1) On a magnetic course of zero degrees through 179 degrees, any odd thousand foot MSL altitude + 500 feet (such as 3,500, 5,500, or 7,500); or
(2) On a magnetic course of 180 degrees through 359 degrees, any even thousand foot MSL altitude + 500 feet (such as 4,500, 6,500, or 8,500).
(b) When operating above 18,000 feet MSL, maintain the altitude or flight level assigned by ATC.
John P,
Lets try that again. Attachment should be there now.
Also, yes, the Wing Runner Course and Tow Pilot course are to be
completed every year as a refresher course for all members.Regards,
Don Grillo
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Hello Sky Soaring Instructors,
For our Spring Safety Meeting, so far, Steve Snyder will do a presentation on WINGS and Flight Reviews, Gary Palumbo will do Ground Safety and Operations. John Baker is available for a subject. I will do a review of our Policy and Procedures Manual and emphasize important safety items in the manual.
Do we have any other instructors not mentioned above that would like to make a presentation?Regards,
Don Grillo
Steve, since you replied first how about you do wings and flight reviews. GARY if you don’t mind doing ground operations and ground safety.John Baker, yes, please try and get WING’s credit for attendees.
— DonWay to go Animesh!!! And Happy 16th Birthday!!! This was your
first knowledge exam of which many more will follow. Your Private
Pilot Glider Rating is closer than you think. Don’t stop preparing
as you’ll have an oral exam with your flight test as well. See you
soon.Don Grillo
Flight Chairman
Hello Dick,
Unfortunately, we had to remove the photo gallery as it was a source for hackers to get into our website code. On more than one occasion our website was hacked and it took several days with help from our hosting service to find the malicious code. There are other online services that could host a photo gallery if someone wanted to administer it.
Regards,Don Grillo
HI Mark,
That’s great that you will be offering this ground school. Let us know the details once you get the location finalized. Also, consider having it available on zoom. If the location is Hartford, that’s quite a drive for us that live in the Chicago area.
Regards,
Don Grillo
Flight ChairmanI’m not very familiar with XCSoar. I used it a few times in 2014 on an small android PDA. I do recall that I needed an extra battery to keep the PDA charged for long flights. Newer devices may not need that extra charging. I don’t believe that it works on iPhones or apple devices. The club does own an Oudie that can also be used to load tasks and record your flight and create .IGC files.
Those of us at the club that are flying xcountry use several different online tools to help us plan our tasks. We use SkySight for weather and SeeYou for task planing. They are yearly subscriptions. They both interact with each other so you can overlay the forecasted weather over your SeeYou task planner. This helps in planning your task, where the best soaring weather will be. I believe they have free trials as well. You will need to load the northern Illinois waypoints file into SeeYou. That file is available here.
Don
