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Falling in love with gliding may happen on your first flight, your first solo, once you’ve really started to grasp its beauty in all its incredible facets, the learning really starts to accelerate.  One thing is for sure, once you do discover this, there’s no going back.  It’s an inspiring sport, one of beauty, freedom, joy, and inspiration.  Once this develops, your thirst for knowledge

I’ve spent most of the last thirty years flying cross country, competing, and teaching others to soar and race. I’ve been lucky enough to fly in lots of different places: in the USA from Mifflin, Sugarbush, Parowan, and Minden, all over Europe from Finland to Spain and as far east as Lithuania. I’ve worked in  Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and even Japan. Along the way, I’ve managed

Gliding. It’s a spectacular sport as we all know, one that has many facets, one that can be shared amongst our peers, one that can give us endless joy & freedom from the world below.  What I love about our sport is that you can enjoy it any way you please, local soaring, joy flights with the public, aerobatics, cross-country soaring, racing or records – it’s limitless & it’s exciting.