Welcome to PASCO!
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EVENTS CALENDAR ---
Jan 17: NCSA Annual Meeting
MDPA Mtg Room - Concord
Contact: Monique Weil
Jan 17: VSA Seminar Series: Dinner & Speaker: Rex Mayes - Taking care of your Trailer.
Jan 29: VSA Seminar Series: Dinner & Speaker - Walter Cannon - Physiological Factors Effecting Pilots
Quick Links:
Wave Rules NevadaOLC -On Line Contest
PASCO Sawyer Award
Post your flights on the OLC and join the Region 11 Sawyer contest (automatic when you post to the OLC). Read more about it on the PASCO Sawyer Award page.
Where's The Egg?
PASCO Capture Trophy
9/28/2008 Minden, SoaringNV.
Mike Mitton captured the egg from Truckee and it is proudly displayed by Fred LaSor at SoaringNV.
Problems? Questions?
Email: Webmaster
News Flash! It is here --
180-Day Parachute Repacks Arrived!
This is from Allen Silver's web site (SilverParachutes.com).
The FAA has issued a final ruling and beginning December 19th, 2008, parachute repacks will be good for 180 days instead of 120 days. Three years of persistent work has paid off! Read the FAA's ruling (21 page pdf file).
Have You Heard?
California Sky Ranch
This will be a Member Owned and Operated Gliderport! Just as we are all concerned about the future of soaring in Northern California, Rex Mayes has a project West of Williams, CA, and near the Mendocino Mountains, to build a member owned and operated Gliderport.
Interested?
If you want to help insure the future of soaring and be part of a great project, visit their website at www.californiaskyranch.com and find out more.
Traveling Across America - The Alby
Traveling Trophy - Alby's Story
Alby is a Laysan Albatross. He was born and raised in the Midway Islands, not far from the very same Laysan Island that gives names to all .... (to read the entire story visit Alby's Blogspot)
It has started! Follow Alby on its flight across America.
This is the sculpture complete with walnut pedestal ready to take off for its flight across the American continent. Photographer: Aaron Oestreich
The Ultimate Free Flying Experience
To fly as the hawk and eagle has been mankind's dream for centuries. Modern sailplanes make soaring flight possible, and with them humans can fly higher, faster, and farther than the greatest of birds, using only an invisible force of nature to stay aloft. The sport is called "soaring" and to pilot as well as spectator, it has universal appeal.
Learning to fly Gliders - 'Soaring'
The terms gliding and soaring are used interchangeably.
There are many soaring clubs and commercial operations in the United States. Visit one and you are likely to find the pilots are men, women, and young people whose experience in sailplane flying may vary greatly, but who share a common bond in being participants in one of the world's most satisfying and exhilarating sports. How else, within an hour or so of your home, can you become Columbus or Magellan, exploring the unknown?
For sheer beauty, the sport of soaring is unsurpassed. Sailplanes may vary widely in design but they are all graceful - especially when moving through the sky.
Earning your Glider Rating - Your first step is to take an introductory flight in a sailplane. That flight will introduce you to a world you have never known. And it is so exciting that you will want to explore it, to learn more about it and to become part of it. Accept that challenge and you are on your way to becoming a part of the world of glider pilots.
As with any course of study, the more material you read on your own, the faster you'll learn and the more competent you'll be. The Soaring Society of America web site list the requirements to obtain your glider pilot license. You can also visit any the Web Site of glider operations in the Northern California and Nevada area by clicking on this link: View list of Glider Clubs and Glider Operations.
Where's The Egg?
Minden 9/28/2008: Per Fred LaSor - Soaring, NV. --- Mike Mitton "captured" the PASCO egg from Truckee September 28 with a nice flight out of Minden. He towed with SoaringNV to the west to see if the clouds on that side of the valley would work, and after scratching around for about an hour finally made it south far enough to have the 100 km distance he needed from his destination.
(Capturing the egg requires a start at least 100 km from the location of the egg, and the 1% rule applies for the tow.) The egg now sits in the SoaringNV office at Minden. Congratulations, Mike! Good flight! -- Fred LaSor SoaringNV
Truckee Sept. 7, 2008: Ramy (TG) flew from Truckee via Mt. Shasta and south to Williams to capture the PASCO Egg from Williams Soaring Center. A terrific flight. View his beautiful photos and story. Read it at the Williams Today Forum.