Better Outrach to Grow Your Soaring Groupby Neita Montague

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WHY SOARING:
OR
HOW TO MAKE GOOD CLUBS
BETTER

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WHAT KEEPS A GLIDER IN THE AIR?
• WHY THIS TALK
• HISTORY
• WHAT WE DO NOW
• THE FUTURE OF SOARING
• WHY YOU SHOULD CARE
• DEMOGRAPHICS
• PLANNING TO CHANGE THAT FUTURE
• TRAINING ISSUES
• SUMMARY
• HANDOUTS

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14. WHY?
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SSA Convention – ABQ – PR for Clubs
 WSPA Seminar – Avenal, CA 2007
 Training issues of attendees
 How they were treated at home
gliderports
 Visits gliderports: across the U.S., in
Europe, New Zealand

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TAKING A BREAK FROM WORK –
A GLIDERPORT IS FAMILY FRIENDLY

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 YOU BROUGHT YOUR CREW
 YOU BROUGHT YOUR FAMILY
 YOU HAD MEALS TOGETHER
 EVERYONE WAS ACTIVELY WELCOMED
 PHONES WERE ANSWERED
 SENSE OF “WE’RE IN THIS TOGETHER”
 EMPHASIS ON CROSS COUNTRY
 SENSE OF EXPLORATION AND DISCOVERY
 LESS EMPHASIS ON EQUIPMENT
 WORKED YOUR WAY THROUGH THE SHIPS

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PART OF THE CULTURE –
YOU WERE EXPECTED TO GIVE BACK
INVOLVED WITH THE GLIDERPORT:
TIME, MATERIALS, MONEY, EXPERTISE, CO
NTACTS
EQUAL EMPHASIS ON COMPETITION –
MORE WENT TO DEVELOPING THE
GLIDERPORT AND THE SPORT – and getting
new members

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About Increasing membership
More People to:
 $ for better field
 Rig and de-rig
equipment, solar, t
 Retrieves/Crew
rees, carts, land!
 Walk in rides- $ makers
 Grant writing
 Do stuff:
repairs, tools, equipmen  Legal advice, fees
t, meals  Connections to
 Future instructors and resources in town
tow pilots
 Retain members –
 Financial support: Philadelphia Glider
dues, tow Council
fees, donations
 Good friends

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What are you gliderport
Demographics - It matters!
Look at your age groups – Air Sailing
Look at your experience groups
Students or Cross Country
THEN PLAN TO GROW YOUR
GLIDERPORT!

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GLIDERPORT
DONE BEFORE/DO
AGAIN
 Answering the phone!
 Stack of newsletters, cards
 Target groups
CAP, Boys & Girl Scouts, NEW IDEAS or OLD?
Young Eagles $1 M
Flying local weatherman, City
Girls/Boys Clubs
Council, Fireman, Police, Rotar
AF JROTC, etc.
y, Women’s Club, Toastmasters
 Newspapers for events
 Air Shows  TV station for special event
 Power Pilots’ Groups  Power Safety Clinics
 Open Houses  FAA Instructor Clinics
Specific to age or gender  Phone Crib Sheet
 Signs and flyers
 Chamber of
 Local businesses: products
Commerce, Mayor, City Hall

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22. Answering the Phone Excerpt 22
HI! OUR GLIDERPORT. THIS IS _____________
How can I help you?
We’d love to have you come out to:
 Look at a glider
 Take a ride, take a lesson
 Talk to an instructor
 Just walk around
- Here’s a phone # of someone you can talk to about flying:
- Why don’t you drive out and bring a picnic lunch/join us
- We’re flying on ____ day and we’ll be here from X:00 to X:00
- Contact you? Send you a newsletter? Great you called!
-Check out our website: www.ourgliderport.org

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9 Accidents in 7 Years
o ASW 20
o L-13
o Blanik
o Grob 103
o Grob 103
o 1-36
o Pegasus
o Russia
o L-33

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STUDENTS:
1. Do not fly often with the same CFIG
2. Training typically takes longer = frustration, higher drop out
rate
3. Becomes more expensive than need be. You want your
students up and out flying and enthusing others
4. Flying with too many different CFIGs diminishes confidence
levels
5. CFIGs often just sit in glider: no briefing/de-briefing
INSTRUCTORS:
- Must guess where the student is in training (even with records)
- Is looking for consistency (oh, he flew well on the day I flew with
him)
- Solo decision is critical (how can you be sure all this is covered)

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Solo Requirements
 Code of Federal Regulations
 Sec. 61.87
 Part 61 CERTIFICATION: PILOTS, FLIGHT INSTRUCTORS, AND GROUND INSTRUCTORS
 Subpart C--Student Pilots
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Sec. 61.87
Solo requirements for student pilots.
(a) General. A student pilot may not operate an aircraft in solo flight unless that student has met the
requirements of this section. The term "solo flight" as used in this subpart means that flight time during which a
student pilot is the sole occupant of the aircraft or that flight time during which the student performs the duties of
a pilot in command of a gas balloon or an airship requiring more than one pilot flight crewmember.
(b) Aeronautical knowledge. A student pilot must demonstrate satisfactory aeronautical knowledge on a
knowledge test that meets the requirements of this paragraph:
(1) The test must address the student pilot's knowledge of--
(i) Applicable sections of parts 61 and 91 of this chapter;
(ii) Airspace rules and procedures for the airport where the solo flight will be performed; and
(iii) Flight characteristics and operational limitations for the make and model of aircraft to be flown.
(2) The student's authorized instructor must--
(i) Administer the test; and
(ii) At the conclusion of the test, review all incorrect answers with the student before authorizing that student to
conduct a solo flight.
(c) Pre-solo flight training. Prior to conducting a solo flight, a student pilot must have:
(1) Received and logged flight training for the maneuvers and procedures of this section that are appropriate to
the make and model of aircraft to be flown; and
(2) Demonstrated satisfactory proficiency and safety, as judged by an authorized instructor, on the maneuvers
and procedures required by this section in the make and model of aircraft or similar make and model of aircraft
to be flown.

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Further Requirements for Solo
 Maneuvers and procedures for pre-solo flight training in a glider. A student pilot who is receiving
training for a glider rating or privileges must receive and log flight training for the following maneuvers
and procedures:
 ) Proper flight preparation procedures, including preflight planning, preparation, aircraft systems, and,
 if appropriate, powerplant operations;
 ) Taxiing or surface operations, including runups, if applicable;
 ) Launches, including normal and crosswind;
 ) Straight and level flight, and turns in both directions, if applicable.
 ) Airport traffic patterns, including entry procedures.
 ) Collision avoidance, windshear avoidance, and wake turbulence avoidance;
 ) Descents with and without turns using high and low drag configurations;
 ) Flight at various airspeeds;<,
 ) Emergency procedures and equipment malfunctions;
 ) Ground reference maneuvers, if applicable,
 ) Inspection of towline rigging and review of signals and release procedures, if applicable
 ) Aerotow, ground tow, or self-launch procedures,
 ) Procedures for disassembly and assembly of the glider,
 ) Stall entry, stall, and stall recovery,
 ) Straight glides, turns, and spirals,
 ) Landings, including normal and crosswind,
 ) Slips to a landing
 ) Procedures and techniques for thermalling; and
 ) Emergency operations, including towline break procedures.

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DUTY INSTRUCTOR
IMPROVED
 Start making new instructors: a gliderport goal
 Tie into untapped sources of new
students, especially women – One club ASKED!
 CFIG Camp “Teaching the Female Student”
 One Master CFIG to track chick
 No more than 3 instructors – Stage Checks
 Can be a good thing to learn different techniques
but better to assign one main instructor
 Better scheduling for entire next month, not just
week ahead
 Support for CFIGs: regular meetings,
ongoing training, weeding out

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 AIR SAILING GLIDERPORT www.airsailing.org
www.nevadasoaring.com
 SOARING SOCIETY OF AMERICA www.ssa.org
 COLLEGIATE SOARING ASS’N www.iaa.com/soaring
BOOKS:
Gliding Made Easy
Joy of Soaring
FAA Glider Flying Handbook
Beginning Gliding
Stick and Rudder

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SUMMARY
 WHAT WE WOULD LIKE OUR CLUB TO BE
 WHAT WE CAN DO
LOOK AT YOUR DEMOGRAPHICS
WHERE DO YOU WANT TO BE - 2 YRS/10 YEARS?
MODIFY THE CULTURE IN YOUR CLUB
MODIFY THE DUTY INSTRUCTOR SYSTEM
EMPOWER YOUR CFIGS & BOARD TO SAY “NO!”
WELCOMING ALL - PHONE
OUTREACH
+ Handouts
+ PowerPoint presentations

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 To power pilots/lost medical
 To young people
 To community groups
 To people who want a career
in aviation

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one of two different presentations
given to the Women in Aviation
Conferences – 2009 and 2010
This one is entitled: “MAKE YOUR CAREER SOAR”
 These are just excerpts of the entire presentation given in
2010… and information may be outdated.
Neita Montague
President
Women Soaring Pilots Association

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MAKE YOUR CAREER
SOAR or… Why Soaring?
BECOME A BETTER PILOT
WORK WHILE EARNING HOURS & MONEY
STAND OUT ON YOUR RESUME

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 SHORT HISTORY
 JOB OUTLOOKS
 FAA REQUIREMENTS
 COMPETITION AND AWARDS
 EARNING $ WHILE FLYING FOR FREE/build time
 CONTACT INFORMATION ABOUT THE SPORT AND
SCHOLARSHIPS
 NETWORKING

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RATINGS
 MORE FAMILIARITY WITH THE ATMOSPHERE
 BETTER ENERGY MANAGEMENT
 PRECISE LANDINGS
 BETTER DECISION-MAKING SKILLS
 ENJOY THE CHALLENGES OF FLYING CROSS
COUNTRY
 ENJOY EARNING YOUR BADGES AND DIAMONDS
 ENJOY THE CHALLENGE OF COMPETITION
 ENJOY BEING AROUND A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO ARE
EXCITED ABOUT FLYING EACH AND EVERY DAY!

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STEPPING STONES TO YOUR
CAREER:
OR BETWEEN JOBS… OR MOVING
UP
$$ earn money while building hours TT
JOB OUTLOOKS:
COMMERCIAL RIDES
INSTRUCTION
TOW PILOT
And don’t forget … NETWORKING!

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AIR SAILING
GLIDERPORT, RENO, NEVADA
One United 777 Captain
One retired United 747 Captain
One ExpressJet First Officer
One 2-Star General
9 CFI-Gs and 8 Tow pilots
Air Force Fighter Squadron Commander/Thailand
One C-141/C-130 pilot/KC-135 Instructor
The Chief Pilot of Northwest Airlines/Utah
One ex-Eastern Captain
One Fed Ex 767 Captain

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 WOMEN SOARING PILOTS ASS’N
WWW.WOMENSOARING.ORG
 SOARING SOCIETY IN AMERICA
WWW.SSA.ORG
 COLLEGIATE SOARING ASS’N
WWW.IAA.COM/SOARING
 FIND A GLIDERPORT
 WWW.CUMULUS-SOARING.COM/SOARING_LINKS
Books:
Bob Wander’s TRANSITION TO SINGLE-SEAT GLIDERS
JOY OF SOARING
FAA GLIDER FLYING HANDBOOK
HELMUT REICHMANN’S CROSS COUNTRY SOARING

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WHAT GLIDERPORTS
OFFER
*a community sport for all ages
*beautiful settings
*learn great stick and rudder skills
*scholarships may be available
*great networking for aviation careers

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CAREER: 41
OR BETWEEN JOBS… OR MOVING
UP
$$ earn money while building hours TT
JOB OUTLOOKS:
COMMERCIAL RIDES
INSTRUCTION
TOW PILOT
And don’t forget … NETWORKING!

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+ A, B, C, BRONZE AND SILVER BADGES
+ GOLD BADGE AND DIAMONDS
+ TROPHIES (AML TROPHY, EASTON TROPHY etc.)
+ STATE RECORDS……..
+ REGIONAL, NATIONAL, INTERNATIONAL
CONTESTS
+ RECOGNITION IN NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL
MAGAZINES/NEWSPAPARS and on the local level.

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 WOMEN SOARING PILOTS
ASSOCIATION
 THE NINETY-NINES
INTERNATIONAL
 SOARING SOCIETY IN AMERICA
 YOUR GLIDERPORT!

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WORKING ON GLIDER
RATINGS
 MORE FAMILIARITY WITH THE ATMOSPHERE
 BETTER ENERGY MANAGEMENT
 PRECISE LANDINGS
 BETTER DECISION-MAKING SKILLS
 ENJOY THE CHALLENGES OF FLYING CROSS
COUNTRY
 ENJOY EARNING YOUR BADGES AND DIAMONDS
 ENJOY THE CHALLENGE OF COMPETITION
 ENJOY BEING AROUND A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO ARE
EXCITED ABOUT FLYING EACH AND EVERY DAY!

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 Airport field elevation:
4100’
 Towed to 2000’ AFE
 Climbed to 17,500’
 Traveled 300 km
 Time aloft: 2.6 hours

47. A COST-EFFECTIVE ADD-ON: 47
GLIDER CLUBS: COMMERCIAL
OPS:
 Membership fee $0 to $250 None
 Plus monthly fee $0 to $ 50 None
 Instruction: $0 to $75 an hour $ 60 average
 Glider rental free or low cost $ 35- 60/275
 Tows: $10 to $50 per 3,000’ $70
average
Free camping
$15 a night trailers

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17,998’ IN
WAVE

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REQUIREMENTS
 PRIVATE GLIDER ADD-ON:
 3 hours of flight training in a glider –
include at least
 10 solo flights
 3 training flights with an authorized instructor
 No written exam

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COMMERCIAL ADD-ON
200 hours of flight time heavier than air
aircraft including
3 hours of flight training or 10 training
flights
and at least 20 flights in a glider as PIC
no written exam

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CFI-G ADD ON
Need only take a glider written
(most of you have taken the Fundamentals of
Instruction if a CFI)
Must hold a Commercial Glider Certificate
Logged 15 hours in category as PIC

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SEE YOU AT THE GLIDERPORT!

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