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What is Soaring?

Soaring

Gliders are airplanes without engines. Soaring is flying a glider into rising air and flying as high as 18,000' and even higher, and flying cross country as far as 1000 miles in a flight! 

Check out our club member who's known for his long cross country flights
http://yanetz.blogspot.com​ , and these videos.

Here's the basics of how gliders fly

Lift, being on tow, and a bit on the airplanes. All filmed by bay area soaring pilots in California.

Cross Country Soaring

Gliders can fly hundreds of miles even without an engine. Check out our club member Ramy's flights - each color is a single flight from 2016! Here's his blog at http://yanetz.blogspot.com
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FlightChop's YouTube episode on gliders #1

Popular aviation YouTuber "FlightChops" visited the Truckee Tahoe Soaring Association where we fly over summer. 

FlightChop's YouTube episode on gliders #2

Popular aviation YouTuber "FlightChops" visited the Truckee Tahoe Soaring Association where we fly over summer. ​

European Glider Championships

Glider racing is a thing. Pilots race around a set of waypoints for the fastest time. Distances can be 500 miles over the ground, and two to five hours in the air!

European Glider Championship 2013 @ Vinon-sur-Verdon from LULAFILM on Vimeo.

SF Bay Tour Flight 1

Club member Ramy Yanetz took on a challenging feat in a glider, fly from club HQ in Byron out to the Pacific Ocean and past, navigating around the San Francisco Airport's airspace. For his first attempt he did this below SFO's airspace.

SF Bay Tour Flight 2

Club member Ramy Yanetz bested his first bay tour fight navigating around the San Francisco Airport's airspace, this time above it flying between 15,000' and 18,000'
SF Bay Tour Flight 3

Find out more about our club and learning to fly gliders!

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