Aero Club Albatross is thrilled to announce that we will be hosting a set of lectures addressing wave and ridge soaring techniques. The first lecture (January 20th) will cover wave soaring.
We will host the seminars at the Warren County Library, which seats up to 75 attendees and is only five minutes away from Blairstown Airport. Pilots are more than welcome to fly over and hitch a ride with a club member to the lectures.
Lunch is included. Aero Club Albatross members can attend the lectures for $20. For our friends from neighboring clubs, the cost of attending the seminars is $40. Any pilots that join ACA as Associate Members ($66) can pay the member's price for the seminars ($20). If you plan on attending both lectures, that's only $26 more than attending as a non-member. Becoming an associate would allow you to tow behind our club towplane, attend club social functions such as the Picnic and Banquet, subscribe to the club e-group and use club facilities/tools.
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Schedule:
Wave Seminar- January 20th
10:15-11am John Bird: Wave Theory/Mechanics
Discussion about how wave and rotor work. How do the fluids work? What determines if a wave will propagate?
11:15am-12pm: Phil Chidekel: Wave Forecasting/Prediction
How to read what is a “good” wave day. Interpreting broad synoptics, soundings and useful tools such as Skysight.
12pm-1pm Lunch
1-1:45pm: Daniel Sazhin- Wave Soaring Technique and analysis of useful logs.
2pm-2:45pm Bill Thar- High Altitude physiology and wave safety
3pm-3:45pm: Richard Kaletta: Review of Emergency landing sites in the vicinity of the Catskills.
4:30-5:30pm Social Hour- Buckhill Inn
