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Sunday Feb 8 4pm ET The upcoming Hangar Talk Learning and Practicing Basic Cross-Country Skills will focus on the essential skills needed for cross country flying and how to practice/teach them without running the risk of landing out. Many pilots are hesitant to go beyond safe glide range of their ...

There was no recording of the Condor 3 session.
There may be third party recordings of future sessions, in planning stage.

2026 Hangar Talk Schedule Date ..................... Presentation.................................................. Presenter Sunday Jan 25 4pm ET Condor 3 – Opportunities for Training and Coaching ..... Ray Wood Sunday Feb 8 4pm ET Learning and Practicing Basic Cross-Country Skills ..... Joerg Stie...

2026 Hangar Talks Our first Hangar Talk this spring will be on Sunday, January 25 at 4pm ET Ray Wood will present Soaring Simulator Condor 3 – Opportunities for Training and Coaching. Besides a much more realistic weather simulation, a new feature of Condor 3 allows two pilots flying together in a ...

Happy New Year to all ! Not much happening at the club, one might thinkl However, our enginneers were clearing a path through the snow last year to complete some aircraft maintenance. Others working on statistics and year end reports for the club and SAC and TC. Administration of the various social...

York Soaring is somewhat snowed in. However don't forget that, when the conditions are right, we do fly before April. Checking my FAS history reminds me that we flew during the winter on the following occasions: December (2017,2021) January (2022) February (2023) March (2018,2023) There is a towplan...

Re the above post, see the full SAC request below, received by me today, sent to all Ontario gliding club Presidents: Note if you fill in an incident, our airfield is CPC3 Hi, Scott McMaster, Chairman of the SAC Airspace Committee, has asked me to forward the following information to be shared with ...

Dear Fellow Club Members, As you are probably aware by now, Pawnee wing inspections resulted in EKV being declared airworthy while EBI failed inspection (primarily inappropriate screws used and not fixable without wing rebuilds). Both EBI wings could be rebuilt for a total of some $4000 to $5000 but...

October : YorksGiving was a success, with close to 50 attendies. Many thanks to Luis, Maylin, Isabel, Ken and Kris for all the hard work of purchases, preparation, cooking and serving. During the meal Anton received a YSA plaque commemorating his 200+ personal flights 2024 and 2025. October ended w...

The washrooms near the campground have been proactively closed, water shutoff, please do not use! The washrooms in the clubhouse are still open and it is expected they will remain open until at least November 8th or 9th UNLESS the temperature drops signifiantly before then, in which case shutdown wi...