2024 ACE Academy Dates Set

This years ACE Academy (camp) will take place the week of Monday July 29th through Friday August 2nd.

A few organizational details to firm, but we expect to open up the application process within the next two weeks (we are updating the online applications process now).

NESA volunteers – please mark your calendars. More to follow soon.

Junior Scholarship Applications for 2024

There are numerous SSA junior scholarships available for 2024 ranging from the Discover Soaring scholarship to pre-solo and post-solo scholarships. Now is the time to review and work on your applications – the deadlines for most are March 31st.
The WSPA also has several scholarship opportunities. Most of these have deadlines of March 15.

AOPA also has a number of scholarship opportunities.

https://www.aopa.org/training-and-safety/students/aopa-flight-training-scholarships

Several NESA juniors have received SSA scholarship awards. While there is no guarantee, you definitely won’t receive one if you don’t apply. So, use the winter to put together an application or two.

Scheduled operations now closed for the season.

Regularly scheduled operations and introductory flights are now closed for the season.

Thanks to everyone that came out and flew this year. It was certainly a challenging year for weekend weather, but some good soaring was had too.

Members can use the club email lists (nesa and/or midweek) to coordinate any off-season flying and/or towing.

Information about the clubs annual winter meeting and dinner will be sent out soon.

Weekend update

Saturday we had some hot start issues with the Callair and ran the battery low. Putting it on charge did nothing. Sunday we finally figured out that the lightening on Friday fried the GFI sockets in the hangar and the issue was magically solved when we found and plugged the charger into the one socket that actually still worked! Duh. So, after a slightly delayed start Sunday proved to be a great soaring day and finally a lot of ships got out of their boxes..

FYI – Fridays lightening also took out the gas pump and the main gate. Hopefully both will be back in business for next weekend.

ACE Camp Setup

This Sunday, between or after your flying please ask what help you can give to set up for ACE Camp (which starts Monday morning)… we need to get the classroom set-up in the terminal, clean the terminal, stock the refrigerator cut wood for the wing-rib workshops etc., etc.

Thanks!

OGN Registration & Tracking

Last fall the SSA distributed Open Glider Network tracking stations to clubs. We bench tested everything over the winter and the NESA glider tracking station is ready to install in the terminal building.

If you have a Flarm or OGN tracker device installed in your glider please register it in the OGN database. This will enable us to monitor club member flights real-time. To register your device use this link: http://ddb.glidernet.org/

To view tracker map use this link: https://glideandseek.com/?viewport=43.35814,-72.96570,9