Board Action

The CISS Board met last night and took several actions, some of which I remember:

1. With daylight savings time, flying tends to go an hour later in the evening (and the occasional morning fog tends to lift an hour later). Therefore we pushed the start time for weekend flying back a half an hour as a compromise. Crews will now be expected to arrive at the airport by 9AM (instead of 8:30AM.) Student flying will continue until 1PM instead of noon. We hope this will be less punishing for the crews.

2. When both single-seat club gliders (the Astir and the PW-5) are available for use on weekends, flights in either of them will be normally limited to two hours instead of one hour. Members who want to make longer flights (five hour silver duration, for example) can seek permission from the crew chief to do so in individual cases.

3. We adopted a list of pilot qualifications for flying the Astir. Pilots must hold a private pilot license or better, with a glider rating, and must have had at least 5 dual instructional flights in the Grob 103 before being checked out in the Astir. A pilot must have a cockpit checkout, pass the written test, and have a club instructor endorsement for that aircraft in his or her logboook before flying any club glider.

4. The Board approved taking both the Grob 103 and the PW-5 to Lee Bottom next weekend (May 20-21). We may not have an instructor at Lee Bottom, but we should have commercial pilots available to give introductory sailplane flights in the Grob 103. We will have instructors and normal student training operations at Alexandria as usual that weekend at the same time, and the Blaniks and the Astir will be available for flying at Alexandria.

5. The next regular club meeting will be at Leppert & Hensley at 7PM on May 18, and in addition to everything else on the program I will have more information about the Lee Bottom Weekend.

6. There will be no regular club meeting in June. The July 20 meeting will be at the MCL in Castleton at 7 PM. Come early and have dinner before the meeting.