Pittsburgh Soaring Club

Board of directors - 2012

2012-03-27T02:08:57Z

The members of the Pittsburgh Soaring Club elected the following board of directors for the year 2012.

President: Lyle Chamberlain

Vice President: David Reitter

Treasurer: Steve Boehmer

Secretary: Mark Wilson

The board co-opted Tom Stepleton (Equipment officer) and Al Bennett (Safety Officer).

Annual Reorganzational Meeting

2012-03-07T21:52:26Z

Where: Washington Flyers Club at the Washington County Airport

When: Saturday, March 24, 2012 at 9:00 AM

If you can't make it, be sure to appoint a proxy so we are sure to have a quorum.

Post Gazette story on Pittsburgh Soaring Club

2011-08-21T22:46:07Z

Jacqueline Feldman wrote a great article in the Sunday, August 21st Pittsburgh Post Gazette.

The article is here along with a nice video of the club in action.

Labor Day weekend: four days of flying fun at Yinzer Glide

2011-08-21T14:02:14Z

The club is gearing up for its annual Yinzer Glide event: four days of soaring on Labor Day weekend, beginning Friday September 2nd.

The club's world-famous glider pilots will compete in local cross-country soaring (farther, faster, longer!), with weather and task briefings in the morning. Barbecues and cool drinks after flying in the evening, with some members staying over-night in tents to get an early start.

Regular instruction as well as demonstration rides for anyone who isn't a member yet and would like to see what it's like to soar with the birds. More information is available on this website.

Yinzer Glide t-shirts are in the making!

Ken's Outlanding

2011-07-14T00:12:46Z

Ken Strack made an unexpected landing at Washington County on Saturday.

Here are some photos and a video that Lyle took.

Getting Ready

2011-04-10T15:12:33Z

In spite of a few complications, we made some headway towards getting our fleet ready for the 2011 flying season.

The hanger is cleaned out, the 1-26 is rigged and the tow plane will hopefully get it's annual done this week.

Here are a couple photos including two new additions to the club's private fleet.

Jim, Bill, Pete and Joe rigging the 1-26

Dave Reitter gets his Standard Cirrus out for the first time

Les Dutka's new ASW-27

New Officers for 2011

2011-04-02T15:51:14Z

At the Annual Meeting on March 26th new officers were elected for the 2011 season.

The new officers are as follows:

President: Lyle Chamberlin

Vice President: Dave Reitter

Treasurer: Steve Boehmer

Secretary: Mark Wilson

Congratulations!!!

We also had a moment of appreciation for two of our retiring members, Dave Boehmer Sr. and Leo Miltenberger.

Dave and Leo have been active members since the late 1960s and they both have worked tirelessly to keep the Pittsburgh Soaring Club alive.

It was nice to be able to show both of them how much we appreciated their unending dedication to making our club what it is today.

Thanks again to Dave and Leo.

Cumberland Outing Nov. 3-14, 2010

2010-11-17T00:30:52Z

A good time was had by 13 Pittsburgh Soaring Club members during an outing to the Cumberland Soaring Club's home. Thanks to all who made this possible.

Jim Rosenkranz, Private Pilot!!!

2010-10-23T01:56:47Z

On October 17, 2010, Jim Rosenkrantz became the newest Private Pilot in the Pittsburgh Soaring Club.

Congratulations to Jim!!!

June Bar-B-Que

2010-07-01T02:05:08Z

A good time was had by all in attendance at the June Bar-B-Que

Thanks to John Peters for the great photos.

2010 Flying Season off to a Great Start

2010-04-04T20:01:12Z

Opening Day 2010 at Bandel dawned warm and breezy.

There was a good turnout of willing workers to get all the planes ready for the 2010 Soaring season.

With the help of pre-work on Friday, everything was done in record time!

The first tow was underway around 11:00 and by noon, Joel was current (had his 3 tows and landings).

Unfortunately, the wind kicked up and put a damper on the first flight schedule but at least 4 or 5 members got their first flight in with Joel.

Many thanks to all that helped.

Here are some photos taken by Linda Sue Boehmer

Click HERE!! to see some great photos that Dave Reiter took.

New Officers for 2010

2010-03-20T17:11:08Z

New officers were elected at the Pittsburgh Soaring Club Annual Meeting on March 20, 2010

The 2010 Officers are as follows:

President - Chris Meskow

Vice President - Joel Hough

Secretary - Linda Sue Boehmer

Treasurer - Dave Boehmer

Congratulations and many thanks to our new officers!!

Lyle's '09 Soaring Video

2010-02-07T15:26:10Z

Click here to see Lyle Chamberlain's video of activities at Bandel this past summer.

Also included is historic video of Lyle's first cross country flight and landout at Washington County!!

Cross County Camp '09

2009-09-07T17:24:57Z

The first Pittsburgh Soaring Cross Country Camp was a big success with many members in attendance and some great instruction from Dan Cole, Harold Ennulat and others.

Here are some photos Steve Boehmer took of the festivities!

Day 1

Day 2

Tom Stewart - Private Pilot!!

2009-08-29T14:57:58Z

On Saturday, August 15, 2009, Tom Stewart finally got everything together and was able to take his Private Pilot Checkride.
So please welcome our newest Private Pilot - Glider to the Club!!
Congratulations Tom!!!
Here are some photos of his big day.