HIGH FLIGHTS
SOARING CLUB

HFSC, 7944 Cessna Drive, Unit 3, Peyton, CO 80831-6145
Please note: we are a volunteer club. We do not advertise. We do not accept advertising. Thank you.

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High Flights Soaring Club (member, Soaring Society of America - SSA) is a group of approximately 50 members interested in fun, safe soaring. We own five sailplanes and a tug: a Schweizer 2-33, two 1-26s and 1-34, an L-13 Blanik and a 180HP Piper Super Cub. (The links above are of of our sailplanes snugly affixed to the ground at our home-base, Meadow Lake Airport near Colorado Springs in the shadow of Pikes Peak. Each picture is about 16K except the 1-26/club ships panorama shot [400K BMP].)

High Flights is a club; that is, membership in our club is required in order to fly our equipment. However, if you have a keen interest in soaring, we are very interested in a visit from you. We offer introductory rides in a sailplane for a reasonable cost. High Flights operates on the west side of Meadow Lake Airport on almost every weekend day.

Here are ground and air directions to High Flights Soaring.

For more information on High Flights Soaring, please contact:

• John Scott, HFSC President. jdscott at valleypine dot net
• Jim Densmore, "old-site" Webmaster. jim at densmore dot org
• Why don't the email addresses look right?
• For High Flights' mailing address, see headliner at the top of this page.

Local Information

• Meadow Lake Airport Association (Also see the site at mlaa.org)
• See other local/general information here.

Primarily For Members

Surfing ...

• Soaring Society of America - SSA
• 1-26 Soaring Association (The 1-26 Association holds a sweepstakes every year. Go to the sweepstakes site for more info. This link will take you to a local copy of the sweepstakes rules.)
• The General Aviation Serving America website is a great new website sponsored by AOPA whose purpose is to better educate the American public on the value of general aviation.
• Using Oxygen, a website found for us by our illustrious Canuck
• The IGC Sport Code Official Observers Guide, also suggested by Dan Daly
• Many of you know former COS resident Jim Foreman, whose tales and books may be of interest.
• Local Chapter of the EAA - the Experimental Aircraft Association is very active at Meadow Lake. (National EAA)
• The Soaring Server (Old SSA page, still maintained superbly by Günther Eichhorn)
• Colorado Soaring Association (another Colorado soaring club)
• Black Forest Soaring Society (and another . . .)
• Pikes Peak Soaring (this is a club for sailplane Modelers)
• Chilhowee Gliderport weather and web links (part of a great web site hailing from Tennessee)
• High Country Soaring, Minden Nevada (certainly another interesting soaring site)
• Cambridge Aero Instruments, Inc.
• Bill Bartell's RESCO Solutions (www.glider.com)
• What not to do! (thanks for the pointer from George Moore to this amusing video)
• . . . . . . (suggest more, or remark on obsolete sites)

Weather:

• Two new sites from John Scott (thanks John!): Denver Soaring Forecast and COS SKEW-T chart; try 'em out.
• There was an NOAA weather station atop the old Hangar Restaurant but I haven't seen this link working in awhile. The main site is www.wxqa.com. The sites in Colorado are at www.wxqa.com/states/CO.html. Click into the Colorado sites and click on the MeadowLake options to get current MeadowLake weather. Last time I checked, there were several Falcon sites; CW9163 is in the WalMart shopping center and has trending data and current weather.
• Of course, 2mla.com has a nice weather page that provides good info and links.
• Bill VonDane of EAA 72 mentions a good station-based weather summary site, including conditions for COS.
• ADDS - Aviation Digital Data Service
• Warner Springs swears by Dr. Jack for weather information, according to Alex B.
• Local products, phone numbers, frequencies (Please contribute!)
• Dan Daly says the great Navy webpage for wave forecasts has not been funded and has disappeared. However, here is a jetstream analysis page that appears to work well. Use North America.   http://squall.sfsu.edu/crws/jetstream.html
• winds from NOAA
• 1-26 Association's Weather page
• NOAA products menu
• NOAA ADDS (Aviation Digital Data Service)
• Weather Channel
• University of Michigan's famous WeatherSites page
• DynCorp DUATS
• DTC DUATS (the one with stored requests)
• Intellicast weather page
• . . . . . . (suggest more, or remark on obsolete sites)

For more information on aviation in general, there are thousands of links.
Just a minute smattering of links we have found interesting, useful or fun:

• The Meadow Lake Airport Association
• Our local EAA Chapter 72, the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) and EAA AirVenture Oshkosh (formerly the Oshkosh Show)
• Dakota Ridge Aviation in Boulder, CO
• Air and Space Magazine
• The National Air and Space Museum
• The FAA and its Technical Center in New Jersey
• The NTSB and Accident Synopses by month
• . . . . . . (suggest more, or remark on obsolete sites)

Some of our members have links you might find interesting:

• Lynn French's Country Inn B&B in Crawford, CO
• Steve Kanatzar's Solo's Restaurant in Colorado Springs

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