Mile High Gliding Boulder Colorado Sailplane Rides and Soaring Lessons

Glider Web Resources

Mile High Gliding Links

Gliderport Views See an aerial photo, an area road map, excerpts from an aviation sectional chart, or diagrams of the nearby FAA wave window and our nested runways and landing patterns.
Statistics Answers to Frequently Asked Questions such as "How many rides do you give a year?" or "How many days are soarable each year?"

Boulder Area Aviation

Boulder Municipal Airport Colorado's busiest non-tower airport shares our location. Airplane & glider operations are side-by-side, independent. See also an airport Directory listing.
Life Cycle Balloons, Inc. Partner in Mile High Skyride.
Colorado Sky Sports (Skydiving). Partner in Mile High Skyride.
Spanish Lady T-6 Warbird Flights. Partner in Mile High Skyride.
Dan Murray Biplane Adventures. Partner in Mile High Skyride.

Soaring Servers

Soaring Society of America SSA is your first WWW stop to find out anything about sites, people, races, products,Soaringmagazine, etc.
The Soaring Server TSS was the prototype SSA web and still has unique links to gliderport and sailplane directories, email contacts, etc.
Landings.com Soaring Links at the commercial site maintained by TSS author Guenther Eichhorn. Leads to huge General Aviation indexes.
Paul Remde's Soaring Links Maintained by the author of some of the fancier TSS features (click-on-map site directory, State records)
Rec.Aviation.Soaring A link, via Google.com, to the Usenet Newsgroup devoted to sailplanes, motorgliders, their pilots and activities.

Basics about the Sport

What is Soaring all about? On-line version of the SSA booklet "Soaring in America".
A Soaring Fact Sheet maintained by the SSA Youth Committee.
Sailplanes and Youth ...are made for each other, says the SSA Youth Committee. It may be best not to delay training and lifetime enjoyment!
Alex's Sailplane Directory A pretty complete & illustrated web archive.
Paul's SSA Sites Directory A clickable USA map leading to info about gliderports, clubs, services, etc. registered with SSA.

Training

Mississippi State University Meteorology Program. Great weather education here.

U.S. Airspace Classes at a Glance - Great FAA Airspace diagram and chart.
Learning to Soar An early web primer on learning to fly gliders and getting that FAA glider rating (courtesy Steve Philipson).
Practice FAA Test Questions Check your knowledge with a sampling of multiple choice questions from FAA tests (courtesy Kip Shaffer).
Glider Pilots Ground School Homepage for traveling one-day preparation course for FAA Glider Knowledge Tests.
Soaring Safety Foundation Online Training courses for Wing-runners up to Towpilots and CFI-Gs. Links to .PDF format files of the Practical Test Standards, FAA Regs., endorsements etc.
Top Ten Ways to Fail a Checkride Frequently misunderstood items in a great animated website from a DPE (courtesy Jim Burch).
Tom Knauff and Bob Wander are two of the most prolific American authors of soaring textbooks. The links are to their product catalogs.

History

National Soaring Museum Dedicated to preserving soaring heritage. NSM in Elmira, NY, is the largest motorless flight museum in the world.
Wasserkuppe Segelflugmuseum When it comes to sailplanes, sooner or later you have to learn alittlegermanlanguage.