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Cascade Soaring Society

Address:
One Pangborn Drive #L
East Wenatchee, WA 98802

Club House Phone:
(509) 886-0811

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Our Mission

The Cascade Soaring Society mission is to provide our members with the opportunity to fully and safely enjoy the sport of soaring.  As part of our mission, we seek to help others discover this thrilling and challenging sport. 

Cascade Soaring Society is one of the oldest glider clubs in Washington State.  About a decade after WW II we relocated from Puget Sound to Fancher Field in Wenatchee.  We presently make our home at Pangborn Memorial Airport in East Wenatchee, Washington.

We are student pilots, private pilots, commercial pilots, and FAA certified flight instructors. We are a non-profit club, where members learn from each other. 

We offer exhilarating rides with unsurpassed views of the Columbia Basin and the Cascade Range for a nominal donation to our organization. We teach young folks to fly, and old folks too -- because we love to soar!

Our Location

Cascade Soaring Society is located at one of the most spectacular soaring sites in the western United States. 

The Cascade Range to our west scrubs the Pacific air of most of its humidity, providing for superb thermal-forming conditions in Eastern Washington with cloud bases frequently above 10,000 feet.

The favorable geography, excellent weather, and wide open areas give a glider pilot just the right conditions to explore the excitement of the soaring sport to its fullest extent.  We soar in thermals, on the ridge, and in the wave. 



Announcements

  • Soaring Memorial Day Weekend WeatherSoaring weather should be somewhere between stellar and downright frightening this Memorial Day Weekend.  Today (Friday) looks excellent from E-burg.  However, the wind will be a factor.  The high pressure system off the coast has produced high wind warnings, but these are predicted to settle a bit by Saturday, as the HP system slides south off the coast. Count on cool weather, massive thermals, and westerly winds this weekend.  Also watch for the Dust Up gliders which may be anywhere in the area.Tow PilotsAlan will to on Saturday, beginning at 12:30.  We welcome tow pilots for other days as well.
    Posted May 25, 2012 1:03 PM by Mike Lundin
  • Soaring Mothers' Day Weekend WeatherThis afternoon (Friday) looks good for dry thermals, as a large high pressure system drifts over our region to stay all weekend.  Although an east wind is predicted Saturday and Sunday, clear skies and warm sun are predicted to cook up very energetic, squatty thermals on Saturday.  Sunday, we'll have to wait and see.Tow PilotsJohn will tow Saturday at 1:00, and I will sniff in the Lark with a brave passenger.  Nobody is scheduled to tow yet for Sunday.Other StuffVitek has had two remarkable flights this spring.  On Thursday he was able to go very fast at good altitude on a great cross-country triangle to the east.  Don reported that he had ...
    Posted May 11, 2012 3:20 PM by Mike Lundin
  • Soaring This Weekend May 4-6 WeatherA strong high pressure system off the coast, coupled with low pressure inland promises strong winds Friday and Saturday as a cold front makes its way through our region.  Sunday the winds should relax a bit.  If we don't get blown out, good soaring will persist through this weekend with good markers on Friday, and not as many Saturday or Sunday.Tow PilotsDan will tow beginning at 1:00 on Saturday. Other StuffVitek, Mark, and I had good flights Wednesday, but it's really cold up there lately.  After we landed late in the day, our first words to each other were about very cold feet.  Dress warmly if you fly this weekend. For those thinking ...
    Posted May 4, 2012 12:56 PM by Mike Lundin
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