On Sunday, August 9, 2020 at 6:08:36 PM UTC-4,
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On Sunday, August 9, 2020 at 10:33:04 AM UTC-4, Dan Marotta wrote:
For those who don't have it, freedom is the ultimate goal. Nice story! Dan, thanks for the nice reply, freedom is not cheap and freedom has rewards. Today we were joined by a friend of mine, a Cuban American, who flew here just to witness Jorge fly again. His comments were humbling as he said, "free As A Bird".
On 8/9/2020 2:47 AM, Bob Youngblood wrote:
On Saturday, July 11, 2020 at 4:20:02 PM UTC-4, Bob Youngblood wrote:
Treasure Coast Soaring Club continues to grow and doing well. As compared to last June our revenue for the same period in 2020 was up 65%. New members continue to bring excitement and activity to club, helping out with daily activities and special
projects. Just yesterday we had a youth member do his first solo, it was a great couple of flights. Our club incorporates youth glider training at age 14 to 18 with no cost to the youth member.
We certainly hope the rest of the clubs are doing well in these challenging times. Bob
July flying on the Treasure Coast has been impressive to say the least. Numbers are just in for July and our business was up over 500% compared to July of 2019. New members and gliders continue to roll in and training is also on the increase. We
are really taking the social distancing very serious and most wear mask and distance themselves from others.
Yesterday, August 8th, was another busy day, we did solo three more students, one youth, two adults. One adult is a refugee from Cuba, I will not mention his name but he was the national Cuban soaring champion while flying in Cuba. All the gliders
from the Cuban club were destroyed by Castro. They were simply buried, can you imagine?
This fine individual escaped Cuba with very little, he did bring with him all of his Cuban soaring records and achievement awards. Well, yesterday we were able to solo this individual once again so that he may soar free and live free.
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Dan, 5J
An update on our great club, August can be very difficult here in the tropical weather of Florida. In most cases soaring clubs and operations suffer from lack of tourist and activity in our summer months. Yet, in the case of our little club we are doing
better than ever, each months sets new records for utilization, tows, members and money in the bank. Just as of yesterday and today we added four new glider pilots to the roll of the SSA. Yes, four new PURIST became license holders. Hopefully if the
stars line up we will add five more next month.
Our August numbers continue to set records, making this August the best August in our history of six years. I did over 150 tows in August and we have one more day to go.
We are also planning the 2023 TCSC Soaring Safari for this coming March, even motorglider pilots are welcome and you can join in on our post flight beverages and a great Safari BBQ.
Maybe R will remember the frequency number and say hello to all us Purist. Old Bob, The Purist
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