• Truckee FAI contest moved to Minden for 2023

    From Matt Herron Jr.@21:1/5 to All on Mon Apr 24 16:04:56 2023
    Thoughts? Is this the end of Soar Truckee or a temporary setback? (lease was not renewed this year).

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  • From jfitch@21:1/5 to Matt Herron Jr. on Mon Apr 24 18:11:24 2023
    On Monday, April 24, 2023 at 4:04:58 PM UTC-7, Matt Herron Jr. wrote:
    Thoughts? Is this the end of Soar Truckee or a temporary setback? (lease was not renewed this year).
    Hopefully not the end, but the Truckee Airport Board is making things difficult. The same things have happened at other gliderports and the FAA has stepped in to right things. Let's hope that this very unique soaring venue continues.

    The contest was moved (as I understand it) out of two concerns: one is the status of glider operations from runway 20 regardless of Soar Truckee's lease, and the other is the very distinct possibility that 20 will be closed in July due to repaving,
    regardless of anything else.

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