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XC WOMEN
XC Women is dedicated to providing initial cross country training for women who are passionate about soaring. Our Camp is designed to enhance your skills and take your soaring abilities to new heights. Here's your opportunity to go beyond thermalling around the airport. We'll help you build your confidence by gradually expanding your distance from the airport. We have the expertise and resources to help you achieve your goals.
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XC Women Cross Country Camp Details
We hope you will join us
June 29th through July 4th 2025
Necessary Qualifiations
- Ability to thermal around home airport for two+ hours
- Bring a personal or club ship with proof of insurance
A limited number of dual ships and CFIGs available
Some single-place ships available, if you meet the requirements and check out
Morning lectures include:
Morning lectures start promptly at 8am and include:
- Safety and operations briefing
- SeeYou and WeGlide analysis of previous day’s flights
- Thermalling and reading the clouds
- Cross country basics
- Field selection and off-field landings
- Speed to fly and height bands
- Common mistakes
- Efficient soaring
- Badge information and tasks
- Next steps to go further and other longer flight issues
Afternoon Soaring Tasks
- Local task to learn the area, practice final glides and thermalling
- First task away from home airport
- Each pilot chooses her task based on her progress and confidence level
- Stretching the task to airports further away
- Silver Badge Distance Task (or Gold Distance for those who are ready)
- On poor weather days, visit local off-field landing strips
- If you are having trouble, fly dual to figure out the issues
- Post-flight debrief with beer, soda and snacks
Friday Evening Banquet
- Get together with all the volunteers to say thank you for their support
- Farewell to all the participants