SOARFARI! SoCal's premier group of
not-too-formal cross-country soaring safari pilots
Updates
04/09/2012
Apparently Soarfari's not-to-formal-ness has resulted in nobody stepping up to arrange a planning meeting for the 2012 season. Therefore, you're all on your own this year to go flying. We'll keep the web site up so maybe next year things can be arranged. Contact the webmaster if you want things to change on this situation!
Our Purpose: SOARing SaFARI
<<Some of us (in 2004?)
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We are a small Southern California (and one from UT) group of glider owners that
enjoy getting together 4 to 6 times a year for trips to mutually selected sites
to enjoy soaring and fellowship. We use established FBO sites in addition to
other desirable fields, taking a tow plane with us when needed.
The only requirement to be on our e-mailing list is a variable annual donation
($5.00 for 2009) to cover the cost of web hosting(primarily), postage(rare), materials, and for
any necessary announcements and incidentals. Tow and tie-down fees are each
individual pilot’s responsibility at the sites visited. Please go to the
"Contacts" link above and e-mail me if you would like to join us!
We do welcome guests. However it should be understood that in case of heavy
attendance, and the soaring safari is serviced by an arranged tow plane,
signed-up members will have towing priority.
Also emergency notifications and invitations email will be
sent to members only.
Click the Soarfari Schedule link for event info.
Email addresses and contact information of Soarfari members on this web site
will be displayed in jpeg format to help protect privacy. Unfortunately that
means you'll have to write it down and type it in by hand.
Soarfari T-shirts are sold out for now<<But check out the models
Clarification on Deposit Rules 5/21/07<<This is a link to the explanation page. Any updates to this process for 2010 will be added when available, but the basic idea is correct as is.
Rotating Launch Grid Plan<<This link takes you to a web page which describes this program and you may also optionally download the file;
On Soarfari trips where we take a tow plane this plan should provide fair access to launch times, preventing everyone from having incentive to run out to the runway two hours early for no real reason. This process (or some derivation of it) was used reasonably successfully at Soarfari events the last few years.
for PREVIOUS years' fun check out the