Seminole-Lake Gliderport

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  Caveat emptor Despite a personal visit to this place in January of this year they were unprepared for my scheduled glider add-on when I came back in April. I was in FL this January on business, from NY, so I decided to check them out as a possible site for my glider add-on. I spend a few hours there looking at the training gliders and speaking with the instructors. On the surface they looked competent so I made plans with them to return in April and complete the add-on training; I filled out all the paperwork, reviewed my Private Pilot history with the instructor, bought a glider logbook and in general set thing up for my return in April. When I got back there in April it was as if I didn't exist, my instructor was not there, they had not made any arrangements with the FAA Examiner and were singularly unable to correct the situation. So I had taken vacation from work, flew down from NYC, got a hotel and rental car and there was no add-on to be had! To top it off a friend of mine came with me to get checked out in their Grob and found half the instruments not functioning and the glider in a permanent starboard bank because of an unusually heavy starboard wing. Maybe they should stop running this as a family business and start running it as a business, as far as I was concerned they lost what could have been $2,500 in revenue. I've managed to accumulate nearly 500 hours of single-engine time by putting safety first in my decision process; I'm making plans to work with a school elsewhere for that add-on.
  By Gregory Torre, December 20, 2017
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  Great flying destination, if you are a sailplane pilot. Good soaring conditions, friendly, family-run private field. Camping/RV hookups are available on the field. (30-amp electric and water, no cable, no dump site.) The only thing keeping them from a 5-star rating is that their rental gliders look a little rough. They are older sailplanes, used as trainers, and are showing their age. This would be an excellent vacation destination for the sailplane pilot. Not only for flying, but the field is located about a half-hour drive from Disney World, and about 20 minutes from Fantasy of Flight aviation museum.
  By John Kachenmeister, August 03, 2017

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