Glider Orientation Flights are conducted year round, mainly out of Immokalee (KIMM) Regional Airport.
We encourage Cadets to directly contact us to find out more about the Glider program.
Open O-flight days: Most O-flight days will be specially scheduled on mutually available dates at the request of a squadron. However, Open O' Flight days will also be scheduled, without a request, and announced via the Wing General List. If you'd like to be kept up to date on Glider Flights, please subscribe to this list. All qualified cadets may participate in open scheduled orientation flying if they have not already flown 5 glider orientation rides. Please use the following sign-up instructions, directly contacting us. Cadets may request to join us as an individual. Your parent can bring you.
At this time most Sundays are available as Open O-ride days, with short prior arrangement for individual or small numbers of O-rides.
How to sign up for Open Glider Orientation Flights
Generally a maximum of 2 flights, per Cadet, per session, is allowed. This is done to give the Cadet the maximum experience without the possibility of motion sickness.
- Check our schedule and then sign up for flights on an Open O-ride day by contacting the Glider Flight Schedule Officer. If there is no Open O-ride day that meets your needs you may wish to specially schedule O-rides on a date that is suitable.
- All requests MUST be in writing via email. No verbal requests will be accepted. All correspondence will be via email. If you have not received a response to your request email within 2 days, please call 239.877.4348. Please check your email regularly for updates.
- The following information MUST be submitted at the time of flight request for ALL Cadets and Seniors wishing to fly: The maximum fully clothed weight of a Cadet or Senior is 226#s. All pilots reserve the right to weigh a person if they look close to the limit. This is for Safety reasons and maximum glider limitations.
Open O-Flight requests will be rejected without all of the following completed information: Send this information in an email and/or fill out and attach this Sign-up sheet:
Requested Flight Date:
Senior In Charge of the Group:
Full Name:
CAP ID#:
Unit Number: e.g., SER-FL-###
Contact phone/cell number that will be good the morning of the flight:
Email address that is accessible all the time (work address might not work):
Each Person That Will Be Flying:
Full Name:
CAP ID #:
Unit Number: e.g., SER-FL-###
CAP Membership expiration date:
Fully clothed weight:
Open O-Flight requests can be directly made by a Cadet, as long as the cadet is brought to the soaring site by a parent or Senior. Special arrangements sometimes can be made. Please contact us.
No-shows without prior notification to the glider group, will jeopardize any future glider requests from an individual or your group.
Requests must be made a minimum of 7 days before the flight date unless other arrangements can be made with the Glider Flight Schedule Officer.
Read and follow the O' Flight Instructions
Take the Wing Runners Course and bring certificate for first glider O-flight
Meet your pilot at the designated airport.
For more information, please contact:
Ted Brousseau , Major, CAP
Florida Group 5 Glider Project Officer
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