Mid-Georgia Soaring Association

02/11/2025

Welcome to MGSA 2025! Our year starts off with planning, then with our Maintenance Days. We worked on our whole fleet- two Twins, two single place, and a Piper Pawnee tow plane. Here are some photos of that work spread over 2 weekends Well over half our club showed up to work on our planes!

06/09/2022

Vacation ends- We always have a good time in Cordele!

06/09/2022

The Mid Georgia Soaring Association holds an XC (Cross Country) camp after Memorial Day preceding a Region SSA Contest. Cordele present friendly skies, friendly, terrain, and friendly locals and visitors that enjoy having us down yearly. It is a fun event giving opportunity's for record flights and SSA and FAI Badges. I achieved my Diamond Goal and Diamond distance here many years ago in an Schempp-Hirth Open Cirrus. (Joe Flores, ed) Enjoy the photo's provided by yours truly and Tim Walter.

06/09/2022

02/05/2022

May you be flying the best aircraft in the universe! You will be missed sir!

01/28/2022

Yearly work day has turned into around a week of various days of work. Our own Hartley Falbaum spear heading the efforts this year.

Ongoing work as we disassemble the planes, clean, l**e, inspect, and get them ready for their annual inspections. The inspections may be done tomorrow, 1/29, if it's not too cold. Tomorrow is spoiling to be the coldest day in these parts in some 4 years. Really.

01/28/2022

Ongoing work as we disassemble the planes, clean, l**e, inspect, and get them ready for their annual inspections. The inspections may be done tomorrow, 1/29, if it's not too cold. Tomorrow is spoiling to be the coldest day in these parts in some 4 years. Really.

10/30/2021

You can see the metal coming up on the roof of the barn...

10/30/2021

Video of the wind event. It was howling a good 30mph but the gusts were frightening. I would say at least 50 and probably more when the rotor hit the ground.

07/03/2021

Congratulations to our new member transition pilot Joe Holbrook for his glider solo today. He was able to work the sky for over an hour and half aloft for his A badge as solo, then b badge for duration. Bravo!!

06/13/2021

The Region 5 South contest in Cordele enjoyed it's 50th race this year. Here is a great report on this from the locals in Albany Georgia.

https://www.southgatv.com/region-5-south-soaring-competition-prepares-for-50th-anniversary/?fbclid=IwAR3l4Rm9Q-YKNL73Gqwm5o7dk8nxhYurlrE9xo4WV7OzLeSts14ZvKXusF8

We’re here at the Region 5 South Soaring Competition located right here in our backyard, at Cordele’s Crisp County Airport. This is their 50th anniversary, which is a pretty big deal. So let’s learn more about it, shall we? Crisp County has been hosting this competition annually since 1971, an...