Required Reading by ALL Pilots

This publication is a positive step towards keeping the operations safe, minimizing the potential for incidents and eliminating confusion. Williams Soaring Center is open to the public, however it is a privately owned facility. Flight operations must be conducted in accordance with Federal Aviation Regulations (FAR's). The following may assist you in applying the FAR's to operations at this field, and will provide additional guidance and detail where it is deemed necessary.

Read the following pages, and be prepared to acknowledge your understanding of this material when you visit the field. Your cooperation is appreciated.

 

• Warning - Disclaimer
• Insurance
• Airplanes Flying In
• General
• Overview
• Activites by private pilots and clubs
• Currency and qualification 
• Student Pilots responsibilities / (also, some rated pilots)
• Private Pilots responsibilities
• The Registration Card
  
• Rentals
• Express Permission Required
• Scheduling
• Cancellation of Reservations
• Aero Retrieves
• Ground Retrieves
  
• Operations
• Motor vehicles and parking
  
• Glider trailers, parking and glider assembly
• Glider tiedown
• Description of the airfield
  
• Direction of takeoffs and landings
• Staging gliders prior to takeoff
• Flight operations
  
• Standard signals
• Use of radios
• Aborted takeoffs
• Tows
  
• Returning to the field for landing
  
• Traffic patterns
• Landing to the south
• Landing to the north
• Landing to the north during the dry season
• Landing to the north during the wet season
• After landing

Please Acknowledge

Now that you have read the material, please complete the Pilot Registration Card on your next visit to the office at Williams.  This is an important process, thank you.

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WARNING - DISCLAIMER

These web pages contain information and operating policies established by the management at Williams Soaring Center.

All pilots operating from Williams Gliderport are expected to have knowledge of this information, and are expected to comply whenever sound reasoning and common sense allow compliance.  However, this information is published with the understanding that the management is not engaged in instructing through these pages.  The Federal Aviation Regulations (FAR's) and sound safety practices take precedent over anything stated or implied herein.  It is not the purpose of this manual to reprint, rephrase or interpret the FAR's in any manner. The intent of this publication is to complement and supplement the FAR's.

Neither the management nor employees shall have any liability or responsibility to any person or entity with respect to any loss or damage caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly by this information.

Further, if there is any policy and/or procedure that you believe to be unsafe, or even onerous, you are expected to voice your concern and bring that issue to the attention of the management.

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