Seminole-Lake Gliderport

May 30th, 2018

Cliff and Steve are great instructors and taught me things in 3,000 hours as a private pilot I did not know. It takes time and gliding is not like coasting down a hill in a wagon... the days when the weather was a problem I learned valuable things hanging around just talking gliders. It's great fun and I'm looking forward to getting advanced training riding thermals, ridges and waves.
Jan 5th, 2017

LOVE THIS PLACE ❤️
Dec 7th, 2016

Home port !!
Jul 7th, 2016

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.
Jul 9th, 2017