To: all 2024 Ephrata XC attendees, mentors, and tow pilots, all HRS and WVSC members, and various and sundry other folks that have expressed an interest in the upcoming 2025 cross-country academy in Ephrata. We want to gauge probably participation via this brief preregistration/interest form https://forms.gle/Pym1jvhcbzRF9YZ28

Dates: June 29 through July 6, 2025

Formal registration will open after the first of the year. For now, if you think you may be willing to tow, fly as XC mentor, have interested juniors in your club, or just want to come fly your own glider at the event, please complete the online form and get this link out there to others that may be serious about attending. There is no formal obligation if you complete this; it is just time already to start getting an idea of who may want to attend and, conversely, to get prerequisites onto the radar of aspiring cross-country pilots, junior and adult.

Anyone completing this will be explicitly included in notification when formal registration opens in early 2025.

Alex Winbow will be formally recruiting and organizing dual ships and mentors for this event, and others will be assisting with other roles. I just wanted to get this onto your radar early so that juniors can work toward qualifying and so that we can, if useful, host a remote Bronze Badge class in January.

Thanks!

Brian Hart, Sr.
HartCraft
(360) 772-0613