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Membership Information

Prospective Members Click Here for Application

Current Members Click Here for Club Contact List

Current Members Click Here for Tow Pilot Schedule

Current Members Click Here for Club Operations Manual 

Current Members Click Here for Tow Pilot's Manual

Membership Types:  

Active (vested) Membership:  Full flying privileges, may vote & hold office $500 (75% refundable on resignation).  Monthly dues are $25.

Time-Pay: Full flying privileges, but may not vote or hold office.   $100 down, plus $10 per month toward the $500 vesting amount.  Monthly dues are $25.

Student: Full flying privileges, but may not vote or hold office.  Student memberships are available only to full time secondary school and undergraduate students.   $144 to join & no monthly dues for one year.

Family: Full flying privileges, but may not vote or hold office. Family memberships are available to immediate family members of active members.  Except for spouses, this membership terminates at 23.  

Honorary: Limited flight privileges.  No fee.  No monthly dues.

Associate: No glider flight or voting privileges. $5 per year

All pilots must be members of the Soaring Society of America.  Membership is $64.00 per year, and includes the monthly "Soaring" magazine.  To join the Soaring Society of America click here.  

Flights Costs

The Silent Knights Glider Club maintains a tradition of affordable flying.  Flight instruction is free and the sailplanes are charged on a per flight basis.  Aerotows are charged $1.60 per hundred feet.  For example, a tow to 2,000 feet AGL costs $32.  

2-22

$5 per flight

Blanik L-13

$8 per flight
1-34 $10 per flight

Aerotows

$1.60  per 100 feet
Flight Instruction
Free