Noah Reitter took a demonstration ride in the fall of 2012 at Harris Hill. Next spring, he joined Harris Hill’s junior organization, soloed later that summer and completed his B and C badges. During the 2014 soaring season, Noah attained his Private Glider, Commercial Pilot and Silver badge. He also crewed at the Region 5 North and Region 2 contests. In the spring of 2015, Noah crewed in the 1st FAI Pan American Gliding Championships and soon after completed his Flight Instructor Glider. Noah flew as a guest/sniffer in the 2015 Standard Nationals and place 2nd on one of the competition days! In the summer he was a flight instructor at Harris Hill. This past season Noah again instructed at HH and soloed 5 of HH Junior members. Noah placed 2nd at the 2016 Region 2 contest and 2nd at the 2016 club Class Nationals. During this time Noah completed his Private Pilot airplane rating and got checked out as a tow pilot. Noah’s accomplished much in a short time and his enthusiasm and dedication make him an ideal team member.

As Daniel said, we are practicing team flying for these 12 days (we’ve already had 3 great days of practice of getting back into the team flying mindset). Other than that I have guest flown a contest at the beginning of the year and flying as much as I possibly can. (7/25)

They do things differently at a WGC and as a team we must learn how to fly according to their “rules” and be better. A couple of key ways this can be done is learning flying the gaggle and team flying.

There are two main reasons: one is that it is a huge honor to represent the United States at an international sporting event and two I want to show other young pilots that flying cross country and achieving their goals in aviation is doable with the right mind set and hard work.

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