Flight SchoolBased atW99Grant County Airport

Eastern Soaring Center

Petersburg, WV·Is this your organization? Claim this page Email 304-851-4106

Eastern Soaring Center is a soaring facility located in the heart of the Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia, convenient to thermal, ridge and wave soaring with a wave window to FL230 available. The facility is the closest weekday and weekend operation serving Washington DC, Baltimore, Northern VA and surrounding areas, and the only commercial operation in the mid-Atlantic region exclusively offering winch launch for gliders.

PPL from
$7
VFR days
~220/yr

Pricing

as of Feb 2026
Pattern tow
$35
Up to 2000' AGL
$60
Up to 3000' AGL
$75
Instruction
$55
Glider rental (ASK-13)
$55
Tow - Pattern tow
$30
Tow - Up to 2000' AGL
$50
Tow - Up to 3000' AGL
$60
Weak link
$7
Cross-country ground retrieve
$75

Team

1 member
BC
Brian Collins
Owner/Operator, SSA Instructor, Glider Check Pilot Examiner with Maryland Wing of Civil Air Patrol · Retired USAF colonel who learned to fly and instruct in gliders at the USAF Academy from 1989-1991. Returned to soaring in 1996, purchased a Pik-20 and obtained his CFI-G. Has accumulated over 4000 ho

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