Gift Certificates   Gift certificates are printed on heavy-stock, photo-quality inkjet paper at the highest resolution. The recipient can  keep this certificate as a memento, and redeem the accompanying star-punched ticket on the day of the ride. The recipient's name is printed on the certificate, along with the level of ride, date and sequence number. The certificate is clipped to a page describing what they have been given and then all is tucked into an issue of SOARING magazine. Guaranteed speechlessness... for a minute anyway. Then usually a heartfelt confession that this is something they have ALWAYS wanted to do. You can order a gift certificate by phone, e-mail, snail-mail, or click the icon below for simple instructions on taking care of it with a credit card right now.     If you happen to live in the Minneapolis area, please come and visit our kiosk during the holidays at the Southdale Mall in Edina. We sell discounted glider ride gift certificate packages from November 15th until December 31st. We print and assemble the packages on the spot. All rides are $10 off the list price, plus we offer a $59.00 intro ride available only at the mall. This ride is to 2,000FT and lasts about 12 minutes. It may not be long, but it's a great price and should give the passenger a good taste of the magic. Or just drop by the kiosk to say hi, take in some of the slide show and talk soaring for a while.

If you have any questions about the sport of soaring, sailplanes, aerobatics, cross-country flying, contest flying, add-on glider ratings for power-pilots, learning to fly from scratch and getting a glider license, flying in other countries, buying a glider, etc., come stop by the kiosk. I have a number of slide-shows queued up on the laptop, one of which is always playing on a flat screen monitor. Ask to see some video of soaring in the Southern Alps of New Zealand with Gavin Wills - quite the spectacular scenery and great soaring conditions!