Hello and welcome to Long Island Soaring Association (LISA). We are a soaring club based at Brookhaven Calabro Airport in Long Island.
We get together every weekend to fly our sailplanes, and to teach and learn about the sport of soaring. We also offer Power Pilot training in our Cessna C-172 at a very reasonable rate. The club, an SSA chapter, is a non-profit incorporated in 1955 by soaring enthusiasts. Our aim is to promote the sport of soaring and make it affordable to all. We also strive to promote the science of airmanship, air navigation, meteorology, and related subjects.
Glider operations are scheduled every weekend and some weekdays, weather permitting. Click on a day above to make a reservation; if it is not clickable, we are having ops that day. If ops are cancelled for any reason, you will be notified by SMS.
We offer an Introductory Flight for those who want to experience soaring and see if the sport is for them.
Joining requires a membership application which can be filled out here. We encourage you to come to at least one operation as a guest first and complete one or more guest flights to see if you have an interest in soaring.
LISA has members who are FAA Certified Flight Instructors and volunteer their time teaching our members to fly. You don't have to have any prior flying experience to join. We're a club and not a commercial operation, so we operate on a first come, first serve basis. We enjoy introducing prospective members to the joys of flying, but cannot take reservations for a particular time. You may choose morning or afternoon, or both, and we will do our best to accommodate you.
Learning to fly should never feel like a mystery. Every LISA student gets a live training record covering all 72 maneuvers of the Private Pilot Glider syllabus — from your first aerotow through slow flight, spins, rope breaks and accuracy landings — grouped in the order you'll actually learn them.
After every lesson your instructor signs off what you flew: covered once you've been introduced to a maneuver, proficient once you're holding it to the FAA Practical Test Standards. They can leave notes on what to work on next, and you can read them any time from your phone — not scribbled on a logbook page you left in the car.
Log in and you'll see your progress bar climb, which maneuvers are still ahead of you, and who signed off what and when. Because every CFI in the club works from the same record, it doesn't matter who you happen to fly with on a given weekend — whoever straps in beside you already knows exactly where you left off. When the last maneuver turns green, you'll know you're checkride ready before anyone has to tell you.
You can also use our contact form to send a message to the board.
Non Members can subscribe for email updates on upcoming operations..