Eastern Ontario Zone Director & Vice President
George Domaradzki
George Domaradzki is the director for the Eastern Ontario Zone since 2014 and Vice-President since 2016.
George has been flying gliders since 1998 and is an instructor since 2004. He is currently President and Chief Flight Instructor of Rideau Valley Soaring. He also coordinates the Ottawa area glider pilot ground school and has given theoretical lessons. George is the proud owner of an ASW-20 that he flies whenever he is not scheduled for instruction. He retired from the Federal Government where he was a demographer, enabling him to carry out more flying and instruction during the week.
Pacific Zone Director
Bruce Friesen
Pacific Zone Director since 2016
Bruce was fascinated with flying machines early in his life, it was only after a familiarization flight in a glider 1969 that Bruce found his passion – “the glider climbed, without an engine!“ Since 1983 he has pursued that passion to extract as much energy as possible from the atmosphere and to play chess with the sky, focusing on long flights in his wooden Standard Austria, the Scarlet Lady, and his Discus, Kilo Lima Lima. Not a towpilot or an instructor (Class 4 medical), Bruce hopes he can contribute to the sport of soaring in Canada as a member of the SAC Board and as SAC Historian. He is retired and living on the West Coast, but is a bit of a soaring vagabond, enjoying flying at new sites. When not soaring, he can be found at the Canadian Museum of Flight at Langley Airport, polishing old aircraft, and promoting soaring to the aviation-minded folks he meets.
Alberta Zone Director
Pavan Kumar
Alberta Zone Director since 2019 and SAC Secretary
Pavan completed a PPL with the Air Cadets and in 2011 became a towpilot with Saskatoon Soaring Club. With SSC he completed both GPL and FI before moving to Lethbridge and has served as CFI of the Lethbridge Soaring Club since it started flying in 2013. They call Cowley their home field and he welcomes other clubs and pilots to fly with them, learn to winch in their newly refurbished Grob Twin Trainer, and collect diamonds at Canada’s Diamond Mine. Current goals include mountain soaring, acro training, developing the Cowley Soaring Center site, and training of fellow pilots and instructors.
