CAP's Michigan Wing conducted safe and fun glider operations on Saturday at Dupont Lapeer Airport. Here's a landing on a cadet orientation flight. @CAPGLR @CivilAirPatrol #GoFlyCAP

CAP pilots have to fly to high standards and they go through evaluations at least every year to verify their skills. Here's a stan/eval glider flight with the backseater being evaluated on a simulated rope break at 200 AGL. @CAPGLR @CivilAirPatrol #GoFlyCAP

Colonel Rose M. Hunt, Civil Air Patrol’s Great Lakes Region commander, appointed Lieutenant Colonel Eric V. Scott as the next commander of Civil Air Patrol’s Michigan Wing.

Michigan Wing's 2024 Summer Encampment is a wrap! We made a great video showing the world (and, importantly, future cadet basics) what Encampment is all about. @CivilAirPatrol @CAPGLR #GoFlyCAP youtube.com/watch?v=QY5_EwNd…

Michigan Wing aircrews took Fertile Keynote missions to a new level during encampment, taking advantage of the nearby MOA and number of CAP aircraft to provide multiple simultaneous intercept targets. @CAPGLR @CivilAirPatrol #GoFlyCAP

Michigan Wing's encampment glider team went to the Johnson Flight Academy last week to help assemble MIWG's ASK 21 and check out several of the instructor pilots. We'll be flying it at Alpena for the MIWG encampment next week. @CAPGLR @CivilAirPatrol #GoFlyCAP

Glider launch at operations yesterday. @CAPGLR @CivilAirPatrol #GoFlyCAP

.@CivilAirPatrol's Michigan Wing conducted safe and exciting glider ops at D95 on Saturday. Cadet O-flights, stan/eval, and proficiency flying with two gliders, a tow plane, and ground crew. @CAPGLR #GoFlyCAP

Michigan Wing's glider team had a work day on Saturday, refreshing the tow ropes, polishing and sealing the ASK 21, and awarding the Golden Tow Hook to program manager Carl Muntean. @CivilAirPatrol @CAPGLR #GoFlyCAP

Didn't check for TFRs before launching on a cross-country? The friendly @180thFW is here to help! Flares and burner. (10 shock diamonds!) Shot by a MIWG CAP intercept target aircrew during a Fertile Keynote mission. @CivilAirPatrol @CAPGLR #GoFlyCAP #TotalForce

Following up from this afternoon's post. Here's the video! F-16 out the window goes into burner and deploys flares to intercept our C-206 as sensor operator Maj Ewing locks him up with the imaging pod. #FertileKeynote @CivilAirPatrol @CAPGLR #GoFlyCAP

MIWG's Maj Nick Ewing tracks a @180thFW F-16 from the sensor operator station using the CAP aircraft's imaging pod during a twilight Fertile Keynote intercept mission. That's the fighter deploying a flare, both on the screen and out the window. @CivilAirPatrol @CAPGLR #GoFlyCAP

CAP's Michigan Wing is one of several wings now equipped with a FLIR pod on its C-206. We'll soon be able to provide high-quality disaster relief and other imagery to CAP's customers. In the meantime, though, we couldn't help but express our excitement. @CivilAirPatrol @GLRCAP

CAP's instructor pilot cadre ranks among the best! MIWG's Lt Col Steve Tupper named the FAA/GAA Flight Instructor of the Year for Michigan (two FSDOs). Now on to national finalist selections later this month. @CivilAirPatrol @CAPGLR #GoFlyCAP

CAP Michigan Wing's glider team celebrates a successful calendar 2023 and stands at third in the nation in FY2024 glider ops so far. Wait'll you see what we do in calendar 2024! @CivilAirPatrol @CAPGLR #GoFlyCAP

Michigan Wing @civilairpatrol conducted safe and successful glider operations on Saturday, flying more than a dozen cadet orientation flights, a stan/eval series, and proficiency flights. Our ground team can launch and recover up to six sorties/hour. @CAPGLR #GoFlyCAP

If you're wondering why the drop-down menu for aircraft year of manufacture in @CivilAirPatrol's maintenance system goes all the way back to 1966, it's for MIWG's trusty 2-32. First flight by Schweizer himself. @CAPGLR #GoFlyCAP.

Here's the most MIWG thing of the year. A MIWG cadet in a MIWG CAP aircraft over the Mackinac Bridge during the MIWG encampment. @CivilAirPatrol @CAPGLR

MIWG has completed another successful week of encampment air ops. Fertile Keynote intercepts, stan/eval/ proficiency, and cadet O-flights all in a week's work. (F-16 shot approved by 180th FW PAO.) @CivilAirPatrol @CAPGLR

Michigan Wing's summer encampment is in full swing! Cadets are getting aloft on O-flights over the Straits of Mackinac. @CivilAirPatrol @CAPGLR