Sail Plane
Flight Crew Flight Instructor
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 71; Flight Crew Total 1591; Flight Crew Type 324
Confusion; Situational Awareness
Conflict NMAC
General None Reported / Taken
Human Factors; Procedure; Airspace Structure
I was on a training flight with a student pilot in a glider flying out of the 1OR4. We took off midafternoon and the flight lasted 1.2 hours. We released from tow at 3;000 feet AGL and reached a maximum height of 4;200 feet AGL. We were flying in the vicinity of the Gliderport just south of Hwy 26. The student pilot was at the controls for the entire flight.Someone received a report recently from a nearby tower that a jet had reported a close encounter that afternoon at an altitude of 2;800 feet near the greenhouses 2 miles south of the Glider port. The glider that I was in was the only one that could have been close to that position. Neither the student nor I heard or saw the jet.
A glider instructor was informed some time after his instruction flight that he may have been involved in a near miss with a jet near 1OR4. The glider crew did not see the aircraft.