Tom is our Director of Operations. He is a commercial pilot in gliders, single engine airplanes and seaplanes with an airline transport pilot rating in multi-engine aircraft with multiple type ratings. He is a flight instructor with a CFI-II-MEI-G. Tom has logged more than 12,000 flight hours in many different types of aircraft, with over 2,200 hours of flight instruction given. He is also one of our tow plane pilots. Tom’s wife, Jen Stamp, is also an instructor at Sugarbush Soaring.

Danny is a commercial pilot and CFI-G in gliders and private pilot in single engine airplanes. He has been flying at the Warren Sugarbush airport since 2017, when he started as a Line Crew member. Danny participated in the Line Crew program for five summers and then worked as assistant airport manager before becoming a commercial ride pilot. Danny is currently serving as the Secretary of Flight Experience for Youth and is pursuing a degree in mechanical engineering at Olin College of Engineering in Needham, MA.

Tim Larsen, a commercial glider pilot and CFIG, is one of our part-time glider instructors. He has logged over 2,800 flight hours over 34 years and has flown in New Zealand as well as all over the US, including Tennessee, Georgia, West Virginia, Arizona, Texas, New Mexico, Nevada, Alabama, and North and South Carolina. Tim recently earned his Eastern Diamond Distance (500 km) soaring badge in Tennessee. After a 20+ year hiatus, he recently started flying power planes again in a 1941 Taylorcraft. Tim resides in Moretown, VT.

Graham joined the club in 1999, and has logged over 1,300 hours of flight time (1,200 in gliders). When not instructing or giving rides, he floats around the sky in his LS-4. Graham spends his summers in Vermont. The rest of the year he works as a college professor at Creighton University in Nebraska.

Dave Setser is a commercial pilot and CFII/MEI with single-engine land and sea, multiengine land, glider and instrument ratings. He has logged more than 1,700 hours of flight time as a pilot, and more than 600 hours in experimental military and civilian aircraft as a flight test engineer and test director.  He is an Air Force military veteran and retired Air Force senior civilian engineer, and is currently a Principal Research Engineer at Georgia Tech Research Institute. In the soaring off-season Dave and his wife Ellen, SSA's business manager, live in southern New Hampshire and fly a Van's RV-7 they built together.

Ellen joined Sugarbush Soaring as Business Manager in 2023, bringing experience from a career in marketing, event management, and more recently, airport management. In the off-season, Ellen and her husband Dave, a Sugarbush Soaring tow pilot, live in central New Hampshire and fly a Van’s RV-7 they built together.

Kevin is a commercial pilot in single and multiengine land and seaplanes, and gliders. He is a flight instructor in single engine airplanes and gliders, and an advanced and instrument ground instructor. With more than 2,000 hours of flight instruction experience, Kevin was accredited as a NAFI Master Flight Instructor in 2024. During the off-season, he resides in Orlando, FL, where he is a full-time instructor in airplanes.

Jen is a commercial pilot in single engine airplanes and gliders. She holds an instrument rating and is a Certified Flight Instructor for airplanes, instruments, and gliders. She has over 1,500 total flight hours, over 500 of which have been spent giving instruction in gliders. She is currently serving as President of Flight Experience for Youth. During the weekends and youth camps, she instructs in gliders or buzzes around in a 1941 Taylorcraft (BC12-65). During the week, she works as an aquatic ecologist for Tetra Tech’s Center for Ecological Sciences. Jen’s husband, Tom Anderson, is Director of Operations at Sugarbush Soaring.