Soaring Club of Tasmania

Air Experience Flights – Your Ticket to the Skies

Our Air Experience Flights are the perfect introduction to the world of gliding. Choose from our standard or deluxe packages, starting from just $220. Each flight is conducted by experienced instructors who will guide you through every step of the journey, from the initial ground briefing to the moment you take control of the glider in the air.

Book Your Flight or Join Us Today

Ready to take to the skies? Purchase an Air Experience Voucher online or contact us to learn more about membership. At Gliding Tasmania, we’re committed to providing an unforgettable experience that will leave you longing for more. Join us and soar like never before!

Some kind words

Thank you all to everyone who gave me a wonderful day with the gliders last Saturday. Excellent company and conversation, great flying, lovely machines.

As an ex Air Force member, my enjoyment was greatly enhanced by you kindly allowing to assist with handling and moving the aircraft. I haven’t handled aircraft since my service days in the 80’s and I loved every second of it. The only thing missing was the perfume of the Avgas.

All the very best to you all and I hope your club goes from strength to strength. If only you weren’t so far from Zeehan. I would love to be a volunteer but the distance makes that impractical.

Cheers, Christopher.

Gift vouchers

Air Experience Flight

$220

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Air Experience Deluxe Flight

$370

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Learn to Fly – Starter Package

$595

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Purchase someone (even yourself) the gift of flight with an Air Experience Voucher from Gliding Tasmania.

Soar like an eagle using the skill of your pilot and the energy from Mother Nature! Your instructor will explain the features of our two-seater dual-control glider in a ground briefing before strapping you in for the ride of your life.

Our powerful tow plane will then tow you up to your release height from where your instructor will release the tow rope. From then on you become a true soaring being and will seek out rising air currents (thermals) to climb on solar energy.

Often an eagle will also join you in the thermal. A qualified flight instructor will perform the takeoff and landing, but between times you will have the opportunity to take control of the glider under the guidance of your instructor.

The voucher may be redeemed most Sundays but flights are weather dependent. Please call Bob Kennedy on mobile: 0414 326 804 or Richard Doyle on mobile: 0419 992 264 before turning up to allow us to organise your flight.

An Air Experience Voucher costs FROM $220, and can be purchased immediately, securely, and online using a Credit Card. A voucher must be purchased before flying and the Terms and Conditions should be read and understood before flying.

Why we fly

There are many reasons why we fly. But for whatever reason gliding is a sport that is safe, affordable, and open to everyone.
Some people see gliding as a path to a career in aviation, others simply want to fly. Whatever your situation joining the Soaring Club of Tasmania is your path to an experience that is as close to flying like a bird as humanly possible.

Gliding is different. As a glider pilot, your success is dependent on your skill and knowledge. There is no engine so the pilot must understand the environment, meteorology, sources of lift, and many other factors in order to succeed. Flying the aircraft is just one part of a multi-faceted aviation experience.

Gliders, or to use the more appropriate term, sailplanes, are sophisticated high-performance aircraft with remarkable capabilities. Flights of over 30,000 ft and distances of more than 1000km are frequently achieved in Australia and around the world. It all starts at your local club. Your training is provided by experienced instructors and as a member, you have access to 2 seat training gliders and then can progress to single-seat gliders. All club instructors, engineers, and tow pilots are volunteers. This keeps costs affordable, and you can participate in this challenging sport without challenging your bank account.

Anybody with good health (sufficient to hold a driver’s licence) can learn to glide. You can go solo from 15 years of age, and there is no maximum age limit. Come and join us today and achieve your ambition to be a qualified pilot.

When we fly

Notification of flying can be found on the Gliding Tasmania Facebook page the day before we glide.

We also have a Roster page where we show planned gliding days and rostered crew. If you have purchased an Air Experience Flight look for Sundays when an Instructor and Tug pilot are rostered on. Please note that all flying days are dependent on good flying weather.

Flying days are mainly Sundays depending on the availability of crew and suitable weather. Gliding Tasmania also often flies on Saturdays and occasionally weekdays also depending on the availability of crew and weather. Notification is usually Friday or Saturday nights before operational days.

Please visit our Gliding Tasmania Facebook page for updates.

All visitors are welcome however if you wish to go for a flight, please let Bob Kennedy on mobile: 0414 326 804 or

Richard Doyle on mobile: 0419 992 264 know beforehand so we can fit you in.

We operate on a first-in basis so get in early to avoid disappointment.

Volunteering

Would you like to be involved but don’t want to learn to fly?

We have plenty of opportunities for non-flying volunteers including;

– Timekeeper
– Ground Crew
– Airfield maintenance/mowing
– Building maintenance/improvements
– Glider cleaning and minor maintenance
– Non-Flying Volunteers will have the opportunity from time to time to fly as a passenger with a club member for free.

Support gliding in Tasmania

The Soaring Club of Tasmania is the only gliding club currently operating within Tasmania.

The club is a not-for-profit club operating out of the old RAAF airfield at Tunbridge and provides free instruction to members with members only paying for aircraft hire. The club’s role is to facilitate all activities of gliding in Tasmania, including ground and air training, introductory visitor flights, and cross-county flying.

Your financial support will help Gliding Tasmania to offer the best gliding experience possible and all funds go towards equipment and facilities.

Through the club’s fundraising partnership with the Australian Sports Foundation, donations are tax deductible so please show your support for gliding in Tasmania by donating today.