Gliding Tasmania has made a great start after nearly 6 months of no flying due to the Tow aircraft engine issue. Flying stats for December show the Tug had 100 tows and nearly 17 hours of towing gliders over 11 days of flying. Our 3 club gliders flew for over 41 hours in total during […]
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Notice of 2022 AGM and Tug news
Dear members, It’s time for the annual general meeting of the Soaring Club of Tasmania (gliding Tasmania). The AGM will be held at the Tunbridge Airfield on Saturday, 26th November at 12 noon. AGENDA – Apologies – Minutes from last year – Business from minutes – Presidents Report – Treasurers Report – Technical Officer Report […]
News update – July 2022
Following both a Flying Panel meeting and a Committee meeting we are pleased to advise that Stephen Ross will be taking over the role of the Clubs Tug Master and Stephen will now oversee the towing operation and maintenance of the Tug. Craig King will continue to assist us by helping Stephen with the organisation […]
Our tow aircraft is out of service
Our tow aircraft is out of service due to an engine failure. We expect to only offer minimal flights for a month or two using our sole private motor glider. The engine failure was unexpected and will be expensive to fix but it will be fixed and put back into service as soon as possible. […]
Would you like to support Gliding Tasmania
The Soaring Club of Tasmania (Gliding Tasmania) is the only gliding club currently operating in Tasmania. The club’s role is to facilitate all activities of gliding in Tasmania, including ground and air training, introductory visitor flights, and cross-country flying. Your financial support would help Gliding Tasmania to offer the best gliding experience possible. Any donated […]
Gliding Tasmania Open Day
Gliding Tasmania ran an Open Day on March 20th, 2022 and it was a great success. The weather was warm and cloudy with little wind. In other words, just about perfect. There were 25 visiting aircraft and one helicopter from all over the state and an estimated 150 visitors in attendance and you can see […]
Open day March 20th
Gliding Tasmania is having an open day on March 20th (backup day if the weather is poor will be April 10th) at the Gliding Airfield at the old RAAF Airfield at Tunbridge Tasmania. This will be a fly-in and open day and all visitors are welcome. Highlights of the day will include: Please also find […]
First passenger
Going solo is the “biggie” for all student pilots. But it doesn’t stop there. We move on to the “C” Certificate and beyond. This includes, for many, gaining the Passenger / Friends rating. Today, David Gibbs had the opportunity to exercise his passenger rating for the first time. All aspects of the flight were observed by […]
Outlanders
Monday 14th June. A great day today as we checked out a new site for outlanding training. Ian Dummett and David Gibbs both completed their outlanding training at Will Bennett’s field near Ross. It proved to be an ideal site for outlanding training and both pilots did 2 landings, including a steep approach over high […]
Harley goes solo
Gliding Tasmania is currently in a growth phase. Along with steady growth in membership numbers and the arrival of 3 “new” gliders during the past few weeks, we are seeing substantial increases in the number of students attaining Solo status. Yesterday Harley went solo in the Twin Astir. Harley was a significant contributor to our […]
