Flying days

Off and running

11/01/2023

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 […]

Notice of 2022 AGM and Tug news

18/11/2022

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 […]

Our tow aircraft is out of service

14/07/2022

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. […]

Full Gliding Operations

25/08/2016

After a long and wet winter and a tug with a broken engine mount, full gliding operations are on again at Woodbury. There was a fair bit of water around in recent months and the ground was still quite wet but with spring just around the corner it should start to dry out quite nicely. […]

Sunday 6th December

07/12/2015

The forecast was for a 60% chance of rain but it didn’t eventuate. The weather was fine for flying with some of the best thermals for quite a while. While Graham worked on a form 2 for the Libelle, the rest of us went flying with some great flights until a south westerly came in […]