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. […]

Outlanders

15/06/2021

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 […]

Ian and David go Solo

01/02/2021

Lovers of soaring like eagles, The current interest in gliding, truly soaring, in Tasmania is clearly very strong. The fantastic new site thanks to the Gardner family, is very stimulating and invigorating with its meteorological challenges and stunning landscape beauty. The facilities are also very impressive and constantly being refined and are a great reflection […]

Double this weekend

16/02/2017

We will be flying both Saturday and Sunday this weekend (18th and 19th February) so why not join us at Woodbury for a great weekend. RASP is indicating a great day for thermals on Saturday and a good day on Sunday so there should be great flying both days. John Spilsbury and Phil Goss will be […]

Double shifter

23/09/2016

Saturday October 1st and Sunday October 2nd is our first “Double shifter” for the soaring season. So why not pack your tent, load the Winnebago or have the staff put fresh linen in the Learjet and join in for Saturday night Barbie and beverages? Don’t want to stay over, no problem. Just drop in and […]

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 […]

Sunday 9th September 2015

14/09/2015

Sunday 13th Sept. turned out pretty much as expected. We had seven flights the longest being flown by Reg Marron in the Libelle of 50min. towards the end of the day. The wind forecast was spot on with a 10 knot westerly upstairs (ground wind was N.W.) showing up about 3.00pm. This induced some wave which […]