News

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 […]

News update – July 2022

01/08/2022

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

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. […]

Would you like to support Gliding Tasmania

25/06/2022

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 […]

First passenger

20/06/2021

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 […]

We are back

06/06/2020

We are back! Flying operations will be running throughout this long weekend and ongoing. Normal Covid 19 requirements to apply with a maximum of 20 people on site, masks worn in Glider cockpit for dual flights, sanitising etc. Contact must be made with Richard Doyle (0419 992 264) prior to attending so that we can […]

Support Gliding

29/01/2020

The Soaring Club of Tasmania (Gliding Tasmania) is the only gliding club currently operating within Tasmania. 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. Money will […]

Thank you

12/12/2019

The Soaring Club of Tasmania has moved from Woodbury Airfield to its new home at Tunbridge Airfield. This has been made possible by a great deal of volunteer labour and support from our members. We are excited to restart flying at our new home site and begin to explore the opportunities at Tunbridge. We are […]

Development approval

19/12/2018

Gliding Tasmania has now received development approval to build and use new facilities at the Tunbridge Airfield (see location for updated map). All of our equipment and facilities have been removed from Woodbury where we have operated continuously since 1973 on leased land. Once approval has been received for our hanger and other facilities, we will […]