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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 […]

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 […]

Two new tow pilots

15/04/2016

We are now lucky to have two new Tow Pilots with a heap of experience between them. Russell Palmer (left) is a former member and Tow Pilot and has come back to ‘the fold’ with 200 or so aero-tows and flight experience to draw on. Steve Ross (right) is also a highly experience pilot but […]

VSA Awards Presentation, 2015

12/09/2015

The VSA Awards Presentation was held on 8th August, 2015 at Bacchus Marsh in Victoria. At the awards, the Soaring Club of Tasmania was honoured to receive the Maurice Little Memorial Trophy for significant achievements in club development trophy The Maurice Little Memorial Trophy is awarded by the VSA Executive to a VSA Club which has made […]

Ready to fly

01/09/2015

Craig King took our Pawnee tow plane to Merimbula in southern NSW for its annual maintenance last week. It was an uneventful trip (apart from a very frosty Tuesday morning start out of Launceston airport). We had to rotate the plane several times on the ground to encourage the sun to melt the thick frost […]