Tunbridge

Soaring Tasmania

Tunbridge

Off and running

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 […]

Christmas gift idea

Looking for a different Christmas gift for a loved one, family member or even a friend why not consider a Gift Voucher for a flight in one of our gliders. Purchase someone (even yourself) the gift of flight with an Air Experience Voucher from Gliding Tasmania. Soar like an eagle using the skill of your […]

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 […]

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 […]

Ian and David go Solo

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 […]

We are back

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 […]

Thank you

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

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 […]

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