During the Southern soaring season in 1988/89 Hans-Werner Grosse and his wife Karin shipped their ASH 25 to Australia to explore the fifth continent by glider. Remember, this was well before the private use of GPS, well before flying with sustainers and well before OLC documentation! However the Grosse’s had a camera and so were…
Dutch born now Australian resident Dan vanderMeulen achieved a dream to re-join the ranks of solo glider pilots on Sunday 28th October 2013. Dan commenced his gliding in his country of birth Holland in 1967 and last flew solo in Holland in 1973, with a growing family and immigrating to Australia just some of life’s…
On Saturday, 28 September, Australian pilot Paul Tridgell flew his first Gold Height gain in the morning, then on a second flight in the afternoon flew his first Diamond Height gain!; is this a world first?
Once again Warwick Gliding Club is organising the Queensland State Comps in Australia. Come to fly in the beautiful Darling Downs area. Please go to our registration webpage and enter your info on the registration form. You won’t be disappointed !
224km racing task. The sky looked absolutely amazing–and it was. Jim and I decided that we should really give these boys a run for their money and attempt to team fly. It did help because the clouds were so big that it was much more efficient to search for the core. The task was a…
Since we missed the practice day due to rain, today was a practice day for all of the pilots to attend the pilots meeting, preparing the glider, loading the task into possibly unfamiliar computers. Which was my case and I realized it had been a long time since I used the software that was preloaded…
It wasn’t that bad, only 1 inch of rain during the night, then it rained again in the morning, it looked like a great Uvalde day minus the rain, only we are not in Uvalde and it rained. By noon the ground was dry and around 2 it looked soarable. One brave sole flew the…
The Beverly Soaring Society is largest of three Gliding Clubs in Western Australia and operates Friday, Saturday and Sunday all year round. Our location is in at the edge of the wheat-belt area east of Perth WA and our terrain is mostly flat. Each year we make a trip five hour road trip south to…
