Gliding Australia Magazine

Australian Teams for World Gliding Championships 2025 -6

The selection of our pilots to participate in the coming 2025 and 2026 World Championships has been completed. The 39th FAI World Championships for 15m , Standard and Club class commences on 7th June thru to 21st June 2025 at Tabor, Czech Republic. Australian Team is: Club…

Australian Teams for World Gliding Championships 2025 -6

Features - Safety - Comps - Training - Vintage - Events

Joeyglide at Narromine

JoeyGlide 2025 celebrated 20 years of Junior Gliding in Australia by…

Hunter Valley GC Easter Vintage Regatta

Once again HVGC hosted the Easter Vintage Rally. It was a weekend…

Around the Clubs May 2025

Gliding Club of Western Australia at NarroginA WIGWA development camp…

My Week at Tocumwal

In March I was privileged to be invited by Mark ‘Lumpy’ Paterson to…

Temora Club and 2 Seat Nationals

Anticipating what the weather will bring for a gliding competition is…

My Journey to Cross Country Flying

I started gliding in late 2021. I’d been up in a glider many times…

GAus Goes to Avalon

By Daryl Bishop The Gliding Australia display at the Avalon…

Horsham Coaching Week

This coming season marks the 60th Horsham Week flying competition in…

Multiclass Nationals 2026 at Leeton

The 2026 Multiclass Nationals - Standard, 15m, 18m and Open Class -…

Victorian Championships and Horsham Week

Another excellent Horsham Week Competition, the 59th in an unbroken…

NSW State Championships Temora

In the week before the contest, the same weather system that brought…

From GAus

CEO Doug Flockhart May 2025

You’ve no doubt heard the saying, ‘the grass is always greener on the…

IGC Plenary

Mandy Temple attended the March IGC meeting in her role as…

How to Configure Your Glider for Live Tracking

Tracking with multiple data sources By Tim Bromhead If you go missing…

From the Archives W P Iggulden Award

Keith Willis from Bordertown in SA has an extensive collection of…

Soaring Development - Introducing DHT

The 2024/25 competition season is largely behind us, with mixed…

Safety Insights - Digging Into Safety Issues

We can, and must, do better in gliding safety – particularly our…

A Changing of the Guard at Waikerie

A Changing of the Guard at Waikerie – Mark Morgan’s Legacy and the…

SOAR Reports Summary

September 202428/9/2024 DG-1000S Minor Nil Ground handling. Gust of…

A Balanced Gliding Club

One of the tools we used was the concept of a ‘balanced business’.…

Jantar Control Rigging

Over the years, there have been a significant number of SOAR and…

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