From the EO December 2022
From the Executive Officer, Terry Cubley AM, all the latest…
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From the GFA
Crew Resource Management
Christopher ThorpeExecutive Manager,…
Rain, Rain, Go Away
The continuation of wet weather across large areas of Australia has…
Occurances May - July 2022
All clubs and GFA members are urged to report all occurrences and…
Training and Airworthiness Webinars
Anthony Smith has been adding to his Airwortihiness Webinars with…
FAI Gliding Badges
FAI Gliding Badges SILVER - GOLD - DIAMOND Due to reporting problems…
GFA Previous Issues
September 01, 2022
GFA
From the President Steve Pegler - AGM…
PRESIDENT’S REPORT ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING – 31st AUGUST 2022 Reflection It’s a relief to see that we’re all getting back to life that is more reflective of times pre-COVID. The Australian population is almost fully vaccinated, and it seems that much of the…
September 01, 2022
GFA
From the EO September 2022
From the Executive OFficer all the latest developmenta at the GFA Exit SurveyCurrently something like 70% of member leave within the first 12 months of membership. Changes to our training system are aimed at reducing this loss, but we also want to find out…
August 31, 2022
GFA
GFA Awards 2022
The GFA Annual General Meeting was held as a video conference for the 3rdyear in a row on 31 August. Members from all over the country were able to take part without the need to travel. This innovation has made the AGM more accesible and increased attendance…
August 18, 2022
Occurrences
Occurrences & Incidents February -…
Occurrences & Incidents February - April 2022
May 28, 2022
GFA
From the Executive Officer June 2022
The GFA Board met in Melbourne on 21 - 22 May, the first face-to-face meeting since November 2019. working through Zoom has been very successful, and has enabled many short meetings and workshops, but when it comes to handling complex topics, face to face is…
May 18, 2022
Operations
Pilot Authorisations and Endorsements
Christopher ThorpeExecutive Manager, Operations Pilot Authorisations and Endorsements Operational Regulation 3.1.3 requires all pilots to maintain a logbook detailing, among other things, a record of pilot authorisations and endorsement granted, their dates…
May 13, 2022
Occurrences
Occurrences December 2021 - January 2022
Occurrences December 2021 - January 2022
May 09, 2022
GFA
How Many Glider Pilots are there in the…
The International Gliding Commission (IGC) has reformed a group now called the Gliding Development Group (GDG) to support gliding around the world. In order to measure if the group is being effective we needed to collect data from countries where gliding…
March 06, 2022
Occurrences
Occurrences September - November 2021
Occurrences September - November 2021
March 05, 2022
GFA
From The Executive Officer March 2022
Membership numbersMembership at start of March 2021 was 2,767 (286 women – 10.3%)Membership at start of March 2022 is 2,401 (248 women – 10.3%) This is a reduction of 366 members (13%) in 12 months, which is of concern and has been an ongoing issue for some…
December 15, 2021
GFA
From the President Steve Pegler
As I put pen to paper, it is just two weeks to Christmas – phew, where has the year gone? It seems that almost everything we have done over the past year has been over-shadowed by the Covid-19 cloud with ever-changing and confusing guidance and rules from…
December 15, 2021
GFA
From the Executive Officer December 2021
MembershipGFA membership growth has been positive in the past few months as people take the opportunity provided by increased freedoms.We have had some issue with members forgetting to renew their membership as they sit out lockdowns, and the risk then is…
September 05, 2021
GFA
From the Executive Officer
From the Executive OFficer all the latest developmenta at the GFA It seems that Covid is once again severely impacting many of our clubs. We survived 2020 fairly well, and it looked like 2021 would be much better, but that is not to be. Country clubs are able…
September 05, 2021
Operations
Aerotow Upset Incidents
Christopher ThorpeExecutive Manager, Operations Aerotowing may appear to be a benign method of getting airborne in a glider, but there are inherent hazards, the most significant of which are tug upsets. In the last 10 years there have been 11 incidents in…
September 01, 2021
Operations
Around the Regions
Christopher ThorpeExecutive Manager, Operations Queensland In late January 2021, Denis Lambert took over the role of RMO Queensland from Ivor Harris, who completed his five-year term on the GFA Operations Panel. Denis is an experienced Level 3 instructor and…
August 03, 2021
GFA
Vale Mike Burns
I worked with and was helped a lot by Mike. Mike passing is a great loss to GFA, he worked with and for GFA since about the 1980s. He wrote and developed most of the GFA system of airworthiness ie. Basic Sailplane Engineering, MOSP 3, the system of ADs and…
July 24, 2021
Occurrences
Occurrences & Incidents March - April…
Occurrences & Incidents March - April 2021
June 01, 2021
GFA
From the President Steve Pegler
Summer is over and I have already had enough of winter, but there again, winter does give us the opportunity to attend to all those things that we need to get in place in preparation for the next season. The long warm days of a new soaring season are indeed…
June 01, 2021
GFA
From the Executive Officer Terry Cubley
GFA OfficeAfter 12 months working from home, GFA Office staff are now back in the office. We have made some improvements to the environment and file storage system. The staff are quite flexible and can revert back to working from home as required, should…
May 30, 2021
Operations
Operations - Heavy Landing
In Issue 54 of the Gliding Australia magazine, I wrote of an incident in which an aircraft was cleared for flight after a hard landing despite suffering substantial structural damage. The damage resulted the flight crew experiencing aileron control…
