The Auckland Gliding Club, Aviation Sports Gliding Club (Whenuapai), and Piako Gliding Club’s members are all invited to come and fly at Matamata this Labour Weekend.

• I have arranged the weather.
• I have arranged The Dinner.
• I have arranged the Dissertation During Dessert. (3D)
• I have arranged an alternative program for non-pilots in the committee room.
  (ie port & cigars - or similar!)

Roast Dinner $10 @ 7pm

Desert & Coffee $5 @ 7.45pm

Combined $15 

Saturday Nights Dissertation - Kaimai Wave Flying with wave exponent Adrian Cable (A Cat Inst) This is to encourage and give confidence to pilots that fly this area, to explore the wave safely. It is an area of flying that used to be very common at Piako but has diminished in recent times. Adrian has immense experience in the wave patterns of our area so here is your opportunity to take advantage of this.

An indication of attendance would be appreciated.

Preferably email Jan at wajvmace@ihug.co.nz by Friday 8pm

or phone the clubhouse 07 888 5972 between 9.30am and 10.30am Saturday.

We look forward to seeing you there.

Bill Mace
PGC
Club Captain

Duty Pilots roster coming soon...

We've suddenly realised the duty pilots roster has run out, a new one will be online again very soon. We'll send an email out when it's ready to view.

Instructors Training Course 16th-18th October

This year the Gliding New Zealand instructors training course is being held at Matamata. It runs from Friday 16th Oct to Sunday 18th, usually finishing up around lunchtime Sunday. The course will involve many gliders and instructors from other clubs around the country, including our twins and instructors.

For our club, the twins will be in use all day Saturday, and Sunday morning. Sunday afternoon club members are welcome to use them as usual. All Friday and weekend, towing will be available for our club singles and private owners.

Labour Weekend 24th-26th October

Whenuapai is coming down for Labour weekend, and we'll be flying on Monday, so it should be a great weekend.

We're planning a dinner at the gliding club Saturday 24th Oct, so book it in now. We'll send out more details closer to the time.

Central Plateau Competition 31st Oct-7th Nov

The Central Plateau competition is on in Taupo, details and entry form can be found on gliding.co.nz.

X-Country Course & Regionals

Starting 23rd November to 5th December are the XCountry course (23rd to 27th) followed by the regionals (29th to 5th Dec). More details to come.

Looking forward to a great season! Any day now the weather will come right... have fun and fly safe.

Here is the latest FlyPaper, thanks Jan for putting this together again. Again there are two versions, one PDF, one Word Document, both the same.

Flypaper Sep09.doc

Flypaper Sep09.pdf

Don't forget the compulsory start of season briefing & FREE LUNCH this Sunday 13th September, 10am at the clubhouse.

One other note about the webcam/weather - the Internet connection to the clubhouse is broken, thus both the weather and webcam are down. We'll get it back up and working as soon as possible.

Thanks to Chris Scales for this video, made during our winch training day recently.

Full event on Sunday 13 September, with repeat of the pilot briefing on Wednesday 16 Sept for those that can’t make the Sunday.

Start time 10.00am (both days) finish 12.00 for lunch and afternoon flying.

This is a compulsory briefing for all glider pilots (to attend either day). Glider pilots who have not attended the briefing will not be cleared for solo flying and will have to make arrangements for a special session with the CFI.

Agenda –

• Duty Pilot’s daily duties including new timesheet software,
• Airspace and Radio Procedures,
• Gliding Safely,
• Club Tasks,
• and some time for pilot feedback and discussion. 

To be followed by BBQ lunch and flying fun. Club members can make bookings for BFRs or currency checks in the afternoon.

See you there!

Anyone else wish they were out gliding today?! Taken at 12pm looking towards the Kaimais from Hamilton

We've still got a couple of spaces for the learn to fly course starting this coming Saturday - if you're interested, or you know anyone who might be interested get in touch with Anna on 07 888 8782 asap, or see the website homepage for details

www.glidingmatamata.co.nz

We had a great day winching yesterday, thanks to everyone who came along and made it happen. We'll be aiming to make more use of the winch over the coming season. Here are some pics from Keith and Tim.

We're looking for beginners for the next Learn to Fly training course is coming up, starting Saturday 22nd August and running 6 consecutive Saturdays.

The course aims to teach the fundamentals on how to fly, and know to safely take off and land. You'll be flying with experienced gliding instructors in our 2 seat training gliders.

More details and information can be found here, otherwise contact AnnaDoerr on 07 888 8782, or email training@glidingmatamata.co.nz

Instructor Steve care with 2 recent students

Flying over the Waikato