{"id":443,"date":"2022-04-04T12:39:57","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T12:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.augc.org.au\/?page_id=443"},"modified":"2023-07-04T14:08:08","modified_gmt":"2023-07-04T04:38:08","slug":"learn-to-fly","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.augc.org.au\/learn-to-fly\/","title":{"rendered":"Learn To Fly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div id=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-columns-4e0d671d\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-columns alignfull has-1-columns has-desktop-equal-layout has-tablet-equal-layout has-mobile-equal-layout has-vertical-center\"><div class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-columns-overlay\"><\/div><div class=\"innerblocks-wrap\">\n<div id=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-column-d4d96d4a\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-column\">\n<h1 id=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-heading-6297c131\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-heading wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-heading-6297c131\">Learn To Fly<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-columns-e43044a1\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-columns has-1-columns has-desktop-equal-layout has-tablet-equal-layout has-mobile-equal-layout has-vertical-unset has-default-gap\"><div class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-columns-overlay\"><\/div><div class=\"innerblocks-wrap\">\n<div id=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-column-eca0e72b\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-column\">\n<p class=\"has-nv-light-bg-background-color has-background has-medium-font-size\">So you want to learn to fly gliders? Good decision, you won&#8217;t regret it. Not only is gliding an amazing sport in its own right, but it is a very affordable gateway into other areas of aviation, like powered flying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"nv-iframe-embed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Andrea&#039;s Story\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5A6lczipfvE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"nv-iframe-embed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Matthew&#039;s Story\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dOWFkIRf35U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t already done so, an Air Experience Flight is a great way to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.augc.org.au\/try-gliding\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"432\">try gliding<\/a> to see if it&#8217;s for you. If you&#8217;ve already decided that gliding is something you&#8217;d like to pursue, you need to be a member of 3 organisations to fly with us:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Adelaide University Gliding Club &#8211; that&#8217;s us!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Adelaide University Sport &#8211; our parent organisation. This is free if you are a student at Adelaide University though.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Gliding Federation of Australia &#8211; the body that governs our sport in Australia.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Please visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.augc.org.au\/prices\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"361\">prices<\/a> page for details on what these memberships cost, and links to join. Once you have membership, you are good to go! The cost of learning to fly (once you are a member) is also detailed on the prices page. Worthy of special mention is our &#8216;Solo Package&#8217; which gives certainty of costs (at a significant discount) for people wanting to learn to fly solo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our club operates just about every Saturday and Sunday, weather permitting. If you don&#8217;t have a vehicle, we regularly organise <a href=\"\/carpooling\/\">carpooling<\/a> for anyone who needs a lift. It is important for students to indicate their attendance in the booking system before the weekend (by Thursday evening ideally). Generally we aim not to have more than 4 trainees fly per day so that everyone gets a decent go. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our day typically starts with a briefing at 10am where the instructor for the day will give a weather briefing and allocate who&#8217;s flying what aircraft and with who for the day. It is important for all pilots to attend this briefing to be allocated resources accordingly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After briefing, you will help prepare the aircraft for flying and learn how to perform the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AmEnZBg8heE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Daily Inspection<\/a>  on a glider, one of the many things that makes our sport very safe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once the gliders are prepared, they will be towed (by car) out to one of our 4 launch points on the airfield. The launch point chosen depends on which direction the wind is coming from on the day (we always take off into the wind).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most of your flights will start with a winch launch, but we occasionally use a powered plane to tow us up into the air though (this is called an aerotow). We also have a motorglider which is handy for when the weather might not be so good for soaring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Your training flights may last anywhere from 3 minutes up to 90 minutes depending on the weather and where you are up to in the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/glidingaustralia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/GPC-Syllabus_outlines-a.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">training syllabus<\/a>. As a part of your training, you will do a combination of theory on the ground, and instruction in the air. The Gliding Federation of Australia has produced a book called <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/doc.glidingaustralia.org\/index.php?option=com_docman&amp;view=download&amp;alias=2548-australian-gliding-knowledge-bgk&amp;category_slug=gpc-resources&amp;Itemid=101\" target=\"_blank\">Australian Gliding Knowledge<\/a> which you will be working with closely. All air instruction will be done in a two-seat glider with the trainee in the front and instructor in the back. Both the trainee and instructor have a full set of controls and instruments. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Generally, there&#8217;s only 2 weather forecasts that we will consider not flying\/operating for: rain and\/or really strong wind (&gt;25 knots). Included with your GFA membership, you get access to <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/weather.glidingaustralia.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">GFA Met<\/a>, a specialised gliding weather forecast tool which can give a very good idea of weather conditions from a few days out. Looking at the Adelaide weather forecast can be quite misleading as <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.willyweather.com.au\/sa\/murraylands\/steinfeld.html\" target=\"_blank\">Stonefield<\/a> often has quite different weather to Adelaide. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Flying 2 days in a row can really help progress your flying skills, as people tend to regress somewhat during the week(s) between training. Why not consider staying over at the club on a Saturday night, take part in the social scene (i.e. BBQ, bonfire, movie night) and then fly again on Sunday. We have a variety of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.augc.org.au\/facilities\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"405\">accommodation options<\/a> to suit your comfort and budget. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once you and your instructor have covered the pre-solo training syllabus and you&#8217;re both confident in your abilities, your instructor will send you on your first solo flight &#8211; an exhilarating milestone in your training. Your first solo flight is done in the two-seater you&#8217;ve been training in. For your next few solo flights, your instructor will do a &#8216;check flight&#8217; with you before you go flying each day just to make sure you haven&#8217;t forgotten anything. After several solo flights in our two-seat trainer, you may progress to flying our single seater aircraft (i.e K 8).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following on from here, things that you may consider working towards are: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Achieving a 5 hour flight<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Doing a 50km cross country flight<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Converting to our high performance two-seater (Janus)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Converting to our fibreglass single-seater (Astir) <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Doing a 100km+ flight<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Learning aerobatics<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Flying in competitions<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Instructing<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The sky is the limit!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-columns-dcdf867f\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-columns alignfull has-3-columns has-desktop-oneThreeOne-layout has-tablet-oneThreeOne-layout has-mobile-collapsedRows-layout has-vertical-unset\"><div class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-columns-overlay\"><\/div><div class=\"innerblocks-wrap\">\n<div id=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-column-7926a412\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-column\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-column-f5da0fd6\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-column has-light-bg\">\n<span id=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-heading-67162389\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-heading wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-heading-67162389\"><strong>FROM JUST $160<\/strong><\/span>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-heading-ec517184\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-heading wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-heading-ec517184\">Get started with an Introductory Flight!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-1 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-primary\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.experienceflight.com.au\/activities\/view\/209\/air-experience-flight-student\/54\/minimal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">STUDENT &#8211; $160<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-primary\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.experienceflight.com.au\/activities\/view\/210\/air-experience-flight-non-student\/54\/minimal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NON-STUDENT &#8211; $200<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-column-6d4b7143\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-column\"><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/template-pagebuilder-full-width.php","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augc.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/443"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augc.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augc.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augc.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augc.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/www.augc.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2027,"href":"https:\/\/www.augc.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/443\/revisions\/2027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augc.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}