Welcome to the home page of the Geelong Gliding Club
Welcome to the home page of the Geelong Gliding Club Inc.. Established in Victoria, in 1929, Geelong Gliding Club was the first gliding club in Australia. The club was formed as a voluntary non-profit organisation to make available the facilities for, and train interested members of the general public in, the sport of gliding.
Since that time it has operated at a number of sites culminating in the establishment of the soaring centre located at the Bacchus Marsh Airfield , currently shared with two other clubs. This sites offers a variety of soaring conditions including thermal, ridge and wave lift, while remaining within easy reach of Melbourne, Geelong and Ballarat. As well the club operates camps for it’s members for extended periods at various sites around Victoria. The combined club operation at Bacchus Marsh is the largest in Australia with a total of eighteen club gliders and five tugs .
The club owns and operates it's own fleet of training and modern fibreglass dual and single seat gliders. Launching is provided by the club’s tugs, winch or by auto tow.
The club has a number of large hangars available for it’s aircraft ensuring ready availability of aircraft for the use of it’s members. Bunkhouse accommodation and catering facilities are also located on site for the use of all the resident club’s members.
You will find us operating on all weekends, public holidays and most Fridays, weather permitting. Visitors are always welcome.
CAI to OLC Flight Log Conversion Utility
Written by Jeff Farrow
Monday, 01 February 2010
The Cambridge flight recorders use a proprietary flight log format; the .CAI
file. To register these on the Aerokurier OLC they need to be converted first
to an FAI format .IGC file, but also modified to include a copy of
the original .CAI file (an OLC requirement). This is done using a number of
DOS programs available on the Cambridge Aero Instruments web site and the OLC.
This process is a bit fiddly in these days of Windows operating systems so
Karl Ekdahl wrote up a script a few years ago to automate this process. With
the advent of 2010 however a number of pilots have reported problems with
this utility and have had to revert to the DOS process.
As a
consequence a visual basic script file Cai4olc.vbe to run under WSH (Windows
Scripting Host) has been written and provided to automate the task.
The script is included with the other required files in the archive. To download the Cai4olc download script, please follow this link (zip archive 116KB).
The instructions for installation can be downloaded via this link (PDF 132KB).
Intensive training course January 23 to January 26 at Bacchus Marsh.
This course is designed to give students a rapid advancement and comes in two parts:
- Part A, Ab–initio students not yet solo.
- Part B, Recently solo students requiring additional training and practice to get up to first single seater conversion (Junior).
All other pilots are welcome to take advantage of the availability of towing on those days.
For additional information please forward your interest/intentions to John Ashford.
Last Saturday the "young turks" at Geelong Gliding Club based at Bacchus Marsh organised a dawn to dusk flying day.
Dawn was at 6.00 AM and the first launch was at 6.10. BBQ breakfast and lunch were provided at nominal cost along with festive treats like turkey rolls and mince pies. Both winch and
aero tows were available and all enjoyed the day. Some members of the other Bacchus clubs, VMFG and Beaufort, also took the opportunity to have some winch launches. Apart from the flying it turned into a social occasion.
As the sun was slowly sinking into the west at about 20.40 the last launch was done and when complete and the aircraft were safely put away all retired to the clubhouse to celebrate what was a great days flying.
No records set but there were almost 70 launches done of which about 40 were by winch, and as things turned out our youngest member, Ailsa, had both the first and last launch of the day.
To
apply for a scholarship, you should prepare your written submission and send it
with an Application Form completed with the required information to reach the
given address before the closing date.
Important
Dates:-
- Open:
14 Sept. 2009 - Close:
4 Dec. 2009 - Notification
of outcome: 31 Dec. 2009 - Award
to winners: 16th Jan. 2010
