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Saturday 14 February & Sunday 15 February 2009 |
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Written by Helen Miller
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Sunday, 15 February 2009 |
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Saturday 14 February
Instructor: Rob Tyler.
Students: Gordon R, Alesh R (First Solo) &
Alec Jaber (New Member)
With Instructor: Chris A.
Flying: Jeff McD & Chris A.
Flights: 18 - 52 min.
Chris A, 1:59 min.
Sunday 15 February
Instructor: Rob Tyler.
Students: Aisla McM,
Alf McM & John Y.
Flights: 12 - 47 min.
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Last Updated ( Monday, 02 March 2009 )
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Written by Helen Miller
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Thursday, 08 January 2009 |
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Thursday 8 January
Flying: Kimberley P.
Flight: 1:19 hrs.
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 21 January 2009 )
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Saturday 3 January & Sunday 4 January 2009 |
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Written by Helen Miller
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Sunday, 04 January 2009 |
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Saturday 3 January
Instructor: Wayne M.
Students: Mike Morris & John Young
(New Member).
With Instructor: Olgy S, Mike
Welham, Alvin P &
John Styles.
AEFs: 1 by Jeff F.
F&F: 2 by Jeff F.
Flying: Lucas J & Alvin P
(Conversion to XOC)
Flights: 4 - 48 min.
Sunday 4 January
Instructor: Wayne M.
Student: Geoff D.
AEF: 1 by Wayne M.
On Edge: 2 by Wayne M
Flying: Dieter L, Carl D, Jarek M,
Adam W, David F, Chris A &
Andrew M with Jeff F.
Flights: 4 - 28 min.
Adam W, 46 min.
David F, 1:08 hrs.
Jarek M, 3:33 hrs.
Andrew M & Jeff F, 4:34 hrs.
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 29 January 2009 )
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GGC 50th Anniversary Movie |
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Written by Jarek Mosiejewski
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Sunday, 22 June 2008 |
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Jeff McDonald contributed this short, 8mm camera movie (7.5 MB) shot during the celebrations of the Geelong Gliding Club's 50th anniversary in 1979.
It shows two dual tows from Bacchus Marsh to Belmont Common in Geelong (the place where the club was established in 1929) and back to the airfield.
The first dual tow consisted of the Callair and a Bocian (with Tommy Thompson and Doug Vanstan) and an Open Cirrus.
The second one was towed by the Super Cub, MSA piloted by Dave Slater and Jeff McDonald and a Libelle and a Cirrus piloted probably by Russell Dunn.
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 24 June 2008 )
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Written by Morten W. Haugen
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Wednesday, 16 April 2008 |
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Morten W. Haugen, a RMIT student, is a young photographer who took an AEI flight with the Geelong Gliding Club a few months ago. Below you can read his account from his visit to Bacchus Marsh and the AEI flight .
Click on the thumbnail to see the full size picture in the gallery. To see the entire gallery, please follow this link.
You can view Morten's professional Gallery via this link .
It is early Saturday morning. Too early, in fact, but I need to get up
and catch the 8.08am train for Bacchus Marsh, a small town outside the
city of Melbourne. Bacchus Marsh is by some of my class mates characterised as ”where the beautiful Australian outback keeps its
trash”. I’ve been told by a Mr.Buchanan at the Geelong Gliding Club
that they will be flying today, and that I’m more than welcome to pay
them a visit. Hungry for visually intriguing adventure, I can’t do
anything but humbly accept his offer.
After an one hour train ride, I find myself at Bacchus Marsh station.
With nothing but my camera and a poorly printed Google map in my
hands, I find myself a taxi and a nice Indian who tells me he knows
where to go. The scenery of the Marsh is just like I’ve always pictured Australia to be, with long red dirt roads, a bright blue sky
and a low haze hiding the horizon. A nice day for flying, I think to
myself, and decide to use that phrase as my icebreaker for the day.
It’s always a bit frightening when meeting people you have never met
before, so such an opening line is good to have in your back pocket. A
quick and pleasant introduction is beneficial when you got only so
many hours to photograph someone’s story. To my embarrassment I’m soon
to find out that my opening line give me away as somewhat of a dilettante, as it is not a good day for gliding. Quite the opposite,
in its mere absence the wind is being highly uncooperative.
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 16 April 2008 )
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Written by Jarek Mosiejewski
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Sunday, 10 February 2008 |
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The 2008 edition of the Horsham Week competitions has ended on Saturday, the 9th of February 2008, after five successful and safe flying days.
Rolf Buelter was the Comps Director, John Ashford and Ross Birch were the Safety Officers and Zygmunt Naharnowicz flew the SSO tug.
Eleven Geelong Gliding Club pilots competed at Horsham achieving the following results:
Sports Class (out of 12)
Jarek Mosiejewski (with Ken McAnnaly, Caleb
White and Adam Webb), 1st, Puchacz, OWL
Hans Prem, 6th, Janus A, GWQ
John Ashford, 12th, Janus A, GWQ
Standard (out of 10)
David Meredith, 1st, Jantar Std 2, GZT
Wayne Mackley, 2nd, Jantar Std 2, IUD
Olgierd Szemis, 6th, LS4a, UKA
Andrew Grocholski, 7th, DG300, GDH
15 Meter (out of 8)
Alan Dean, 7th, LS3, UKC
18 Meter / Open (out of 7)
Simon Brown, 7th, Discus 2/18m, IUO
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 02 March 2008 )
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The 46th Australian Multiclass Nationals, Temora 2008 |
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Written by Jarek Mosiejewski
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Monday, 28 January 2008 |
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Five Geelong Gliding Club pilots participated in the 46th Australian
Multiclass Nationals at Temora.
After seven competition days the GGC pilots results
were as follows:
5th Tobias Geiger - LS4a,
9th Jarek Mosiejewski - LS4a.
7th Haidyn Dunn - Pik 20b,
9th Rolf Buelter - Pik 20b.
12th Simon Brown, Discus 2C.
Full competition results, including IGC files for
downloading can be found here .
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Last Updated ( Monday, 18 February 2008 )
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Written by Jarek Mosiejewski
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Friday, 26 October 2007 |
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"If you want to feel
what flying actually
is, not just get on
a plane and arrive
somewhere else, gliding
is magnificent. It made
me feel alive and brave,
neither of which I am."
This is an excerpt from the article On a wing and a prayer published in the Selector magazine, Autumn 2007 edition.
To read the entire article click on the picture (PDF, 530KB).
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Last Updated ( Friday, 26 October 2007 )
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