Bathurst Soaring Club is holding 6 day courses for beginner pilots.

The courses will run for 6 days, Sunday to Friday.

Date of the next course:

Sunday 2nd November to Friday 7th November 2008.

We have decided to make the first day of the course a Sunday (Bookings permitted). This will allow those attending to get a feel for the club operations. Duty pilots and other club members can train those on the course on:

• Safety procedures
• general on field glider handling
• wing running
• tug signalling
• completing flight sheets
• hooking up gliders
• driving the retrieve vehicle
• washing gliders, etc...

This will greatly assist the instructors to get into flying earlier on the Monday.

Bookings permitted, course attendees will get their first flight with a weekend instructor. This is likely to be limited to one flight only so as not to impact on other club members.

The training course includes:

• All Course materials, log books, "Basic Gliding Knowledge" textbook, lectures
• Launches (20 to 2,000 ft, or equivalent tows to a total of 40,000 ft)
• Glider hire
• Instruction (maximum 3 students per instructor)
• Three months membership of the Bathurst Soaring Club and Gliding Federation of Australia
• Bunk House accommodation and use of Club Facilities (includes the use of Kitchen, BBQ, TV, etc)

This course is for Ab Initio (beginners) or early glider pilots with limited hours.

Cost (2008): Members $1,600 - Non Members $1,700

If you are interested, please Contact us or call Peter Hanneman on (02) 6337 1235 or 0427 470 001

Happy Soaring...