Training

The Taranaki Gliding Club offers the opportunity to learn how to fly gliders.

Anyone in good health and between 16 and 60 can learn and quite quickly too. Training is carried out in one of our two-seaters and will comprise a mix of soaring flights with flights devoted to handling the glider and acquiring the ability to land the glider safely.

Lecture evenings complement the practical side.

Instruction is free.  People learning to fly must become members of our club and thus, Gliding New Zealand. 

Learning to fly and soar a glider should be regarded as acquiring a life-long skill that is entirely portable wherever you might go.  Going solo is just the beginning.

Call Peter Miller on (06) 7510824 or Tim Hardwick-Smith on (06) 764 7573.

                 
                 Our Twin Astir thermaling near Stratford.  It is not as low as it looks!