Scouts Gliding – Dec 09

20 of our Scout members headed down to the Scout Air Activities Centre in Camden to enjoy the world of gliding.

We flew up to 4000feet in the motorised glider and then the engine was cut and the propellor feathered, ready for us to glide back down to Camden airport.  Many of us took the controls ourselves and flew straight and level or did turns on the way back to the airport.

And the end of the day we washed the glider down and pushed the glider back into its little garage ready for next time.

We had a great time and thank Bob the Gliding Wing Operations Manager and his pilots for their ground school coaching and flying us.  Quite a few of our scouts achieved their pioneer or explorer level air activities badges.

At this stage we have 5 scouts and leaders who have said they want to do the A certficate course in 2010 (Dunc, Damo, Nath, Taz and Baggy) so that they can learn to fly the glider and experience that awesome moment when the instructor steps out and leaves us to take off and fly a simple short flight solo in the $250,000 aircraft.  Man it’s going to be a lot better than learning to drive!  If any of Scout or Venturer is interested in joining us then let Baggy know at jason.juretic@gmail.com We plan to do a course in the July 2010 School holidays and again in the Sep/Oct 2010 School holidays.