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Waikerie Gliding Club

Locality: Waikerie, South Australia

Phone: +61 8 8541 2644

Address: Sir Donald Anderson Drive 5330 Waikerie, SA, Australia

Website: http://www.waikerieglidingclub.com.au

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25.01.2022 This is amazing technology - sailplanes on water

25.01.2022 http://gtracklive.com/event.php?eventID=46 38th Australian Club & Sports Nationals (29-Dec-2018 to 11-Jan-2019) Lake Keepit NSW AU

24.01.2022 Orange Week 2018 17-24th November 2018 WAIKERIE GLIDING CLUB celebrates the importance of oranges to the region with its ORANGE WEEK gliding competition, first held in 1962.The Orange Week trophy, awarded to the Champion Pilot, is adorned with many legendary pilot names; Moss Potter, Malcolm Jinks, Bob Martin, Sue Martin, Bob Rowe, David Jones, Bruce Brockhoff, John Holland, Haidyn Dunn, Ted Pascoe, Mike Borgelt and Rudi Gaissmaier to name a few. Most recently Craig Vinall ha...s been the focus of the trophy engraver. Orange Week is structured for serious pilots; that is pilots seeking serious fun both in the air and in the clubhouse. The competition offers three grades (orange speak for classes); grand prix grade, juicing grade and fresh grade. Grand prix flying is not handicapped, juicing grade offers conventional handicapped AAT and AST tasking, and fresh grade (also handicapped) gives the pilots who are willing to take on some demanding extra challenges the opportunity to come to distrust the task-setters. Evening dinners, all of which feature oranges somewhere in the meal, play an important part in the competition as pilots are required to declare at the dinner which grade they wish to compete in the following day, whether they will fly wet or dry (and hence the handicap they will compete with), or if they wish to declare a lay-day or own-task day, and all this with only their own weather observations and without any knowledge of the task. This competition has the ultimate in task and pilot flexibility, and probably the ultimate in fun. Entrants who don’t have fun will have their entry fee refunded. Click on the following link for more information. Competition rules are found under Documents. https://orangeweek2018.blogspot.com For further information contact Bill Mudge on 0429 413 570 or [email protected]

23.01.2022 Follow Joyeyglide 2019 competition at Waikerie Competition website: https://www.joeyglide.juniorsoaring.org/home SoaringSpot, Tasks and Results: https://www.soaringspot.com//joeyglide-2019-australian-ju/... Some of the gliders on Live track Link: http://tracking.sanderbuilt.com/

21.01.2022 Don't you wish it was you Chos Malal, Neuquen, Argentina OLC distance 2321.5 average 219.5kph in a borrowed glider

15.01.2022 For 81 years the club has been active in attracting large numbers of visitors to the area.

15.01.2022 Big smile on winning the OUDIE IGC thanks to GOSOARING and Naviter SeeYou

11.01.2022 The Leeton Formular 1gp had a great week with some really fast speeds See results on the competition site. Tracking has been very entertaining. https://www.f1gp.com.au/

10.01.2022 38th Australian Club & Sports Nationals (29-Dec-2018 to 11-Jan-2019) Lake Keepit NSW AU Another 6 days to go - figure they will need a rest day soon. http://gtracklive.com/event.php?eventID=46... Results on Soaring Spot https://www.soaringspot.com//38th-australian-club-/results

05.01.2022 MICROBURST!!! Check out this incredible timelapse of the microburst that hit the Green Valley area on Friday! Gusts to 70 MPH and lots of damage were reported with this storm. Images captured from a camera on Black Mountain, courtesy Nevada Seismological Laboratory

05.01.2022 A few more oranges have arrived for Orange week. Everyone in good spirits. Only one pilot managed to get around yesterdays task. Jinks outlanded in Victoria, the circus of one car, one 4WD, 5 people managed to find the glider in the dark and return to Waikerie by midnight. https://www.soaringspot.com/en_gb/orange-week-2018/