On This Page:

1. Some Quick Facts
2. An Introduction to Pilot Training
3. The Australian Glider Pilots Training Syllabus
4. Get Started Today!

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1. Some Quick Facts:

  1. Grafton Gliding Club offers FREE pilot training.
  2. We deliver the Standard Australian Glider Pilot Training Syllabus.  This syllabus is approved by the Australian Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) and is delivered by our certified instructors.
  3. The “normal” amount of time to qualify as a solo pilot varies with the individual.  It can be as few as thirty flights or as many as ninety or even more.
  4. Most student pilots will make about three flights per flying day.
  5. The all-up cost of qualifying as a solo pilot is around $1400 per year.
  6. The cost of flying with us after you graduate to solo status is about $1,000 per year, depending on how often you fly!
  7. There is no minimum age to begin learning to fly … but the minimum age to fly solo is 15.
  8. There is no maximum age to begin learning to fly.

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2.  An Introduction to Pilot Training

If you’re at the stage of wondering about becoming a glider pilot, you will probably find this next link most suitable.

The Australian Gliding Knowledge book is an easy-to-read reference book on gliding, proudly developed by the community of Australian glider pilots.

Link –>  Australian Gliding Knowledge

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3.   The Australian Glider Pilots Training Syllabus

If you want to know more about our formal training … read on!

The Australian gliding community is proud to announce that our national training panel recently received international recognition for their work, namely an FAI award for Group Diplomas of Honour.  The award recognises the panel’s work in developing “a world-class training programme for glider pilots seeing them from first flight through to their glider pilot certificate.”  LINK ->

Trainee Glider Pilots are guided though a comprehensive training syllabus.  The syllabus is divided into competency-based learning modules, meaning that the trainee can progress at their own pace.  There are twenty-six modules that qualify a trainee to fly solo.  A further eighteen modules upskill the pilot towards international competition standards.  All learning modules are supported with extensive online resource materials.

It’s difficult to summarise an award-winning syllabus on a webpage, but you might get some sense of the professionalism of our training by looking at the Australian Glider Pilot’s Logbook and Training Record.

Link –>  Pilot’s Logbook and Training Record

Qualified pilots can choose to extend their formal training at some of our regular coaching courses.  These are delivered by competition pilots with advanced knowledge of how to use weather and aircraft to fly “further and faster”.

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4.   Become a Pilot TODAY!

Claim your place among the eagles! … There’s no other feeling like it.

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