Congratulations to Owen Grogan who completed his Silver C Distance. Owen used the club’s Ka8 to do one leg of the Silver Badge, the 50k distance. Owen also narrowly missed out on his Silver C Duration by a very short time. Owen went to Bagenalstown which is around 57 to 60 km away and came … Read more
Congratulations to Mick Shannon who completed his Silver C Badge. Mick used the club’s Ka8 to do two legs of the Silver Badge, the 50k distance and the 5 hour duration. The Silver Height Gain was achieved in 2019 at the Ulster Gliding Club. Mick went to Bagenalstown and came back via Athy, over Kilrush … Read more
Another good achievement today – Damien Molloy stayed up for 5 hours 14 minutes, gaining a Silver duration. Many congratulations to him! It was not easy, with a slow start with weak thermals disintegrating every 7-10 minutes, slightly stronger later, followed by a fallow period as the top cloud cover came in earlier than forecast. … Read more
Damien Molloy passed his Class 2 Instructor Rating test today – a big congratulations to him!! A word from the man himself……….. Thanks a million to everyone for the kind thoughts and congrats. A special thanks to all of the Instructor core who put up with the exercises, paperwork and questions. Looking forward to bringing … Read more
Congratulations to Pawel and Richard read more below…
Congratulations to Ron and PJ for completing their Silver Distance read more below…..
A Few words from our Cheif Flying Instructor Cecily Begley.. A great first day to the Task week and course. Our course member, Carl, had his two first flights – welcome, Carl. Pawel Nowak and Richard Irvine had their first (Irish) solos (Richard last week). Yes, of course they both were solo in Poland and … Read more
This video was presented by Tony McDermott and captures a recent flight taken by Tony from the tail of the K21 glider he was flying. Tony meets up with out K13 club glider and keep company for a while. Check it out here https://youtu.be/H54oUwWmrvg
It’s beginning to feel like normality at Gowran Airfield as restrictions are beginning ease and our Air Experience holders are now getting to fly finally. It was a busy day on Saturday 12th June with over 26 flights taken. Several private gliders made their appearance too, which gave the duty Pilot a bit of a … Read more
Dublin Gliding Club would like to congratulate Brian on his first solo at Gowran Grange on Saturday May 1st 2021. Brian has been a member since early 2020. Prior to joining the club Brian was a member of Cambridge Gliding Club and had taken a short break from gliding before becoming a member of our … Read more
