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

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

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

With the easing of restrictions coming into play, Dublin Gliding Club will be looking at outstanding voucher holders and the ability to arrange a flight. If you are a voucher holder and you would like to get in touch to schedule a flight in the near future then you can get in touch with the

The current situation………..Dublin Gliding Club are still waiting on Government restrictions to be lifted and some normalisation to return. To this end, we cannot except non members to come and visit us and we cannot resume any Air Experience flights. In late March and April, we have had the opportunity to allow for Instructors, Tug

The end of the last bulletin looked forward to two days of good flying to round off the safari. We weren’t disappointed,  with Thursday proving to be great day on Fermoyle. It was clear and mostly sunny, hardly anyone on the beach,  and best of all no high tide until well after sunset. There was

Probably un-noticed by most if not all of us the 2020 OLC season is history. Certainly historic given everthing that was thrown at us. Only 10 pilots posted scoring flights – less than half of the numbers of recent years and only one of those managed to fill all 6 available slots. The thing about

A summary of the Kerry Safari, written by Peter Denman We are midway through week two of what is a rather different Kerry fortnight. Because of the pandemic precautions in force, a number of the usual suspects and potential first-timers either couldn’t, or decided not to, take part, so we are at most a dozen