Learning to Glide

If you would like to learn to fly a glider, it is suggested that you should go to any gliding club and have one or more Air Experience Flights. If you like the experience, you should then join the club, where you pay your membership and flying fees, but the actual instruction is free.

Alternatively you can go to a commercial gliding school for an intensive course. This is often a much more expensive method, but students often get to fly solo in one week! Three such commercial organisations are:

Gliding Club of Victoria (at Benalla, Vic) - www.gliding-benalla.org
Lake Keepit Soaring (at Tamworth, NSW) - www.users.bigpond.com/keepitsoaring
Beverley Soaring Society (at Beverley, WA) - www.beverley-soaring.org.au

Learning to fly in the local gliding club is usually less expensive, but takes longer. The club method though will expose you to much more varied experience and I believe that this varied experience will make you a better and safer pilot.

It is legally possible for a young person to "solo" at the age of 15 years, and in fact many do! There is no Licence required and the authority to fly a glider is given by a Log Book endorsement by the Instructor.