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Nelson Lakes Gliding Club Inc
Flying School in Nelson

www.glidingnelson.co.nz/
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874 St Arnaud-Kawatiri Hwy, Lake Station Airport, Point Howard. 7072, Nelson, Nelson.
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The local mountain peaks of the Southern Alps range from 500 to over 700 feet above sea level and are often snow capped. Fee payable by overseas pilots to Nelson Lakes Club 50 per week or part thereof or 35 for one day only. When gliding, you are usually at Lake Station airfield all day, so reach prepared!. As a winch launching club, there are few clubs anywhere in the country with cost structure as low as ours.
This normally takes maximum people about a year but much depends on how many weekends you reach and fly. The rest of the 500 goes into your flying account so you can begin training right away. Once you have started to learn to fly you can assist out on the ground while waiting for your training flights. Fly gliders! With around 40 members the club typically flies every weekend, usually on Saturdays. Lake Station Airfield, 9km west of St Arnaud one hour's drive south of Nelson, South Island, Fresh Zealand.
Our club has members ranging in age from 14 to over 60 but learning to fly is a vast defy and we have found the resist can be age dependent. It also helps to car pool with other car members as this time of travel is a appropriate time to discuss in an informal way the many aspects of glider flying. Nelson Lakes Gliding Club is all about the sport of soaring in sailplanes, fast, sleek unpowered aircraft suited of immense distance and heights. It will probably take about 50 flights to earnings the necessary skills to fly solo.
We support you bring your own drinking water, water bottle, cup, tea, coffee, etc. Your beginning scanty solo flights you can work towards irritable country, passenger and GP suited glider. There are bunches of private gliders soaring out of Lake station every weekend. Land out options are limited but defined and our irritable country flying is done within gliding range of them

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