Balaklava Gliding Club Photo Album

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Impressions from around the Club
Click here for full size image Working together March 09 Click here for full size image Working together March 09
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Click here for full size imageClick here for full size image Mercedes College visit 27/05/08: Briefing in the club house. Click here for full size imageClick here for full size image Mercedes College visit 27/05/08: Students awaiting their turn to fly.
Click here for full size imageClick here for full size image Mercedes College visit 27/05/08: Ready to go... Click here for full size image Mercedes College visit 27/05/08: Let's aviate!
Click here for full size image Mercedes College visit 27/05/08: Students, ground crew, instructors... Click here for full size image Mercedes College visit 27/05/08: ...and teachers obviously had fun.
Click here for full size image Wave over Balaklava airfield on 20 January 2007. Andrew Horton captured this panorama. Click here for full size image Surfing the wave over the airfield. Colin Stauss took this picture with Andrew Horton at the controls of BXC on 20 January 2007.
Click here for full size image Catherine Love didn't quite make it around a 300km task on 16 September 2006. Lovely setting for an outlanding though... Click here for full size image Surprise visit from life member Allan Powell at the 2006 Annual General Meeting, pictured here with club president Steve Shuck.
Click here for full size image Flinders Ranges Camp 2006: Instructor Andrew Horton (front) and Roger Cox (rear) ready for launch. Click here for full size image Flinders Ranges Camp 2006: Instructor John Wheatcroft (rear) and Tim Hurst (front) ready for launch.
Click here for full size image Colin Stauss is ready for his first flight in the Mini Numbus, our 15m racing class glider, sent on his way by instructor Andrew Horton on 26 August 2006. Click here for full size image Nana celebrated her 90th birthday on 24 June 2006 with her first glider flight. This make her one of our oldest takers for an Air Experience Flight.
Click here for full size image A pleasant soaring day April 2006: Wal Mayger ready for launch in his Mini Nimbus VH-IUY into a brilliant sky. Click here for full size image A pleasant soaring day April 2006: Balaklava airfield in autumn sun (looking north-west) as seen from Wal Mayger's IUY.
Click here for full size image Dawn Patrol February 2006: Cockadoodledoo! John Cheetham gave the wakeup call in fitting attire. Click here for full size image Dawn Patrol February 2006: First cab off the rank. Colin Stauss and Andrew Horton.
Click here for full size image Dawn Patrol February 2006: Can't wait to get off the ground. John Cheetham and John Wheatcroft were next in line. Click here for full size image Dawn Patrol February 2006: Best Dressed! Bevan Spencer was obviously in a hurry to get to the airfield in time...
Click here for full size image Dawn Patrol February 2006: His first passenger flight - Colin Stauss taking sister Jessica for a ride. Click here for full size image Dawn Patrol February 2006: Ready for some fun! Joanne Stauss and John Hudson (assisted by Eric Stauss).
Click here for full size image One that didn't quite make it home: After a flight of almost 350km, VH-WVC, piloted by Grant Hudson, lost the battle against a strong seabreeze in dieing evening thermals, landing in a paddock 15km from home. Click here for full size image Flinders Ranges Camp 2005: ASK-21 VH-BXC landing at the Arkapeena airstrip with the Chace Range in the background.
Click here for full size image Flinders Ranges Camp 2005: Lenticular clouds over the Arkapeena camp indicating wave generated off the Elder Range. Click here for full size image Flinders Ranges Camp 2005: Grant Hudson took this picture of Wilpena Pound on one of his flights in wave.
Click here for full size image Flinders Ranges Camp 2005: Grant Hudson riding the wave in front of the rotor cloud. Click here for full size image Flinders Ranges Camp 2005: ASK-21 VH-BXC captured by Grant Hudson in wave over the Chace Range.
Click here for full size image Don "Wal" Mayger lined up for take off into a challenging winter sky. Click here for full size image ASK-21 VH-BXC flown by Dene Newton and Bevan Spencer sharing a winter thermal with Gant Hudson in his PIK-20 VH-WVC over the airfield.
Click here for full size image Working together: Erecting the new club sign. Bevan Spencer, John Hudson, Dene Newton, Wal Mayger (left to right) performing one of the winter chores. Click here for full size image Working together: Dean Hill, Dene Newton, Steve Shuck, John Wheatcroft, Allan O'Halloran, Roger Cox, Peter Goodale, Bruno Krapez, John Bradbury and Grant Hudson reroofing the maintenance hangar.
Australian Junior National Championships (JoeyGlide) 2006
Click here for full size image Colin Stauss ready for launch on day two of JoeyGlide 2006. Click here for full size image Eric Stauss ready for a coaching flight with 4 times World and several times National Champion Ingo Renner.
Click here for full size image The BGC JoeyGlide06 crew. Click here for full size image The South Australian Junior Soaring Team.
Some of our Solo Pilots
Click here for full size image James Francis after his first solo flight on May 6, 2007. Click here for full size image Eric Stauss, 15, before his first solo flight on January 8, 2006.
Click here for full size image James Kingham went on his first solo flight on August 28, 2005. Click here for full size image Bob Watson after his first solo on January 24, 2004.
Click here for full size image Matt Colwell sent off for his first solo flight by instructor Andrew Horton on January 18, 2004. Click here for full size image Colin Stauss after his first solo flight on July 26, 2003, shortly after his 15th birthday.

Last update 26/04/09