Casual Flying is for visiting glider pilots who wish to enjoy a day or two of spectacular mountain soaring in one of our five Duo Discus's (with an instructor) .
Supervised Soaring is for pilots who want to rent a single seat glider and fly solo at Omarama.
The Omarama Area (OA) Familiarisation Course is a two day course for pilots who want to fly solo at Omarama and who have not completed a Mountain Soaring Course with us.
Casual Flying
This is a great opportunity for pilots with limited time in the area to spend a day or two experiencing Omarama's extraordinairy soaring envirionment. With a two to four hour flight it is usally possible to fly deep into the mountains and soar around Mount Aspiring or Mount Cook or to climb to great heights in wave and make long high speed flights for several hundred kilometres.
Cost: $185 per hour plus aero tow and a two hour minimum flight time. Bookings: Bookings are best made for the weekends but can be accepted mid week outside the busy periods.
To make a booking contact Mandy
Supervised Soaring
- is for pilots who have probaly already completed a Mountain Soaring Course with us or who are expereinced XC pilots and who want to:
- rent a glider and fly at their own pace, with their own objectives.
- receive weather and task breifing,
- have daily flight following and SAR back up,
- have retrieve assistance available,
- enjoy the benefits of Glide Omarama Club membership
Prerequisites for Supervised Soaring
Visiting pilots must become a full member of Glide Omarama. Membership is free for pilots completing a Mountain Soaring Course in the same season. Discounted membership is available for pilots who are already members of a GNZ affiliated Club.
Overseas pilots may validate their licence to fly in NZ by succesfully completing the Familiarisation Course, a Mountain Soaring Course or obtain validation at another NZ site.
In addition pilots who want to rent gliders must:
- complete a Glide Omarama course or
- have previous Omarama soaring experience or
- have completed our Omarama Area Familirisation Course.
Fees:
- Discus 2T NZ$ 430 per day or NZ $2150 per week
- Discus CS NZ$ 350 per day or NZ $1750 per week
- LS4, LS3a NZ$ 300 per day or NZ $ 1500 per week
- Hornet, Single Astir NZ$200 per day
- Grob 103. NZ$300 per day.
The Omarama Area Familiarisation Course:
Flying in the Omarama envirionment can be challenging with it's volatile weather and high mountains. In good conditions local soaring within the Basin is straight forward but in difficult conditions the hardest and most frustrating part of the flight can be getting out of the local basin. For these reasons we strongly reccomend pilots, at least on their first visit, take one of our Mountain Soaring Courses.
The OA Familiarisation Course however is a prerequisite for experiecend pilots wishing to rent one of our gliders. It is reccomended for visiting pilots flying their own gliders here for the first time.
The course normally takes 2 days but can be completed in less if the weather is cooperative and the pilot experienced. Bookings are normally accepted for the weekends. The course includes:
- A Visiting Pilots Guide and Omarama map
- Ground briefing on local procedures, the airfield, airspace, land outs and general conditions
- A local airstrip inspection by tow plane.
- check ride for BFR or licence renewal
- two hours of gliding in a Duo Discus or Grob 103.
Course Costs:
NZ$860 per person includes:
- VPG and OA map
- Ground briefing
- airstrip inspection
- licence validation (if required)
- two hours dual glider rental and instruction
Extras and Refunds
- Aero tows are not included - allow for two
- accommodation not included
- additional flying at $120 per hour
- refund for flying not achieved at $120 per hour.
Bookings: Contact Mandy
