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HIGH FLYING GLIDER PILOT
  

 

 

 
Our large new hangar and workshop. No Gariep gliders need to be tied down exposed to the harsh ultraviolet, and from 2001 experience, no commercial glider covers protect completely from hail damage. Our huge shade parking is extremely popular.
DG-505-WRT after a downpour
Gariep Gliding Centre
     
Gariep Gliding Field
New shade parking and hangar facilities
Glider Parking area
     

New shaded parking & hangar facilities

Gariep Dam Gliding Camp

The Sportfordergruppe Segelflug der Deutchen Bundeswehr took advantage of Gariep's excellent conditions in Dec 2002. From left to right: Uli Gurelin and pilots Alex Freidl, Volker Herzog, Christoph Zahn, Sebastan Beule (see www.segelflug.de/sfg/bundeswehr )

 

 

 

12 gliders arrived in late Nov 2002, the containers expertly offloaded by a local crane company.

De Aar weather station in the centre of our flying area

Daily weather briefing

 

 

 

Busy ladies

WRT family feeling festive

HK on his way
     
A bit of maintenance WRT
Self launching sailplanes use seperate runway
Walter Binders

 

 

 

Car has wings

Cessna family

Fly-in at Gariep Dam
     
Samba
ASH25 Self luancher
Paid assistants on the airfield help with rigging, wing running and parking your car after takeoff. They will also help with retrieves when requested
Upgraded Samba tow planes handle even the largest ships, very efficiently
LS6
Back packers passing through - Gariep proves to be a popilar refueling stop

 

 

 

Samba

20m Wide Runways

4XK on tow

 

 

 

DISCUS-2CT-4XK

Borut

ASH25 Circling

 

 

 

Hugh tug pilot in JR

Controls

5 m/s Thermals

 

 

 

Gariep Dam Wall

Nimbus-4-DM-JR

Final glide at 19:30

 

 

 

Dam wall east side

Lake Gariep

Gariep Dam Airfield

 

 

 

CU at FL 150

Beautiful scenery and sky

Another Record

 

 

 

Moon rise

Sun rise

Large Task 907

 

 

 

Dick Becke

On site motor and airframe repairs

OM with drooping wing

 

 

 

New Addition

Supper in club house

Fun outlandings

Reiko Morinaka & Walter Binder

Dinner at the Lake

Dinner next to Orange River

 

 

 

African Arts and Crafts Market

Restaurant lounge

Aventura Resort Village

 

 

 

Wheels pub and grill

Excellent tennis courts and swimming pool up-town in Gariep

Avantura swimmingpool

 

 

Wildlife at the Airfield and surrounding area

 

 

 

Wildebeest next to runway 28

Ostrich head

Secretary Bird

 

 

 

Leopard

Impala

Zebra and cub

Springbuck

 

 

 

South African Scenic and Wildlife Pictures

 

 

 

View these animals live on the Africam

 

 

 

Lion

Giraffe herd

Hippopotomus

 

 

 

Elephants at sunset

Rhinos

Zebras

 

 

 

 

Ellephant bulls

 
 
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