Gliding Hawkes Bay & Waipukurau Inc - Gliding Hawkes Bay & Waipukurau Inc 1591 Maraekakaho Road
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Have you ever watched seagulls soaring effortlessly over cliffs or sand dunes and wished that you could join them? YOU CAN! You can experience that exhilarating feeling of noiselessly floating in rising currents of air by coming gliding. Gliding is the art of non-powered flight and the sport has grown rapidly in the last fifty years. It has great attractions for people who love flying and for people who enjoy things technical or of a scientific flavour. To fly a glider for long distances requires considerable knowledge of the air and of the performance of the glider. It also demands tremendous concentration and calculation while flying with precision.
The standard of the top pilots in gliding contests is very high and their ability to search out and use the invisible, elusive up currents, however weak, often seems uncanny. Although gliders are fitted with variometers that tell the pilot when they are in rising air, there is no instrument to tell them where to find it. For this, they must use their own intelligence, experience and must sometimes draw on more than a little luck! The delight and excitement of soaring in almost perfect silence, high across the landscape is very great but it is difficult to describe this to anyone who has never done it for there is little that is comparable. Every flight is in some way a voyage of discovery in miniature, the goal being achieved only if the explorer navigates their ship accurately.
Gliders are interesting examples of refined engineering - a glider cannot be improved by putting in a bigger engine. the designer has to get their results by the excellence of design alone. However, training gliders are of very simple design and it is not difficult to learn to fly.
The standard of the top pilots in gliding contests is very high and their ability to search out and use the invisible, elusive up currents, however weak, often seems uncanny. Although gliders are fitted with variometers that tell the pilot when they are in rising air, there is no instrument to tell them where to find it. For this, they must use their own intelligence, experience and must sometimes draw on more than a little luck! The delight and excitement of soaring in almost perfect silence, high across the landscape is very great but it is difficult to describe this to anyone who has never done it for there is little that is comparable. Every flight is in some way a voyage of discovery in miniature, the goal being achieved only if the explorer navigates their ship accurately.
Gliders are interesting examples of refined engineering - a glider cannot be improved by putting in a bigger engine. the designer has to get their results by the excellence of design alone. However, training gliders are of very simple design and it is not difficult to learn to fly.
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| Address : | Gliding Hawkes Bay & Waipukurau Inc 1591 Maraekakaho Road, Hastings 4175, New Zealand |
| Phone : | 📞 +7887 |
| Postal code : | 4175 |
| Website : | http://www.glidinghbw.co.nz/ |
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