International Soaring Centre
Narromine

SOAR NARROMINE

Narromine Aerodrome, Narromine NSW, Australia

                                       

Last update 28 March 2008

The latest Events and Schedules

NEWS

March 2008:28
QLD sunset
It is one hour earlier than Narromine.




March 2008:23
Shinzo is in Chinchilla Easter competition with Discus 2a(36).


March 2008:22  This season Summary
Total　Hours　900H　　Landing　480
No.１　36　　160H　Competition and competition
　　 2　UKW　　124H　　Normal
　　 3　ZZ　　　114H　Normal
　　 4　37　　　98H　　Competition
　　 5　UP　　　76H　　I was 70h for Advance　Training
No Accident　No Damage　Lot of Advance　Training.

Otani family, 15Years　Future　Pilot


March 2008:17
Photo of Peter who landed happily at 1800 on 17 March.
This is the last landing of this summer season.

January 2008:8  New Year Holiday                                   Photo Album
Many pilots are enjoying  New year holiday flight with us.

                                                                                                     Yuko visited Narromine helping father (Shinzo)


Yoshi & Yoko Ogata visited Narromine and enjoyed by DUO.
Yoshi " This photo is on final glide from Gilgandra. We flew with Ventus. Beautiful wing tip ! "

January 2008:1
Happy New Year !
Duo with X Winglet. Happy new year Pilots and Tag pilot Keith Dixson



October 2007:7-19
Australia Sports Class National,Kingaroy  QLD
Shinzo            Nimbus4DM (37)
Itsuo Takahashi  Discus 2a (36)
Shinzo's comments :
Itsuo advances steadily.He compleated all day without outland.
                 
What is this tree !?         

November 2007:24
Shinzo is the back seat of  Duo every day for the advance training.
Japanese student champion "Willy" is enjoying hard exercise as shinzo's invitation in this week.
Training task was 300km, because of poor weather, however Willy completed 477km, and getting world wide prize on OLC contest on 23rd November.


October 2007:28
Shinzo and Haruka Kise(project suporter) ride Morning Glory by Nimbus 4DM on 28th
October.




October 2007:4  Winter Session 2007 : Data
Number of Flight　　195
Hours of Flight　　　119
Gliders　ASK-21　ASTIR３B　Hornet　 Discus　ASW20B　Discus2A 　Duo Discus

October 2007:4
At the last day of Winter Session in this yesr, Anthony First Solo !!
He received the mother's congratulation.
His mother, Dagmarl is an advanced pilot.

Anthony & Dagmarl

August 2007:29- August: Congratulation !!  Shinya : First Single-seater, Hayato : First Solo !
 

August 2007:7- August: We have started "Winter Session 2007"    Many students are enjoying between beautiful green field and blue sky with good Cu !  

　　  　　　

December 2006:30 December: We completed an FAI Triangle 1000km flight. Not only did we have a big flight, we also enjoyed the western NSW countryside - Markus and Michael.
29 December: Today we flew 1180km OLC distance - Markus and Michael .
Detailed flight data can be viewed on the OLC website.
18 and 19 December: Students have been flying every day for up to six hours in good conditions to 10,000ft. One pilot declared a 50km task and flew 296km!

The NSW State Gliding Championships finished on December 2. Two pilots from Soar Narromine competed - Itsuo Takahashi (flying our Discus 2) finished 11th,  and Haruka Kise (in the Duo Discus) came 4th.Shinzo commented that very difficult weather conditions prevailed all week, but both these pilots did maximum flights.

October 2006:
The 2006-2007 soaring season is now upon us with bookings coming in daily.
Friday, October 6:
Shinzo headed off today for the long trek up to Kingaroy in Queensland where he will take part in the Australian National Gliding Championships. This event is being held from October 8 to 20. We wish him  safe and happy soaring.
Monday, October 2:
Shinzo carried out an advanced training flight in the Duo Discus, 300km out and return, on task, at an average speed of 105kph and a cu base of 11,000ft. As you are probably aware, many parts of Australia, including the Narromine area, are in a severe drought situation. If the drought does not break we expect the coming season to have great soaring conditions - but we feel very sorry for the farmers and graziers.

 

June 2006:
Shinzo represented Australia in the 29th World Gliding Championships in Sweden. Report attached.
April 2006: 
The 2005-2006 season has finished and our statistics show: 
* 1,575 hours and 970 launches
* 24% less hours and 21% less launches than last season
* 74 customers visited us last season, exactly the same as during the year before.

March 2006:

Flying in the French Alps from St Auban with Shinzo is now booked out.                       

February 24  2006:

The Nimbus 4 DM's engine has been modified with a clutch which should protect the engine belt from being torn apart in future.

The clutch was fitted with help of Tracy Tabart who came from Melbourne (a two-day drive) to Narromine solely for this purpose.

Pictured Shinzo about to test fly the Nimbus 4 DM.
 

 

French Alps tour: Shinzo guides through the French Alps from  May 1 to 13 2006 by Nimbus 4 DM based in St Auban
Shinzo is already full booked but there are still places available in Eric Napoleon's Nimbus 4 D. 
Interested pilots are requested to contact us as soon as possible.