Ground Handling Syllabus
The Gliding New Zealand training syllabus lays out the training each glider pilot is to receive. The syllabus is also used as a means of recording the trainee pilot's progress.
- Click here to download the Ground Handling Training Syllabus.
The following notes have been created by Roger Read to provide the trainee pilot with information relevant to each element of the training syllabus. Your instructors will expand on this information, and where relevant undertake practical exercises with you.
Click on the links below to access the training notes:
Syllabus Item:
- Use of Training Record
- Use of logbook
- Daily club operations routine
- Removal of gliders
- Cleaning gliders
- Ground towing / handling
- Securing / picketing gliders
- Rigging and de-rigging
- Intro to Daily Inspection (DI)
- Local airspace
- Airfield familiarisation
- Timekeeping
- Intro to use of radio
- Safety on the airfield
- 1st aid / Fire / Accident plan
- Launch procedures
- Refuelling procedures
- Overview of GNZ
- Intro to Club Rules
- Intro to the MOAP
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