About Canberra Gliding Club
The Canberra Gliding Club has been established for over forty years, offering pilot training in gliders, trial instructional flights, where you can fly the aircraft under instruction, and joy flights, all conducted by experienced qualified members, in modern fiberglass aircraft.
The club also has good club house and hangar facilities on it's own airfield. The local scenery is also very special, and under the right condition above 7000 ft, you can see from the New South Wales snow fields to the Tasman Sea. Even local flights over the home airfield offer a scenic experience!
The club has operations running every weekend and ACT public holiday (weather permitting).
Directions to club's field at Bunyan
Canberra Gliding Club operates from Bunyan Airfield (also known as the Cooma Soaring Centre), beside the Monaro Highway, about 12km North of Cooma township. The following directions will help you find us - and visual navigators can refer to the attached maps.
From Canberra:
Drive South on the Monaro Highway, towards Cooma. The trip from Canberra to Bunyan Airfield will probably take about one hour, traffic and weather conditions permitting.
After leaving the southern suburbs of Canberra behind, you will pass through Williamsdale. Fuel is available here. Beware the 80km/hr speed zone; it is often enforced. After crossing the ACT-NSW border, it is a short run south to Michelago. As you approach the village, check out the roadside sign advertising what is available at the service station - read the first letter of each line.
South then to Bredbo. The 60km zone is usually enforced, and blue lights operate continuously between Bredbo and Cooma. Fuel and food are available. The Pancake shop does a good breakfast. On the way home, the Pizzeria is great and the Bredbo pub has lots of character!
From Bredbo, keep going south about another 20km. You will eventually come downhill into a valley and cross the Numeralla River, in sweeping right then left bends. You are now 6km from the airfield.
3 km after the river, you will see a hilltop sculpture on the right, near the Chakola turnoff - an odd arrangement of metal girders, called "Freedom and Light" but what we call "Blue Poles". 3.2km to go to Bunyan airfield.
Over the next two hills, you will see a vineyard on the left - Transylvania Wines. Just past the vineyard, 1.2 km on your right, is Bunyan Airfield. The entrance is marked by a large sign over the gate.
Follow the perimeter track round to the left then down along the fence line to the clubhouse and hangar.
If you go too far, you will drive through Bunyan village, a very small collection of old stone buildings. Turn around, back 3km, then left at the gate just over the hill from the rest area.
From Cooma:
Drive North on the Monaro Highway, towards Canberra.
About 8km North of Cooma, you will drive along a very long straight stretch of road, with an uphill climb at the end. Midway along the straight, you will pass through Bunyan village, with its old stone buildings. Drive another 3km, over the hill, past the overtaking lane and rest area. As you come downhill over the crest, there is a gentle left bend, then a right bend onto a long straight. Turn left into the Bunyan Airfield gate, with the large sign over the gate.
Canberra Visitors - Operations meetings are held every Monday evening in the downstairs Cellar Bar - University House - ANU - Corner of Balmain Cres and Liversidge Street, Acton - Map - following the panel meeting (Approx.6:00 PM). All are welcome!
