Already recognised for its excellent soaring conditions on an international level, Benalla's location is ideal for thermal soaring. Wide open plains to the north and west and 10,000ft days in the hot summer season provide opportunities for big distances over these very safe areas. To the east and south the mountains of the Great Divide give exhilarating flying with strong thermal and some wave conditions only 15km away. The surrounding area is criss-crossed with an extensive network of roads serving open farmland so those occasional outlandings and road retrieves are an easy and safe occurrence.
Our weather in the summer season (November to March) is consistently good and often superb! The daily weather forecast and task briefing, backed by air temperature soundings up to 10,000 ft is without parallel in Australian gliding centres. In the recent seasons, soaring was possible on nine days in ten and members and visitors flew well over 250,000 kilometres between them. There were many Gold and Diamond badge flights. On just one day there were seven 750km Diploma flights! The longest flight was over 1,000km.
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