After earning your license, the GCC helps you elevate your skills, offering mentorship, competitions, and growth opportunities.
Early progression
After receiving your license, you may want to take friends or family members for a flight. For added safety, GGC requires:
- a minimum of 5 hrs P1 time on the glider you’ll be flying
- a passenger-carrying / rear-seat checkout by an instructor
As you begin flying post-licence, GGC provides support for your growth and offers a structured path towards advancing to the club’s high-performance gliders. This progression ensures safe and effective transition as your skills develop over time.
Cross-country mentorship
Including Proving Grounds program
Gatineau Gliding Club offers personalized cross-country training for new pilots, featuring one-on-one instruction, mentorship from experienced pilots, helping you increase your cross-country range.
Fly weeks
Join Gatineau Gliding Club’s Fly Weeks—focused opportunities for pilots to enhance their skills. Learn from experienced instructors and fellow pilots, stretching your wings as you embark on longer flights.
Competitions including MayFly
The Mayfly fosters learning, fun, and innovation while welcoming a variety of gliders and experienced pilots. Team leaders guide participants through strategy and analysis, ensuring everyone can enjoy and excel. Join us for this exciting event, open to pilots with a Bronze badge or cross-country checkout.
FAI Badges
Glider pilots can refine their skills and push their limits to earn FAI-endorsed badges by achieving milestones in flight time, distance, and altitude. The bronze, silver, gold badges, as well as diamond achievements are awarded for accomplishments in these areas.
Wave camps
For pilots looking to experience a different type of flying or complete their gold or diamond altitude achievements, the club participates annually in mountain flying, often at Lake Placid in October.
Becoming an instructor
Pilots can become volunteer instructors, sharing their knowledge with new students while also saving on flying costs, as students cover towing and fleet fees for the initial lesson.
Advance to a career in the aviation industry
Glider pilots develop exceptional foundational skills that translate seamlessly into power flying; they can progress to careers like commercial pilot, aerospace engineer, or flight instructor.
