East Rand Gliding Club:  Springs airfield (FASI) is a registered airfield which is leased from the local municipality and the East Rand Gliding Centre shares the facility with a number of operations including a micro-lite club, an ultra-lite club,autogyro club, EEA, flying schools and private operators.

It lies at 5340 ft MSL and has a runway 1100m long which is tarred. The orientation is 03/21. A grass cross runway exists on a 14/32 orientation.

Parallel to the main runway is an addition grass runway which is used for microlite and autogyro operations and is designated 04/22.

Joining procedures are for microlites (Weight shifting type) – 6300 ft MSL over airfield and for all other aircraft 6800 ft MSL.

All circuits are to the West or North of the airfield for noise abatement purposes.

Runways 03, 04 and 14 are to be flow Left Hand circuits. Runways 21, 22 and 32 Right Hand circuits. Circuit height is 6000 ft MSL.

Springs airfield is uncontrolled and traffic in the vicinity uses the radio frequency 122,4 MHz for TIBA and circuit calls.

Facilities at Springs include a fuel bay for AVGAS. The club shares a number of hangars and refreshments are available from local facilities.

The club makes extensive use of Scheibe Falke motor gliders for both ab-initio and solo flying. These aircraft have proven themselves over the years as being cheap to operate, docile in handling and robust enough to cope with the riggers of student pilots.

In addition access is available to high performance Whisper motor gliders for advanced and cross country training and a single seater RF4D for solo advanced flying.

info@ergc.co.za
Phone : John Olsson, Chairman ERGC (083 600 9852)

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