Our Club at Worcester Airfield
   

Worcester airfield (FAWC) is a registered airfield which is leased from the local municipality.

It lies at 650 ft MSL and has a runway 1600m long of which about 500 metres is tarred at each end. The centre section is gravel and the orientation is 15/33. A gravel cross runway exists on a 12/30 orientation.

Parallel to the main runway is an addition gravel runway which is used for a winch launch operation.
Tug Plane on Runway 33


The circuit procedure for runway 15 is right hand for power aircraft and left hand for gliders. For runway 33 the circuit is left hand for power aircraft and right hand for gliders. This arrangement keeps noisy power aircraft away from the town.

Worcester airfield is uncontrolled and traffic in the vicinity normally uses the radio frequency 124,8 MHz for TIBA and circuit calls. When gliding is in progress there is usually a manned ground station that should respond to "Worcester Ground", and be able to provide details of runway in use and wind. Runway lights may be activated by 5 clicks on 124,8 MHz and extinguished with 7 clicks.


Towards Wellington Sneeukop
from Adriaan Hepburn's LAK17 at du Toitskloof


Tow rope pull out prior to launching ASK13 trainer

Facilities at Worcester include a fuel bay for AVGAS. The club has it’s own hangar as well as a clubhouse with bar facilities, where cooking equipment is available to members and their guests. The adjacent Worcester Flying Club, the local power flying establishment, has a "bunkhouse" where four people can be accommodated at minimal cost, as well as a clubhouse, bar and lecture room.

In the garden are barbecue facilities, a swimming pool and separate ablution facilities for males and females. The garden is surrounded by wooden huts and caravans (trailers), where pilots and their families stay during weekends. Visitors are welcome to camp on the lawns.

Club Fleet
The club has a balanced fleet of gliders which are available to members to fly.

There are two tug aircraft, a Supercub 180hp with a Tost retractable tow rope as well as a Citabria.

Training is carried out in a Schleicher ASK13 or one of two Ka7’s. More advanced dual training and visitor “introductory” flights are undertaken in a Grob Twin Astir.

Single seater gliders include a Club Astir and a Standard Cirrus.

A Scheibe “Rotax” Falke is utilized for ab-initio as well as cross-country training, and as a back-up tug.
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Photos courtesy of Adriaan Hepburn
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