The Duo Discuss XT VH-ZAB is the latest addition to the club fleet. This Duo was made in 2006, and with barely 100 hours on the airframe is in excellent condition. It is fitted with a Solo sustainer motor.

The glider has all the latest equipment including two Altair glide computers, Cambridge 302/303 vario, a transponder and Mountain High oxygen in both cockpits.

All this combines to make this glider the ideal machine for cross country flying or X-C training up at Lake Keepit.

The LS7 is a high performance cross country sailplane with balanced and forgiving flight characteristics. The relatively high wing loading of the LS7 is perfect for the typical big thermals of an Australian summer.

All flight controls are within reach of the pilot and the LS7 has a comfortable cockpit.

The LS7 is fitted with up-to-date instruments including Cambridge LNAV vario and datalogger.

The LS6 is a 15 metre Racing Class sailplane equipped with full span flapperons. The LS6 was one of the first gliders to use carbon fibre construction.

The LS6 was very successful in competition and had a very long model life with 375 being built over 20 years. The Lake Keepit LS6 is the glider used by Brad Edwards when he won the world championship in the USA in 1991.

The LS6 is fitted with up-to-date instruments including Cambridge LNAV vario and datalogger.

The Jantar is a strongly built and very capable cross country glider which in the past has had excellent competition results while never achieving the legendary status of some German gliders. At LKSC, the Jantar is normally used as a stepping stone between the Junior and the more expensive and perhaps more fragile LS6 and LS7 gliders.

The club Jantar is fitted with winglets which improve the handling when thermalling. The Jantar instruments interface with a Garmin 12LX GPS.

SZD 51-1 Junior

The Junior is a safe and easy to fly club single seater which is usually the glider that pilots graduate to after going solo in two seaters.

The Junior has a thick wing section, a low wing loading and a slow thermalling speed which makes it a great glider to fly on light days or when thermals are broken up. it is equally at home doing C or Silver C certificate flights or 500 kms.

The Junior is fitted with up to date instruments including a Borgelt B400 vario.

The club's Grob 103 Twin ll is an easy to fly and comfortable two-seater which is used for training and cross country flying. The Grob 103 Twin ll is light on the controls and has good co-ordination of stick and rudder.

Typically, students will learn to fly and do their first solo flights in the Puchatek. They will then convert to the Grob 103 Twin ll before going on to single seaters.

The Grob 103 Twin ll is fitted with up to date instruments including Cambridge LNAV vario and datalogger.

The Twin Astir is the forerunner of the Grob 103 Twin ll. The Twin Astir a privately owned glider which is on-line at the club. It is used for training, air experience flights and on cross country training courses.

At higher speeds, the Twin Astir has somewhat better performance than the Twin ll which makes it marginally better for cross country flights.

The Twin Astir is fitted with up to date Borgelt instruments.

In Polish, Puchatek apparently means "Winnie the Pooh", (the bear with very little brain). Whatever the thinking behind that, the Puchatek is normally by the club as a basic first training glider. The Puchatek is of aluminium and fabric construction and the club one was made in 1992.

The Puchatek is a strongly built glider with a large main wheel and nose skid. It is an easy glider to fly and will make most pilots look good. Unlike modern glass sailplanes, the Puchatek picks up speed slowly gives the trainee pilot plenty of time to think about setting up a landing.

The Puchatek is fitted with basic soaring instruments including a Borgelt B40 vario.

MRP is yellow and blue, but when you are behind on tow, you don't notice the colours.

LKSC has a one or two backup tugs for times when MRP is being serviced. This one is white and blue and the other, a Supercub is red and white.

The winch is equipped with dyneema rope which allows tows to an average of 1600' for a two seater and 1800' for single seater.