Airfield

Soaring Safaris is based at New Tempe airfield, Bloemfontein for their summer camp from November to February. We have a shade net hangar to accommodate 10 gliders with a convenient water ballasting system, and a conventional hangar for 5 15m/18m wing span gliders. The main club hanger has our tug’s and two seat gliders.

The club house has a swimming pool, bar and restaurant facility to serve light snacks during the day and suppers on the dinning in nights. The surrounding trees create a wonderful atmosphere for dinning out under the clear Freestate skies.

We have three grass runways 36/18, 27/09, and 31/11 and two tar runways 01/19 and 28/10 on the airfield that is 4,500ft AMSL. Runway 36 now has 300m tar strip that greatly reduces the dust on takeoff. For the majority of wind conditions we operate exclusively from the grass runways, however should it be necessary the tar runways are available. We use Cessna 182’s as our tugs and these aircraft give good rates of climb in our hot and high conditions.

The airfield is surrounded by landable fields that would offer a safe landing in the event of a failed tow. Given the right weather conditions we are able to climb to FL145 overhead the airfield.The airfield is just 6km west of the city boundary and within 10 minutes drive of our recommended guest houses and hotels.

GPS Co-ordinates : -29.033227, 26.162503