Borås Gliding Club is a member-driven organization where all activities are run by dedicated volunteers on a non-profit basis. We have around 200 members.
Our club house is well equipped, featuring a conference room, kitchen, showers, sauna and laundry facilities. In the kitchen, you’ll find simple refreshments for purchase, including frozen meals, soft drinks and snacks. If you need more, a supermarket and several restaurants are just a short drive away.
We offer overnight accommodation in our tree cottages, as well as a camping area for caravans and tents. There’s also a pleasent playground for children to enjoy.
Two of our flight instructors, Morgan and Jarek. Jarek offer training in both Swedish and Polish.
Flying in Borås
The club operates daily during the soaring season, from April 1st to October 1st. With our two Pawnees, launches are efficient, giving you excellent opportunities for both recreational flights as well as longer cross-country flights.
Flight instructors are available for you to get checked out and for training. Once checked out, as a guest member, you are welcome to fly our club gliders.
Borås-Viared airfield
Borås/Viared airfield (ESGE) is situated six kilometers west of Borås City and along the motorway to Gothenburg at an altitude of 179 m / 588 ft MSL. The airfield features both an asphalt runway and a grass strip, each approximately 800 metres long, with an extended zone for start roll. More details can be found on the airfield’s website.
Immediately west of Borås is Landvetter Airport with its controlled airspace. We have good cooperation with Gothenburg Approach which means we normally get FL60 after having established contact. With a transponder we can get clearence even higher which means FL70 and 80. Outside Landvetter Control Area we can fly up to FL90 without transponder.
Surroundings
The topography and the landscape around Borås are a mixture of many small lakes and hills as well as some small rivers and scattered cultivated areas but also with coniferous- and deciduous forests.
About 40 kilometers east and southeast of Borås the South Swedish Highlands begins with its highest point at 377 m asl. The characteristics of this area are a mixture of open crop areas, meadows, lakes, bogs and forests which also produce good thermals. In the area a number of airfields are available.
About 20 km to the north and north east of Borås the landscape changes and becomes flatter with bigger open crop fields and meadows.