Welcome to the home page of Fly Killarney Inc., the Killarney Paragliding Club, where we hope to provide you with all the necessary information about flying in this area and about the Killarney PG competition. If you have comments or questions, please feel free to contact the team.

For those who don't know about Killarney: it is located about 3 hours drive inland from the Gold Coast of QLD. Some launches are owned by local pilot Andrew Horchner, others are leased from their respective owners by the club.

Killarney offers some of the best XC flying in Queensland and nationally; it has numerous launch sites that cover most directions in very close proximity to each other. There are 1000's of km of wide open flatlands to the west with excellent road networks throughout. In the past people have accomplished quite rewarding flights in the Killarney area, flying over and gazing down upon extinct volcanic plugs and the picturesque flatlands of the Darling Downs.

QLD State Championships 2008: Early September

Like last year, the QLD championships will be held this spring in five rounds at different locations. The Killarney round will be the first, on the 6. and 7.9.2008.

Matt Rosser is organizing and scoring the events, which this year will cost $10/round to cover admin costs. Like always Matt covers the events nicely on his website.

The other rounds are: 27./28.9. Conondale, 1./2.11. Toowoomba, 22./23.11. Canungra and 6./7.12. TBA/Reserve Round.

Classic 2009: Dates set.

The 2009 competition will be held February/March 2009, details are here.

April 08: Windsocks for sale

We've got a number of Fly Killarney Mini Windsocks for sale. By parting with $5 of your hard-earned cash you can help the club account stay in the black. Contact Andrew or Wendy for details.

17.4.08: new email address for Andrew and Wendy

Andrew and Wendy have changed their internet access provider and are now reachable at eagleslaunch@westnet.com.au.

The comp is over.

After eight days, six tasks were flown, three of which were over 100km. The final results are here.

4.12.07: New photos

We have some new photos of the nicely grassed/turfed launches.

Logging Trucks on Gambugal Road

Andrew advises that heavy logging trucks are using Gambugal Road pretty much daily; they use UHF channel 9 (and so should you on the way up...).