Today was another fantastic soaring day at the gliding centre just outside Swindon. This picture shows our visiting duty instructor Nick (seated), running the daily flying briefing ahead of the first launches. Many thanks to Nick for doing a great job on the day.
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We were pleased to welcome back two of our recent motor glider introductory flyers to have a first flight in a glider. Because our Vale of White Horse Vouchers include a one-month temporary membership of the club, they could visit the airfield again within their membership period and have a glider flight at club member rates.
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A new flying member joined Vale of White Horse Gliding Club today, Ryan Clifford. Ryan jumped straight in as a flying member, and had his first ever flight in a glider on the same day. If you’d like to learn to fly, or would like an experience flight to help you decide, you can follow both routes through our website
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Some visitors from Spain, Zorro Zuo and Selina Sheng, were staying in a local AirBnB that happened to be run by one of our club members. Over a shared dinner, he invited them to visit the airfield the next day to see how the gliding club operates, and they ended up finishing their trip to the UK with introductory flights in one of the club two-seat training gliders, before they raced of
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Well done to 16 year-old Milo, who flew his Silver Distance flight from Lasham Gliding Society to Vale of White Horse Gliding Centre. And in some style, in a vintage Olly 2b. There was a nice reciprocal element to the flight, too, as his dad did the same trip for his Silver Distance,
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Congratulations to Andrew Goodall, who flew with one of our instructors (Pete) to complete his first flight in a glider. After aerotowing to 2000ft, Andrew and Pete managed to soar and extend the flight to a very respectable 37 minutes, despite a hazy atmosphere above 2000 ft .
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