News specifically about junior flying, including groups such as venture scouts, ait cadets, university gliding clubs, etc
Welcome to Oliver who has joined the Vale of White Horse Gliding Centre as a junior member recently. He was flying at the weekend, along with some other recent joiners, and also learning ground handling skills, and operating the retrieve vehicles. Junior members can go solo from 14 years old, provided they have demonstrated the skills and judgement to do so. We actively manage their training
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It’s been a weekend of achievements coming thick and fast at the gliding centre recently. A typical Saturday or Sunday normally sees a mix of early pilots learning the skills to go solo with our BGA instructors, a few trial lessons flights with visitors to the club, and in good weather, a range of qualified pilots doing cross-country flights, or aerobatics, or maybe converting from one glider type to another. This Sunday especially promised to be a perfect cross-country day, although it turned quite blue
Weekend of Achievements at Vale of White Horse Gliding Centre Read More »
Well, another successful Junior Development Week has just been completed at Vale of White Horse Gliding Centre, near Swindon. Many thanks to DCFI Gordon who organised the week, and was on-site instructing every day. Thanks to all the parents for delivering & collecting their offspring. Thanks also to the ground helpers who kept the whole thing moving including but not limited to Georgina, Pauline, and Martin. Flying-wise,
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One of our junior gliding members, Marco Vourla Nunez, went solo today in one of the club’s K13 training gliders. 15-year-old Marco only joined the Vale of White Horse Gliding Centre in February of this year, but had demonstrated he was ready to make his first solo flight today. After a well-executed ground run behind the tug plane, and an aerotow to 2000 feet, he executed some high-air manoeuvres, then a nice circuit and landing back at the airfield.
Congratulations to Marco on His First Glider Solo Flight Read More »
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,
Congratulations to Milo MacDonald who ended his Silver Badge 50km Flight at VoWHGC Read More »
Congratulations to William Peal age 15 who was sent Solo yesterday by his happy instructor Gordon Walker. Well done Will and what a perfect start to the new year. I bet he cant wait for
Congratulations to William Peal who went solo yesterday Read More »
