Sometimes the best days at the gliding club aren’t the days we all expect. Summer days with good soaring conditions are fantastic, of course. That’s when we do big cross-country flights, or long local soaring flights, while enjoying the sunshine at the airfield when on the ground. But sometimes a winter day compensates very nicely, with
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Amongst lots of wet days, overcast days, and high wind days in the last couple of months, we did have a beautiful blue sky day last weekend, when club members took the opportunity to work towards going solo, or kept their currency up to date, or fixed any gaps in their recency status. We also had a visitor flying with us from another club, which is always welcome. What’s the difference between currency and recency, you ask?
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Welcome to our latest joiner at the club. Tracy had done some gliding training previously at another local club recently, but had never aerotowed before, and found that a much easier method to learn by. She joined at the same time as one of her colleagues, Gary, and it was great to see them at the club this Saturday picking up their training again, with one of our instructors, Pete. Thanks Tracy, for managing the log-keeping today at the launch point, too!
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Gary joined the gliding club recently, after a few flights at another local club, which used winch launching, rather than the aerotow method used at VoWHGC. So launching was a difference experience, but one he enjoyed. It was good for some of us to meet Gary for the first time today, while he helped at the launch point, and had some training flights with one of our regular instructors, Pete.
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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
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As part of our “40 Years at Sandhill Farm” celebrations, we’re offering introductory glider and motor glider flights on the weekend of the Shrivenham Summer Fete, 23rd and 24th August 2025, and the booking page for the flights has just been opened for bookings. To make the flights that weekend as accessible as possible,
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This weekend, we had a total of 12 visitors take one of our introductory gliding or motor gliding flights, which we believe may be a new record. Good weather meant the gazebo at the launch point was welcome to provide some shade, and pilot duties for the flights were shared between Milan, Adrian, Gerry and Stuart. Thanks to everyone who made these flights possible, whether doing the actual flying, or making sure
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It’s been another busy weekend at the Vale of White Horse Gliding Centre, with 5 introductory flights, good soaring conditions on both days, and an intensive period of work to add the final touches to the club’s Pawnee tug plane. We believe this is the first Pawnee to be back in service in the UK, following last year’s directive
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Congratulations to Lucy Swinburn on making her first glider flight today. The flight was a birthday surprise from husband Jason, and he and their children, as well as labradoodle Lola, all came along to the airfield to watch as Lucy was aerotowed to 4000 ft. The high aerotow meant the flight lasted over 30 minutes, with plenty of time to enjoy the experience, and the chance to fly above the broken cloud base at around 2000 feet. If you’d like to try gliding,
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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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