One of our relatively new members, Rory, went solo on Saturday 31 May 2025. Rory only needed around 20 aerotow flights to achieve the skills necessary to go solo, but did bring some hours of powered flying with him when he started gliding. Congratulations Rory!
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It’s been a busy weekend at Vale of White Horse Gliding Centre, with a scout group flying on Friday evening, several introductory flights on Saturday, the club AGM after flying on Saturday evening, and further guest and member flying on Sunday. Saturday in particular was an excellent day for these experience flights, with blue skies, light wind straight down the runway, and cloud base at around 3400 feet above the airfield, all of which made for beautiful views over the Wiltshire and Oxfordshire countryside.
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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.
Introductory Flyers Fly Again Using Their Temporary Membership Read More »
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 experience flights in one of the club two-seat training gliders, before they raced of
Unexpected Visitors Enjoy Experience Flights Before Jetting Off To Spain Read More »
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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A stunning view of the Wiltshire countryside in winter sun, taken by one of our club members at the Vale of White Horse Gliding Centre over the weekend. Our CFI Al commented
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Happy Christmas to all VoWHGC members, Friends and Followers. Hope you all have a great time and manage to relax with loved ones. Thanks to all club instructors ,Tug pilots and members
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CONGRATULATIONS to Joe Cornelius who has passed his PPL skills test after training with Vale of White Horse Gliding Centre on our Grob 109. We are so pleased to have helped another young aviator
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Cross-country flying this year has progressed, as hoped, with a fair amount of success. We already have at the time of writing, two completed Silver C’s. These are the first to be attained within the Club and congratulations go both to Bernard Keogh and Peter Dainton-White. Keogh managed his third task by flying the Swallow to Dunstable to gain his distance. Darnton-White flew to Lasham, gaining both duration and distance. Four more Cs have been, gained: Fred Butcher. Malcolm Parkins, Jeff Turner and Bill Rawlings. Our CFI has instigated a novel approach to cross-country landing checks. The examinee is aero-towed out to a large field some four miles from our site and has to do a normal landing under real conditions. Derigging is not required as it is possible to aero-tow out again. We have negotiated with Mr. Neil Swanton, the owner of the site at Huish, near Marlborough, to use the ridge for hill soaring expeditions. For this we are very grateful, and no doubt we shall be meeting members of other Clubs at Huish. We have nearly finished the Clubhouse but work ceased a couple of months ago because our chief “Liberator” Stan Perry “acquired” a hangar. It is hoped to give a full account of both Clubhouse and hangar in a separate article.
The AG.M. has just taken place and the committee for 1965 is to be small and streamlined. The following have been elected as officers: Chairman, L Colquhoun; Secretary, G. Turner; Treasurer, R. Clark: Ground Engineer, D. Rawling; Social Secretary, J. Young; Aircraft Engineer, R. Maxfield. A special vote of thanks goes together with our grateful appreciation to our past Secretary, Miss B. Sanders. She has done us proud since we started, and has been our Secretary for five years. We wish her well, and hope to see more of her on the field in ’65. It is hoped that we shall soon have the use of a new Blanik which should be here by January. One of our new members, Chris Day, has acquired one of these machines and is allowing the Club to use it. as an advanced trainer. The total fleet for 1965 will now consist of a T-21, Swallow, Olympia, Blanik, Skylark 4 and a Grunau. I now end by introducing Peter Clifford who will be your scribe for the coming year.
