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Experience Gliding over the Cotswolds and Severn Valley

Give it a try!

Wave over Wales

Open all year round

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The BGGC offer a range of  choices for your first taste of gliding, from a simple Trial Lesson through to a one day or one week course. All options include three months temporary membership, allowing you to take additional flights at normal club rates.

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Why not try a Trial Lesson voucher for a friend or relative? This gets you a flight in a two-seat glider with an instructor, and will give you a taste of what gliding has to offer. Trial Lesson vouchers make ideal gifts for birthdays or special occasions.

Want to fly with your friends or colleages ? During the spring & summer we run evening trial lessons for groups - see here for more detail.

Get Solo!

First Solo 

Advanced Training

Getting Ready
Your initial training takes place in a dual-control two seat glider - so the first step along the road to becoming a fully fledged pilot is to become proficient to fly on your own.The BGGC offers a special  "Solo & Beyond" package to help you achieve this, and benefit from a discount of 45% off normal club rates,If you want to develop your skills we provide a range of ab-inito, intermediate and advanced courses and training packages which run during the warmer months (see here for our schedule). Many of our course are open to non-members - call the office for details

The BGGC

The Bristol & Gloucestershire Gliding club (BGGC) is one of the UK's longest established gliding clubs. The club owns its own dedicated gliding site situated near the village of Nympsfield, between Stroud and Dursley. With a modern clubhouse, extensive club fleet and surrounding scenery offering terrific views over the Severn Valley the BGGC offers a combination of excellent facilities and a great site to fly from. Whether you are an experienced pilot looking for exciting cross-country possibilities, a trainee pilot looking to build your skills or a member of the public wanting to experience the pleasure of unpowered flight the BGGC can offer you what you are looking for.

BGGC members include current and past World Champions! From our airfield at Nympsfield, on the edge of the Cotswolds, pilots have flown to the Isle of Wight, Snowdon, Cornwall, Yorkshire and circumnavigated London. As well as excellent thermal flying we can offer over 100Km of usable ridges and the chance of  high altitude wave flights.



The BGGC is host to the
Bristol University Gliding Club
BUGC
 
 

For gliding related enquiries please contact the office.
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