Experience Gliding over the Cotswolds and Severn Valley

Give it a try!	Open all year round
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. You can purchase online here with  PayPal.	Why not try a Trial Lesson voucher for a friend or relative as a seasonal present? 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 Christmas. Weather permitting we fly every day except Christmas day, and winter can offer wonderful views of the Cotswolds, Malverns and Welsh mountains.
Get Solo!	Advanced Training
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

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.

Nympsfield is home to Targettt Aviation - Specialist Sailplane and Sport Aircraft Repair and Maintenance Centre

The BGGC is host to the Bristol University Gliding Club