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BGGC Home Page
Experience
Gliding over the Cotswolds and Severn Valley
Give it a try!
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Open all
year round
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We
offer a range of Trial
Lesson options for your first taste of gliding.
You will get a flight in a two-seat glider with an
instructor, during the flight you will be encouraged to take the
controls, at a safe
height of course, to enhance the experience and
to give you a taste of what gliding has to offer.
All options include three
months temporary membership, allowing you to take additional flights at
normal club rates.
You can purchase online here
with PayPal.
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A Trial
Lesson voucher makes a great gift that will be remembered,
buy one for a friend or relative.
We
can also fly groups
of friends or work colleagues,
parties of more than
5 get a discount. Group flights usually on pleasant summer evenings.
with
prior arrangement food can be arranged too.
Weather
permitting we fly every day except Christmas day. Every season brings
it's own special character to the beautiful Severn Valley, with
wonderful views of the Cotswolds, Malvern Hills and the Welsh
mountains.
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Get Solo!
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Advanced
Training
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initial training takes place in a dual-control two seat
glider, the
first step along the road to becoming a fully certified pilot is to
become proficient enough to fly on your own We call this going
solo. Instruction is free you only pay for the time you spend in the
air and the launch to get you up there in the first place. |
If
you have already started gliding and want to develop your skills we provide a range of opportunities for ab-initio, intermediate
and advanced pilots. These are mainly in the warmer months. You can
also book time with an instructor throughout the year for any aspect of
training.
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The BGGC
The Bristol
& Gloucestershire Gliding club (BGGC) is one of the UK's
longest
established gliding clubs. We own our airfield which is
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.
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Nympsfield
is home to Targettt Aviation - Specialist Sailplane and Sport
Aircraft Repair and Maintenance Centre |
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The
BGGC is host to the Bristol University Gliding Club |
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For gliding related enquiries please
© 2007 Bristol & Gloucestershire Gliding
Club, Registered Office: NYMPSFIELD NR STONEHOUSE, GLOUCESTERSHIRE, GL10 3TX,
Registered in England No. 1302149.
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