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Introduction to the BGGC
The Bristol & Gloucestershire Gliding Club
The BGGC Today
 The
club has around 200 flying members, a fleet of eight club owned gliders
and two tug aircraft, with about another 70 privately owned gliders operating on site.
The BGGC
has its own dedicated airfield on top of the Cotswold edge with
a large grass strip oriented roughly East/West. We overlook the Severn
Vale looking across to the Black Mountains in Wales to the West and the
Malvern Hills to the North. This means we get
excellent thermal, ridge and wave offering soaring potential
through the year; our members have carried out flights in excess of
750Km and reached over 20,000 ft in wave. In the winter months we enjoy
around 100 km of usable ridges (in the right wind directions) from
Broadway in the North to Bath in the South.
We launch by Aerotow and Winch, with on-site trailer parking, caravan site, purpose built clubhouse, hangars and workshop.
From the start, the club has run holiday courses for non-members and
many competitions have been run by the club - we typically run Western
Regional competition and one of the British national classes on
alternate years.
The club is glad to have among its members senior World and European
champions Andy Davis and Leigh Wells, as well several other top
Nationals pilots and British Team members. In 2005 Mark Parker and
Jon Meyer represented the British team in the Junior World
Championships held in the UK at Husbands Bosworth in August 2005
- Mark returned as World Champion with Jon in Silver Medal place.
The BGGC logo derives from the distinctive shape of the Severn
River as it nears the Bristol channel - in the days before GPS systems
became nearly universal in gliders this was a valuable landmark to
pilots returning from long cross-country flights.
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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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