Bicester Gliding Centre
Home of Windrushers Gliding Club
Learn to Glide at Bicester Airfield!
Based at Bicester Airfield, just north of Oxford, Windrushers is the premier gliding centre in Oxfordshire. The club is open to anyone interested in learning to glide.
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For those who want a serious introduction to gliding. Enrol on a summer course for a five day holiday you'll never forget! Become a glider pilot!
Organise a group of friends for a great afternoon or evening's gliding (includes a meal).
Corporate group events also available.
- Seven days a week from April to mid-October
- All year long operation (Thursday - Sunday when not seven days a week)
- All training to the BGA standards and syllabus
- Training courses based on your personal needs
- Great clubhouse and friendly atmosphere
- An ideal base for visiting glider pilots seeking a cross-country week or extra training
- Conveniently placed for trips to Oxford or for exploring the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire countryside.
- Close to Banbury, Buckingham, Didcot, Milton Keynes, Northampton, Bedford, Reading, Aylesbury. Swindon, Birmingham and London via the M40 (just an hour's drive from north London, about 90 minutes from central and south London, 45 minutes drive from Birmingham).
- Bicester North station (only 0.8 miles from the airfield) has a direct rail link (about 48 minutes journey) from London Marylebone, and also from Birmingham Moor Street - about one hour for the journey
- Learn to glide - almost anyone can!
Course dates for 2012 now online - a week-long course is the ideal way to start your adventures in gliding!
Bicester Airfield has been an active airfield for over 80 years - one of
Oxfordshire's very first airfields!
Gliding started here in 1956 with Windrushers Gliding Club and has continued
ever since.
Our club fleet of gliders includes two-seater gliders with dual controls for training beginners (all lessons are with qualified gliding instructors), and single-seaters for use by those who reach solo standard. And yes, almost everyone who takes up the sport of gliding goes solo - if you can drive a car, you can fly a glider! The minimum age to go solo in a glider is 16 and we can start training youngsters interested in gliding as young as 14.
Some nice images, taken by a recent visitor to Bicester Gliding Centre.
We are pleased to announce that we have been accredited as a Junior Gliding
Centre by the BGA.
Two university gliding clubs are now co-located at the Bicester Gliding Centre, while a third one sends a small number of its members here too.
For those who haven't yet seen us from above, take a look at the airfield!
Last site update: April 21st, 14th, 5th, 3rd. Flying Program,
News; Flying Accounts; Flying Accounts and Committee minutes; Weather page,
members news
March 28th, 18th, 15th, 12th, 8th, 5th. Flying Account; Regionals
entries, achievements, News, flying Accounts; Achievements; Members News;
Flying accounts, Regionals entries.
Our Online shop for trial lesson purchases is the set of pages under Lessons/Courses
in the menu!