Windrushers Gliding Club
Welcome to the Windrushers Gliding Club!
Based at Bicester Airfield, just north of Oxford, the Windrushers is the premier gliding centre in Oxfordshire. The club is open to anyone interested in learning to glide.
- Seven days a week from April to end of October
- All year long operation
- Trial Gliding Lessons with BGA rated instructors
- Half-Day courses - book your own instructor!
- Special learn to glide package deal
- 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, Didcot, Milton Keynes, Northampton, Bedford, Reading, Aylesbury. Swindon, Birmingham and London via the M40 (an hour's drive from north London, about 90 minutes from central and south London, 45 minutes drive from Birmingham).
- Learn to glide - almost anyone can!
Bicester Airfield has been an active airfield for over 80 years, and
was one of the first airfields in Oxfordshire.
Gliding started here in 1956 with Windrushers Gliding Club, which was later absorbed
into the RAFGSA. The club became a separate entity again when the RAF decided
to move their side of the operation to RAF Halton. We take members from
all walks of life - we are no longer restricted by the military in who can
join.
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 15.
For those who haven't yet seen us from above, take a look at the airfield!
Last site update: 13 April - Flights and Accounts updated, News.
29 March - weather; 27 March - News; 14 March - News, accounts.
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