Windrushers Gliding Club

www.gliding.co.uk - The British Gliding Association. Lots of useful pages

www.fai.org/gliding - The international body responsible for gliding, badges, competitions, etc, etc, etc.

Medical Requirements - Details of how fit you need to be - basically, fit enough to drive and your doctor agrees. You need proof of this before we can send you solo (but not to take lessons).

The Badge System - Explains the various gliding badges / qualifications

Oxford Uni Gliding Club - OUGC is co-located at Windrushers. Many useful links too.

Cranfield University Gliding Club - CUGC is co-located at Windrushers.

Gliding glossary - All those strange words that confuse a beginner when someone speaks technobabel without explaining things. It's an old page, but the glossary is good.

About Gliding - From WikiPedia, a good general discussion, with many, many good links.

History of gliding - American view, but okay, summarising the last 400 years or so.

WeatherJack - Assesses the soaring possibilities and rates the day's cross country potential. See our own weather page for more weather links.

www.sailplanedirectory.com - Lists details on almost all gliders, performance figures, development history and manufacturer

Gliding Videos at YouTube - Lots of fun, lots to choose from, some are a bit silly or extreme, but all are enjoyable.

Sailplane and Gliding - THE gliding magazine.

Online Gliding Magazine - Gliding and Motorgliding International, world wide news and articles.

Glider Pilot - Lots of pages and lots of links too.

Caroline Trust - a charity that supports young people and disabled people in gliding.

www.bas.uk.net - Dickie Feakes has a placed on line a wealth of technical info on instruments, flight recorders etc on this site, including links to their user manuals.

GPS Links - What is says.

How GPS works - A very simple intro, but with links to more detailed explanations.

Volkslogger - UK agent for this popular flight recorder, with links to user manuals as well.

LX Avionics - UK supplier of glider instruments from LX and Filser.

BGA Comp News and BGA Comp Calendar - obvious, really.

BGA Ladder - submit your cross-country flights to this popular competition.

Competition Flying Articles - Part of RAFGSA pilot Dave Chappell's site.

Speed to fly - About polar curves and glider performance

Cross-Country Handbook - 65 pages on how to do it, from the SSA

Adrian's Guide to Field Landing - what it says, but NOT a substitute for practical training.

Review of Notams Software, first published in S&G, 2007, with updates. Read this before experimenting with the programs below.

Spine - Free. Soaring Pilot’s Intelligent NOTAMs Editor. For use in the UK only, it provides a simple interface to the AIS web site for downloading NOTAMs.

Notam View - Free. It is primarily aimed at glider pilots with the ability to place a task planned around BGA turnpoints on the same map and look for potential conflicts. Best of the free ones.

NotamPlot - Free. Plots NOTAMs on a map of the United Kingdom and Ireland.

NotamCheck - £20. Has a 30-day trial version. Looks more suitable for power pilots.

NotamPro - £29.95. Only a Demo version (NOT a trial version) for testing purposes.