Bicester Gliding Centre

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.

Junior Gliding - web site for those 25 and under.

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 and very helpful for new-comers to the sport.

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.

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.

Glider Handicaps - what it says.

IGC Flight Replay is a nice little program, which shows where you went on Google Earth.

Pilot's notes on airlaw - name says it all really

Pilot's notes on meteorology - as above

Online interactive Bronze C Confuser - typical questions, presented in a random order.

Bronze Confuser - as Word docs, in a zip file. Save on your own PC to use.

Laws and Rules - essential reading, as a PDF

Review of Notams Software, first published in S&G, 2007, with updates, including 2010. 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.

Metutil's phone app - Free, works in an ordinary web browser, with no downloads, via google maps. Not as easy on the eye as the standalone software, but just click the link to view. No gliding TPs or task setting. Or use http://i-notam.appspot.com/uk48wr for the iPhone/Android versions.

Eagle Photography (Rosie Homer) has several sets of gliding images from the Regionals, Juniors and Vintage Rally (all 2010)

Ron Smith's Flickr pageshas several great sets of gliding images.

Nick Kelly has put a set of images of Flickr

Tupperware Pilot has many aviation images for your delight.