Gliding in general
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.
Instrumentation
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.
Cross-Country and Comps
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.
Notams Software
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.