Nationwide Gliding Experience

What's Included

• Enjoy a gliding experience at your choice of location
• The opportunity to take the controls during your flight
• All flights are preceded by a briefing and explanation of glider flight
• Allow spending approximately one hour on site for gliding experiences
• Flights can be aerotows, winches or by motorglider

Flight Type and duration:

• Cornwall  St Agnes - 30 minute flight in a motorglider
• Derbyshire Ashbourne - 30 minute flight in a motorglider
• Devon  Honiton - 30 minute flight in a motorglider
• Essex Colchester - 1-2 flights (winch launch) with up to 20 minutes flight time
• Essex  Sudbury - 2000ft aerotow with around 20 minutes flight time
• Kent  Ashford - 2000ft aerotow with around 20 minutes flight time
• Oxfordshire Chipping Norton, Enstone Aerodrome - 30 minute flight in a motorglider
• Peterborough  Crowland - 2000ft aerotow with around 15 minutes flight time
• North Yorkshire  Selby - 2000ft aerotow with around 15 minutes flight time 
• Warwickshire  Bidford on Avon - 2000ft aerotow with around 15-20 minutes flight time
• Wiltshire   Swindon - Sandhill Farm Airfield - 2000ft aerotow with around 15-20 minutes flight time

When Is It Available

What Can I Expect

Our nationwide vouchers for gliding at UK clubs - they give you maximum flexibility! Valid for your taster flight at glider training schools and clubs around the country, these glider vouchers are the best answer to the question 'where can I go gliding near me?'.

They're flexible because when you buy this voucher, there's no need to choose a location. With UK-wide aero clubs accepting Into The Blue vouchers, you can order your voucher today and let the lucky recipient choose wherethey go for their gliding experience.

All experiences include a safety briefing and explanation of the basics of gliding. Once you're airborne, you'll have the opportunity to take some stunning snapshots of the Great British scenery below, as well as the option to take over the glider's controls for a short period of time.

There are several different ways to get airborne in your glider. Our hand-selected range of UK gliding clubs offer winch and/or aerotow launches, or self-launching motor gliders, depending on the site.

Winch launches are via a ground-based cable, pulling to create the lift needed to get the sailplane off the ground. For aerotow launches, the glider is towed into the air by an aeroplane and then released. Motorgliders have their own power, so they self-launch.

Once soaring, you'll begin to feel the sensation of silent powerless gliding across the UK skies, relying solely on air currents and 'lifts' such as thermals to keep you aloft.

No matter how you get up there, the views are guaranteed to be spectacular, especially on clear days. Buy your voucher to go gliding in the UK and see where your thermals will take you!

Suitable For

• The individual requirements of each glider club vary
• General guidelines are minimum weight 7 stone, a maximum weight of between 15 and 16.2 stone depending on the type of aircraft used
• Maximum height 6ft 2ins

Spectators

• Spectators are welcome at all venues and most have clubhouses offering refreshments

Anything Else

• All clubs included in the nationwide gliding experience voucher are BGA approved
• Please note bookings for the North Yorkshire venue, require a minimum of 90 days before the expiry date. Bookings made after this date can only be accepted if flight slots are available