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 ...a friendly hang gliding and paragliding club with sites on the Marlborough and Berkshire Downs.
You can renew your 2011/12 club membership online now! New members can also register and join.Click here for more details.
Alternatively purchase a 7 day consecutive flying membership for visiting pilots. Click here for more details.
LATEST 11/01/2012:
>BHPA Club Coach course for NEW coaches and those coaches wishing to renew (every 5 years as recommended by the BHPA). It's going to be held at the Swan Inn over the weekend of the 17th and 18th of March 2012. To book your place Click here for more details.
>We are pleased to offer a 7 day consecutive flying temporary membership pass for visiting pilots.click here for more details.
> Happy new year and to help those of you shedding last years kit there is now a small ads section on the website Click here for more details. >We will be running a series of lectures to help you revise for your Pilot (or AP) exams followed by an exam session. Even if you don't want to take the exam this is an excellent refresher. Just come along on the social evenings Click here for more details. >Keep up flying skills current this winter and into early spring ready for the season with ground handling and soaring on our sites. If it's flyable on a site there wil likely be a few soles doing the same. Check with the email forum and twitter if you want to team up with others. > There have been some recent changes to RAF Lyneham and it has now officially closed. Please read the details in the Latest Site News section of our site.Click here for more details. Please remember that Rybury and Uffington are both CLOSED (according to the terms of the site agreements) on bank holiday weekends. This means NO FLYING at either site on 1, 2, 3, 29, 30, 31 May. Also, a reminder: when flying Milk White Horse, please take off and land only on the western shoulder of the ridge as shown in the sites guide. DO NOT take off and land near the top fence, or along the S-facing slope towards the horse. Natural England are watching! The club offers a good range of safe ridge soaring sites for novices and some of the best XC sites in the south of England. However, almost all the sites are sensitive and have particular rules associated with them that must be observed by pilots visiting. Whether you are a new CP pilot just starting out or an experienced XC hound please respect the site rules - latest updates can be found
here. If you aren't a reciprocal member or wish to fly one of our members only sites please join the club, it costs £25 per year and if you are a new member and join after September your membership subscription will last for a year to the following March. If you have any questions, queries or concerns contact the committee or post a message in our club forum where you will find members happy to help.
Every first Wednesday of the month you'll find us at the Swan Inn, Inkpen near Hungerford at the bottom of Combe Gibbet from about 7.30pm, wittering about flying, flying and more flying. The club is very friendly and we do our best to welcome new pilots of any ability. Joining the club will make arriving at new sites less daunting and mean that you will probably do more flying.
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Thames Valley Hang Gliding Club (TVHGC) | Promote Your Page Too The club forum is a great place to find out information on when and where pilots are going and when. On it you will find advise and information on just about anything flying related. There are regular updates on the weather, the best new weather sites, holiday ideas, kit and the usual cacophony of flying related chat. If you have questions, we'd rather know...
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