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This section of the BGA web site provides practical information for pilots, club officials, instructors, aircraft owners, inspectors and for anybody actively involved in gliding in the UK.
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Safe shared airspace - avoiding active DZs
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Skydiving / parachuting takes place at DZs identified in the AIP and on charts and temporarily elsewhere as notified by NOTAMs. To help raise the awareness of skydiving activity, the BGA has liaised with British Skydiving and subsequently published a glider pilot self-briefing that highlights the key issues. You can…
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The BGA publishes guidance on the use of emergency parachutes, e.g. thinking ahead to aid decision making. The guidance includes a Bailout Advice video briefing by G Dale, a highly experienced soaring coach who has experienced an emergency bailout following a mid-air collision. The guidance is published under ‘Emergency’ on…
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Some weeks ago the BGA wrote to clubs advising a need to assure themselves re arrangements for emergency parachute repacking. This immediately followed a report to the BGA from a member club describing how the repacking services they had agreed with Tim Moran (TPF services) were allegedly not delivered, i.e….
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The CAAs CAP413 radiotelephony manual has been updated. The update includes guidance on radio calls at unattended airfields, e.g. airfields without an air traffic service. You can view the current and updated CAP413 here.
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Glider cockpit crashworthiness survey - extended deadline 30 June 2026
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Click here to access the OSTIV worldwide survey about injuries in glider accidents. We hope you haven’t been injured this way, but if know someone who has, whether or not they are still in gliding, then if appropriate please invite them to complete the questionnaire. The purpose is to discover…
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