Entries for the UK Junior Nationals 2025 are now open! The competition is being hosted by Cotswold GC at Aston Down airfield and run by their experienced competition organising team. If you are interested in entering what should be an awesome gliding competition, please follow this link.

A reminder… It’s time to get your Nationals competition entries in!!! A reminder to all pilots that 31st January is the deadline for priority Nationals entries.  Entries received by that date will be accepted in rating order up to the class limit – for 2024 applications received after the deadline…

Here are the names of the pilots who will form the British Gliding Team at the forthcoming 2025 World and European gliding championships! You can follow the action on social media, including Facebook. 39th FAI World Championship – Tabor, Czech Republic (7 – 21 Jun) 15M Class:  Leigh Wells and…

For many, competition flying is an important part of gliding. Whether Inter Club League, Regional, National, or at International level, you have to be in it to win it! Find our more about competitions during 2025 here!

It’s time to get your Nationals entries in!!!  A reminder to all pilots that 31st January is the deadline for priority Nationals entries.  Entries received by that date will be accepted in rating order up to the class limit – for 2025 applications received after the deadline will be placed…

Flight Recorder calibrations for use in assessing badge and record attempts and during competitions must be carried out by persons approved by the BGA who are using equipment which is also approved by the BGA. You can read more here.

The Competitions Committee considers rule changes for the coming season in October and November each year. If you took part in a rated competition in 2024, we would very much like to hear your ideas for improvement to the rule book. The main issues that will occupy us this year…

After 11 racing days at the 38th FAI WGC held at Uvalde, Texas, the Gold, Silver and Bronze medal winners in each class are: Full results can be viewed here.

The vote to select the team to represent Great Britain at the 39th World Gliding Championships 15m, Club, and Standard classes at Tabor CZE in June 2025 took place between 19th August 2024 and the 30th August. 61 votes were cast from 69 candidates. The vote was tallied according to…

Well done to the 2024 UK Junior National gliding champion, Jordan Johnson (ASW20)! 2nd – George White (ASW20) 3rd – George Downing (ASW20) You can view the full results here.