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 will open on 19th August 2024 and will run up to and including the 30th August. Once again, the voting will take place…

After a week of mixed gliding weather at the UK club class nationals hosted by the Bristol and Gloucestershire Gliding Club at Nympsfield, we’re delighted to report that the 2024 UK club class national champion is John Roberts (LS3)! The full results are available here.

The following UK National gliding competitions have been agreed for 2025: Standard, 15m and Open classes at Lasham. 24 May – 1 June. Club class at Dunstable. 26 July – 3 August. 18m and 20m multi-seat classes at Husbands Bosworth. 16-24 August. Junior Nationals at Aston Down. 16-24 August.

After a week of great gliding weather at the Standard, 15m and Open Nationals hosted by Cotswold GC at Aston Down and organised by Competition Director Matt Page and team, we’re delighted to report that the 2024 champions in all three classes are: Open – Andy Davis (JS1)  15m -…

We’re delighted to report that the 2024 18 metre and 20 metre two-seat National championships have resulted in two new champions! After a very challenging week of squeezing in tasks around some unhelpful weather, Matt Davis (JS1) is the 18 metre champion, and Steve Jones (Arcus) is the 20 metre…

The BGA Competition Organisers Guide has been updated. You can view the 2024 version here.

We’re pleased to report the following British Gliding Team plans for 2024: World Gliding Championship – Uvalde, Texas, USA 18m class – Ian MacArthur / Peter Harvey 20m class – Steve Jones / Garry Coppin Open class – Tim Jenkinson / Russell Cheetham Junior World Gliding Championship – Ostrow Wielkopolski,…

Competition flying is great fun. However, several inherent risks in gliding can increase in a competition task flying environment. As with all flying, awareness of and managing the risks is important. We have updated our competition risk management guidance aimed at pilots and republished it here.

Congratulations to British Gliding Team’s Tom Arscott – World Champion! Throughout the ten races at the 37th World Gliding Championships at Narromine in Australia, Tom maintained a good lead to take 1st place, the Gold medal and the title of World Champion in the standard class flying a loaned LS8…

Entries are open for the Bidford regional gliding competition, 22nd to 30th of June 2024. You can read more information and enter the competition here.