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Aerotow Performance

Safety Briefing highlighting the factors affecting aerotow take-off performance - for consideration by glider pilots and tug pilots.

Date Added: 07/01/2016 Last Modified: 14/12/2022 View Document

BGA Ground Training Progress Record Card

BGA Ground Training Progress Record Card for use by clubs.

Date Added: 15/09/2017 Last Modified: 28/11/2018 View Document

BGA Instructor Manual

The latest edition of the BGA Instructor Manual. This is the complete document - individual sections can also be downloaded...

Date Added: 22/05/2015 Last Modified: 26/08/2023 View Document

Bronze & Beyond

Recommended pre-Bronze endorsement reading. Link to shop.

Date Added: 22/05/2015 View Document

Glider Pilot Progress Pathway

Guidance describing how a BGA club trained pilot can make progress from solo and a brief description of the requirements....

Date Added: 01/08/2019 Last Modified: 01/02/2023 View Document

Glider Pilot Progress Pathway Guidance

Date Added: 16/11/2023 Last Modified: 17/11/2023 View Document

Gliding - Theory of Flight

BGA Manual. Recommended reading for all pilots and instructors. Link to shop.

Date Added: 22/05/2015 View Document

Gliding navigation and field landing training record card

Date Added: 05/12/2021 Last Modified: 07/12/2021 View Document

Gliding terms and definitions guide

Guidance for instructors and student pilots where English is a second language.

Date Added: 18/12/2019 View Document

Gliding Training Progress Record Card (excluding navigation and field landing)

We suggest adapting the record card for club use, ensuring no exercises from the syllabus are missed. The word document...

Date Added: 29/04/2015 Last Modified: 17/08/2023 View Document

Human Factors study guidance

Originally published by Gliding NZ.

Date Added: 14/08/2023 Last Modified: 14/08/2023 View Document

IFP and course coach resources

Information and guidance for pilots and coaches involved in IFP training

Date Added: 24/03/2021 View Document

Introductory Flight Pilot - course programme and record of training

BGA Introductory Flight Pilot (IFP) endorsement course programme and record of training.

Date Added: 29/04/2015 Last Modified: 24/03/2021 View Document

Learning to Soar Slopes

S&G Article - Don Puttock offers advice on how to exploit hills

TYPE: Date Added: 29/04/2015 Last Modified: 20/05/2015 View Document

Soaring and airspace - the glider pilots perspective

An education piece about how glider pilots stay airborne.

Date Added: 03/02/2016 Last Modified: 18/10/2016 View Document

Sowing the seeds of success - S&G

S&G article describing how coaching pilots can grow success

Date Added: 12/06/2015 View Document

Thermal, ridge and wave soaring techniques and safety

The FAA publication describing thermal, ridge and wave soaring techniques and safety considerations. Source URL also supplied.

Date Added: 01/11/2019 Last Modified: 03/11/2019 View Document