An online Teaching and Learning seminar is available on the 18th and 19th March. You can read more and book here. An FI(S) Refresher seminar is available on the 26th and 27th March. You can read more and book here.  

The CAA’s STEM website has been relaunched, with improved navigation and access to a diverse range of resources. The BGA/CAA supported gliding STEM information that was initially launched by the WWGC2022 team is available here.

As the spring gets enticingly closer, it’s a reminder that our gliders and equipment need to be checked, maintained and ready to go. Every year we see glider ground towing equipment failures or towing driver errors that result in expensively broken gliders that take a long time to repair. It’s…

Airfield safeguarding is a mechanism to provide information about potential developments near an airfield and give a possibility of some protection against unwanted developments. The BGA Development Committee publish this slide deck that explains what a club needs to do to help to safeguard its airfield and operation. The CAA…

As required by the BGA Articles of Association, at the 21st February 2024 BGA AGM, the BGA Chair Andy Perkins, Vice-Chair George Metcalfe, and BGA Executive Committee members Bill Brittain and Richard Brickwood stepped down.  The following individuals were nominated and elected by the membership: George Metcalfe (Lasham) as BGA…

Following the BGA AGM on 21 February 2024, BGA Operational Regulation 38 has been updated to read: “Inspection Before Flight. All gliders operated from a BGA club site shall be inspected before flying on each day by a pilot who has been approved to carry out a daily inspection, who…

In addressing an AAIB recommendation regarding carbon monoxide detectors, the CAA has published proposals set out in a consultation that are integral to understanding what may be holding pilots back from using this potentially lifesaving equipment, and whether the CAA should be doing more to encourage its adoption. You can…

The Royal Aero Club Trust provides a number of bursaries each year for pilots aged 14-21 (or 24 for advanced bursaries). The scheme and the bursaries comprise all types of air sports and aviation-related activities including: paragliding, gliding, hang-gliding, parachuting, microlight aircraft, helicopter, ballooning,  light aircraft and the designing, building and…

BGA Training News is sent out to all BGA instructors by email where the BGA office has a current email address. You can view the Winter 2024 BGA Training News here.

Integration of drones into all airspace is an element of the CAA’s Airspace Modernisation Strategy. National Air Traffic Services (NATS), the UK’s leading provider of air traffic control commercial services, is consulting on its vision of supporting integrated airspace.  According to NATS, ‘OpenAir’ aims to provide a universal data sharing…