Oxford Airport (fully described as ‘London Oxford airport’) intends to add RNAV approaches to both ends of its runway to facilitate ‘small-scale’ Commercial Air Transport (CAT) operations. CAA policies determine that controlled airspace is needed to facilitate that type of operation. Oxford airport has put forward an ACP Stage 1…

Pilot-Owner Maintenance Part-M Light simplifies existing maintenance rules and offers a less prescriptive and burdensome approach to maintenance than the previous Part M requirements. It also provides more maintenance privileges for pilots and owners. BGA pilot-owner maintenance seminars provide helpful guidance to help pilot-owner to become familiar with the requirements,…

Go Gliding is a BGA project supported by the DfT’s ‘Reach for the Sky’ programme. Go Gliding STEM events are free and open to individual students, schools, colleges, and youth groups, providing early career taster opportunities for young people to experience and learn more about gliding. The experience includes videos,…

BGA volunteers have attended eleven public events this year promoting gliding and are planning to increase that number during 2024. We would like to publicly acknowledge the huge amount of work this takes and again say a big thank you to all those involved!

Preparations are continuing for the BGA Club Development Conference on Sunday 19th November at the Park Inn hotel, Northampton, and a few key themes are emerging, mainly around clubs being happy places to spend time doing various gliding activities. That translates to looking at how we make clubs more sustainable:…

BGA inspectors form an important part of club and private owner aircraft maintenance support. Maintenance standards are a crucially important part of safety management.  The requirements for becoming a BGA inspector are essentially unchanged from the past. The mix of experience available within a gliding environment coupled with self-study can…

The BGA airspace webpages have been reformatted to improve access to important information. You can view the BGA airspace webpages here.  

The Hus Bos Challenge Cup competition will be held from 27th July – 4th August 2024. The competition will be limited to 65 entries on a first come, first served basis. Any entries after this will automatically be put on to the waiting list. The entry list will open on…

If you’ve missed Chanel 4’s ‘Matt Baker – Travels with Mum and Dad’ gliding at Yorkshire Gliding Club, you can catch it on repeat here! (10 mins in after the ads)  

On Saturday 24th of February 2024, the BGA Sporting Conference is returning to the Holywell Park Conference Centre at Loughborough University followed by our Annual Awards Dinner at Burleigh Court Hotel at Loughborough University! It’s going to be another great day, and for those who are staying on for the…