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…

The BGA Annual Report for 2023 has been published. You can view the report here.

The National Grid are currently undertaking significant projects to expand the country’s power distribution network. These projects feed into the “great grid update”, described by National Grid as “the largest overhaul of the electricity grid in generations.” The projects include reinforcement of existing high voltage power network in areas which…

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,…

Details of three BGA Part 2 instructor courses have been published: Monday 13th May – Saturday 18th May 2024 at The Gliding Centre, Husbands Bosworth Sunday 14th July – Friday 19th July 2024 at The Scottish Gliding Centre, Portmoak Monday 9th September – Saturday 14th September 2024 at The Gliding…

Lasham Gliding Society is advertising a full time Deputy Chief Flying Instructor employment opportunity. Full details are available here.

Cross-channel gliding flights are incredibly rare. The Home Office has asked us to report that the UK government is introducing regulations that will require information about international GA flights and persons on board to be submitted online in advance of departure for aircraft expecting to arrive or depart the UK….

Following detailed work by Paul Ruskin (Cambridge GC) and the CAA, thirty BGA gliding clubs now have newly allocated radio frequencies to help with local situational awareness. The frequencies are valid from 21st March. You can view the new frequency allocations here.  Electronic and paper charts will be updated when…