Having spotted on Facebook that Lincolnshire Gliding Club do one day gliding courses Paul Whitelam booked one and duly turned up at Strubby to experience piloting a glider. Paul is an experienced pilot of both powerplanes and helicopters and it didn’t take him many launches before he was flying the launch, circuit and landing as… Read more Another one day course success.
Everything you’ve wanted to know about hangar packing but were afraid to ask. It’s different every time. The end.
Definition:-vintage adjective (from the past) produced in the past, and typical of the period in which it was made:a vintage planea vintage cara vintage glider When you think of vintage, maybe wine springs to mind, (maybe wine springs to mind anyway, in which case I would recommend that you seek help: one shouldn’t drink alone.)… Read more Well it doesn’t look like a vintage glider.
There are 4 different launch methods and 3 of them require teamwork. The one not requiring help is the self-launch motorglider. The other 3 are, the aerotow, the bungee (or is it bungy?) launch and the winch launch. Although at Strubby we don’t have an aeroplane to tow our gliders we do occasionally have a… Read more So how do we get our gliders into the air?
As head of training at the club I thought I would just outline the British gliding association training programme and how we teach it. On your first visit you will have been shown how to stay safe on the airfield and taught how the basic controls work and how to look out effectively. You will… Read more How we teach you to fly.