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Premium Gift Pack
Our Premium Gift Pack includes a stylish gift box, which holds your personalised gift voucher and your activity voucher guide booklet. The premium choice.
£3.50 (+ £3.95 shipping charge)
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Our Standard Gift Pack comes with a smart envelope that includes your personalised gift voucher and your activity voucher guide booklet.
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What's Included
- Gliding experience in your choice of glider or powered motor glider
- Welcome, introduction and safety briefing
- Fly with a fully trained gliding instructor
- Aerotow (glider) up to 2500ft or powered flight (motor glider)
- Flight time of approximately 20 minutes
- Your instructor will demonstrate how to fly the glider
- Opportunity to fly the aircraft under supervision
- Spectacular views of the Vale of York and surrounding countryside
- One months club membership is included
Glider Mini Course
- Full briefing on aircraft controls and their effects from one of our experienced instructors
- Two aerotows ( up to 2500ft), taking you soaring above the Yorkshire countryside
- Each flight will last approximately 20 minutes
- Opportunity to fly the aircraft under supervision & take the glider through some basic manoeuvres
- The two flights are to be used by the same person on the day
- Three months club membership is included, plus a progress card that document your first steps as a pilot!
What Can I Expect
Go gliding at Rufforth Airfield with this friendly York gliding club, just a few minutes from York city centre, within the Vale of York. We are offering Glider Experiences and Mini Glider Course at Rufforth, where there is an extensive fleet of gliders and tug planes.
On the Glider Experience you can go self-powered into the skies above York in a motorised glider, or you can choose to get towed into the air (aerotow), both reaching up to 2500 ft. We also have the best-value Mini Glider Course, which gives you two x aerotows.
And we have to say, Rufforth, an ex-WW2 RAF base, is a great place to get airborne in a glider. The club manages and operates two tarmac runways and grass areas too, all on the western side of the airfield site.
It’s a pretty strategic location for gliders. Just 20 miles east of the Pennines, many glider pilots seek out the Pennine wave, the famous thermals, that are something of a holy grail for lovers of silent flight!
And staying up using just the lift from the air, as this York glider centre team will tell you, is what soaring is all about. It's a unique and pretty amazing feeling the first time you experience the sensation, whether you got up there by aerotow or by motorglider.
Superb value, available all year round and suitable for adults and teens over 14 years old, gliding at Rufforth in York is a must-do.
When Is It Available
- Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays throughout the year
- Flights are subject to availability and weather conditions
- In the event of unsuitable conditions your flight will be re-arranged
Location
- Rufforth Airfield, York
- Situated in the Vale of York, about 20 miles east of the Pennines
Suitable For
- Minimum age 14
- Under 18s must be accompanied on the airfield by an adult
- Maximum height 6ft 2ins
- Maximum weight 16 stone (224lb)
Spectators
- Spectators are welcome
