Packaging Options
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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.
£4.99 (+ £3.95 shipping charge)
Standard Gift Pack
Our Standard Gift Pack comes with a smart envelope that includes your personalised gift voucher and your activity voucher guide booklet.
Included in the £3.95 shipping charge
E Voucher
Our E Voucher is an instant voucher delivered by email, with your personalised email message and a downloadable .pdf of your personalised gift voucher.
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Nationwide Gliding Experience
Nationwide LocationsREF: NWGLD1
- Voucher valid at countrywide glider clubs
- Enjoy the sensation of silent flight
- Have a go at the controls during your flight
- An explanation of glider flight included
What's Included
- Enjoy a gliding experience at your choice of location
- The opportunity to take the controls during your flight
- All flights are preceded by a briefing and explanation of glider flight
- Allow spending approximately one hour on site for gliding experiences
- Flights can be aerotows, winches or by motorglider
Flight Type and duration:
- Cornwall St Agnes - 30 minute flight in a motorglider
- Devon Honiton - 30 minute flight in a motorglider
- Essex Colchester - 1-2 flights (winch launch) with up to 20 minutes flight time
- Essex Sudbury - 2000ft aerotow with around 20 minutes flight time
- Kent Ashford - 2000ft aerotow with around 20 minutes flight time
- Leicestershire Lutterworth - 30 minute flight in a motorglider
- Oxfordshire Chipping Norton, Enstone Aerodrome - 30 minute flight in a motorglider
- Peterborough Crowland - 2000ft aerotow with around 15 minutes flight time
- North Yorkshire Selby - 2000ft aerotow with around 15 minutes flight time
- Warwickshire Bidford on Avon - 2000ft aerotow with around 15-20 minutes flight time
- Wiltshire Swindon - Sandhill Farm Airfield - 2000ft aerotow with around 15-20 minutes flight time
Location
Choose your preferred location when registering your voucher after purchase.
- Cornwall St Agnes - Perranporth Airfield
- Devon Honiton - Dunkeswell Aerodrome
- Essex Colchester - Wormingford Airfield
- Essex Sudbury - Ridgewell Airfield
- Gloucestershire Stroud - Aston Down Airfield
- Kent Ashford - Squids Gate, Challock
- Leicestershire Lutterworth - Husbands Bosworth Airfield
- Oxfordshire Chipping Norton, Enstone Aerodrome
- Peterborough Crowland - Crowland Airfield
- North Yorkshire Selby - The Airfield
- Warwickshire Bidford on Avon - Bidford Airport
- Wiltshire Swindon - Sandhill Farm Airfield
When Is It Available
- Flights are subject to availability and weather conditions
- Cornwall St Agnes - Weekdays and weekends throughout the year
- Devon Honiton - Weekdays and weekends throughout the year
- Essex Colchester Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays along with one Monday per month, April-October
- Essex Sudbury - Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays between April and November
- Gloucestershire Stroud - Weekdays throughout the year
- Kent Ashford - Weekdays only (usually Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays) from April to September
- Leicestershire Lutterworth - 7 days a week between May and October
- Oxfordshire Chipping Norton, Enstone Aerodrome - weekdays and weekends throughout the year
- Peterborough Crowland - Weekends throughout the year
- North Yorkshire Selby - Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays - Please Note: Due to popularity bookings are now being taken for dates from January 2025 onwards. Last updated (13/08/24)
- Warwickshire Bidford on Avon - Saturdays and Sundays throughout the year
- Wiltshire Swindon - Sandhill Farm Airfield - Weekends and Bank Holidays throughout the year
What Can I Expect
Our nationwide vouchers for gliding at UK clubs - they give you maximum flexibility! Valid for your taster flight at glider training schools and clubs around the country, these glider vouchers are the best answer to the question 'where can I go gliding near me?'.
They're flexible because when you buy this voucher, there's no need to choose a location. With UK-wide aero clubs accepting Into The Blue vouchers, you can order your voucher today and let the lucky recipient choose wherethey go for their gliding experience.
All experiences include a safety briefing and explanation of the basics of gliding. Once you're airborne, you'll have the opportunity to take some stunning snapshots of the Great British scenery below, as well as the option to take over the glider's controls for a short period of time.
There are several different ways to get airborne in your glider. Our hand-selected range of UK gliding clubs offer winch and/or aerotow launches, or self-launching motor gliders, depending on the site.
Winch launches are via a ground-based cable, pulling to create the lift needed to get the sailplane off the ground. For aerotow launches, the glider is towed into the air by an aeroplane and then released. Motorgliders have their own power, so they self-launch.
Once soaring, you'll begin to feel the sensation of silent powerless gliding across the UK skies, relying solely on air currents and 'lifts' such as thermals to keep you aloft.
No matter how you get up there, the views are guaranteed to be spectacular, especially on clear days. Buy your voucher to go gliding in the UK and see where your thermals will take you!
Suitable For
- The individual requirements of each glider club vary
- General guidelines are minimum weight 7 stone, a maximum weight of between 15 and 16.2 stone depending on the type of aircraft used
- Maximum height 6ft 2ins
Spectators
- Spectators are welcome at all venues and most have clubhouses offering refreshments
Anything Else
- All clubs included in the nationwide gliding experience voucher are BGA approved
- Please note bookings for the North Yorkshire venue, require a minimum of 90 days before the expiry date. Bookings made after this date can only be accepted if flight slots are available
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Excellent. Pilot, Gary was truly great and friendly.
