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Description of Southampton University Gliding Club
SUGC is a club that can give you a unique experience unlike any other. As a tight-knit and friendly bunch of folks, we welcome everyone who knocks on our door. As a beginner, we will do what we can to help you achieve your ambitions. As an experienced pilot, we will help to drive you up the ranks. Alternatively, if you just fancy pottering around the sky for the sheer peace of it, that's cool with us.
Regarding health, if you are physically fit to drive a car you are fit to fly a glider solo.
To ensure everyone gets their flights in, the flying day is usually a full one, often lasting most of the daylight hours. At the airfield, everyone has the chance to help out with a variety of ground handling activities when they're not in the air. The catering facilities at Lasham are second to none, with a main meals and a variety of snacks and drinks available throughout the day. Naturally, a club bar is ready and waiting for when we retire from the launch point!
PLEASE NOTE THAT SUGC MEMBERSHIP AVAILABLE ONLY TO STUDENTS OF SOUTHAMPTON UNIVERSITY WHO ARE MEMBERS OF THE ATHLETIC UNION.
After an introduction to the basics of the glider, you'll be seated in a dual-controlled aircraft. Your instructor will have control and guide the aircraft through its launch. After time to take in the countryside spread out below you, he or she will demonstrate the glider's controls in flight. You'll then be given the opportunity to take the controls yourself and fly the glider. As the end of the flight approches, your instructor takes over again for the (no doubt very smooth!) landing.
Training flights are usually launched using a high powered winch - quick, effective, and dramatic to watch. Depending on weather conditions, the flight will usually last about 10 minutes.
We fly most weekends from Lasham Gliding Society's airfield near Alton. It's the largest gliding club in the world, so you'll be spoilt for choice of aircraft and highly-trained instructors. We are limited on how many people we can take to the airfield on any one day, so a list is produced online of who's flying on a first-come, first-served basis. With any luck we'll get you flying on the Saturday or Sunday of your choice! Transport to and from the airfield is provided for you by club members (£1 return trip dontation), but do let us know, when signing up, if you have your own car!
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