Other Gliding Clubs
- Borders Gliding Club (Millfield)
- Cairngorm Gliding Club (Feshie)
- Deeside Gliding Club (Aboyne)
- Edinburgh University Gliding Club (co-located with the SGU)
- Highland Gliding Club (Easterton)
- Walking On Air (A Gliding Club for people with disabilities, co-located with the SGU)
Other UK Gliding Clubs
- Bidford Gliding Club (Bidford)
- Eden Soaring Group (Skelling Farm)
- Essex and Suffolk Gliding Club (Wormingford)
- Lasham Gliding Society (Lasham)
- Midland Gliding Club (Long Mynd)
- Nene Valley Gliding Club (Camp, near Peterborough)
- Northumbria Gliding Club (Currock Hill)
- The Gliding Centre (Husband's Bosworth)
- Yorkshire Gliding Club (Sutton Bank)
- There are many others on the BGA Website
Gliding Clubs Worldwide
- America Gliding Clubs
- Australian Gliding Clubs
- Dublin Gliding Club
- French Gliding Clubs
- German Gliding Clubs
- New Zealand Gliding Clubs
- New Zealand - Glide Omarama
- South African Gliding Clubs
- Spanish Gliding Clubs
- Swiss Gliding Clubs
- Links to many other clubs worldwide
National and International Organisations
- Our parent body, the British Gliding Association
- and the international body, the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI)
- Gliding magazine
- Sailplane and Gliding magazine
Manufacturers and UK Agents
- Alisport - manufacturer of the Silent.
- ALLSTAR PZL Glider Ltd. - manufactures and sells gliders of PDP Sz PZL-Bielsko (former SZD)
- AMS Flight (manufacture DG303 and others)
- DG Flugzeugbau
- Diamond Aircraft Industries - who make the Dimona.
- Edward Marganski - who makes the advanced aerobatic MDM Fox.
- Flugtechnik & Leichtbau - manufacturer of the 30-metre (and a bit) ETA.
- HPH - manufacturer of the Glasflugel 304.
- Lange Flugzeugbau - manufacturer of the electrically-powered Antares.
- LZ Aeronautical Industries - manufacturer of the Blanik.
- McLean Aviation - DG Flugzeugbau and AMS Flight agent
- Pipistrel
- Schempp-Hirth
- Schempp-Hirth UK agent - Southern Sailplanes
- Schleicher
- Skylaunch - A major supplier of glider launching winches (We use one).
- Stemme
- Technoflug - makers of the little Piccolo.
- Windex - self-launch, self-build aerobatic glider.
- Ximango - part of Aeromot Group - manufacturer of the Ximango motorglider.
Gliding Equipment and Software Suppliers
- EW Avionics (who manufacture affordable loggers)
- Filser (manufacturer of transceivers, transponders, GPS, ELT etc. - English pages)
- FlyWithCE (soaring navigation software from the LX stable)
- Garmin (possibly the best-known stand-alone GPS manufacturer)
- LX Navigation (manufacturer of the LX series and Colibri flight recorders and variometers etc. - English
pages) - Naviter (for the 'See You' range of navigation software)
- Volkslogger (manufacturer of Volkslogger, WinPilot, iMap etc.)
- Walter Dittel (known for the FSG range of avionics radios)
- WinPilot (WinPilot navigation software which needs no introduction)
- XCSoar (the Freeware soaring navigation software)
Gliding Miscellaneous
- Australian Soaring
- BGA Turning Points on Tim Newport-Pearce's site.
- Dick Johnson's articles, some a little dated, on glider performance. (Note that the SSA have now made these articles available to members only and this page is provided via the Wayback Machine internet archive engine.)
- Flight Staff Cadets
- GliderForum.com Al Macdonald's newish gliding BBS site
- gliderpilot.net (major UK/world ads and newsgroups)
- gliding.start4all.com (an extensive resources page)
- Gliding videos on YouTube
- Learning to Fly (A Deeside glider pilot's experiences)
- Sailplane Directory (Brief listing of most glider types and details)
- See How It Flies (e-book on power principles, many relevant to gliding
- Segelflug Classifieds, very large european sales and wants site
- Soaring Web Ring
- The Royal Air Force Cadets
- Unofficial North of Scotland Outlanding Fields.
Weather Links
- The Met Office area forecast
- The Met Office local forecast
- Metcheck's 24-hour forecast for Portmoak
- Metcheck's 7-day forecast for Portmoak
- BBC Local Weather Forecast
- XCWeather.co.uk (with live and forecast weather data from around the country).
- RASP (Regional Atmospheric Soaring Predictions).
- The Met Office Satellite Images
- NOAA Satellite Images
- Dundee University Geostationary Satellite Data
- Weatherjack's Site by Jack Harrison (who alas only recognises Scotland in the wave season).
- Tom Dawes-Gamble's weather page
- The Wunderland page for Leuchars.
- European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
- Sunset/Sunrise tables - courtesy of the US Naval Observatory.
Aviation Miscellaneous
- United Kingdom Civil Aviation Authority (CAA)
- United Kingdom Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB)
- Balbedie Aeromodelling Club (Possibly our closest airborne neighbours)
- Tayside Aviation who own and run the nearby Fife Airport at Glenrothes
Miscellaneous
- The Local (Portmoak) Community which we're a part of.
- Knockhill Racing Circuit