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SACKVILLE FLYING CLUB Sackville Lodge Farm RISELEY Bedfordshire MK44 1BS |
For general enquiries Contact : Tim Wilkinson Tel : 01234 708877 e-mail : Sackville Flying Club |
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Gliding at SackvilleGliding offers a truly exciting flying experience. Gliders fly in the same way as powered aircraft, though their performance is optimised ( through streamlining and having large wing - spans ), enabling them to climb easily in the rising air currents generated by the sun heating the ground ( thermals ) and by the wind blowing against or over mountains ( ridge lift and wave lift ). Gliders can and often do cover large distances, flights of between 300km and 500km are common on reasonable summer days. Glider pilots from Sackville regularly fly as far as Yorkshire, East Anglia and the Welsh Borders. Gliders usually fly at heights of between 1000ft and cloudbase, which often can be as high as 5500ft in this country. Sackville is the home to a Grob G109B Self Launching Motor Glider (SLMG) and a PIK20E Self Launching Sailplane. |
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Training Currently, gliding at Sackville is resricted to a small number of members flying self launching motor gliders and self launching sailplanes. Unfortunately we are not offering any training facilities at the moment. |
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