USK Gliding

Congratulations Geraint Davies who went solo at South Wales Gliding Club today at Usk 👍

USK gliding recently surpassed 100 likes, thanks to all our followers, happy flying everyone!

How to recognize a cloud type? Have you ever looked at the sky and wondered what kind of clouds are there? In this and next epizodes we will tell you about 10 basic types of clouds! At first, there are clouds right above our heads, so called low-level clouds, which are from the surface to 2,

Congratulations to Will Gould on his solo at South Wales Gliding Club at Usk on Sunday, well done Will.
Pictured with Derek Bennett, one of our great instructors at Usk!

Usk Gliding welcomed the 25th Newport Beavers today and what a day to visit. Lot's of keen interest from this young troop - well done on obtaining your flight badge!

Thanks to Derek Bennett for showing the Beavers around!

Women Glide Building on the success of the 2018 programme, Team WGUK have just announced the 2019 Women Coaching Programme. This kicks off on March 9/10 at The Gliding Centre, HusBos with an all-comers [mostly] ground-based weekend of fun, hot tips and advice on setting realistic plans for your gliding in 2019,...

We are sad to announce that one of our UK (and Lasham) gliding legends has passed away.

Derek Piggott MBE enjoyed a very full and happy life for 96 years and passed away this afternoon with Maria at his side, in the Princess Alice Hospice having suffered a severe stroke on the 15th December. Up until then, he was fiercely independent, still drove and visited (and flew) recently here at Lasham.

Many of you will have known him personally and all will know his reputation as a fantastic glider pilot, instructor and aviation writer. He had flown over 5,000 hours on over 150 types of powered aircraft, and another 5,000 in more than 180 different gliders. Included in those flights were several stunts for Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines and Von Richthofen and Brown (The Red Baron). He was Chief Flying Instructor here at various times between 1953 and 1989, and set various national records including the single seat altitude record of over 25,000' in an active thunderstorm in a Slingsby Skylark; and completed a Nationals 505Km task in a Fedorov Me7 Mechta glider at the age of 81.

He will be sorely missed, having made huge contributions that have made Lasham and Gliding as a whole as safe and successful as it is today. We pass our heartfelt condolences to his family.