RAF Gliding & Soaring Association (RAFGSA)

The current association offers all servicemen and ladies the opportunity to encounter a definitive in free flying. 

Providing food for all levels of experience, from tenderfoot to long standing customers, there are locales everywhere throughout the UK - the "Clubs" page will give you the subtle elements to help you venture out the flight of your life. 

On the off chance that you need to take control investigate the "JSAT" pages for points of interest of the most recent FREE courses on offer at the GSA Center at RAF Halton. With courses for all levels, the sky is the breaking point! 

This brought about an interest for comparative offices in the United Kingdom, and this was established in 1949. The main air ship, a Slingsby T.21 and a Prefect, were purchased in March 1950 and positioned at RAF Detling. By 1952 27 lightweight flyers were being worked at seven clubs around the UK. In October 1963 the RAFGSA Center was built up at RAF Bicester, retaining the Windrushers Gliding Club which had been shaped in January 1956. It is a deliberate association which exists to give recreational traveling to all RAF servicemen and ladies, specifically those typically utilized in ground obligations. The RAFGSA Center is at RAF Halton, utilizing a full-time staff to give focal hierarchical, preparing and workshop offices. [1] The Joint Services Gliding Center (JSGC), situated at the RAFGSA Chilterns Center, RAF Halton, is a piece of the Joint Service Adventurous Training (JSAT) Air Sports association and gives instructional classes to military work force. 

It is a deliberate association giving structure and focal course to the coasting clubs which shape the fundamental participation, in addition to full time go down, preparing and offices as the RAFGSA Chilterns Center at RAF Halton. It is an enrolled organization and philanthropy and has close ties with the BGA. 

This association is additionally connected with clubs that help RAF Gliding and Soaring Association as willful association. There are six territorial clubs keep running on an intentional premise and based at or close RAF stations. Every offers beginning preparing for amateurs and additionally crosscountry flying for more propelled pilots.