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Notams Try Spine for your NOTAMS on your Selected
task
Click
here for Spine Website link |
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Click here
for the NOTAMS direct from AIS |
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British Gliding Association
The governing body of British Gliding |
Weather links... is
it going to rain today? Probably! |
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RASP
Regional Atmospheric Soaring Prediction
BLIPMAP plots provide soaring-specific thermal forecasts, the parameters soaring pilots want to know
http://www.theyr.com/
Try the link for animated weather trends and other clever
stuff
Glidemet
Gliding weather forecast for England and Wales - Great site for all information including Metars/Tafs etc.
Metcheck -- put in your airfield
Great site for 10 day forcast
Skylink the Weather site
Link above is for weather at RAF Wyton, Cambs NVGC's nearest station
BBC WEATHER
Some might say the best weather site on the Internet....
THE
MET OFFICE
A comprehensive range of weather and environmental services
designed for private pilots right through to the largest
global airlines...
Weather
Photography
A must see site for all you cloud spotters out there!
Seriously though an informed site which every glider pilot
MUST visit!
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| Flying Aids - GPS, PDAs,PNA's |
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XCSoar
A Free Program which can be loaded onto PDAs and PNAs to provide moving airmaps, advise of airspace, and also shows Task information plus much more.
LK8000
An off shoot of the XCSoar Program with a different Display
XCSoar / LK8000 UK data files
Files that can be uploaded to use with the above XCSoar and LK8000 programs |
| Flight Sims of interest |
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Condor
The Flight sim that you can race other glider pilots on line. NVGC has a small dedicated band who use this flight sim. |
| Links to other Gliding Clubs |
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Cambridge
Gliding Club
Cambridge Gliding Club - a 7 day a week operation west
of Cambridge at Gransden Lodge - professional site well
worth checking out. |
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Husbands
Bosworth Gliding
Husband Bosworth now known as the Soaring Centre another professional site well woth a visit |
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Yorkshire Gliding Club
Sutton Bank in Yorkshire offers Wave, Ridge and Soaring all from one site |
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Long Mynd Gliding
Club
Soar their fantastic ridge! A smart site with plenty
to check out. |
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Crowland
Gliding Club |
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Welland
Gliding Club |
| Links to other sites of interest to Glider Pilots |
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The
Glider Pilot Network
An excellent gliding web site with a discussion
group, search engine, classified ads and email directory.
You can even get your own free gliderpilot.net email address.
Gliding
and Motorgliding International
An excellent on-line magazine. You can even get your pictures
and gliding photos displayed on this site! |
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Mountain
Wave Project
You just gotta love high altitude flying in wave! A very
informative and somewhat technical site on exploring the
phenomenon of wave. Try to find the photo of the rotor
that allowed a P38 to cut its engines and soar the Sierra
Nevada!
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Gliding
New Zealand - the nerve centre of the on-line
New Zealand gliding community.
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The Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust or ABCT
Britain’s first national airfield charity and achieving numerous spectacular results in assisting airfields and improving everyday society as a whole. Already we have scored well over 2 million web hits and received visits from more than 90 foreign countries in only the last few months. 2009 is a hugely important year as it marks the 100th anniversary of the first airfields to have appeared in Britain |
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621
Volunteer Gliding School
See how the Air Cadets do it! All very well except at
cross country <ahem> |
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Airfield
Photography
Airfields around the country photographed by Richard Flagg |
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THIRTY
THOUSAND FEET is a directory of Web pages, news,
newsgroups, mail lists, and other on-line resources devoted
to aviation. You will find links to commercial, government,
military, organizational, and personal sites.
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Unbiased UK Airport news website
uk-airport-news.info is the UK's first and only complete UK airport news website.
There is so much going on at UK airports, that it's hard to keep track. And this is where we can help. We scour online and offline news sources every day for news about UK airports. We read the stories and the press releases, pick out the facts, and we post them on this website.
http://www.uk-airport-news.info/ |
| Links on Cambridgeshire
and local area interests |
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Huntingdon
Leisure
Looking for something else fun to do in the Huntingdonshire
area?
Then why not start here with a great site providing access
to all sorts of fun things to do in the area!
Cambridge Search Engine
Local to Cambridge and looking for news, views and
reviews on restaurants, pubs and all other kinds of attractions...
a useful site....
Godmanchester Web Site
The Godmanchester site was established in 1998 and
comprises over 250 pages on the town, its people and history.
Information is provided on the Community Association,
Town Council and details local groups and clubs, plus
events in the area. |
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