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Glider forums

http://www.gliderforum.com The best glider forum ever!

http://www.gliderpilot.co.uk The bes place to buy and sell gliders and the second best forum ever!

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Things to buy

http://shop.glidingshop.com/ GlidingShop - the online gliding store run by glider pilots for glider pilots. Sole UK distributors for Soaring Flight Sim, Condor and Silent Wings.

http://www.glidingbooks.com/

Cambridge Aero Instruments

www.shirenewton.co.uk

Shirenewton offers a trailer that is the most comprehensive product on the market. Not only in quality and price, but the trailers include a long list of items that are optional extras on competitors products. We also now stock or manufacture many other trailer accessories.

The best way to fill your glider!

www.wingrigger.com A superior wing rigging aid for sailplanes

www.mmfabrication.comWe produce custom trailers, wing wheels and other equipment for gliders and other aircraft.

www.go-soaring.com We brings together over thirty years of gliding experience and the convenience of the internet. We specialise in the import and export of used sailplanes from all over Europe having completed over 130 successful import/export operations since 1991, together with a number of other services ranging from the supply of instruments to the complete refurbish of tired airframes.

http://www.crabb.biz Gps and loggers.

LX avionics Ltd is the UK distributer for Filser Electronic GmbH and their range of general aviation and gliding products, and for LX Navigation d.o.o. of Slovenia and their gliding computer, variometer and flight recorder range as well as Flarm equipment.

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Pictures of Gliders and planes.

http://www.flightbox.net

www.planoare.lx.ro

http://www.whiteplanes.com/

http://www.surclaro.com

http://www.airsport-photo.co.uk

http://piccies.flybywire.org.uk/Gliding/

www.cloudrider.co.uk

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Vintage Gliders

http://home.earthlink.net/~raulb/ The Vintage Sailplane Association (VSA) (USA)

http://www.retroplane.net/

Vintage RC glider site

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Competative Gliding

http://www.glidingcomp.com/ Pocklington will hosted the Standard Class in 2007. Winners are eligible for the 2008 British Squad competing in the Rieti World Championships.

http://sailplane-racing.org

BGA National Ladder

The National Ladder is an informal, year-long soaring competition intended for UK-based glider pilots. This site holds information relating to the operation of the Ladder, participating clubs and contact details.

http://www.glideraerobatics.com

http://www.comp-enterprise.com/ "Competition Enterprise" was born of an desire to revive the 'spirit' of Gliding and bring back the fun to competitive flying

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Gliding assosiations

http://www.gliding.co.uk/ The British Gliding association

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Glider Manufactures

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Gliding Softwear

CouTraCi The CouTraCi software is designed and created for the analysis of the GPS flight data recorder and optimized for gliding tasks. The graphic interface is very intuitive and allows you to analyze in detail your flights, drawing waypoints and tracks on any scanned map.

Soaring Pilot Software freeware programs

KFLog The KFLog-Family is a suite of OpenSource programs aimed at flight planning and flight analysis for gliders.

SoarPilot SoarPilot was designed with both the sport and competition sailplane/paraglider pilots in mind. It enhances a pilot’s sectional information helping him/her to make informed speed & distance decisions when flying around the local airfield or going cross-country. In addition, using an attached GPS and the logger function, the pilot can download and plot the flight track information after flying for futher analysis or just for fun!

Flywith CE Navigator is a full featured glider navigation program. On the map you can see waypoints, airspaces and selected task.

http://www.vpos.no "Vpos" is presenting a new range of products within 3D tracking and visualisation of air sports. It all started with gliders during the Club Class World Gliding Championships at Elverum, Norway in 2004, and will be introduced to the other air sports during 2006.

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FlightSafety

http://www.flyontrack.co.uk

spine Spine stands for ?Soaring Pilot?s Intelligent NOTAMs Editor?. For use in the UK only, it provides a simple interface to the AIS web site for downloading NOTAMs

NotamView is a tool that displays a UK NOTAM in a graphical format on a map. It is primarily aimed at glider pilots with the ability to place a task planned around BGA turnpoints on the same map and look for potential conflicts. By displaying all the turnpoints on the map, you can easily adjust the task to avoid infringing some temporary airspace.

NOTAM Check is another NOTAM display program. We understand that this uses the same data source as NotamPro. NOTAM Check displays NOTAMs as their true shape and not a 'circle of influence' derived from a Q-line as seen in other NOTAM plotting software. NOTAM Check claims to be the only software available that can do this for all plottable NOTAMs.

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Soaring Server

Mini Nimbus owners web site

http://www.silentwingsairshows.com Glider Airshow

Jim Burch Arizona flying instructor

http://www.sailplanedirectory.com/

Bronze confuser

Wikipedia.org Glider

Wikipedia.org Gliding

http://maps.google.co.uk/?t=k&ll=52.323754,0.019028&spn=0.00241,0.005182&t=k

A picture from Google maps of a glider near Cambridge.

http://www.glideomarama.com/

http://www.soaring.co.nz/

http://www.soaringclub.com/

The ESC was formed in 1987 by Brian and Gillian Spreckley, to create a relaxed but efficient organisation for adventurous glider pilots looking for new and interesting soaring sites. Since then the Club has flown mostly in France, Spain and South Africa offering an excellent club fleet as well as facilities for private owners and organising international competitions and rallies. Both Brian and Gillian have won a World Championships title, and so the guidance is assured to be of the finest quality.

http://www.continuo.com/ Flying wings

http://www.survol.cjb.net/ More flying wings.

http://www.zhwin.ch/archaeopteryx/english.php

http://discovery.ot.lt/cfair97/introskl.htm Gliders in Lithuania

The Wright Stuff

http://www.walkingonair.org.uk/

http://www.skygod.com

Scale Soaring - Radio controle scale gliders

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Gliding Museums

www.soaringmuseum.org

http://www.swsoaringmuseum.org/ USA

http://www.segelflugmuseum.de Germany

Cumulus Glider Rescue We are a group of enthusiasts & pilots who have a keen interest in preserving old gliders and sailplanes for display in museums in the UK and in the future overseas.

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Glider winching systems

Hydrostart glider winch A moudular system of up to 8 drums made in Holand

Skylaunch Skylaunch Ltd manufacture the best selling winch in the world today.

Supacat The Supacat winches are built to a design which originated in 1960 but was substantially revised and updated in 1985 when the first of the new generation machines was built for Devon & Somerset Gliding Club.

Tost Weak links,Cable parachutes etc

www.lippmann.de/english/index.html Lippmann Tauwerk, a German manufacturer of cord since the mid 19th century, is now producing a plastic braided winch cable with an outer plastic covering. Called Dyneena Hoistline.

http://www.winches.de/

http://www.machinefabriek-el.nl/content_6.asp Van Gelder "Leopard 4 and 8"

Glider Winch Launch Simulation

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