Shalbourne Gliding – Club Information

Shalbourne Gliding is a not-for-profit Members’ Club, run by its members for its members. As a Community Amateur Sports Club, we are keen to make gliding available to everyone and we are always pleased to welcome visitors and introduce them to our wonderful sport.

About our site

Rivar Hill is an all grass airfield near the village of Shalbourne in Wiltshire. Sitting on top of the downs in an area of outstanding natural beauty, the site enjoys excellent soaring from thermals and our North-facing ridge. At almost one mile in length, Rivar Hill is a large, safe site and ideally placed for good local soaring and cross-country flights.

Rivar Hill Airfield

Rivar Hill is a winch launch only site and cleared to launch to 3,000 feet (QFE). It should be noted that there is NO aerotow option at Rivar Hill. Powered aircraft and self launching gliders are strictly prohibited.

Flying Days

We fly at the weekend and midweek, which is usually on a Wednesday. We also fly on Bank Holidays, with the exception of Christmas and New Year. Before you come, please call the Launch Point to confirm that we are flying on that day.

On each flying day we meet at 9am to prepare the airfield, launching equipment and gliders. As we are a member’s club with no paid staff we take it in turns to help out running the operation.

Members who would like instruction place their name on the flying list and solo pilots wishing to use the club gliders do likewise. Trainees are then allocated to instructors and pilots to the single seaters in turn. While we are not flying we help to launch the gliders and run the airfield.

We usually have at least one soaring/task week each year, and members sometimes arrange extra flying days if the forecast is particularly good.

 

Telephone Number and Postal Address

For telephone contact details and postal address, see our contact us page

 

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Shalbourne Gliding is registered as Shalbourne Soaring Society Ltd, a company Limited by Guarantee. Company No. 03471588.