Burn Gliding Club
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Our ClubSo far our club has only attracted helpful and friendly members keen to get stuck in with this most rewarding of hobbies. We have a warm and multi functional club house with a presentation suite, kitchen, computer room and a cosy bar area - the ideal place to put your feet up and relax after a great day in the air.
 
The AreaOur unique site is surrounded by safe landable fields and the runway pattern allows us to launch and land into the prevailing winds. Prominent PositionWe are surrounded by major navigational features including the town of Selby to the North, Drax Power station to the East and Eggborough Power station to the South - this makes it easy for both trainee and solo pilots alike to always know their position whilst flying from Burn.
 
Non-stopIn summer it's a great location from which to make your first cross country flights due to the flat landable terrain, and in winter we can stay aloft for hours, courtesy of the power station plumes and the mighty Pennine wave. ASK13 Training GliderThe ASK13 two seat training glider has a steel tube framed fuselage and fabric covered wooden wings. It is strong, responsive and very forgiving, offering trainees an ideal platform on which they can practice and perfect their flying skills. The glider has been part of the training fleet for over 50 years, but it is still as relevant for training exercises today as the day we bought it.
 ASK21 Training GlidersWe have two ASK21 two seat training gliders which have a glass fibre fuselage and wing structure. They are the workhorses of our pilot training programmes. They are the most popular two seat training aircraft in the UK, offering slightly better distance flying performance than the ASK13. We use them both for normal flight training and for flight conversion training for other glass fibre construction aircraft. For solo pilots they can also be used for other advanced training such as aerobatics.
 Janus C/F Flaps and Cross Country Training GliderThe Janus C/F two seat training glider has a carbon fibre and glass fibre structure. It is the giant of our fleet with with flaps and a larger wingspan designed for distance flying. We use it for more advanced solo pilot training in the use of flaps, to teach efficient techniques for cross country flghts, and for conversion training onto advanced single seater gliders.
 Twin Astir GliderSimilar to the ASK21 the Twin Astir is a two seat training glider made of glass fibre construction. This glider is privately owned, but the club has an agreement to use it from time to time as an air experience and training flight aircraft.
 PW5 Single Seater GliderWe have a superb single seat glass fibre PW5 glider which is the ideal glider for new pilots to make their first single seat solo flights. It is fun to fly and make the ideal club glider, both for general single seater flying and as a stepping stone for some members prior to them buying a share in a single seat glider of their own.
 Rotax Falke Motor GliderThe Rotax Falke Motor Glider two seat training aircraft has a steel tube framed fuselage and fabric covered wooden wings. It is ideal for air experience flights, flying currency checks and field landing practice/training. A Motor Glider ensures flights as long as you choose, no matter what time of year. The version we have is also capable of aero-tows of small and medium weight gliders.
 Pawnee Tug PlaneThe Pawnee does most of the aero-tow flights at Burn as well as being an invaluable asset for retrievals from neighbouring airfields. Designed for crop spraying in America, it has the power to tow any glider, or up to two gliders at once, to the height and position of their choice.
  Chris OBoyle Chief Flying Instructor Full Category Instructor  Keith Springate Assistant Instructor  Martin Ellis Full Category Instructor Deputy Flying Instructor  Matt Ellis Assistant Instructor  John Firth Assistant Instructor  Ian Gutsell Assistant Instructor  Dave Bellamy Assistant Instructor  Andrew Kitchen Assistant Instructor  Terry Tordoff Assistant Instructor  Dave Watson Full Category Instructor Motor Glider Instructor  Alastair Mackenzie Assistant Instructor  Benjamin Ambler Basic Instructor Neal Shead Basic Instructor Ian McFarlane Full Category Instructor George Rizk Motor Glider Instructor Full Category Instructor  David Slocombe Assistant Instructor  Chris Hayes - Oldroyd Basic Instructor
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In The Beginning
