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 | British Hang Gliding & Paragliding Association (BHPA) | BHPA | Nationwide | UK | The British Hang Gliding & Paragliding Association oversees pilot and instructor training standards, provides, technical support such as airworthiness standards, runs coaching courses for pilots... and a host of other services, providing the infrastructure within which UK hang gliding and paragliding thrive. |
| Logo | Club name | Association | Town | County | Description |
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| Aberdeen Hang Gliding & Paragliding Club | BHPA | SC | 14 Sites - all directions within 70 miles of Aberdeen, restricted access. Visitors welcome but must contact club first. Hill: HG+PG. | ||
| Aerotow.com | BHPA | SW | An aerotow club that operates in the West Country and in Europe during the summer. Hill: HG. | ||
| Angus Hang Gliding Club | BHPA | SC | Membership open. Meetings 1st Wednesday of the month at "The Glens", Dundee. Held when required. Hill: HG+PG. | ||
| AV8ER Paramotoring Club | BHPA | GL | May-Oct flying at 3 sites in Milton Keynes area. Permission to fly reqd, contact Site Manager. . Power:PG. | ||
| Cambridgeshire Aerotow Club | BHPA | EA | We operate one microlight tug aircraft and aerotow hang gliders from Sutton Meadows Airfield, Cambs., mainly weekends. We welcome aerotow rated pilots. Good XC flying prospects. | ||
| Chiltern Fliers | BHPA | SO | Chiltern Fliers is a hang glider winch group operating from a field just east of Oxford. See our website:www.chilternflyers.org. Tow: HG. | ||
| Cumbria Soaring Club | BHPA | NO | BHPA members can fly the C.S.C. Sites provided they inform the Sites Officers or Club Contact, purchase a Site Guide and abide by all Site Rules. Hill: HG+PG. | ||
| Curium Soaring Club | BHPA | ZZ | The club holds four beginner courses a year with coastal and in country flying for all standards. Hill: HG+PG. | ||
.gif) | Dales HG & PG Club | BHPA | YH | The free flying club for the Yorkshire Dales. The site has regularly updated news, comp announcements, weather and sites information. You're welcome to come fly our sites | |
| Derbyshire Soaring Club | BHPA | EM | One of largest HG/PG clubs in UK with around 500 members. Friendly club with many sites in Derbyshire/Peak District renowned for XC potential. Members only but m/ship open to all. See website. Hill: HG+PG. Tow: HG+PG. | ||
| Devon & Somerset Condors | BHPA | SW | The Devon and Somerset Condors is a friendly club open to both qualified and prospective pilots. We have two dozen sites, both coastal and inland. We also winch and aero-tow. Hill: HG+PG. Tow: HG+PG. | ||
| Dover & Folkstone HGC | BHPA | SO | A small sociable club with a variety of coastal and inland sites around East Kent. Hill: HG+PG. Tow: HG. | ||
| Dunstable HG and PG Club | BHPA | GL | Open membership, around 150 members. Flying all year, very active coaching scheme, monthly club meetings and monthly magazine. Hill: HG+PG. | ||
| Edel Owners Club | BHPA | NO | Non-profit organisation for Edel owners. . Hill: PG. | ||
| Extreme Paragliding Club | BHPA | SC | Coaching club offering trips and weekends away to different sites. Club trips abroad for club pilots onwards. Monthly Newsletter. Hill: PG. | ||
 | Flyability | BHPA | Unspecified | UK | Disability initiative of the British Hang Gliding and Paragliding Association. |
| GAP Paragliding Club | BHPA | SO | A small hill foot launch paragliding club based in a very sensitive area on the Berks/Oxon border. Hill: PG. | ||
| Highland HG & PG Club | BHPA | SC | Flying mainly weekends. Visitors welcome but please phone club contact first. Warning: Observe Highland Restriction Area. Hill: HG+PG. | ||
| Hungerford Tow Club | BHPA | SO | A tow club for Club Pilots or above in the Thames Valley. Tow: PG. | ||
| Isle of Wight HGC | BHPA | SO | Hang gliding and Paragliding pilots welcome. Club nights are at the Bargeman's Rest in Newport on the first Saturday of every month from 7.30pm. Hill: HG+PG. | ||
| Kernow HG & PG Association | BHPA | SW | Hang gliding and paragliding, mostly coastal sites and winch launch. Keenly competitive locally and nationally. HG and PG training available in associated part time schools. Hill: HG+PG. Tow: HG+PG. | ||
| Lanarkshire & Lothian SC | BHPA | SC | South West Scotland. Sites for members only but day memberships are available for visitors. Hill: HG+PG. | ||
| Little Haugh Hall Aerotow Club | BHPA | EA | Private aerotowing operation for experienced aerotow pilots by invitation only. | ||
| Long Mynd Soaring Club | BHPA | WA | Long Mynd is an open site - all pilots welcome. Weekend/bank hol. day fee for non-membs. Intensive at times, expect sailplanes & aeromodellers as well HGs & PGs. No powered flyers. Hill: HG+PG. | ||
| Malvern Hang Gliding Club | |||||
| Manx Hang Gliding Club | BHPA | NO | Small hang gliding club which regularly flies Manx hills. Some paralgiding. Visiting pilots welcome. Hill: HG+PG. | ||
| Mendip Tow Group | BHPA | SW | A small club, 12 qualified tow pilots only, with a view to provide other flying options for nil wind days and to provide tow endorsements to HG and PG Club Pilots. Tow: HG+PG. | ||
| Mercian Hang Gliding Club | BHPA | WM | Amongst the oldest of hang gliding clubs, boasting social, flying and coaching activities many clubs envy. Hill: HG. | ||
| Mid-Wales Hang Gliding and Paragliding Club | BHPA | WA | The club aims to support paragliding and hang gliding in Mid Wales through site management and negotiation, training and associated social activities. Hill: HG+PG. | ||
| Midflight PC | BHPA | WM | Midlands club for qualified Club Pilots, free equipment advice/inspection. UK and foreign sites information. PRS coaching. BHPA Licenced Reserve Packers. Hill: PG. | ||
| Midland Aero Towing Group | BHPA | EM | The Midland Aero-Towing Group operates from Leicestershire, aero-towing with the AX2000 & Pegasus XL tug. . | ||
| Norfolk Hang Gliding & Paragliding Club | BHPA | EA | All year, winching of hang gliders and paragliders from dedicated site. Coastal soaring, courses available through Lejair, new members welcome. Hill: HG. Tow: HG+PG. | ||
| North Devon HG & PG Club | BHPA | SW | Small, friendly club. Coastal soaring on smooth safe Woolacombe with miles of beach below. Codden Hill has great XC potential. We have very low subscriptions and visitors fees - call us. Hill: HG+PG. | ||
 | North Wales Hang Gliding and Paragliding Club (NWHGPC) | BHPA | WA | The North Wales Hang gliding and Paragliding Club (NWHGPC)is one of the oldest free flying clubs in the UK. Whether you're a newly qualified pilot or an old hand then we offer an environment where you can enjoy your flying to the full. Our excellent flying sites are in the north-east Wales area within easy travelling time of Liverpool, Manchester and the Midlands. | |
| North Yorks Sailwing Club | BHPA | YH | North Yorkshire, Cleveland, Co. Durham. Excellent sites (some members only). Hang gliding and paragliding coaching. BHPA welcome. Visiting membership. Hill: HG+PG. | ||
| Northampton HGC | BHPA | EA | Meetings Grangewood Country Club, East Hunsbury, 1st & 3rd Wednesday of month 9pm. Hill flying, aerotowing and paragliding. Hill: HG. | ||
| Northumbria HG & PG Club | BHPA | NO | The NHPC consts of a dedicated band of pilots from Newcastle-Upon-Tyne and the surrounding areas. We have excellent sites in the beautiful Cheviots and North Pennines. Hill: HG+PG. | ||
| Notts Aerotow Club | BHPA | EM | Aerotow club existing to develop aerotow and XC skills. Operating from Caunton 4.5 miles NW of Newark. Mid-week flying possible. | ||
| Peak Aerotow Group | BHPA | EM | Hang glider aerotow group towing up to 4000ft in the Peak District. Aerotow endorsements and day membership available. | ||
| Peak Soaring Association | BHPA | NW | Foot launch flyers club. Meet 2nd Wednesday in each month at 8pm. See Web Site members.tripod.co.uk/peaksoaring/ index.htm. Hill: HG+PG. | ||
| Peel Park Paragliding Club | BHPA | SC | Formed by staff of British Energy to encourage participation in all aspects of paragliding. Sites established in SW Scotland. Hill: PG. | ||
| Pennine Soaring Club | BHPA | NW | Large, active and friendly hang gliding/paragliding club established for many years, with access to a variety of hill sites in Lancashire/Yorkshire. Hill: HG+PG. | ||
| REME Hang Gliding and Paragliding Club | BHPA | SO | Open to past and present members of the Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. Hill: HG+PG. | ||
| Scottish Air Sports | BHPA | SC | Private aero-tow club open to all BHPA members, based at Thornhill, near Stirling. Also FLPA operations. Airfield also available for general aviation, microlight & sailplane gliders. Tow: HG. | ||
| Scottish HG & PG Federation | BHPA | SC | SHPF is a federation of all the hg and pg clubs in Scotland. Supported by Sport Scotland it promotes improvement in safety and performance by organising comps and training events. Hill: HG+PG. | ||
| Shropshire Tow Club | BHPA | WM | Aerotow club. Syndicate membership limited to 20. Aerotow rated non-syndicate pilots may be accepted on application to Club Contact. | ||
| Sir Geo Cayley Sailwing Club | BHPA | YH | Membership open to all classes of pilot. Meetings held 3rd Tuesday of month, Wellington Oak on A1079 near Pocklington. Hill: HG+PG. | ||
| Sky Surfing Club | BHPA | SO | The SSC is a hang gliding and paragliding club based in Hampshire. Recreational hill flying with hang gliding & paragliding coaching for inexperienced pilots. Hill: HG+PG. | ||
| Snowdonia Sky Sports HG & PG | BHPA | WA | Non-commercial club, co-ordinating paragliding and hang gliding in spectacular, but sensitive, mountain flying area of Snowdonia and North Wales. Hill: HG+PG. | ||
| South Devon Hang Gliding & Paragliding Club | BHPA | SW | Sites in South Devon, Cornwall and Dartmoor. Meetings last Tuesday of month at Bridge Inn, Ivybridge. PG & HG. Hill: HG+PG. | ||
| South East Wales Hang Gliding & Paragliding Club | BHPA | WA | Wales | Friendly club with 500 members and 18 sites. Some sites are members only but visitors are always made welcome on our open sites. No foot launched powered aircraft. Hill: HG+PG. | |
| South West Wales Soaring Club | BHPA | WA | A friendly club based around Swansea. Many good, uncrowded sites for hang glider and paraglider pilots. Hill: HG+PG. | ||
| Southern Hang Gliding Club | BHPA | GL | Established in 1974 the club provides hill launching hang gliding and paragliding sites in Sussex and aero tow. Hill: HG+PG. | ||
| Suffolk Coastal Floaters | BHPA | EA | 58 member club flying every weekend either winching or from coastal cliffs in East Anglia. Hill: HG. Tow: HG. | ||
| Thames Valley HGC | BHPA | SO | Friendly club attracting flyers from all over Southern England. Pilots of mixed experience, top hang gliding and paragliding pilots plus veterans. Hill: HG+PG. | ||
| University of Wales - Cardiff Hang Gliding Club | BHPA | NI | Club with over 50 members. Coastal and inland sites. Visiting pilots welcome, contact Secretary first. Hill: HG+PG. | ||
| University of York Hang Gliding Club | Unspecified | UK | Lots of original information and some links to interesting places. | ||
| Upottery | BHPA | SW | Promote aerotowing of hang gliders and towing of hang gliders and paragliders. Aerotow and winch tow conversions available. Friendly and professional. Tow: HG+PG. | ||
| Vale of York Hang Gliding Club | BHPA | YH | Hang gliding aerotowing from Rufforth Airfield, Near York. . | ||
| Welsh Borders Paragliding Club | BHPA | WA | Welsh Borders Club offers friendly hill flying in spectacular countryside with few airspace restrictions. Hill: PG. | ||
| Welsh Free Flight Federation | BHPA | WA | The WFFF is recognised by the Sports Council for Wales as the umbrella body for the sport in Wales. It fosters co-operation between Clubs and represents the sport at an all Wales level. Hill: HG+PG. | ||
| Wessex HG and PG Club | BHPA | SW | Wessex Hang Gliding & Paragliding Club is a friendly foot launching club with a selection of coastal and inland sites in West Hants, East Dorset and S.outh Wilts. Hill: HG+PG. | ||
| Wingbeat Paragliding Club | BHPA | SC | Small coaching club based in Scottish Borders with access to lots and lots of hills. Hill: PG. | ||
| XClent Paragliding Club | BHPA | SW | A winch club dedicated to safety and XC flying. Winners of the 2000 XC league and holder of the UK winch distance record. Conversions available. Tow: PG. | ||
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