Where is Black Mountains Gliding Club?

Black Mountains Gliding Club is in Mid Wales, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 51.9799°, -3.2061°.

National parks · Mid Wales

Black Mountains Gliding Club

Black Mountains Gliding Club in Wales Mid, United Kingdom.

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Typical visit: 4 h–8 h
Best time of year: Spring – autumn (Apr–Oct)

Black Mountains Gliding Club is a place of interest in Wales Mid, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.

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From the Wikipedia article

The Black Mountains Gliding Club (BMGC), also known as Talgarth Gliding Club is a members' gliding club near the town of Talgarth. It is situated 970 feet above sea level, within the Brecon Beacons National Park. The club offers a varitey of gliding lessons and courses, to solo standard - and provides aerotows for those who wish to fly their own craft. The site consists of a clubhouse (including toilets, showers, a briefing room and kitchen) and two hangars - one for the club-owned gliders and the main tug (Eurofox) and the other is for the backup tug (Pawnee) and any craft that require maintenance. The surrounding, mountainous landscape allows for a variety of gliding techniques, including ridge lift and wave lift.

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Background

History

The initial formation of the gliding club came after a farmer, Derrik Eckley, and amateur pilot, John Bally, came into contact in the Spring of 1978, and decided to utilise a small area of Derrik's farmland, near to the town of Talgarth. A primitive grass landing strip was leveled in an East/West direction and an Auster Tugmaster was flown in by John from Shobdon Airfield, which was the first landing at the new site. In 1979, Herefordshire Gliding Club was selling a Rallye Tug and a Blaník glider, which Derrick and John purchased - which was the club's first set of serviceable aircraft.

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