Gliding and Flying

One of the activities that make the Air Training Corps unique, is flying and gliding, which comes at no cost to the cadets, allowing young people to experience something they otherwise may not. The types of flying are:

• Air Experience flying

• Gliding induction course

• Gliding Scholarship

• Flying Scholarship

• Pilot Navigation Course

• Gliding Instructor Course

The aircraft we fly:

• Grob G115E Tutor

• Grob G109B Vigilant

• Grob Viking

As a cadet who has flown 3 times and who has been gliding 5 times, I can easily say that flying and gliding are my favourite activities in the corps, before each flight you will watch a pre-flight briefing to ensure you know how to escape the aircraft and what to do in an emergency. You will fly from RAF Topcliffe in North Yorkshire. Having completed all 3 gliding induction courses, you are able to have control of the aircraft for the full length of your next flights, and you are able to do some manoeuvres such as inducing and recovering from stalls, and pulling high G turns, if you want too. Before your first flight in the tutor you will watch a pre-flight briefing and learn how to safely escape the aircraft in an emergency, how to work your parachute, and while flying, on your first flight in the tutor you will take off from the airfield and climb too around 4000ft, and the instructor will show you the control, and teach you a little about the aircraft. And after this flight you will then be able to ask the instructor for things such as aerobatics, such as barrel rolls and loops, which are really fun and are a once in a lifetime experience, not to miss out on.

(TBU)

----- first flight with the ATC.

Gliding for the First Time

Cdt. Squire Reed

It was a sensational feeling being launched into the air like your on top of the world is just something you will never be able to feel without having opportunities such as gliding, I sincerely enjoyed it.