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www.bidfordgliding.co.uk
Bidford Gliding Club at Bickmarsh Airfield, Bidford-on-Avon,
our nearest neighbour.
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www.shenington-gliding.co.uk
Our next nearest neighbour, Shenington Gliding Club.
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www.thesoaringcentre.co.uk
The largest Club in easy range is The Soaring Centre, previously
known as Coventry Gliding Club, at Husbands Bosworth.
They're much larger than us, have much better facilities, and
you won't find their prices on their web site.
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Andy Sanderson, at the Essex and Suffolk GC, has set up some
very useful gliding pages. Here are direct links to some of the
most relevant pages, but the site is always worth a browse.
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www.esgc.co.uk
The ESGC home page. All the sites below are relative to this.
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.../gsitesuk.htm
A comprehensive list of links to other Clubs.
It covers the UK, Europe, the rest of the world, and everywhere else.
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.../tpinfo.htm
A turning point query page,
useful if you already know the tp trigraph code.
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.../tpsearch.htm
A turning point search page,
useful if you don't know the tp trigraph code.
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.../xccalc.htm
A cross-country calculator,
all distances and bearings for flights of up to 5 points.
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.../market.htm
An online For Sale and Wanted market for gliders and gliding stuff.
You can add, delete and edit your own adverts in real time.
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.../BGA Accident Database
On general principles, Andy doesn't publish links to this,
so that casual browsers don't get led into nasty things that they
don't know how to interpret. It's basically the same data that's
published in S&G, but searchable and analysable.
The address of the database is available on request, from SoAGC or ESGC.
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www.spsys.demon.co.uk/turningpoints.htm
Tim Newport-Peace's spreadsheet of the latest BGA turning
point data
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www.gliderpilot.net
The European Glider Pilots' network (previously /soaringpages/)
set up by Andy Kirkland.
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rec.aviation.soaring
is the international soaring newsgroup.
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www.wellesbourneairfield.com/txtindex.htm
Wellesbourne Airfield have plenty of information available, which is
all relevant to us since we're only 15k away. The link above is an index
page, which includes the following useful links:
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www.wellesbourneairfield.com/weatherflash.htm
Live weather gauges, showing, among other things
º Current wind speed and direction, and gust speed
º Current temperature and pressure, and rates of change
º Humidity and dew point
º Estimated cloud base
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www.wellesbourneairfield.com/wxdisplay.htm
Weather Data, including digital versions of the Live Weather Gauges,
and charts of the last ten hours of wind speed, direction, and gusts,
and temperature and pressure.
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www.wellesbourneairfield.com/wxoffice.htm
The Weather Office, with a six-hourly Europe Surface Weather Analysis
chart, and links to several other met chart sites (including CVT Met, but
it's rubbish and anyway there's no way they're getting a link from me).
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WebCam 1 (streaming)
WebCam 2
Two views from Web Cams in the Control tower.
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www.meteoblue.com/
MeteoBlue, from the University of Basel, is a very good site that
includes 72-hour forecasts for the whole of Europe.
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www.met-office.gov.uk
The home page of the The UK Met Office, with lots of links to forecasts
and other useful information.
This image is the summary forecast for the West Midlands, and will take
you straight there.
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www.metcheck.com
MetCheck are professional forecasters who work for open air concerts
and sports events.
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www.bham.ac.uk/BrumMet/home.htm
This one is based at Birmingham University, so it only covers
local stuff, which is fine.
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weather.noaa.gov/weather/current/EGBB.html
This gives the Met at BHX, including the METARs, the TAFs, and
a 24-hour hourly record.
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www.infomet.fcr.es/raob
This site is in Catalan and is sometimes slow, but always worth waiting for.
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weather.noaa.gov/pub/fax/PPVA89.TIF
Detailed pressure charts are chargeable if you download them from Bracknell.
You can get the very same chart for free from the US government.
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