Yorkshire Gliding Club

Yorkshire Gliding Club Offering full-time professional instruction in a fleet of modern gliders. Few airspace restrictions mean we can fly for miles around without hindrance.

Our site is situated on top of an escarpment at the edge of the beautiful North Yorkshire Moors National Park, and benefits from superb ridge lift, thermals, and cracking wave from the Pennines. We fly 7 days a week, 364 days a year (weather permitting), in what can only be described as one of the most perfect settings for gliding.

Read the latest post on our blog: Sunday 13th September 2026
14/09/2026

Read the latest post on our blog: Sunday 13th September 2026

Sunday 13th. Early morning cloudy skies quickly cleared to leave of warm day of sunny intervals, as a light to moderate NNW'ly veered into the S by early afternoon. The brighter skies did not produce much in the way of lift with only 3 of the day's 20 ATs off runway 24 exceeding 30 minutes; […]

Read the latest post on our blog: Saturday 12th September 2026
13/09/2026

Read the latest post on our blog: Saturday 12th September 2026

Saturday 12th. A weak cold front travelling slowly S'wards brought rain and low cloud from mid to late morning and delayed the start of flying until midday when Toby Wilson and Sam Batchelor took an AT in the DG500 off runway 24 into a moderate/moderate to fresh WSW'ly. Their flight encountered lift...

Read the latest post on our blog: Friday 11th September 2026
12/09/2026

Read the latest post on our blog: Friday 11th September 2026

Friday 11th. Another sunny start saw Cumulus soon develop and spreadout to give a mainly cloudy, but bright day, but with sufficient breaks to provide reasonable conditions as the light to moderate WNW'ly slowly backed into the WSW. The day's 21 ATs and 2 self launches were off runway 24 and generat...

Read the latest post on our blog: Thursday 10th September 2026
10/09/2026

Read the latest post on our blog: Thursday 10th September 2026

Thursday 10th. A generally cloudy day due to a medium level overcast meant little in the way of thermal lift, but the moderate and at times moderate to fresh S'ly did produce some weak wave at times to the S of the site which resulted in 3 of the day's 14 ATs off runway 20 […]

Read the latest post on our blog: Wednesday 9th September 2026
10/09/2026

Read the latest post on our blog: Wednesday 9th September 2026

Wednesday 9th. A sunny start did not last long as early Cumulus soon spreadout to cover the sky as a light to moderate NNW'ly slowly backed into the SSW over the course of the day. The changing wind conditions meant early operations off runway 02 were replaced by the use of runway 24 for take […]

Read the latest post on our blog: Tuesday 8th September 2026
08/09/2026

Read the latest post on our blog: Tuesday 8th September 2026

Tuesday 8th. The moderate and at times moderate to fresh WSW'ly soon veered into the W, with the day's 13 winch launches and 2 Falke flights using runway 24. Hill lift was the basis for most flights, with thermal and, in a few cases, transient wave lift also used, although the best altitudes of the....

Read the latest post on our blog: Monday 6th September 2026
08/09/2026

Read the latest post on our blog: Monday 6th September 2026

Monday 6th. A moderate and occasionally moderate to fresh SW'ly blew all day with a medium/high overcast at times, the day's 2 winch launches topping and tailing 16 ATs which resulted in only 1 flight failing to exceed 30 minutes and 16 exceeding an hour. It was a wave day, with 15 flights climbing....

Read the latest post on our blog: Sunday 6th September 2026
07/09/2026

Read the latest post on our blog: Sunday 6th September 2026

Sunday 6th. A light to moderate SSE'ly blew all day, with a short period of low cloud and rain late morning, which led to a break in flying of hours, giving way to a warm afternoon of sunny intervals. 16 ATs and 3 Falke flights left and returned to runway 20, with the Falke flights […]

Read the latest post on our blog: Saturday 5th September 2026
06/09/2026

Read the latest post on our blog: Saturday 5th September 2026

Saturday 5th. The W'ly continued to blow, but had declined to become moderate on a day of sunny intervals, so the day's operations were off runway 24 with a mixture 14 winch launches and 12 ATs, 5 of the latter being for First Flight pupils. Cloud base reached around 4,500' asl with climb rates arou...

Read the latest post on our blog: Friday 4th September 2026
05/09/2026

Read the latest post on our blog: Friday 4th September 2026

Friday 4th. A moderate to fresh W'ly blew all day so runway 24 was the location for the day's 10 winch launches. With reliable hill lift and wave available, only 1 flight failed to exceed 30 minutes, with 5 exceeding an hour, as 4 pilots of the 5 private owners who launched climbed to over […]

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Sutton Bank
Thirsk
YO72EY

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Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm
Saturday 9am - 5pm
Sunday 9am - 5pm

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01845 597237

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