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WomenGliding UK visits the Mynd!

WGUK recently made a trip to the Mynd over the Halloween weekend. Over 20 members joined us for a magical weekend in the Autumn sunshine, making good use of the weather to enjoy some winching onto the ridge!

We were extremely lucky with the weather, which showed the Mynd off perfectly. The rich autumnal colours of greens, purply-brown and blue sparkled in the sunlight. We flew on both days, keeping the club’s K13, K21, K23 and Tim’s Duo Discus busy all day. We enjoyed some ridge, weak thermals, and even a bit of wave! Squally showers stopped us eventually on both days, but not before we’d had our fun!

Putting the gliders away was equally entertaining, playing ‘glider Jenga’ in the hangar. Just how many gliders do you think you can fit into one small hangar? This wasn’t all of them!!

Some of the club’s wooden gliders were suspended from chains in the roof of the hangar, manoeuvred into position by an impressive system of jacking dollies and trollies. Other gliders, such as Tim’s Duo, and the club’s shiny new K21B, were slotted into position along the floor on wheels.

When we weren’t flying, we chatted about our passion for gliding, and our goals for the next year or several. Liz also alluded to big developments within Women Gliding, which you’ll all hear about shortly.

In the evenings, we enjoyed social meals in the clubhouse, provided by their superb new caterer. And we celebrated Tim’s first ‘re-birthday’: one year on from his cardiac arrest and resus!

We had a fabulous weekend! We can only hope that the weather is as good when we visit Sutton Bank next year (6-8th March).

Thanks so much to the Midland Gliding Club for hosting us; to everyone involved in organising the weekend; to Sarah, Nigel and Mark (instructors) for working so hard to get us all airborne, and to Tim for bringing his Duo to fly with us. We had a great time and hope to come back again!

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Condor Sunday returns in November 2025

We’ve decided to run a weekly-ish Condor soaring session to keep us entertained through the dark winter evenings. ALL WGUK members are welcome 🙂

Staring on Sunday 16 November at 7pm, we’ll run a short weekly task.

You’ll need Condor Soaring 3, updated to the latest version (3.08 as of 11 November 2025), with the latest Hangar version (again, version 41 right now).

Please make sure you join our WhatsApp Group, Chat 4 All, for the latest task details and instructions. Depending on demand, we may create a separate WhatsApp group for the Condor sessions.

IMPORTANT DETAILS FOR CONDOR:
Condor Soaring version 3.08 (we must ALL be on the same version)
Hangar version 41
We’ll all be flying the Duo Discus – it’s a free aircraft in Condor 3 and gives us all a level playing field
We’ll be talking to each other using Discord: please download and register yourself an account for the latest version.
Discord: WGUK has a channel, here’s the invite link so you can join it:
https://discord.gg/JZrHfuFR

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20m Nationals Coaching available

‘Our Tim’ is once again intending to fly his Duo Discus in the 20m Nationals at Aston Down in 2026.
The dates will be 20 – 28 June 2026.

He’s offering coaching to one or more lucky pilots! Debbie and Amy were the lucky recipients in 2024, and it could be YOU in 2026! It’s a fantastic opportunity if you’re looking to get some experience in high-level competition flying.

We’ll publish more details here when we have them. In the meantime, here are some photos of Debbie and Amy with Tim in 2024.

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DON’T FORGET… cancel your subscription to Women Gliding

Yes that’s right, we’re asking you all to cancel your subscriptions to Women Gliding.

We’ve really appreciated your generosity and support over the past several years, however we have recently integrated more tightly into the BGA and as such can no longer ask you for donations via your subscriptions.

All of the content that you previously needed to be a subscriber for, is now completely free. You’ll see it all now, in the ‘Resources’ menu on the website.

HOWEVER we can’t cancel your subscriptions for you. You need to log in to your Paypal account, and cancel it there.

1. Log in to your Paypal account, and go to ‘Activity’ on the top menu.
2. Go through the transactions until you find your last payment to Women Gliding: click on it.
3. Next, find the part that says ‘Manage Women Gliding Payments’: click on that.

This will show you the details of the transaction.
Find the ‘Cancel’ button and click it:

Confirm your action at the next step, and that should be it.

Once again, thank you for your generosity over the years. You’ve enabled us to attract more women into gliding, and to help those already flying to reach their goals!