My lesson on Saturday ended up being cancelled due to horrendous weather.... :(

HW, You've just had a lesson in glider meteorology. You need to learn where you can find relevant forecasts - the club members can show you where to check.

My partner started gliding a couple of months ago and managed to get some nice flights in - but the last few weeks she has not managed to get airborne at all due to all the rain we have been having.
Typical - last November was gorgeous up here LOL.

Hopefully the weather will co operate next time for you.

Hi Everyone,

This is my first post here. I was a solo pilot on gliders on my 14th birthday - 2 years ago. I recently [last week] soloed on powered aircraft. Gliding was a great foundation to powered flying, but as others have said, it's quite time-consuming. If you have children with a similar passion there are many scholarships and bursaries to assist them; they usually fly for cheaper rates too, so it could [maybe] become a family thing to do so not so many guilty dad thoughts. Remember with gliding that going solo is only the beginning. there is a lot of post solo training to do before you can go cross-country; I appreciate that is the same with all flying, but something to be considered in your financial calculations.

As someone else said, Portmoak is a great place to fly. If it's a choice of PPL/LAPL flying, or flying gliders at Portmoak you are going to enjoy whatever you decide to do

Well done Ellie!

Here is a fun video - at a Gliding Club somewhere in Germany (a launch with a winch cable eye view :))