Essex Gliding Club

Gliding at this location was an amazing experience! The instructors were excellent and provided excellent feedback for each flight. The facilities and gliders were well-maintained, and the staff welcomed my family and I with open arms. I'm already looking forward to my next flight!

Had a family visitor over from the USA who was (as a keen glider pilot stateside), most interested in experiencing a winch launch - which is extremely rare in the US. It was of course, an added attraction that the site was formerly a US Eighth AF location from which those exemplary young men flew B-17's against targets in Germany and occupied Europe, at great cost. One of the available gliders was also painted in the appropriate colours for the 381st BG, which was a nice touch I thought. T...

Callum was brilliant. Friendly and informative, and took me up for 3 winch launches to make sure I got enough flying time.

A great place to glide! Instructors were excellent and gave great feed back after each flight. Well maintained facilities and gliders! They made me, my wife and new baby feel very welcome. I can't wait until I can go flying next

I've already sent one review after a 5 day course. I returned the following weekend more than happy with the previous course. I went up twice with Dave the instructor, the first was a take off and landing the second was very nearly 30 minutes of soaring, in fact we had to make an effort to come down. Absolutely brilliant, then the icing on the cake Dave said I didn't have to pay as I'd missed one day of the course due to poor weather. I do not really have the time to take gliding up but I've ...