If you want to learn to fly, membership gives you both the greatest flexibility and the best value for money. Membership of the Cambridge Gliding Centre provides a range of benefits including:
- Flying at member rates
- Book lessons at time that suits you
- 7 days a week during summer, plus some evenings
- Weekends plus any ad hoc weekdays during winter
- Book lessons online
- Access to our Mintel Gliding simulator
- Training lectures
- Social events
- Expeditions to other gliding sites
- Support to go from novice to first solo flight and beyond.
We offer a range of membership options to suit your circumstances.
Family membership: your spouse pays no membership fee until they solo
Take Full Membership and your spouse pays no membership subscription until the renewal date after they go solo (they just enrol separately). They still pay the normal flying charges for aircraft time. Children of a Full Member join without a membership fee too. After solo, spouse membership continues at a reduced annual rate.
For all membership, flying and facility charges, please see our Flying Prices page.
Adult Membership
Social members do not have flying rights, but are welcome to fly with us in a two seater club glider on up to 3 days a year subject to paying a daily membership fee on each of these days (see below).
Three Month Taster Membership
Not sure you are ready to sign up for a full 12 months? Why not try a Three Month Taster Membership. It lasts for three months and includes all the benefits of full membership, so it is a great way to make real progress over a summer, or if a five day course does not suit you. Benefits include:
- Flying at member rates
- Book lessons at a time that suits you
- Book lessons online
- Training lectures
- Social events
- Support to go from novice to first solo flight and beyond
Younger Person Memberships
We offer significant discounts for young people and young adults, on both membership subscriptions and flying rates. See Young Person and Young Adult membership for current rates.
Admission to the Young Person scheme is by application only, and limited places are available.
Family Membership Deals
Children of a Full Member – Free
Pre-Solo Spouse of a Full Member – Free
Post-Solo Spouse of a Full Member
Solo Spouse membership is not available to those members having access to more than one private glider between them.
The spouse and any children (aged under 18) of a full flying member pay no subscription but must enrol separately. For the spouse, this class of membership will continue until the renewal date following their going solo, whereupon they become eligible for post-solo spouse membership (see above).
Children become liable for the young person’s rate at the renewal date following their 18th birthday.
Lite Membership
Cambridge Gliding Club is a Community Amateur Sports Club and wishes to be open to the whole community. If you would like to fly with us but are worried about the cost and have only a low/modest income then Lite Membership may be for you. Please contact the Club Secretary for further information.
Social Membership
If you would like to keep in touch with the club, you would be most welcome to join as a Social Member. Social membership:-
- keeps you in contact with all club news and announcements
- gives you access to the members’ section of the website
- enables you and your family to continue to use the clubhouse
- gives you and your family access to all club social events
- allows you to come and book (through the office) two seater flying with us on up to 3 days a year, subject to a daily membership charge, plus launch and flying fees at members’ rates
- enables you to continue volunteering at the club if you would like to
- allows you to attend the club AGM, but not to vote
Social membership is a really good way to keep in touch with your friends at the club, have the occasional flight to remind yourself of what you are missing!
Membership Period
Club membership year runs from 1st April to March 31st. On first joining, a member joins for the period until the 31st March, paying the appropriate proportion of the annual subscription rate. Thereafter membership is renewed each 1st April for a year.
Cambridge University & Anglia Ruskin University Students
Students may be able to have discounted membership and flying costs through the Cambridge University Gliding Club which is based at the Cambridge Gliding Centre. Students interested in this membership option should contact Cambridge University Gliding Club directly for more information.
Hertfordshire Scouts
The Cambridge Gliding Centre, in conjunction with Hertfordshire Scouts, operates a Falke motorglider from our airfield to offer air experience flights to Scouts. The aircraft is also used by the club for training and touring.
New Members FAQ
As a new member you will have a lot of questions. You can view some of the most frequently asked questions here.
