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Outdoor Activities in the Brecon Beacons National Park Hang Gliding, Para Gliding and Gliding

 
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General Information:

  • An activity such as gliding can be dangerous to participants and others and needs to be carried out in a careful way. 

  • Anyone interested in either Hang Gliding or Para Gliding would be well advised to contact the British Hang Gliding and Paragliding Association.

  • The South East Wales Hang Gliding and Paragliding Club is another useful contact point for information in this region.

  • Please make sure to visit our  Outdoor Activities Advisory Page and consider carefully the advice offered on the page in respect of making sure that any outdoor activities provider is suitably qualified, registered and experienced. Listing on this page is not an endorsement or otherwise of any kind.

Gliding:
 
Black Mountain Gliding Club, The Airfield, Troed yr Harn, Talgarth, Powys, LD3 0EF 
Tel: 01874 711463 (days) 01874 711254 (evenings)   
email: blackmountains.gc@ndirect.co.uk
A gliding club that also offers members a flight in a glider over the Brecon Beacons. Trial lessons for beginners make exciting presents. Five day holiday courses available. The club is located in that part of the Black Mountains featured in a glider flight at the end of the film "On the Black Hill"  based on the novel by Bruce Chatwin. Open all year. Soar above the incomparable scenery of the National Park.

South Wales Gliding Club Club address: The Airfield, Gwernesney, USK, Gwent
Tel: 01291 690536. Secretary: Richard Slater, 3 The Rickfield, Hereford Road, MONMOUTH, Monmouthshire NP5 3HL
Tel: 01600 713664, email

Vale of Neath Gliding Club  Club address: Rhigos Airfield, Mount Road, Cefn Rhigos, GLYNNEATH, Mid-Glamorgan
Secretary: W. J. Evans, 185 St Helens Avenue, SWANSEA, SA1 4NE
tel: 01792 653779, email: JEvans7551@aol.com

Para Gliding and Hang Gliding:
 
Axis Paragliding & Paramotoring A full time BHPA registered Flying School, Offering Introductory days, Tandem Flights Full Courses, New and second-hand equipment and advice, trips and holidays abroad.
Axis paragliding and Paramotoring 35 Mount Street Abergavenny Monmouthshire NP77DT
01873850111
07970421373
BHPA registered school 351
e mail axis@paraglide.co.uk

Paraventure  Airsports Edlogan Cwmavon Road Blaenavon Torfaen NP4 9LF United Kingdom
Tel Office: 0845 479 0635
Tel Mobile: 0777 586 5095
Beginner to Pilot courses on SE Wales premier sites; easy access from M4/M5. Tandem flights, equipment sales, adventure trips.

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