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Adventure Centres in the Brecon Beacons
General Information:
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An activity such as gliding can be
dangerous to participants and others and needs to be carried out in a
careful way.
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Anyone interested in either Hang Gliding or Para
Gliding would be well advised to contact the
British Hang Gliding and
Paragliding Association.
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The
South East Wales Hang Gliding
and Paragliding Club is another useful contact point for
information in this region.
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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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