Isle of Wight

Hang Gliding  &  Paragliding Club

Visiting Pilots

If you are visiting the Isle of Wight to fly for the first time please make sure you call a committee member to inform them. Like anywhere some of our sites are sensitive and you will need the up to date information and a sites guide.

We welcome visiting pilots from all over the world - as long as they have the courtesy to look after our sites so that we still have them when our visitors have left!

You will have to be a member of the BHPA or its equivalent if you are not from the UK. You will also need to join the IWHGPC.

We are a very small club, and rely on subs to maintain our sites, so if you are a member of any UK club, then we would encourage you to join as an associate member. It's dirt cheap at just £15, and is valid until the end of the year.

Contact the Club Treasurer - Laurie Gavaghan,  Mobile: 07815830546 Email: laurie@gavaghan.net  or Temporary Membership and send it to the address given on the form.

or use the Google checkout facility below

How to get here

• by Car & Passenger ferry from Portsmouth, Southampton and Lymington
• by hovercraft from Southsea

The club has recently agreed a 10% travel discount for anyone travelling via Red Funnel (Southampton to East Cowes). Click here for details

Useful Island Links

www.iwight.com - Visiting section of the official IOW website
www.islandbreaks.co.uk - Island Tourism site

Places to stay

There are loads of great places to stay on the Island. Here are just a few links to B&B's run by our members and landowners, so please support them when you come to stay...

Butterfly Paragliding Organic B&B - Chale
www.chalebayfarm.co.uk/ - Chale
Grange Farm - Brighstone
www.wight-self-catering.co.uk
Lily Cottage - a self catering character cottage in Carisbrooke

   www.wightbarn.co.uk    Self catering in Shorwell