isle of wight
hang gliding &
paragliding club

VISITING THE ISLAND

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 - John Bentley, Tel: 01983 295392 Mobile: 07970 009642 Email: or download a membership form and send it to the address given on the form.

Please don't just turn up and fly . . .

How to get here

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

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...
Little Atherfield Farm - Little Atherfield
Butterly Paragliding Organic B&B - Chale
www.chalebayfarm.co.uk/ - Umm..Chale, again
Grange Farm - Brighstone
www.wight-self-catering.co.uk
Lily Cottage - a self catering character cottage in Carisbrooke