On this page, we’ve collated all the useful resources you might need for your day-to-day flying. We hope this will save you time finding the right links when you’re flight planning. If there are any resources you use regularly but you can’t see them listed here, let us know and we will add them to the list so that other pilots can use them too.

Weather forecasts

• Met Office General Aviation Services
• Log in to Met Office GA services
• 214 (spot winds) and 215 (low-level forecast) forms
• Flyer Weather

NOTAMs, GPS and flight planning

• GoBoko (aircraft bookings)
• NOTAMs
• SkyDemon and SkyDemon Light
• NATS (flight planning online)
• AvBrief
• SkyVector

Sandhill Farm Airfield

• Vale of the White Horse Gliding Centre - Glider training
• Swindon Model Aero Club - Model Aircraft

Other airfield webcams

These webcams are handy for when you want to know what the weather is like right now in the area you’re thinking of flying to.

• Wellesbourne
• Nympsfield
• Oxford Airport
• Shenington Gliding Club
• Gloucestershire Airport
• Compton Abbas
• Sywell Aerodrome
• Cotswold Airport (Kemble)

Websites for popular airfields

These are the websites of some of our favourite airfields to fly into.

• Brize Norton (RAF)
• Cotswold Airport (Kemble)
• Coventry
• Croft Farm (excellent pub with good Sunday roast a short walk from airfield!)
• Duxford (Imperial War Museum)
• Elstree Aerodrome
• Gloucestershire Airport (Gloucester/Staverton)
• Leicester
• Old Sarum (Salisbury)
• Old Warden (Shuttleworth Collection)
• Oxford Airport
• Sandown (Isle of Wight)
• Shobdon
• Sywell Aerodrome
• Turweston
• Wellesbourne Mountford Airfield

Flying magazines, general aviation news and organisations

These are good sources of general aviation news, and some also have active web forums for pilots.

• Flyer Magazine
• Pilot Magazine
• UKGA
• Glider Pilot Network
• Gasco (General Aviation Safety Council)
• LAA (Light Aircraft Association)
• AOPA UK (Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association UK)
• BGA (British Gliding Association)
• CAA General Aviation Unit

Pilot shopping

For all your aviation needs…

• Pooleys (quote the code MotorGlide to get 5% off your order)
• Airplan Flight Equipment (AFE)
• Transair Pilot Shop