Gliding Club Services can be booked and paid for through AvPay. Gliding Clubs are typically run by volunteers on a non-profit basis. Taking this into account and given you don’t need fuel to fly a glider, gliding can be one of the most cost-effective ways of getting in the air. No two flights are ever the same in a glider, since you always have to be on the lookout for different ways to keep your aircraft aloft, be it thermal soaring, ridge soaring or wave soaring. There are 3 ways to get your glider airborne. The first is by a winch, where a winch located at the end of the upwind-side of an airfield pulls-in a cable rapidly, thus allowing the glider to accelerate and climb. The second is via a bungee chord, which launches the glider from a hillside. The third is via aerotow, whereby a powered aircraft tows the glider via a cable to its release height.