PIREP Rules

Members are encouraged to submit a Pilot's Report, or PIREP, for their gliding flights. It not only provides a personal record of your flights with the Club, but also helps the Club provide activities to suit members by knowing who takes part in which event and what sort of flying people prefer.

The rules and guidelines for filing Club PIREP's are as defined below:

• Either FS2004 or FSX may be used.
• Apart from where otherwise stipulated, such as with some of the badge flights, any non-powered glider of your choice may be used for qualifying flights.
• Qualifying flights must be flown online with VATSIM, with “Glider - UK Virtual Gliding Association” entered in the comments box of your VATSIM flight plan.
• All flights must start at a designated airfield from the drop down PIREP list. Although one hopes to also land at a designated airfield, landouts are accepted, for example, if the weather deteriorates. In this case the lat/long coordinates of the landout point must be specified.
• It is the pilots’ discretion as to how any lift is generated. However, to match the spirit and art of real world gliding, we encourage making the weather conditions as close as possible to the real world, thus fostering the great sense of achievement that can be gained from a successful flight. Some Club recommendations for generating realistic lift are as follows:
• For FS9:
1. Representative Fixed Thermals
2. CCS2004 or Cumulus
3. ActiveSky and VATSIM real weather
• For FSX
1. FSX Settings
2. Representative Fixed Thermals
3. CumulusX
4. Active Sky and VATSIM real weather
• When club events are held, the weather and lift systems permitted will be determined by the organiser of that event.
• A PIREP report must be submitted for the flight to qualify.