More Flying Each Day
Take offs are from our flat, level, airfield. After each flight we just roll the gliders back across the airfield to the launch point on their wheels. There is no charging downhill with gliders and tethers, no lugging gliders and equipment uphill after every flight. As a result, towing, provides pilots with the opportunity for more flights each day, is less tireing, and excessive stamina and/or brute strength is definitely not required.

Wind Direction Irrelevant
Unlike flying from a hill our towing system is portable and can be aligned, and re-aligned, to any direction at any time. This means pilots will always be launched into wind, regardless of the prevailing wind direction.

Fly on the first day
By the end of the first day's session, students will have achieved a great deal, they will have been ground skimming across the field unattended without tether ropes, or when conditions have not allowed this then they will be ready to fly solo on the next suitable session.

Student / Instructor Ratio
Instruction is closely administered to ensure a a low student / instructor ratio

Rapid Progression
Towing allows more flights and longer flights to be made each day without inflicting excessive fatigue. As a result, students can quickly adjust and settle into flying mode each day allowing them to rapidly carryout enough launches to aquire their first hour of flying time, always the most difficult to acquire.

Planning Your Time
Lejair's "Met Phone In Service" helps you to avoid wasting time and money on unnecessary travel when the forcast weather is unfavorable for training.
In the summer Lejair starts training at 7 am, so you may phone in at 05:45 for a weather check. If your journey time is more than an hour or so then phoning in for a weather check PM on the previous day is appropriate.
Many of our students travel to Norfolk the PM of the previous day and camp on the airfield, sleep in a sleeping bag in the school caravan on the field, or take one of the B&Bs in the village. Those taking B&Bs will need to plan for breakfast as there very few hosts that will provide breakfast before 7 am.

The Knowledge and Experience of Others
Towing allows students of all levels to train together, the school has close connections with the local club and all levels of flyers use Lejair's facilities. This allows informal interaction and first hand knowledge of club and advanced flying to be gained from others.

Convenience
Lejair has a large caravan sited on the airfield. All de-breifings, necessary paperwork, theory instruction and exams can be done on site, when convenient, without any special arrangments needing to be made.

No Uncertainty
We only use one field, it is either flyable or not flyable.