BYP holiday clubs

Our Easter Club is now fully booked but we have spaces available in our Summer Holiday Club! If you can’t join a holiday club, register for BYP online and access BYP from home.

The holiday club days will start at 9.30am and finish at 4.30pm, for year 6 and up (11-17) note that students will be in a group with students their own age. For the Summer clubs, we are offering two options - day only or residential.

Places may be booked using the forms below.

We have an exciting program with an excellent team of instructors and guest speakers from commercial and military pilots to aircraft engineers and flight instructors. We will have a temporary runway set up on Pangbourne College playing fields with aircraft flying each day and as long as we have reasonable spring weather, all students will fly a real aircraft with an instructor above Pangbourne College during the course (flights charged separately)

Our 5 day program includes:

  • Flying lessons - this is the main focus of the week, our team of flying instructors will provide lots of hands on teaching on flight SIMs each day & there will be lots of opportunity to learn about the physics and theory of flight too.

  • Design and Engineering - students will learn about aircraft design by building and flying a model aircraft.

  • Engines - Learn about propulsion and engine design.

  • Navigation - students will plan a cross country navigation exercise, using a compass, map and time speed distance and wind vector calculations. They may even get the chance to fly their route for real.

  • ATC & Radio’s - Learn how to be an air traffic controller from an expert and run your own tower on our airfield as well as how to use a radio aboard an aircraft.

  • Airline Operations - Learn the basics of how to operate a passenger jet from a senior airline training Captain - start up/taxi and take off and operating at a big airport.

  • Introduction to military jet flying.

  • Introduction to helicopters.

  • How to be the perfect co-pilot: navigating, setting a transponder, setting an altimeter, fuel calculations, on route checks, the list goes on. Start towards earning a BYP Co-Pilot certificate.

  • Workshops with guest speakers from a range of aviation backgrounds.

The cost of the 5 day course is £750 (Summer residential is £1,060).

  • £250 deposit on booking, £250 due 2 weeks before and remainder due 1 week before.

  • Flights will be charged at £45 for 15 minutes and will be booked and charged separately.

Places are limited but if you are unable to get a place, scroll to the bottom to pre-register interest for future holiday clubs and you’ll be the first to know when we release new dates.