Skip to content
Fickle Sports
Map

White Horse

South-facing ridge site · 143 m takeoff

Site details on the map

Overview

White Horse is a flatland site in Dorset / Wiltshire with a recorded launch elevation of 143 m. It works best in southerly winds, and can also work in south-westerly winds. Pilots fly it for ridge soaring and thermal, using foot launch.

  • Despite the potential for XC it has only been recently that flights of any distance have been recorded. The hill slopes off behind the White Horse toward Broadmayne. Source: ParaglidingEarth

Local clubs

When to go

Flyable days per month in a typical year.

Flyable days for White Horse are on the way. We are scoring ten years of weather for every site, month by month, against this site, its region and the sites around it.

Local weather notes

Getting there

Nearest airports

  • BOH Bournemouth Airport42 km
  • EXT Exeter International Airport72 km
  • SOU Southampton Airport80 km

Plan to reach the landing field or the nearest town to White Horse; most takeoffs are reached by shuttle, cable car or a ride from a local pilot. Data: © OpenStreetMap contributors

Where to stay

The nearest towns, for a bed, food and a lift to takeoff.

Things to do

For the days the wind is wrong: places worth a visit within 10 km of White Horse.

From Wikipedia, text and photos under their own licences on each article.

Flying nearby

See them on the map

Pilot notes

No notes yet. Flown White Horse? Tell the next pilot what to expect.

Flying White Horse?

Takeoff, landing, rules, the hour by hour forecast and live wind are in the site details on the map.

Open site details

Sources

Short extracts from Wessex Hang Gliding and Paragliding Club and ParaglidingEarth. Read the full guide before you fly.

More paragliding sites in the UK · Read the paragliding weather guide