![]() ![]() The process of learning this must not be abbreviated. Once you launch off a mountain, it is entirely up to you to get your craft back on the ground safely. Wish to continue with lessons, I will buy it back for $25.įlying is different than any other activity. If you buy a manual and later decide you do not I have some of the Peter Cheney training manuals at my shop which I sell for $30. If you intend to start your training soon, you should get a trianing manual and start reading the first few Here in Souther California, we can train any time of year. Hill before progressing to your first higher flight. Generally you will need to do 100 or more take-offs and landings on the training You should try to do a minimum of one lesson per week (or at least one every two weeks) in order to retain what you learn and make ![]() You learn better by frequent repetition of flights. It is best to do as many lessons per month as possible. Your brain will need to change from two-dimentional thought to I remember my training hill days as some of the most fun and Here is a list of accoutrements you should consider bringing to your lesson sessions.īut don't think of it as hard work. Will stop when you are too tired to make strong launch runs, or at any time you so wish. Expect a physical workout on the training hill. I charge one hundred fifty dollars per session. Conserving your energy in this way can mean the difference between getting 25 to 35įlights in a lesson rather than 10 flights. I will carry the glider up the hill for you as many times as I can (my record is 82 in one session), so you can spend your energyĭoing training flights. Weekends are fine as well.Ī lesson usually takes place during the last 3 hours before sunset so we have smooth air in which to learn. I have been known to do a lesson on only hours notice. You can schedule a lesson weeks inĪdvance if you wish, but I usually do not need such advanced notice. If you need to learn to fly, call or E-mail to arrange lessons. about ten fatal accidents occur per year. Of the estimated ten thousand hang glider pilots in the U.S. Hang Gliding & Paraglidng Association programs. Improved over just 25 years ago largely by result of U.S. The hang gliding teaching methods of today are vastly We understand a great deal more about flying and flight safety today than the flyers in the It is possible to get injured or killed hang gliding. A hang glider flies at a minimum speed of about 20 miles Any activity in which you are in motion where thereĪre objects to run into is hazardous. ![]() Is well worth the task of becomming an expert". Rocking above sunny slopes without jar or noise,Īccompanied only by the music issuing from the wires of the apparatus, "The indefinable pleasure experienced in soaring high in the air, This one which I first saw on the back cover of a catalog from Eipper-Formance Have been, and there you will always long to return".Īnother quote from a later innovator who we know spoke from experience is "Once you have tasted flight your eyes will be turned forever skyward for there you This quoteįrom his notes might be the best evidence that he did fly: There is much debate as to whetherĭa Vinci's experimentation ever resulted in his actually taking flight. The most cogent statement I have read on the topic is from one of free-flight'sĮariliest pioneers: Leonardo Da Vinci. Some consider flying to be their religion. People who need it find their way to it by their own means, for their own reasons. Pages trying to explain it, but I feel that is unnecessary. Hang gliding is the best thing I have found to do with my time. BEGINNING THROUGH ADVANCED HANG GLIDING LESSONS
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