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. © All rights reserved.BEGINNING THROUGH ADVANCED HANG GLIDING LESSONS Rollingstone1's most interesting photos on Flickriver Please right click the link and open in a new tab. PINK FLOYD - Learning To Fly (original video)
Obtaining the safety benefits of being instructed is highly recommended. The Fédération Aéronautique Internationale and national airspace governing organizations control some regulatory aspects of hang gliding. By the 1980s this ratio significantly improved, and since then pilots can soar for hours, gain thousands of metres of altitude in thermal updrafts, perform aerobatics, and glide cross-country for hundreds of kilometres. Typically the pilot is in a harness suspended from the airframe, and controls the aircraft by shifting body weight in opposition to a control frame.Įarly hang gliders had a low lift-to-drag ratio, so pilots were restricted to gliding down small hills. Most modern hang gliders are made of an aluminium alloy or composite frame covered with synthetic sailcloth to form a wing. Hang gliding is an air sport or recreational activity in which a pilot flies a light, non-motorized foot-launched heavier-than-air aircraft called a hang glider.
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