Lessons

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Learn How to Fly!

Hang gliding is an air sport in which a pilot flies a light and unmotorized foot-launchable aircraft called a hang glider (also known as Delta plane or Deltaplane). Most modern hang gliders are made of an aluminium alloy or composite-framed fabric wing. The pilot is secured in a harness suspended from the airframe, and exercises control by shifting body weight in opposition to a control frame, but other devices, including modern aircraft flight control systems, may be used. In the sport's early days, pilots were restricted to gliding down small hills on low-performance hang gliders.

When the Wright Brothers were in the bicycle business, they learned that an unstable vehicle could be controlled and balanced with practice; they later applied this philosophy to their creation of flying machines. If you share the same dream of sailing into the sky and want to learn how to fly, why not take small steps towards that goal?

Beginner Course

Our Beginner Hang Gliding Course gets you hands on right from day one.  We immediately progress you into familiarizing yourself with the hang glider, ground handling and a session in the hands-on flight simulator.  Your next step is flight!  It is done solo on a large glider using a low-powered scooter winch to pull you slowly and gently across a large field just a few feet off the ground. The instructor controls the height of the glider at all times and can simply reduce power at any point to set the glider back gently on the ground to end the flight.  With the training gliders large wing area, light weight frame and slow flying speeds, it is easy for the trainee to enjoy the experience of free flight like never before.

The course is approximately 40 hours in length and comprised of six to seven 2-4 hour training sessions done either early or late in the day to accomodate for light winds and gentle conditions and ground school of four to five theory lectures which are also available on DVD. 

The Course includes the following:

- all textbooks
- notebooks

- glider rentals
- harnesses

We gradually progress with these training flights based on individual aptitude and acquired skill from short low flights to longer and higher flights reaching 500 feet in altitude.  Upon completion of the course, your graduation flight will comprise of releasing the tow rope, boxing the field and landing in the same area from which you launched.  You will also be required to write a quiz for your Novice theory rating and upon passing you will be on your way to your Novice practical. 

We provide certification for Canadian HPAC ratings which are recognized worlwide.  Pilots are to meet the specified requirements in order to obtain Student, Novice, Intermediate and Advanced ratings.

Low & Slow Session

If your goal or intention is to try hang gliding once, then a Tandem flight is the way to go; if, on the other hand, you'd like to learn how to control your hang glider and think this adventure sport may just become your next big hobby, then this session is for you! 

This introductory session is done the same way we teach our beginner students.  It is done solo on a large glider using a low-powered scooter winch to pull you slowly and gently across a large field just a few feet off the ground. The instructor controls the height of the glider at all times and can simply reduce power at any point to set the glider back gently on the ground to end the flight.

This two to three hour introductory session will get you in a harness and on a glider ready to fly within the first hour of the session.  After some basic ground handling and theory, you will be flying solo at a height that's not intimidating at all.  You will be introduced to the basic skills necessary to foot launch, fly in a straight line and land your hang glider in this session.

If you decide that you'd like to continue with lessons, this session can count as the first in the Beginner Course, and $179 will be deducted from the regular course fee.