About Paragliding

PARAGLIDING is another pure and versatile mode of free flight. The paragliding wing (or canopy) is similar in form to a modern square-shaped parachute but allows for higher glide performance. Officially a parafoil, the wing’s design allows incoming air to pass through the structure’s leading edge, which keeps it inflated and maintains its shape. Modern paragliding wings can soar for hours and gain thousands of feet in altitude in the right conditions, and can travel for several hundred miles. Speeds generally range between 12 and 35 miles per hour. Gliders are most often launched from a high elevation point, such as a large hill or mountain, but in the absence of a suitably elevated launch spot can be towed aloft by a ground vehicle, boat, or scooter.

INTRODUCTORY LESSON

Group (each) – $149.00
Ground School , Set up and Preflight, Level Ground Training, Slope Training, Simulation

This is a four-hour introduction to PARAGLIDING. Students progress from a one-hour classroom presentation to canopy familiarization and launch practice on flat ground. Gradual progress is made until launches result in flight attempts from the grass-training slope.

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WEEKEND INTRODUCTORY LESSON

Group (each) - $269.00
Ground School , Set up and Preflight, Level Ground Training, Slope Training, Simulation

This course is for our weekend visitors who want more flight experience. A second day of flight training is added to the introductory lesson. Instruction is aimed at developing safe, correct procedure through repeated flights from the training slope. Proper takeoffs, relaxed flying style, and good stand up landings are the goals for fledgling flyers.

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NOVICE PARAGLIDING COURSE

$798.00
This is a comprehensive PARAGLIDING COURSE consisting of six full lessons. This course contains the classroom and flight requirements necessary to acquire the skills toward a novice solo rating. Upon completion students will generally have acquired the basic minimum requirements to understand how and when to fly paragliders as entry-level pilots. Completion of the course does not intend to qualify the student as an advanced pilot. Novice training is only the basic understanding of paraglider flight and how to proceed safely as a beginner pilot. A textbook and logbook are included.

• LAYOUT & PREFLIGHT
• FRWD & REVERSE INFLATIONS
• RADIO INSTRUCTION
• LANDING APPROACHES
• TURN COORDINATION
• SITE SELECTION
• AIRSPEED CONTROL
• TURBULENCE RECOGNITION
• CANOPY MALFUNCTION
• WEATHER CONDITIONS
• HOW TO SURVIVE
• USHGA PARAGLIDING ASSN.

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*Lessons are transferrable, but non-refundable. No expiration with proof of purchase.

About our Paragliding Instructor - Heath Woods

Heath Woods has been flying hang gliders since 1995 and paragliders since 2001. With over 15 years of experience as a paramedic and a mountain rescuer, he began teaching first aid and wilderness rescue skills in the mid 1990′s. Working as a ski patrol director and risk manager at ski areas in the northeast, Heath left the ski industry behind to begin teaching his passion for flying in 2007. Heath has traveled extensively throughout North and South America in pursuit of “great flying” and “great instruction.” Having worked with some of the best and most respected pilots and instructors in the US and in Europe, Heath brings “21st century knowledge and ideas” to the already well established paragliding school at Morningside. Aside from Flying and Skiing, you might find Heath and his wife Vicki, diving, riding, boating, singing and just generally moving along. They live on their farm in southern Vermont.