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The British Hang Gliding & Paragliding Association oversees pilot and instructor training standards, provides technical support, such as airworthiness standards, runs coaching courses for pilots, and supports a country-wide network of recreational clubs and registered schools, providing the infrastructure within which UK hang gliding and paragliding thrive.
Initial hang gliding or paragliding training must be undertaken at a BHPA registered school. Most schools offer training in a wide range of flying disciplines, so it‘s important to understand the differences between the disciplines before choosing a school. The Learn to Fly section of this web site explains the relative merits of each discipline, the types of flying involved, and provides an insight into the training methods used.
As you near the end of your initial training, it‘s important to start looking for suitable recreational club to join. The BHPA supports a network of UK recreational clubs who are able to offer the supportive flying and social environment vital to the safe development of your flying skills as you leave the school enviroment to join other recreational flyers on the hill.
As well as providing automatic third party insurance for its members the BHPA is also affiliated with the specialist insurance brokers Airsports Insurance Bureau Ltd who offers flying and non-flying cover to members and non-members alike. The BHPA also publishes the monthly magazine Skywings, the world's leading English-language hang gliding and paragliding publication.
We hope that when you've found a school appropriate to your needs, made contact and begun training, you‘ll discover for yourself the excitement and challenge that makes free flying such a great pastime. If you do, you‘ll also find that the level of support and camaraderie amongst pilots is one of the many great strengths of the sport. You‘ll make friends, go places and achieve things that you may have only dreamed about in the past.
It‘s a fantastic sport... join us and never look back.
The Pilot Handbook
Written by the BHPA‘s technical manager Mark Dale, the Pilot Handbook includes all the basic and advanced techniques, flight theory, specialist know-how and background studies that a pilot will require from Novice (Club) Pilot training onwards.
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Powered Paragliding Bible
From Pulling the wing out of the bag to flying confidently in the national airspace system, the PPG Bible is a concise, easy to use reference guide with over a hundred colour pictures and illustrations. Amazing value for years to come.
Find out the truth behind common myths and misconceptions. Learn the secrets to hassle-free engine maintenance. For advance pilots, learn about flag flying, competition, and precision landing techniques.
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 PG XC League.
The sophisticated interface allows for downloads of track logs, a zoomed in map, vario and speed readings and much more besides. Local club leagues are also included.
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 HG National XC League (UKNXCL)
Latest Individual and Club League Tables. Seasonal, Pilot, Glider and Flying Site Summaries, Flight Diary, Forums, Event Diary, and more. Submit your flights online, send in GPS Flight Tracks (as .igc files) for published flights. Comprehensive mapping of flight tracks & UK Airspace, in both 2D & 3D, using GoogleMaps And GoogleEarth.
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 BHPA‘s disability initiative is called Flyability and aims to promote and provide opportunities for people with disabilities to participate in the sport of hang gliding, paragliding and other related forms of flight.
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xcweather.co.uk
Detailing current conditions for wind, weather, dew point, temperature, visibility and pressure, the new design also includes forecasts for six days.
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Visit the BHPA‘s on-line shop for paragliding, hang gliding and paramotoring Videos, DVDs, Books, Skywings overseas subscriptions and more.
Going abroad? Get insured! Contact:
Airsports Insurance Bureau
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John Dickenson presented with FAI Diploma
The Kernow Hang Gliding and Paragliding Association held a reception in September in honour of John Dickenson, inventor of the flexible wing hang glider...
Brits dominate at Annecy
British pilots Brendan Reid, Jon Shaw and Tom Payne collected the lion‘s share of the prizes at the Annecy XC Challenge...
Brett‘s top-ten finish
Brett Janaway of xTc Paragliding finished 7th in the Slovenian XC League at his first attempt this year...
Downed paraglider false alarm
An emergency operation to find a paraglider in distress was called off near Whitby, North Yorks in September after the subject of the search turned out to be a paper lantern...
Another British success
Axis UK team pilot and Geneva resident Tom Payne finished 5th overall out of over 800 pilots in the French XC league, improving one place over his 2007 position...
Seven flights to heaven
July 25th saw professional snowboard instructor and mountain bike guide Alex Rauter succeed in his attempt to climb seven summits in the Zugspitz area and descend by paraglider within 24 hours...
Rigid records
British pilot Robin Hamilton, flying an Aeriane Swift Light, set the first Class 2 300km triangle speed record at Big Spring, Texas early in August with a speed of 49.1km/h...
Greenland expedition
Mark Dann of Beyond Extreme and climber Simon Yates (Touching the Void) will be taking an expedition to Greenland next April to climb and fly new routes and mountains never achieved before...
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