The BHPA Pilot Handbook: The Complete Guide to Paraglider and Hang Glider Training and Advancement

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Your instructor will explain how the canopy is laid out, inflated and controlled by its brake lines. This glossy full colour magazine is distributed by mail to around 6,500 BHPA members each month as part of their membership package. The motor can be stopped and restarted in the air, with many having electric starters, enabling the pilot to adapt his or her flight to the prevailing conditions. To avoid inter-club and inter-sport disputes, and help protect existing sites, this Site Sovereignty Code of Practice applies to both Clubs and individual pilots. It normally takes around ten days of flyable weather to train a would-be pilot to Club Pilot level, the minimum standard required to fly unsupervised with a recreational club.Once airborne, the paramotor can be used to motor along and watch the world go by beneath you or, if conditions permit, soared in thermal lift to make long cross-country flights. Freely available electronic copies of Skywings magazine are also published each month on our Skywings page. This includes a written exam covering practical aspects of speed flying as well as air law, theory of flight and meteorology. A hang glider can be turned into a powered hang glider by using a specially designed hang glider harness fitted with lightweight 2-stroke engine. We strongly advise pilots under training to join, or at least get in touch with, their local club as soon as possible - you don't have to wait to get qualified.

The Paragliding Forum can also be a useful source of advice and information for anyone interested in learning to fly a paraglider.This will allow you to test your current knowledge and help you to understand the subject areas you will need to revise before sitting the real exam.