PEAK AIRSPORTS FURTHER INFORMATION

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Information & Useful Links

Information & Useful Links

This page has information that will help your progression through training and beyond.

It contains links for various paragliding-associated sites and documents that may be useful to you at different stages of your journey.

This page has information that will help your progression through training and beyond.

It contains links for various paragliding-associated sites and documents that may be useful to you at different stages of your journey.

The British Hang Gliding & Paragliding Association

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The British Hang Gliding & Paragliding Association (BHPA) sets the training syllabus for all registered hang gliding and paragliding schools.

The BHPA also examine and issue licenses to instructors who wish to teach paragliding and hang gliding amongst other types of free flying.

Peak Airsports are a BHPA-registered school and the Chief Flying Instructor (CFI) Mark Bosher, is licences to teach these courses.

The British Hang Gliding & Paragliding Association (BHPA) sets the training syllabus for all registered hang gliding and paragliding schools.

The BHPA also examine and issue licenses to instructors who wish to teach paragliding and hang gliding amongst other types of free flying.

Peak Airsports are a BHPA-registered school and the Chief Flying Instructor (CFI) Mark Bosher, is licences to teach these courses.

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The BHPA is the UK’s sports controlling body and is recognised by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA).

The BHPA also set the rules by which all pilots are expected to fly and provides the third-party insurance all pilots must have to be legal to fly in the UK.

The BHPA website has a lot of important information on it. Here we have provided links to the most important information that relates to learning to fly and early progression.

You are especially encouraged to read the The BHPA Elementary Pilot Training Guide which has lots of important information in it and is available as a downloadable PDF.

We highly recommend reading the BHPA’s Elementary Pilot Training Guide, which is designed to help new pilots under training to progress to the Elementary Pilot award.

Click on the image or here to open the PDF in a new window.

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Weather Forecasting

Understanding weather patterns and being able to predict as accurate a forecast as possible is crucial to paragliding at any level and is required from the outset.

You need to be able to come to a conclusion about whether it will be flyable in the near future for planning purposes.

Usually this is done by reviewing multiple websites and we have included a few here that we suggest you look at.

Understanding weather patterns and being able to predict as accurate a forecast as possible is crucial to paragliding at any level and is required from the outset.

You need to be able to come to a conclusion about whether it will be flyable in the near future for planning purposes.

Usually this is done by reviewing multiple websites and we have included a few here that we suggest you look at.

Met Office

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Met Office The surface pressure charts and The 5 day forecast are very useful.

XC-Weather

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XC-Weather is popular and can be set for local conditions

RASP

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RASP - more complicated but a great source of free-flying information once mastered.

Local Live Services

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Local live services should not be overlooked when gathering weather information.

Paragliding Equipment Suppliers

Peak Airsports offer a large range of top quality paragliding equipment from world-renowned companies at the best prices possible prices.

Please see our shop page for more information on our stock and suppliers.

Peak Airsports offer a large range of top quality paragliding equipment from world-renowned companies at the best prices possible prices.

Please see our shop page for more information on our stock and suppliers.

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