ALL ABOUT PARAGLIDING
Paragliding is the purest form of airsport, the original dream of personal flight and the fastest growing airsport in the world. Flying under your own wing, the paraglider can be kept in a car, inflated and flown within minutes. Our school teaches paragliding on our private paragliding site at Steyning, near Brighton Sussex, 10 minuets from Shoreham Airport.

PARAGLIDING WORLD
The paragliding wing is totally portable and a canopy weighs very little, fits into a small rucksack and can be taken to flying sites all over the world, from the Alps in Europe to mountains in Asia, or if there is a site near you, fly in your lunch break.

HOW A PARAGLIDER WORKS
Different than a hang glider, a paraglider is a ram air canopy in the shape of an airfoil and as air flows over the surface it generates lift while also inflating the paraglider through the openings at the front. Rather like a modern parachute, the wing is always falling down and forwards relative to the air mass. If you take off from a hill where the air is deflected upwards and going up faster than you are coming down you will go up. When the sun heats up the ground, or object, the warmer air may rise and this is called a thermal, you may have seen birds circling and going up, well we do the same. If you enter a thermal where the air may be rising a few thousand feet then you are off cross country. Pilots have flown from Brighton to Margate, about 80 miles, of course don't expect to do this on your first day!

PARAGLIDING SCHOOL
Paragliding courses run 7 days a week weather permitting, and flying lessons are available all year although April to October is best for beginners. Airsports Paragliding School offers 1st class tuition, equipment sales and flying holidays.

SUMMARY OF LESSONS