Want to learn to hang glide or paraglider in the UK? Here’s where to go.
From the north of the country southwards.
SCOTLAND
Flying Fever
PG / Hill
Based on the Isle of Arran, Scotland. Trains ab-initio, cross country and SIV courses abroad in Nepal, France, Bulgaria with holidays to Outer Mongolia.
Zabdi V Keen
Tel: 01770 303 899
Mob: 07717 712 727
info@flyingfever.net
Cloudbusters
PG / Hill / Power
Glasgow’s oldest paragliding club. Training all year round. Flying/paramotoring for all levels – novice to advanced.
Peter Shields
Mob: 07899 878 509
peter@cloudbusters.co.uk
ENGLAND
Northumbria Airsports
PG / HG / Hill / Tow / Power
Full time school. Safely from beginner to advanced on the beautiful Cheviot hills. Dual flying, HG, SPHG, equipment sales and service.
Ronald D Freeman.
Tel: 01670 816 924
Mob: 07816 455 654
www.northumbriaairsports.co.uk
Cumbria – Escape
PG / Hill / Tow
Jocky Sanderson, CFI of Escape paragliding, has been established for over 20 years.Specialises in one to one EP & CP courses & tandem flights from the fells & mountains of Keswick, the Lake District.
Jocky Sanderson
Tel: 01768 771 442
Mob: 07771 783 336
jocky@escapexc.com
Cumbria – Air Ventures Paragliding School
PG / Hill
Learn to fly in the Lake District. Varied flying conditions provide an amazing learning environment. Tandem flights to full courses. Experienced, local instructors and excellent equipment.
Gordon Oliver.
Tel: 01768 776 866 – Mob: 07830 281 986
gordon_oliver@hotmail.com
Cumbria – Sunsoar Paragliding
PG / Hill
Created by UK’s most exp. instructors, offering courses to CP and beyond. Flying worlds best locations. With only approx 80 UK flying days a year, it’s the smart way to learn.
Ian Brown
Tel: 0845 220 6066
Mob: 07866 593 580
info@sunsoar-paragliding.com
Yorkshire – Active Edge
PG / Hill / Power
Led by Dean Crosby, former British Champion and Team Manager. Situated in the Yorkshire Dales. Paragliding & Paramotoring courses and PPG conversions in Southern Spain and the UK
Tel: 08451 298 286 – Mob: 07793 678 133.
dean@activeedge.co.uk
Derbyshire Flying Centre
PG / HG / Hill
Professional full time, year round Paragliding and Hang gliding tuition. Award of Merit 2009. Hill sites in the Derbyshire Peak District national park. Overseas winter training available.
Stephen Hudson
Tel: 08451 081 577
Mob: 07762 729 663
steve@d-f-c.co.uk
Derbyshire – Parapente Services
PG / Hill / Power
Paragliding and paramotoring in the Peak District. School established 1987. Open 7 days a week with sites for all wind directions. We are committed to producing pilots.
Paul Allmark
Tel: 01663 747513
Fax: 01663 747513
paul@allmark6435.freeserve.co.uk
Derbyshire- Peak Airsports
PG / HG / Hill
Professional quality Paragliding and Hang Gliding training to all levels, with sites in the Derbyshire Peak District. Overseas training and guiding available in Winter.
Mark Bosher
Mob: 07703 062 721
info@peakairsports.com
Derbyshire – Airways Airsports
PG / HG / Hill / Tow / Power / Aerotow
Paragliding, hang gliding, paramotoring and microlight training on the hills of the Peak District and from our own airfield in Ashbourne. As seen on Blue Peter. Run by professional, friendly staff with course for all levels in the UK and abroad.
Chris Dawes
Tel: 01335 – Mob: 07768 472 654
office@airways-airsports.com
Shropshire – Beyond Extreme
PG / Hill / Tow / Power
Paragliding school run by Mark Dann, as seen on BBC1, Channel 5 and Sky television. All levels from beginner to advanced. Courses, holidays and shop at Long Mynd, Church Stretton.
Mark Dann
Tel: 01691 682640 – Mob: 07703 979149
beyondextreme@hotmail.com
Wiltshire – Cloudbase Paragliding
PG / Hill / Tow
Friendly hill-based paragliding school. Fun flying for beginners to advanced, trial days, dual flights and trips abroad. Small groups or one to one, making the most of any flyable day.
Lee Bligh
Mob: 07795 632 710
office@cloudbaseparagliding.com
Northhamptonshire- Flylight Airsports
HG / Hill / Power / Aerotow
Learn to fly the easy way. Tandem hang glider powered hang gliding and microlight flights at Sywell Aerodrome, Northampton, just 10 minutes from M1 junction 15.
Stewart Bond
Tel: 01604 494 459
Mob: 07590 370 211
info@flylight.co.uk
Norfolk – Lejair Hang Gliding
HG / Hill / Tow / Power
Flatland tow training, course for beginners to advanced. Intro days, tandem flights. Tow conversions, FLPH courses, new and 2nd hand sales, repairs and servicing. Flying courses in Norfolk & Southern Spain tow hill & mountain.
Tony Webb
Tel: 01362 687 000
Fax: 01362 687 000
tony@lejair.com
Wiltshire- ParAvion
PG / Hill / Tow
Full time, professional flying centre and shop. Private training sites on Marlborough Downs. Taster days, full courses and advanced flying expeditions in Europe.
Trevor McLoughlin
Tel: 01672 861 380
office@par-avion.co.uk
Cornwall – Cloud 9
PG / HG / Hill / Tow / Power
Award winning school, 25+ years experience, top quality training in paragliding, hang gliding, paramotoring, tandems and taster days. Tow & hill training, low student to glider ratios.
Graham Phipps
Tel: 01209 842877
Mob: 07785 593559
graham@flychaps.f9.co.uk
Devon Adventures
PG / Hill
Accelerated EP & CP courses, Tandem Flights, Dual Pilot training and sales. Sites in Devon include Exmoor and Dartmoor National Parks and the Jurassic Coast. Teaching since 1992.
Robert Greenwood
Mob: 07917 661 766
sales@devonadventures.com
Dorset – Flight Culture
PG / Hill
A school dedicated to training pilots to the limit of their ability. With a commitment to continuing education, skill development and offering a high level of personal service.
John Welch
Mob: 07833 107902
john@flightculture.co.uk
Dorset- Flying Frenzy Paragliding
PG / Hill
We are a friendly full time school based in Dorset’s stunning Jurassic Coast and have exclusive access to a wide range of training sites.Taster Days, EP, CP & XC course, full sales and holidays.
Andrew Pearse
Tel: 01308 898 777
Mob: 07990 505 725
andrewp@flyingfrenzy.com
Hampshire – Army Air Corps PG Club
PG / Tow
Tow group operating on a large airfield in Hampshire. Visits and courses by appointment only. All classes of paragliders, winch and vehicle.
Colin Morley.
Tel: 01980 846781
colin.morley@ouvip.com
Isle of Wight – Butterfly Paragliding
PG / HG / Hill / Tow / Power
Top quality service, enviable safety record.Courses/holidays all levels. School, shop & organic b/b. Private cliff. Best UK weather. Tow, Hill and Tandem Paragliding, Paramotor sales.
Dave Botha
Tel: 01983 731 611 – Mob: 07840 491 981
butterfly@paraglide.uk.com
Isle of Wight – High Adventure Paragliding Centre
PG / Hill
Established 1981, paragliding tuition to all levels. All wind direction sites, hotel accommodation. Other activities available. See our website.
Philip Keen
Tel: 01983 741 484
Mob: 07796 231 316
highadventure@btinternet.com
West Sussex – Airsports Paragliding
PG / Hill
The only all wind direction private site. Established in 1992. Good instructor student ratio. Beginner to Club Pilot courses all year. Sussex Downs at Steyning near Brighton.
Peter Bernon
Tel: 01903 879 241 – Mob: 07963 596 541
info@airsports.co.uk
Sussex HG & PG
PG / HG / Hill
Beginners taught to hang glide and paraglide to the highest standards. Open all year with exclusive sites for every wind direction. Current British Open Champions.
Tim Cox
Tel: 01273 858 170
Mob: 07917 146 840
info@flysussex.com
East Sussex- Airworks Paragliding Centre
PG / Hill / Power
Enthusiastic professional team led by former British Champ. & Comps Panel Safety Officer. Full-time paragliding & paramotoring training to all levels. High instructor to student ratios.
Stephen Purdie
Tel: 01273 858108
info@airworks.co.uk
East Sussex – Apex Paragliding School
PG / Hill / Power
Apex Paragliding offer full introductory and continuing paragliding courses. With 22 years experience on the South Downs, we offer a full service in training, sales and advice.
Gary Cook
Tel: 0780 350 6567 – Mob: 0780 350 6567
office@learnparagliding.co.uk
East Sussex – Freeflight PG School
PG / Hill
Accelerate your training on a ‘Tandem Fast Track Course’ a unique course to freeflight. Trips to France and Nepal.
Robert Chisholm
Tel: 01273 628 793
Mob: 07958 440 519
free.flight@tiscali.co.uk
East Sussex – Air Adventure Paragliding
PG / Hill / Tow
Air Adventure Paragliding offers paragliding tuition, coaching and tandem flights all year round. Plus, winch conversions and winch training courses.
Nigel Barrett.
Mob: 07870 394 118.
office@airadventure.co.uk
East Sussex- Natural High Paragliding
PG / Hill
Tandem flight aimed at giving members of the public an introductory instructional flight and giving advanced tuition to qualified pilots of all abilities.
Owen Latham
Mob: 07787 172 093
info@naturalhigh-paragliding.co.uk
East Sussex – Skylark Paragliding
PG / Hill
Tandem paragliding air-experience specialists. Trial flights. Individual coaching for qualified pilots. Cross-country training courses and holidays.
Dave Lewis
Tel: 07884 072 536
info@skylarkparagliding.co.uk
East Sussex- Sky Paragliding
PG / Hill / Tow / Power
Specialising in high quality, intensive, overseas residential courses and UK personal tuition and tandem flights. All modern equipment provided. 16 years experience.
Tim King
Mob: 07767 264211
info@skyparagliding.co.uk
East Sussex – South Downs School of HG
HG / Hill
A dedicated hill based hang gliding school. All levels from beginners through to experienced pilots.
John Barratt
Tel: 07890 362648
info@southdownshanggliding.co.uk
Essex – Learn To Fly
HG / Aerotow
Learn-To-Fly.co.uk provides dual hang gliding air experience flights using the fantastic VX ATOS rigid wing hang glider, by aerotowing up to 2500ft.
Ian Macadam
Tel: 02030 049 100
office@learn-to-fly.co.uk
Surrey – Green Dragons HG & PG Centre
PG / HG / Hill / Tow
One of the UK’s premier schools established in 1974 & offers tuition for both HG/PG specialist in small or large groups, with probably the UK’s largest flying shop & workshop onsite.
Andy Shaw
Tel: 01883 652666
Fax: 01883 652600
fly@greendragons.co.uk
WALES
Gwent – Axis Paragliding & Paramotoring
PG / Hill / Power
Private and personal tuition from CFI Steve Millson. 1 to 1 or small groups, including tandem tuition. Fantastic sites, help for CPs struggling to qualify, tuition abroad/holidays.
Stephen Millson
Tel: 01873 850111 – Mob: 07970 421373
axis@paraglide.co.uk
Crickhowell – Joint Services Hg & Pg Centre
PG / HG / Hill / Tow
HG & PG courses for members of Armed Forces, offering BHPA Hill ratings and JS Exped Leader qualifications. Contact your gym staff for course dates and application forms. See JSP 419.
Tel: 01873 810386
559206k@cosford.raf.mod.uk
Mid Wales Paragliding Centre
PG / Hill / Power
Full time Paragliding and Paramotor school based on the west coast of Wales. We teach all levels from beginner to advance, courses, holidays and shop.
Steve Griffiths
Tel: 01970 871 145
Mob: 07779 790 637
steve@mwpgc.co.uk
Pembrokeshire Paragliding
PG / Hill
A full time school providing training in the Preseli Mountains, in the beautiful coastal national park of Pembrokeshire, all around the West and Mid Wales.
Nick Bamber
Tel: 01239 614 140
Mob: 07796 855 557
nick@pembrokeshireparagliding.com
Gwynedd – Snowdon Gliders
PG / Hill
The Mountain Paragliding Centre offers expert instruction for smaller groups to pilots seeking to fly mountains. Friendly, professional service with excellent safety record.
Brad Nicholas
Tel: 01248 600330
Mob: 07818 418780
brad@snowdongliders.co.uk
NORTHERN IRELAND
Northern Ireland – Aerosports
PG / HG / Hill
Paragliding training for smaller groups to EP & CP & beyond inc Tandem P/G Air Experience flts. Based 10 min from local flying sites in the Co Antrim hills. Fri, Sat & Sun, Summers eve’s weather permitting. Safety no 1.
Ken McConnell
Tel: 02893 341 414
Mob: 07879 632 111
ken@aerosports.co.uk
First Flight Paragliding
PG / Hill
Hill launch paragliding courses, now up to seven days a week, all year, with Northern Ireland’s longest-established paragliding school on various sites, weather permitting. Low student/instructor ratio and with emphasis on safety and enjoyment.
Bertie Kennedy
Tel: 02890 832 648
Mob: 07752 873 434
bertiekennedy@bigfoot.com
OVERSEAS
Flyspain & Welsh Paragliding Centre
PG / Hill
Flyspain is the only full time BHPA school working in Spain. No other schools share our experience teaching overseas full time. 25 days of flyable weather per month.
Rob Mansley
Tel: 078 8794 3432 / 0034 651 736 718.
Mob: 078 8794 3432
info@flyspain.co.uk
French Alps – Alpine Flying Centre
PG / Hill
A BHPA registered school based near Chamonix in France. Offering EPC and CPC
courses, thermalling and mountain courses and XC fly guiding either in
groups or with ‘Direct one-to-one Instruction’.
Dennis Trott
Tel: 0033 450 54 59 63 – Mob: 0033 610 63 45 58
info@alpineflyingcentre.com
France – Mahony Aviation
PG / Hill / Tow / Power
BHPA FSC Member, Paul Mahony provides professional paraglider, paramotor, paratrike & microlight instruction + tandem flights & paramotor hire from Laragne in the Alpes de Haute Provance. BHPA, BMAA & CAA flying instructor.
Paul Mahony
Tel: 0033 699 574 933
paul@mahonyaviation.com
France – Adventure (Parapente) Extreme
PG / Hill
Flying courses in the Alpes de Haute Provance in France, plus expeditions to Mexico, Nepal & Ecuador throughout year + XC flying safaris to South Africa during European winter.
Terry Stubbs
Tel: 07092 283 020
trips@adventure-x.com
Switzerland – Verbier Summits
PG / Hill
Paragliding school in the Swiss Alps offering beginner to advanced courses, as well as specialised clinics and fly guiding for PG.
Stuart Belbas.
Mob: 00 41 79 313 5677
stu@verbier-summits.com
