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BRITISH HANG GLIDING & PARAGLIDING ASSOCIATION

 * Our Sport
   
   
   HANG GLIDING AND PARAGLIDING IN THE UK
   
   
   BHPA
   
    * About the BHPA
    * Contact the BHPA
    * Join the BHPA
    * Renew BHPA Membership
    * Pilot Development
    * BHPA Fees
    * BHPA Membership cards
    * BHPA Clubs
    * BHPA courses
    * BHPA Competitions Structure
    * Skywings Magazine
    * BHPA Shop
    * BHPA Executive Council
    * AGM Minutes & Reports
    * Executive Council Minutes
    * Flyability
    * Events Calendar
    * News
    * Visiting Pilots
    * Safety Documents & Forms
   
   
   FLYING DISCIPLINES
   
    * Hang Gliding
    * Powered Hang Gliding
    * Paragliding
    * Paramotoring
    * Parascending
    * Human Powered Flight
   
   
   GETTING STARTED
   
    * Learn to fly
    * Registered Schools
    * Pilot Development
   
   
   MEMBERS INFO
   
    * Contact the BHPA
    * Online Incident Report Form
    * BHPA Courses
    * BHPA Membership cards
    * BHPA Competitions Structure
    * Flying Abroad
    * Emergency Parachute Advice
    * Licensed Parachute Packers
    * Safety Documents & Forms
    * Club Bulletins
    * Instructor & Coach Newsletters
    * BHPA Executive Council
    * AGM Minutes & Reports
    * Executive Council Minutes
    * 500 Club

   
 * Schools
   
   
   LEARN TO FLY
   
   BHPA Registered Schools are monitored for safety, the quality of the training
   they offer, and the equipment they use, and their instructors are licensed by
   the Association.
   
    * Learn to Fly
    * Find your nearest school
    * View schools map
    * List all schools

   
 * Hang Glide
   
   
   HANG GLIDING AND POWERED HANG GLIDING
   
   Hang gliders are unpowered wings that can be launched from hills or winches,
   or launched by being towed aloft behind a microlight aircraft.
   
   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.
   
   
   UNPOWERED
   
    * Hang Gliding
    * Hang Gliding Schools
    * Hang Gliding Clubs
   
   
   POWERED
   
    * Powered Hang Gliding
    * Powered Hang Gliding Schools
    * Powered Hang Gliding Clubs

   
 * Paraglide
   
   
   PARAGLIDING AND PARAMOTORING
   
   Paragliders are unpowered wings that can be launched from hills or winches.
   
   A paramotor or powered paraglider (PPG) consists of a small motor driving a
   propeller, worn like a backpack under a paraglider wing.
   
   
   UNPOWERED
   
    * Paragliding
    * Paragliding Schools
    * Paragliding Clubs
   
   
   POWERED
   
    * Paramotoring
    * Paramotoring Schools
    * Paramotoring Clubs

   
 * Parascend
   
   
   PARASCENDING
   
   Parascending pilots fly canopies that are towed into the air by a Land Rover
   or winch before gliding back down to land.
   
    * Parascending
    * Parascending Schools

   
 * Speed Fly
   
   
   SPEED FLYING
   
   Speed flying is a sport based on the principles of paragliding, but using a
   specially designed wing to fly fast hill descents.
   
    * Speed Flying

   
 * Power
   
   
   POWERED FLIGHT
   
   A powered hang glider consists of a light weight motor driving a propeller
   that is fitted to a specially designed hang glider harness, in which the
   pilot is suspended under a hang gliding wing.
   
   A paramotor or powered paraglider (PPG) consists of a small motor driving a
   propeller, worn like a backpack under a paraglider wing.
   
   It is also possible to use human power to take off from level ground and fly
   specially constructed ultra light weight aircraft.
   
   
   POWERED HANG GLIDER
   
    * Powered Hang Gliding
    * Powered Hang Gliding Schools
    * Powered Hang Gliding Clubs
   
   
   PARAMOTOR
   
    * Paramotoring
    * Paramotoring Schools
    * Paramotoring Clubs
   
   
   HUMAN POWERED WINGS
   
    * Human Powered Flight

   
 * Documents
   
   
   BHPA DOCUMENTS AND FORMS
   
   
   MEMBERS
   
    * Online Incident Report Form
    * Alerting the military (CANP)
    * Notices to Airmen (NOTAM)
    * Emergency Parachute Advice
    * Licensed Parachute Packers
    * EN paraglider classes
    * Flying Abroad
    * Safety Notices
    * Safety Advisories
    * Documents
    * Forms
    * Fees
    * Club Bulletins
    * Instructor & Coach News
    * BHPA Executive Council
    * AGM Minutes & Reports
    * Executive Council Minutes
   
   
   CLUBS
   
    * Online Incident Report Form
    * Alerting the military (CANP)
    * Notices to Airmen (NOTAM)
    * Emergency Parachute Advice
    * Licensed Parachute Packers
    * BHPA Club Repack Guide
    * EN paraglider classes
    * Safety Notices
    * Safety Advisories
    * Documents
    * Forms
    * Fees
    * Club Bulletins
    * Instructor & Coach News
    * BHPA Executive Council
    * AGM Minutes & Reports
    * Executive Council Minutes
   
   
   SCHOOLS
   
    * Online Incident Report Form
    * Alerting the military (CANP)
    * Notices to Airmen (NOTAM)
    * Emergency Parachute Advice
    * Licensed Parachute Packers
    * EN paraglider classes
    * Safety Notices
    * Safety Advisories
    * Documents
    * Forms
    * Fees
    * Club Bulletins
    * Instructor & Coach News
    * BHPA Executive Council
    * AGM Minutes & Reports
    * Executive Council Minutes
   
   
   SAFETY
   
    * Online Incident Report Form
    * Alerting the military (CANP)
    * Notices to Airmen (NOTAM)
    * Emergency Parachute Advice
    * Licensed Parachute Packers
    * EN paraglider classes
    * Skywings Safety Matters Articles
    * Versioned Training Documents
    * Who to call in an emergency
    * BHPA/BMFA Operating Code
    * Flying Abroad
    * Incident Reports (Informal)
    * Incident Reports (Formal)
    * Annual Incident Analysis Reports
    * Safety Notices
    * Safety Advisories
    * Manufacturer Safety Notices
    * CIVL - Hang Glider Safety Notices
    * CIVL - Paraglider Safety Notices
    * DHV - Safety Journal
    * DHV - Safety Notes
    * HPAC - Safety Notifications
    * HGFA - Defect Notices
    * NZHGPA - Safety Notices
    * USHPA - Safety Advisories

   

home - welcome to the bhpa website


BRITISH HANG GLIDING AND PARAGLIDING ASSOCIATION

WELCOME TO THE BRITISH HANG GLIDING & PARAGLIDING ASSOCIATION (BHPA) WEBSITE.

From its head office in Leicester the BHPA supports a country-wide network of
recreational clubs and registered schools, and provides the infrastructure
within which hang gliding and paragliding in the United Kingdom (UK) thrive.



The BHPA oversees pilot and instructor training standards, and provides
technical support such as airworthiness standards, and coaching courses for
qualified hang gliding and paragliding pilots.

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 with one of our registered schools,
it's important to start looking for suitable recreational club to join.
Obtaining your Club Pilot rating marks the end of your formal instruction and
qualifies you to leave the school and fly within a BHPA recreational club.

The BHPA supports a network of UK hang gliding and paragliding recreational
clubs who are able to offer the supportive flying and social environment vital
to the safe development of your flying skills, as you join other recreational
flyers on the hill, and continue your progression through the BHPA Pilot Rating
Scheme (PRS).

As your accumulated airtime increases and your flying skills improve, you will
probably start to think about your long term goals and aspirations, and working
towards your Pilot Rating, the next rung on the PRS ladder. Club coaches can
offer advice and support with the flying tasks that need to be completed, and
the theory exam you will need to sit.

An online BHPA Mock Pilot Rating Exam is also available. 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.

When you first leave your school and join a club, you may choose to spend your
first few hours' flying with no specific aim other than to safely accumulate
airtime. However, it is well known that pilots make safer more efficient
progress when they are given particular tasks to undertake.

With that in mind, a panel of experienced BHPA coaches have devised a new
pathway to learning, the BHPA Pilot Development Structure. This offers an
alternative to the more formal Pilot Rating System, and for newly qualified
pilots aims to:

 * encourage interaction between new pilots, their club and its coaches
 * provide a structured way to progress, acquire knowledge and build skills
   through attainable goals
 * reduce flying related incidents and promote safe flying



The BHPA also has a disability initiative called Flyability. This reports
directly to the BHPA's Executive Council on disability related matters within
the sport.

Flyability doesn't simply take people with disabilities flying, it strives to
motivate people with disabilities to become involved in the sport of hang
gliding and paragliding and to train as pilots.

Much of Flyability's work in the sport, focuses around changing peoples
perception of disability and their attitudes toward people with disabilities.
Disability awareness, education and advice play key roles in Flyability's aims
and objectives, as does the development of specialist equipment, training and
flying techniques.

The BHPA also publishes Skywings, the only magazine dedicated to free flying in
the United Kingdom. This glossy full colour magazine is distributed by mail to
around 6,500 BHPA members each month as part of their membership package.



Skywings magazine is also read by countless more hang gliding and paragliding
pilots and organisations around the world who have purchased an International
Skywings magazine subscription from our on-line shop.

Freely available electronic copies of Skywings magazine are also published each
month on our Skywings page. These can be viewed online as a flipbook magazine,
or downloaded as a pdf document. When viewing the magazine online on a device
with a small screen, we recommend that you select the single page option in the
menu at the top of each issue.

Back issues of Skywings magazine can also be purchased from our on-line shop.

The BHPA provides automatic £5 million 3rd-party insurance for its members. But
if you require personal or travel insurance, this should be obtained from an
independent insurance broker.

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, so why don't you join the BHPA, and never look back.

Visiting Overseas Hang Gliding & Paragliding Pilots please read this...

Whilst Skywings magazine frequently includes lively and thought provoking
articles and letters about our sport, there are also numerous alternative
sources of advice, information and debate on the internet. The following are
just a small selection of those available. These are independent forum and
facebook pages and are not connected in any way to the British Hang Gliding and
Paragliding Association. The views expressed in them are therefore not
necessarily those of the British Hang Gliding and Paragliding Association.

 * British Hangies Facebook Page
 * The Paragliding Forum
 * UK Paramotoring Facebook Page



 

For information about how and when hang gliding started in the UK, please visit
the British Hang Gliding History website.

Originally created by Terry Aspinall, the British Hang Gliding History website
provides a fascinating insight into the early days of our sport, and contains an
extensive archive of hang gliding articles, photos and videos from the 1970s and
80s.



FIND A SCHOOL

Enter the first part of your postcode to find your nearest BHPA registered
school
eg. enter CF44 if your post code is CF44 1BS

Please Select Hang Gliding Paragliding Parascending Paramotoring Powered Hang
Gliding

Post Code



Or view
schools location map

LATEST SKYWINGS NEWS

Queen’s Jubilee Flypast Restrictions

Click on the blue title above for details and link to Restriction of Flying
Regulations.

Posted: 16 May 2022
By: J. Schofield

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France wins paramotor Worlds

Italy's Pasquale Biondo emerged as individual PF1 Champion at Saquarema, Brazil
in late April.

 

Posted: 11 May 2022
By: J. Schofield

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New Update to BHPA Technical Manual Published

Update 21 of the BHPA Technical Manual has now been published.

This latest update of the BHPA Technical Manual is available for...

Posted: 7 April 2022
By: Paul Dancey

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A new way of paragliding!

New design of speedflier is controlled like a kite - pulleys mix B and C risers
in proportion to brake travel. 

Posted: 1 April 2022
By: J. Schofield

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Flyeo sponsorship

Flyeo are looking to sponsor a number of up-and-coming UK pilots. 

Posted: 29 March 2022
By: J. Schofield

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last updated: 16 May 2022

 





RECENT SAFETY NOTICES

Eurofly Snake & other sub-70kg self-propelled hang gliders
Published: 04.10.2021

Quick-Out Carabiner
Published: 03.04.2019

JojoWings Instinct Paraglider
Published: 23.05.2017

3.5mm Maillons fitted to wings from Paramania manufactured since March 2011
Published: 23.08.2011

Paragliders: 360 degree turns & nose-down spiral dives
Published: 21.11.2008

last updated: 4 October 2021



 


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