| The British Hang
Gliding and Paragliding Association represents and supports the UK's
free flight community |
 From it's
Leicester headquarters it oversees pilot and instructor training
standards, provides, technical support such as airworthiness standards,
runs coaching courses for pilots... and a host of other services,
providing the infrastructure within which UK hang gliding and
paragliding thrive. As well as providing automatic third party
insurance for its members it also owns its own insurance company, Airsports, offering flying and
non-flying cover to members and non-members alike. And it publishes the
monthly magazine, Skywings, the
worlds leading English-language hang gliding and paragliding
publication. |
Free Flight?
It's a
catch-all term that has come to define the closely related sports of
hang gliding, paragliding, parascending, powered paragliding and
powered hang gliding. |
Membership
BHPA
membership for pilots (including
£2 million 3rd-party insurance) includes a subscription to
Skywings. Your initial Introductory or Training
membership will be processed by your training school.
There are concessions for students in full time education, under 16s
and over 60s. |
Training Schools
BHPA-Registered Schools will train
you at a rate of progress that is suitable for you. BHPA schools are
monitored for safety, the quality of the training they offer and the
equipment they use, and their trained instructors are licenced by the
Association. When you see the BHPA Registered School mark you can be
confident that you are getting the best free fight training available
in the world today. |
Glider airworthiness
The
Association takes great care to ensure that any gliders available to
its members are safe to fly. It administers its own hang glider
airworthiness scheme, respected the world over, and has contributed to
the drafting of EU standards that will soon replace existing national
paraglider airworthiness schemes. These measures have resulted in
gliders that are stable in the air and are more than strong enough for
their intended use. |
The BHPA
Office
The
centre of the BHPA operation is at Leicester, where a staff of five
deals with the day-to-day running of the Association and retailing BHPA merchandise. In addition
three technical staff, working from home and travelling widely, monitor
training standards and attend to other operational requirements. |
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