The BHPA Pilot Handbook includes all the basic and advanced techniques, flight theory, specialist know-how and background studies that a pilot will require from Club Pilot training onwards - for the first time in one exhaustive volume. Author Mark Dale, the BHPA's full-time Technical Manager, is a trainer and examiner of instructors and coaches, an experienced competition pilot and an acknowledged authority on hang glider and paraglider stability and air-worthiness. He regularly flies hang glider, paragliders and sailplanes and holds an FAI World Hang Gliding speed record.

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