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A coastal or inland Oregon hang gliding lesson experience feels like a week's vacation, yet at a fraction of the cost! Almost anyone can get a supervised and assisted fun experience hang gliding as your instructor runs along side of you providing directions and corrections. The only requirement is an ability to run a short distance. Kids, seniors and even pets have gone hang gliding! A first lesson is safer than driving or a game of soccer. If you can move your own body weight in a jog-run and are willing to commit the day, make your trip to the Oregon coast memorable and meaningful. Call 541 913 1339 and pay below



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Look no further for hang gliding instruction in the Pacific Northwest. We are the only actively teaching school in the whole region including all the major cities of Portland, Beaverton, Eugene, and Medford. But we also have a passion to make your dreams come true. Our purpose, focus and meaning is to make you successful if you are willing to follow the program. Of course, the ability to fly thousands of feet above our regulated mountain launch sites and fly hundreds of miles is well worth the time, expense and effort of learning.

Becoming a self reliant and independent hang glider pilot is an altogether different goal than a one time first experience. As challenges escalate your skill level must rise with the challenges. As skills improve we custom fit you with the best and safest Wills Wing gliders, High Energy Sports harnesses and parachutes, Flytec variometers, and Yaseu Vertex Radios. Hang Gliding is challenging and requires discipline but we are with you every step of the way. It is much like beginning canoeing versus "class four" kayaking - the incremental training, equipment, and experiences all are integral to your success. Our expert USHPA certified instructors make sure that proficiencies match nature's challenges. Eventually, you earn the "hang II rating" required by the government and by our professional association.

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Successful training requires approximately 100 ground skimming and mid-level (from 50-100 feet) flights to attain the necessary motor skill proficiency as defined by the Hang II rating set forth by the United States Hang Gliding and Paragliding Association. This works out to approximately 10 flights per lesson day. A lesson is defined by 7-12 flights since repetition is what matters to skill development. At this point, a student is akin to a new driver on a busy highway - - there is basic skill but limited judgment regarding very complex high altitude situations. Thus, lessons 11-14 teaches the strategic and judgment skills required for safe and practical recreational hang gliding. That is the minimum skill for a new pilot to be accepted for continuing mentorship by the community of experienced and avid pilots.

Lesson Plan  •   Cost Comparison •   Location and Lodging

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Introductory Lesson  •   Schedule your Lesson  •   Location and Lodging

One Time Family Hang Gliding Experience - Good for All Ages!

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All hang gliding experiences are an experience and a "lesson". A first experience is as fun as it is educational. So, its an end in itself, ,without any need to go on, but still having been well worth the effort. Most people love the "family" lesson, where everyone, including the kids, participate as a team, in learning the basics of launching and landing a hang glider. Its a blast to feel your bare feet rise off the dune under your own power with the instructor, running along aside you making sure you are safe. So, its a holistic experience with a little bit of entertaining interactive classroom work (that parents love because it generalizes the principles of learning to anything the kids may want to try), a little simulator work and then finally going out to the beach practicing with a real hang glider. Its a very methodical baby step process that everyone enjoys - once your attention has been rewarded by the feeling of floating down the beach or small hill at height of four feet.

The experience usually begins at 10 am in Pacific City, Newport or the Corvallis Airport and runs to around 3:00 pm.

If - and only if - there is enough wind and you weigh under 160 lbs, we can perform a small tandem (only available on the coast). We use the very same glider we assembled for the solo part of the lesson. We just add on extra fee to the solo part because of the extra effort and time. We can now hike to the top of the dune for a little higher flight, with you knowing something so you can actually assist in a much safer tandem flight. So now, you really have a good feeling for what the sport is all about. Its all fun and educational.

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We highly recommending picking a date and perhaps even better a range of dates so we can choose the best wind, paying for the lesson day via the paypal system, so I can put you on the official google calendar that will remind you and me of our upcoming lesson.

If after the fun introductory lesson you want to become a "rated" pilot, successful training requires approximately 15 lesson days as defined by the Hang II rating set forth by the United States Hang Gliding and Paragliding Association. This works out to approximately 10 flights per lesson day. A lesson is defined by 7-12 flights since repetition is what matters to skill development. At this point, a student is akin to a new driver on a busy highway - - there is basic skill but limited judgment regarding very complex high altitude situations. Thus, lessons 11-14 teaches the strategic and judgment skills required for safe and practical recreational hang gliding. That is the minimum skill for a new pilot to be accepted for continuing mentorship by the community of experienced and avid pilots.

Lesson Plan  •   Cost Comparison •   Location and Lodging

Oregon Hang Gliding School - Call 541 913 1339

Call 541 913 1339. Leave message. We will call back.



Hang Gliding Voucher Prices

I have read and agree to the Terms and Conditions


Introductory Lesson  •   Schedule your Lesson  •   Location and Lodging

One Time Family Hang Gliding Experience - Good for All Ages!

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Do not believe us! Read the Testimonial Reviews here

All hang gliding experiences are an experience and a "lesson". A first experience is as fun as it is educational. So, its an end in itself, ,without any need to go on, but still having been well worth the effort. Most people love the "family" lesson, where everyone, including the kids, participate as a team, in learning the basics of launching and landing a hang glider. Its a blast to feel your bare feet rise off the dune under your own power with the instructor, running along aside you making sure you are safe. So, its a holistic experience with a little bit of entertaining interactive classroom work (that parents love because it generalizes the principles of learning to anything the kids may want to try), a little simulator work and then finally going out to the beach practicing with a real hang glider. Its a very methodical baby step process that everyone enjoys - once your attention has been rewarded by the feeling of floating down the beach or small hill at height of four feet.

The experience usually begins at 10 am in Pacific City, Newport or the Corvallis Airport and runs to around 3:00 pm.

If - and only if - there is enough wind and you weigh under 160 lbs, we can perform a small tandem (only available on the coast). We use the very same glider we assembled for the solo part of the lesson. We just add on extra fee to the solo part because of the extra effort and time. We can now hike to the top of the dune for a little higher flight, with you knowing something so you can actually assist in a much safer tandem flight. So now, you really have a good feeling for what the sport is all about. Its all fun and educational.

Read the reviews here at: Trip Advisor

We highly recommending picking a date and perhaps even better a range of dates so we can choose the best wind, paying for the lesson day via the paypal system, so I can put you on the official google calendar that will remind you and me of our upcoming lesson.

If after the fun introductory lesson you want to become a "rated" pilot, successful training requires approximately 15 lesson days as defined by the Hang II rating set forth by the United States Hang Gliding and Paragliding Association. This works out to approximately 10 flights per lesson day. A lesson is defined by 7-12 flights since repetition is what matters to skill development. At this point, a student is akin to a new driver on a busy highway - - there is basic skill but limited judgment regarding very complex high altitude situations. Thus, lessons 11-14 teaches the strategic and judgment skills required for safe and practical recreational hang gliding. That is the minimum skill for a new pilot to be accepted for continuing mentorship by the community of experienced and avid pilots.

Lesson Plan  •   Cost Comparison •   Location and Lodging

Oregon Hang Gliding School - Call 541 913 1339

Call 541 913 1339. Leave message. We will call back.



Hang Gliding Voucher Prices

I have read and agree to the Terms and Conditions


Introductory Lesson  •   Schedule your Lesson  •   Location and Lodging

One Time Family Hang Gliding Experience - Good for All Ages!

View this:



Do not believe us! Read the Testimonial Reviews here

All hang gliding experiences are an experience and a "lesson". A first experience is as fun as it is educational. So, its an end in itself, ,without any need to go on, but still having been well worth the effort. Most people love the "family" lesson, where everyone, including the kids, participate as a team, in learning the basics of launching and landing a hang glider. Its a blast to feel your bare feet rise off the dune under your own power with the instructor, running along aside you making sure you are safe. So, its a holistic experience with a little bit of entertaining interactive classroom work (that parents love because it generalizes the principles of learning to anything the kids may want to try), a little simulator work and then finally going out to the beach practicing with a real hang glider. Its a very methodical baby step process that everyone enjoys - once your attention has been rewarded by the feeling of floating down the beach or small hill at height of four feet.

The experience usually begins at 10 am in Pacific City, Newport or the Corvallis Airport and runs to around 3:00 pm.

If - and only if - there is enough wind and you weigh under 160 lbs, we can perform a small tandem (only available on the coast). We use the very same glider we assembled for the solo part of the lesson. We just add on extra fee to the solo part because of the extra effort and time. We can now hike to the top of the dune for a little higher flight, with you knowing something so you can actually assist in a much safer tandem flight. So now, you really have a good feeling for what the sport is all about. Its all fun and educational.

Read the reviews here at: Trip Advisor

We highly recommending picking a date and perhaps even better a range of dates so we can choose the best wind, paying for the lesson day via the paypal system, so I can put you on the official google calendar that will remind you and me of our upcoming lesson.

If after the fun introductory lesson you want to become a "rated" pilot, successful training requires approximately 15 lesson days as defined by the Hang II rating set forth by the United States Hang Gliding and Paragliding Association. This works out to approximately 10 flights per lesson day. A lesson is defined by 7-12 flights since repetition is what matters to skill development. At this point, a student is akin to a new driver on a busy highway - - there is basic skill but limited judgment regarding very complex high altitude situations. Thus, lessons 11-14 teaches the strategic and judgment skills required for safe and practical recreational hang gliding. That is the minimum skill for a new pilot to be accepted for continuing mentorship by the community of experienced and avid pilots.

Lesson Plan  •   Cost Comparison •   Location and Lodging