Tribal Flight Paragliding offers some great paragliding courses to get you in the air. Everything from Introductory course to full license paragliding courses.
Introduction
You carry your paraglider in a back pack up a hill, unroll the material step forward into the wind and a wing forms above your head, your feet leave the earth and your shadow fly’s beneath you over stunning scenery. A different prospective on life. You circle up in invisible air currents centering on the strongest core of the thermal with birds staring at you as they fly wingtip to wingtip. You chose your site to fly depending on the wind conditions, sometimes hovering above a ridge in stable air blowing in from the sea. Other times launching from a hill to circle up to the clouds and fly cross country in a three dimensional game. You look, lean and turn banking your wing with your harness steering with your hands, you take off and land gently facing into the wind.
Want to get started?
If you have always dreamed of flying then paragliding is the sport for you. The restricted license course is the most popular but you can also try a
Tandem or a fun day or 2 with friends, where you learn the basic controls starting at the bottom of the hill having small solo flights which are extended higher as confidence and ability grow. Tandem flights allows you to fly with an instructor who will let you feel the thrill of flight with someone experienced at the controls. Paragliding is very easy to learn but takes time to master.
Paragliding is very weather dependent and it needs to be dry and the wind less than 15 miles an hour. You work through a series of exercises which teach you how to fly but everybody learns at a different pace. Equipment is provided for the paragliding course though most pilots purchase their own paraglider during the training so they can get used to flying it in a school environment. Once qualified we highly recommend you join your local club to fly with more experienced pilots.
Where to go:
Toowoomba has many beautiful paragliding sites and there are good paragliding clubs across Australia where experienced pilots meet up and fly together. Toowoomba is ideal for learning but as with any place the weather can sometimes keep our feet on the ground. So be prepared to enjoy doing other things - but when the conditions are right, Toowoomba and districts are a beautiful place to fly.
Contact us for pricing and availability of all paragliding courses.