Hang gliding lessons involve learning to fly on your own, beginning on a shallow training hill where you lift off the ground for a few seconds. As you progress, you move up the hill, high enough to perform turns. Before long you will buy your own glider and learn to “soar”, staying in the air indefinitely and even gaining thousands of feet in altitude.
If you just want a one-time experience where an instructor takes you up in a large glider that fits two people, see our Tandem Flights.
Instructors
Takeo Eda
Takeo is taking only military veterans or pilots of other aircraft as new students and operates independently of California Hang Gliding. He instructs at various places as appropriate, partly at Ed Levin County Park in the hills by Milpitas. He is an USHPA Certified Instructor. Bilingual English/Japanese, retired USAF TSgt.
There are a few other local instructors we refer new students to, based on your location and situation. Fill out the form and we’ll help match you with someone.
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Outside the San Francisco bay area, find a USHPA-certified instructor here.