I’m not sure if it’s public knowledge yet or not, but there was a broken leg accident at Area B recently. A mini-wing, strong winds, and a 'too far back' approach caused a hard top landing, resulting in a broken fibula. Everything stayed inside, thankfully. (No criticism of the pilot involved at all. He will [...]
Maren and I would like to announce our 2024 Costa Rica Tour dates, as we are currently getting everything lined up for our 10th year guiding tours to our favorite ‘home away from home’. Our ‘Pura Vida Paragliding Tours’ are designed for anyone from the low airtime pilot to work on building his thermal skills [...]
Actually that's anti-cyclone, (even though this one is forcing us to say 'uncle'!*), and there is a huge one right over our heads this entire weekend. This means two things: For our beginning students, and anyone wanting to fly at the coast this weekend, they are in for disappointment. For others, the tourist types [...]
Today we cancelled classes. Winds this morning are light, but definitely offshore, but my predictions are that the winds will come onshore around 11:30 to noon this morning, (if not before). From a bit of logic learned over years of observation, we have discovered that typically, the only thing to 'overpower' an offshore wind [...]
Hi everyone! Covid 19. The Corona Virus. It seems it’s all we hear about these days. We are, like so many other small businesses temporarily closed because of its consequences. It’s a bummer, but it has been the right thing to do considering so many unknowns. Not to fear though. We ARE going to get [...]
Our time in Costa Rica is coming to an end for this winter season. We'll actually be returning to the Pacific Northwest on the first day of spring! Looking forward to getting everything lined up and heading back out to the beach to start our 2019 training season as early as the third week of [...]
Where we fly in the Seaside / Gearhart Area Locally, paragliders are using a ground based towing system where a vehicle with a specially designed winch system pulls the paraglider aloft. The vehicle and paraglider start in close proximity, with the paraglider climbing higher as the vehicle drives along the beach between Sunset and Del [...]
A 'pay-out' style winch is typically mounted in either a truck or a boat, with the pilot setting up about 50' downwind. As the vehicle begins driving/moving, the pilots waits for that first 'tension' signal to inflate his/her glider. As the glider comes over the pilots head, the line tension is then further increased to [...]
Is it time for you to Discover Paragliding in 2019?!? Travel season is over and we're just a few weeks from the official season start for 2019! We'll be starting classes on May 3rd training Friday-Sunday for a couple of weeks, moving to Thursday to Sunday by the middle of the month. Ping us by [...]
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