Introduction
Introduction to flying and the course.
Elementary Pilot
Phase 1 – Pre-flight
- Introduction to the Equipment
- Preflight Checks
- Flyable Weather
Phase 2 – Ground Training
- Forward Launching
- The Glider Controls
- Airspeed, Windspeed, Groundspeed
Phase 3 – Initial Flights
- Initial Flight
- Landings
- Essential Briefings
Phase 4 – Theory 1
- Airmanship and Human Factors
- Flight Theory
- Flying Weather
- Rules of the Air
- The BHPA Pilot Rating System
Phase 5 – Exercises
- Reverse Launching
- Landing Approaches
Club Pilot
Phase 6 – Equipment
- Buying a Paraglider
- Harnesses
- Helmets
- Emergency Parachutes
- Instruments
- Care & Maintenance
Phase 7 – Extended Flights
- Ridge Soaring
- Towing
- Top Landings
- Mountain Flying
Phase 8 – Improving Skills
- Rapid Descents – Big Ears
- Side Slope Landings
- Co-ordinated Turns
- Speed Systems
Phase 9 – Instability & Emergencies
- Sticky Situations
- Active Flying & Collapses
Phase 10 – Theory 2
- Site Assessment
- Wind Gradient & Venturi
- Weather Assessment
- Big Weather
- Surface Pressure Charts
- Clouds
- Airflow around Terrain
- Intro to Valley Winds
- Intro to Thermals
- Drag
- Speed to Fly & Polar Curves
- Air Law 1
- Avoiding Military Traffic
- Air Charts
Phase 11 – Leaving School
- Leaving the Ridge
- BHPA
- Brief History
- Clubs
- CP & Continuation Training
- Other Training Systems
- Dealing with an Accident
Pilot
- Aviation Forecasts
- Anabatic / Katabatic flows
- The Daily Convection Cycle
- Wave & Sea Breezes
- Lapse Rates
- Aeronautical Charts
- XC flight with a Chart & Altimeter
- Instruments 2
- Radios
- Low Flying Rules & Displays
- Pod Harnesses
- Advanced Glider Control Training
- Spins
- Spiral Dives
- B-line Stalls
- Emergency Parachute Deployment
- Stronger Wind Launching – Cobra
- Human Performance
- Touching Cloudbase and XC