Training

We have the largest instructor network in the USA with training in all 50 states. 

$1500 USHPA P2-P4

$900 Basic P2

$50 Per Tow Maneuvers Courses

$300 Crash Course

$25 Self Training Package (Includes Get well card & flowers sent to room or next of kin)

 

800-707-2525 Call now to get started!

 

Exotic training & vacation package:

 

$2500 Hawaiian 2 Week Training Package!!

We have paragliding & powered paragliding resorts staffed with advanced USHPA instructors.  $2500 includes your room, some of your meals AND training!!! Think of this, take an awesome vacation to Hawaii and come back a pilot!! Lot’s of fun for the wife & kids too.

All equipment for training will be provided.  We use only top quality fully certifed paragliding and powered paragliding equipment that is in good condition.  Leaning to fly in paradise is an experience you will treasure forever.	Classes are small with no more than 3 students per instructor.  Lots of personal hands on training that follows the USHPA syllabus.  Master glider handling, free flight, weather, equipment, flight planning and more.	Training on the coast of Hawaii provides vast amounts of perfect weather conditions and a spectacular setting.  Controlling a paraglider is like flying a kite.  It is one of the few aircraft you can learn to control before leaving the ground.
Learning a new skill is fun, people from all over the world have come to enjoy our program.  Musicians, movie stars, fighter pilots and others frequent our courses.  Those that you train with often become life long friends and flying buddies.	We start with a solid base of paraglider skills.  Once you know how to fly the wing you can add a PPG Trike, Paramotor or even tow behind a boat.  Speed flying, skydiving and many other related sports will be easy when you can paraglide.	Try to imagine what being a bird is really like.  When you dream of flying you don’t dream of being at 30,000 ft cruising straight and level for hours at a time.  You want to brush the treetops and land on fence posts.  Imagine Hawaii as a bird!!
Explore the islands! As a bird you can get to places no one else in the world has seen.  The Hawaiian Islands offer an amazing adventure.  There are tons of things to do for the whole family.  We can also take friends & family on tandem flights.	After flying like a bird there is still time to enjoy the paradise you came to in other ways.  Beaches, rivers waterfalls, volcanoes, skiing… Hawaii has it all.  This is the vacation of a lifetime and you will gain a skill that offers limitless possibilities.	Take me flying daddy!! When you are the coolest dad in the neighborhood your kids will look up to you as never before.  The first time you launch out of your back yard and fly around you will realize you are no longer average.  You are a SUPER!!!

Contact us today!!

1-800-707-2525

info@totallyawesome.com

 

 

U-Turn USA and powered paragliding has once again almost taken the aviation world into the realms of science fiction. Paragliding is sometimes known as paramotoring and it is a form of ultralight aviation. The pilot wears a small motor on his/her back called a paramotor and energetically runs into the air producing lift from a paraglider wing. Powered paragliding differs from powered parachuting in that powered paragliders use an extremely efficient wing which aids the lifting process. U-Turn USA’s innovative wing allows the small and light motor to be carried on the pilot’s back for a running foot launch but does necessitate a more experienced and competent handling.

The ever-increasing popularity of the sport of powered paragliding is probably due to the low, slow flowing capacity and the totally free and open-air sensation that the pilot does not experience with a conventional light aircraft. Compact and lightweight portability and low and affordable costs of the maintenance of the equipment are major advantages for U-Turn USA and its powered paragliding machine’s enthusiastic sporting participants. The paramotor weighs anywhere between forty-five and eighty pounds, easily enabling the pilot to wear and support it on his/her back during during the lift-off phase. With an enthusiastic but brief run the wing will lift the motor and the harnessed pilot successively.

After this simple take-off the pilot eases him/herself into the seat that was folded during the launch and comfortably sits back while suspended below the inflated paraglider wing. Utilising the brake “toggles” in each hand together with a hand-held throttle control of the powered paraglider is simplistically available. U-Turn USA have designed and produced a powered paraglider that can fly at speeds between fifteen and forty-five miles per hour. Altitudes of eighteen thousand feet can be attained but just about all flying is kept at below five hundred feet above ground level.

In several countries, including the United States, this powered paragliding sport is minimally regulated. No license or specific course of training is essential either in the United States or the United Kingdom. Receiving instruction and advice from a seasoned and professional powered paragliding instructor is highly recommended by U-Turn USA Those countries that do require authentic certification often solicit the use of non-governmental ultralight organizations for this purpose. A pilot of a powered paragliding machine could invest between one to four weeks getting through the syllabus required by most organizations.

With special gear U-Turn USA has made possible the taking “on board” of a second person but few countries, including the United States, would countenance this tandem flying without some form of instruction and certification. Lightweight carts or “trikes” can be mounted on powered paragliders for the further enjoyment of those pilots who prefer not to foot-launch or for those who for some reason are unable to. Research has produced statistics to show that powered paragliding is safer than riding a motorcycle. Some pilots even carry a spare parachute that is designed to open from as little as fifty feet. U-Turn USA together with its powered paraglider has made possible the means for almost anyone to follow the age-old dream of man to fly.