But even these methods do not always yield maximum results. Trikes offer the best solution for an accelerated hang gliding training program. Trikes allow a student pilot to sit down in the front seat of a two-place trainer, and in one hour, he will get an hour of flight time. This is how most other types of flying are taught, and works well for hang gliding, too. Eventually, a student needs to learn towing skills, or how to footlaunch, but when the trike student arrives on the training hill, he is much better off for having learned to fly before learning to take off and land.
Trikes let a new hang glider pilot relax.
I teach hang gliding at the Arlington Ultralight Center of the Universe, in Arlington, Washington in the summer season, and I wander the southland in the winter, looking for work. You can meet me for lessons at some location, OR, I will load up my motorhome and trike, and visit an airfield near you. The downwind leg of the pattern at the Arlington Ultralight center. I land, swap seats with the student, and let him take the front seat. Copyright 1999 John Olson.