Hang Gliding - FAQ - What's needed?
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(To email me, just delete the A in my address line. Alternately, try contacting me on the Yahoo HG forum, or the Pilot's HangGliding.Org forum, linked below. Red)
P.S. So, what does Red fly, anyway? ATOS-VX? SwiftLite? Archaeopteryx? In my dreams, maybe... It's been a mixed bag. I have usually managed to own a flex-wing *and* a rigid wing. I flew the fast one for big air, and the slow one for sight-soaring. Rigid wings are now beyond my means, but the flex-wings can handle most of the air that I would launch in, today. So, for a brief history of my HG world, here are pictures of most of the wings that I have owned.
My thirty-mumble years in the air
But if I ever do get rich and famous, it will be this... :-)
P.P.S. Here are a few excellent links, that will take you to lots more links; any good search engine would find many more for you. There are also two Yahoo discussion forums. The Pilot's "HangGliding.Org" forum is mostly the noisy, knowledgeable USA crowd (sometimes rowdy, but very friendly to new pilots; all are welcome). They are a great bunch of HG pilots, of all nations, with a wide range of topics and off-topics. The Towing group is dedicated to those not blessed with vertical landscaping in their neighborhood. All of these forums are subscription forums, and all are easy-and-free to use.
The Pilot's Hang Gliding Forum
one of the better HG club web sites
where to get flying gear, and much more...
More FAQs; these are on the WIKI, from the Pilot's Hang Gliding Forum ...
Want to learn to FLY? I mean, like a soaring BIRD? Click the link . . .
The Pilot's Hang Gliding Forum
Spread the Flyin' word! In the USA, we have lots of good web pages. On this little graphic, linked below, we have one rather "official" site, and one friendly and informal site. Print out this bumper sticker, even on plain paper; put one in your car window, and put some on sports-related notice boards:
USA flying club bumper sticker / notice
If you can own each article in this collection, then hey, that's a fair start . . . ;-)
All the best to you! Get high, and FLY FAR!