What Should I Bring?

Everything you need to know before your day with us.

The Essentials

We provide all flying equipment — you just need to bring yourself and dress for the outdoors. Here’s what we recommend:

Please wear ankle supporting shoes or boots. These are really important to keep your ankles protected on our undulating take-off and landing areas. If you need advice on footwear, please contact us. We are a dealer for Hanwag flying boots.

All students and tandem passengers must bring a charged mobile phone, any prescription medication or spectacles, and/or sunglasses.

We’d always suggest you wear sports sunglasses, and bring a bottle of water and a snack with you for your tandem flight, as sometimes we have a hike in to the site of up to 20 minutes, and may need to wait for the conditions to be right for us to fly.

You might be with us on the hill for a couple of hours, or more, if we have to wait for the conditions to be spot on for a tandem flight, and solo students are normally with us between 10:00 and 17:00, although these timings vary with the seasons. We’ll always let you know where and when we’re meeting at around 19:00 the day before.

Please don’t bring a metal flask, as we don’t like to fly with these in our harnesses. It’s always a good idea to wear sun cream. You’re welcome to bring a camera at your own risk and can also buy our professional photo and video package if you’d like to.

Solo Students

For solo students, you’ll need at least 2 litres of water, and perhaps as much as 3 litres in temps over 20C. You’ll also need a packed lunch and snacks for the day. Solo students also need to bring exactly £33 in cash for their BHPA day membership, or a debit card to sign up for the annual option (currently £192 + £35 joining fee from 1st April 2026). You’ll also need suncream and sunglasses. On your first day, you may wish to bring a small backpack with your personal bits and pieces, but as you progress through the course, it won’t be possible to bring hard framed bags as they usually don’t fit into the back of your paraglider harness, meaning your things are stuck on the hill at the end of the day once you’ve flown down!

Student Starter Pack

We can offer a starter pack for students inc an Air Design 18 litre day sack, Supair Touch flying gloves, and a 2 litre water bag with hose for £89.99. We do of course offer all sorts of other equipment, including package deals on your first set of paragliding equipment, which we can discuss at any point during your training.

Air temperature dictates the clothing we need to wear for tandem flying, and training.

– Under 10C – Thermal layer, warm outdoor trousers, fleece mid layer top, warm insulated jacket, warm gloves, warm hat.
– 10 – 20C – Light outdoor trousers or warm leggings, fleece mid layer and one extra mid weight jacket than you’d normally wear in that temperature, light weight gloves.
– 20 – 30C – Shorts or leggings, short sleeve T shirt, long sleeve lightweight top/jacket, light weight gloves.