1. Waiver-FAA, Instruction, forms, legal issues.
2. Knowledge of how a paraglider flies, ridge lift and thermals.
3. Launch and LZ-Landing Zone, setting out glider, putting on harness, never take off or adjust any part without my permission, spreader bar.
4. Preflight training- Forward and Reverse Inflation, Simulation, Sequence of picking glider up, adjustment, Announcement, Coordinated run with passenger legs to inside.Safety equipment.
5. We will be probably be pulled back at first:lean forward, stay balanced, try to go forward, even if you can’t.
6. Don’t grab anything on me-your own straps if you must grab. If we must fall, it’s ok, don’t brace.
7. Hands in front to start, to side in middle of flight, back in front to land
8. Can scoot back into harness in middle of flight for comfort.
9. Keep running after takeoff
10. Turning procedure, including weight shift
11. Possibility of guided steering.
12. Talking in flight about lift, approach strategy and safety
13. Approach-pattern, lining up, final, coming in fast, appear fast until flare.
14. Flare- Mechanism, announcement
15. Landing-Bracing legs, steps, non-use of arms to brace us.