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  Paragliding Instruction. Fly Hawaii Honolulu    Best safety record in Hawaii Oldest school, since 1994 in Hawaii     Call us for our next beginner class   808 315 6213 Office Hours: Mo-Fr: 9am-5pm   flyhawaiihonolulu@gmail.com Our  Best Year  Yet!    P aragliding Training  Hawaii Chief instructor Achim Hagemann carries more gliding experience than a paper airplane from World War I, with 32 years of paragliding instruction and more than 1,500 hours of airtime on hang gliders and paragliders and one of the best safety records in the industry. The school offers paragliding training, private lessons, cross country guiding and high altitude flight instruction in Honolulu and the Big Island. .                                           Student checking out new gear. O ahu has great flying sites for intermediate and advanced rated pilots. Beginner kiting classes take place on Oahu, but when it comes to do yo
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Paragliding in Kealakekua near Captain Cook on the Big Island of Hawaii. Paragliding in Kealakekua near Captain Cook. The Big Island Soaring Assoc. (BISA) is a small local club, they fly at Kealakekua, near Kona on the Big Island of Hawaii, a few miles from the coast. Mostly light thermals, pilots need to be able to do really flat turns to stay up, take off is behind a locked gate on private property that can only be reached by 4wd. Membership fee applies. High accident rate and very tight LZ's. Lots of bandito landings. No local hang gliding pilots. Location:  Kealakekua near Captain Cook, very voggy (vog from the volcano) with a hot stable air mass and restricted landing fields. A 4 wd is required. Usually pretty short flights for visiting pilots, can be 6 minutes or less depending on how cross it is, but when it is good it is good.  Really tight landing areas, surrounded by big trees, light winds are often cross and shifting, major ground effect from the lava ro
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