Welcome to Cloudbase Paragliding | Paragliding in Wiltshire
Paragliding is a thrilling, fair weather sport; nearest thing to flying like a bird.
Cloudbase is a small, friendly school based in the beautiful Wiltshire Downs just half an hour from the M4 motorway.
If the weather is suitable for flying we'll be out flying!
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Paragliding courses and trips
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We train people of all ages to fly paragliders from scratch right up to the level of fully-qualified, independent pilots available in our shop
We also arrange paragliding holidays in Europe. These are usually suitable for all levels of paraglider pilot.
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Buy a gift for a friend: either a whole course or a contribution to their training or equipment. Vouchers for £30, £50 or £75 are available. So buy now to get them off to a flying start!
What an epic last few days 13th and 14th January 2012 at the Cloudbase Paragliding camp at South Cerney airfield and great to meet so many wonderful people interested in Paragliding. On both days I arrived to frost on the ground and lovely blue skies and almost perfect flying/winching conditions. Both Lee and Simon working their socks off to make the most out of the days. Wow where to start and what a start to the year...
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Another great days training today with Dave Perry on his second day of EP and Douggie Johns refresher training prior to our trip to Lanzarote on the 19th Jan. Well done to you both, what a fantastic day.
Cloudbase has again found another flyable window where other have failed, come and join us you know you want to.
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Cloudbase managed to snatch another little weather window this morning. After the fog had lifted it was flyable for about 90 mins, I cant remember milk hill so busy on a week day in the winter. Congratulations to Mike Stone who passed his CP today, he joins the ever growing cloudbase possie. Well done mate. Below is a picture of half the wings that were out today.
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Well we had another fantastic day on our tow field today. The forecast was for light to moderate winds and sun so in typical Cloudbase tradition we went out training when it was flyable. We flew all day and clocked up more than 60 flights not bad between two students and a tow conversation. Congratulations to Norman for completing his EP and to Andy for getting through most of his CP. Well done also to John for starting his Tow conversion having travelled up from Southampton after an early morning call from Nik. Thanks also to Nik for helping out during the day and also filming the video below. Let’s hope for some more weather like this. Lee and Simon With no students booked in and a forecast of increasing wind I decided to test fly the new Hybrid Paraglider called the ZunZun. It was also going to be demoed by Martin later in the day. Martin has always wanted to speed fly but could find anything in the market that matched his weight. He is 112kg all up, the 21m2 ZunZun seemed like a good wing for him. Well what a blast, I really can’t remember when my on personal paragliding was so much fun this little wing is awesome, its flying characteristics are the same as a normal size wing with nice long break travel and nice response in the turns. Watch the video or even better come and have a go. Martin by the way bought one and it will be arriving here in a few weeks. |
