Learning how to fly powered paraglider under instructor's guidance is essential for safe and continuous enjoyment of the sport. To earn an Ultralight license required to fly PPG in Canada student pilot must complete 30 take offs and landing totaling 5 or more hours in your log book. 

Here is an example of a typical course outline:

Day one:  We start with 4 hours preparatory ground school on Saturday morning that usually runs from 8 am until 12 noon. We take 1 hour brake for lunch and drive to the training field. We start again around 2 pm getting familiar with paraglider and training harness. We learn how to forward and reverse inflate the paraglider from 2 pm till 5:00 pm. Then you will get to ride the trike without the paraglider. Once you get used to it we will attach the glider and you will practice taxiing with paraglider attached to the trike. If you can manage to taxi without any oscillations and show us good throttle management will give you the option to go for your first solo flight. I would estimate that you have 30 % chance that you will fly solo using trike on your first training day, if weather is suitable. We usually wrap things up after your first flight as there is lot to digest.

Day two:  You have to decide if you are happy with flying trike or want to proceed to foot launch that is more difficult to learn but you are less restricted by wind velocity and the surface of your take off area. On the other hand the trike requires no physical effort as foot launch can be quite demanding especially during the learning stage. 

• If you want to foot launch We will meet back at the training field around 1 pm for more glider work perfecting forward and reverse inflations. You will also learn how to run with paramotor on your back using its power - not having paraglider attached yet. Once you inflations are consistent and you can keep the glider up in the air while running down the field we will strap engine to your back as a next step. Things will be more awkward but you will adjust soon. Once you will be able to inflate the glider and run with it having paramotor on your back we will start it and you will go for your first solo foot launch take off. 
• If you want to trike launch  We will meet back at the training field around 3 pm and simply proceed to more flights to improve our consistency.

I would estimate that on day 2 you have 60 % chance that you will fly solo using trike and 30 % chance to manage your first foot take off.

Day three.

Same as day two - More ground handling if you did not fly yet. If you did then pretty just more flying plus we will be filling in the rest of the ground school.

I would estimate that we have 90 % chance that you will fly solo using trike and 60 % chance to manage your first foot take off.

Day four.

Same as day three - pretty much just more flying plus we will be filling in the rest of the ground school.

I would estimate that we have 99 % chance that you will fly solo using trike and 80 % chance to manage your first foot take off.

Five or more:  Same as day four - pretty much just more flying plus we will be filling in the rest of the ground school.

Completion of Powered Paragliding Ontario PPG paramotoring course and earning an Ultralight pilot license takes approximately 30 hours. This may spread out over as many as 10 days. Most people can learn and complete the course in 5  full days so the extra two days are our "rainy" or "too windy" days.  These are some of the weather conditions that will prevent us from triking, paramotor training or powered paraglider flying:

• there will be no ground paraglider handling if surface wind is more then 25 km/h

• trike launch - there will be no PPG powered paraglider flying if surface wind is more then 15 km/h or if I deem the conditions too thermal or turbulent. 

• foot launch - there will be no PPG powered paraglider flying if surface wind is more then 20 km/h or if I deem the conditions too thermal or turbulent 

• there will be no training at all in rain or if our field is water logged and/or very muddy

• there will be no PPG training if there is snow on the ground

Note that:

• we have enormous field that we PPG train from. 
• we have indoor facility to teach paramotor ground school and to show and test paramotoring equipment that we sell. 
• I am instructor certified by Transport Canada with 4 years of experience teaching paragliding, 8 years of experience teaching powered paragliding. I have been paragliding since 1988 and power paragliding since 2000. I also have 23 years of experience teaching rock climbing. 
• our paramotor PPG school is approved by Ministry of Transportation Canada
• we will not teach students on any other equipment but Walkerjet and Sky paragliders
• we follow written curriculum to ensure quality and consistency of powered paraglider PPG paramotor training
• our PPG paramotor classes are small to ensure personal attention to all students. I teach all the powered paragliding courses my self with help of Mark another experienced PPG instructor.

Check out the PPG paramotor courses history or see these videos: 

• Mike's first PPG foot launch  - flight video
• Ray's second PPG foot launch - flight video
• Andre trike - flight video
• Very nice flight - this is what it is like....see here or here.

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• $ 50.00 CAD per hour of preparatory ground school - 4 hours + $ 50.00 CAD for study materials. Total $ 240.00

• $ 50.00 CAD per hour + $ 20.00 CAD paraglider rental fee per each hour of ground glider training/handling.  Approximately 6 - 8 hours of training is needed to be sufficiently prepared for solo trike flight. Approximately  10 - 14 hours of training is needed to be sufficiently prepared for solo foot launch flight. If you want to keep cost down I suggest to buy your own paraglider - the $ 20.00 CAD per hour paraglider rental fee will not be charged if you train with your own equipment.  If you are out of the area or if you want to keep cost down to minimum I suggest to buy your own glider after you complete 6 hours of ground glider handling under my supervision and for the other 6 or more hours you can practice on your own. Also note: There is never enough of glider handling and kiting practice. For course dates and/or to see if spot is available click here.

• $ 50.00 per hour per person for ground school - approximately 4 hours

• $ 50.00  per hour of powered practice (power take offs, short flights,  landings, cross country flight) + $ 20.00 CAD paraglider rental fee per each hour + $ 1.00 CAD per each minute when our paramotor is running. Again, if you want to keep cost down I suggest to buy your own paramotor - the $ 1.00 CAD per minute paramotor rental fee and  the $ 20.00 CAD paraglider rental fee per each hour will not be charged if you train with your own equipment. Approximately 10 hours as 5 hours of flight time in your log book is required to apply for license. For course dates and/or to see if spot is available click here.