About Us
We are a group of hang glider and paraglider pilots who fly in Mid-Wales, roughly from Rhaeadr to Aberystwyth and from Aberdyfi to Aberteifi. We provide post-Club Pilot support, negotiate and manage sites to fly in our area, and organise social and training events for our members.
We are affiliated with the Welsh Free Flight Federation so our members are able to fly many of the sites in Wales. In return WFFF members may fly our open sites without paying the daily membership fee.
We are a club of qualified pilots -- we do not teach people to fly. If you would like to learn how to fly a hang glider or paraglider then you must find a school.
The Mid-Wales Paragliding Centre is based near Aberystwyth and run by a club member. Other Welsh and nearby schools are listed on the links page, all the schools in the UK are listed on the BHPA website. How to join
Full instructions are on the how to join page. Full membership costs £10 per year. Flying our sites
Look at the sites guide for up-to-date information on our sites. Welsh Free Flight Federation members are welcome to fly our open sites, as are any BHPA members. BHPA membership includes 3rd party insurance hence why you must be a current BHPA to fly our sites.
We'd love for everyone to be able to fly all our sites, unfortunately, some of our sites, marked "members only", are extremely sensititive. These are restrictions placed upon us by the landowners. Please do not fly any of these sites if you are not a member: you risk permanent loss of the site for everybody. If, on your travels, you see a likely looking hill and fancy flying it, please contact us first as there will probably be a reason that it's not in the sites guide. Flying such hills can jeopardise other hills under our stewardship and we'd rather avoid such issues!