Lessons to the point of being able to fly off a mountain by yourself will probably cost about $2000, plus or minus. Your instructor will provide everything you need while you're learning.
And you don't need any of that until after you've learned. Harnesses start at about a grand, and the parachute will be another grand. If you're like most people, you'll add stuff like custom colors and whatnot that will raise the price. But a no-frills brand spanking new glider suitable for a new pilot will run about $4000. You don't want or need the top-of-the-line hang glider. Due to improvements in equipment, that's not likely to happen these days. Scariest thing in the air was probably an accidental parachute deployment. Sometimes they'll get annoyed and dive away. Flying with them in ridge lift, you can only get so close, then you run into apparently a force bubble so you can't get any closer. She got in two whacks and left 4 talon holes each time. I've never struck a bird in the air, but I've had a bird strike me. Other countries have different restrictions. I seem to be fortunate in that I've been pretty comfortable in everything I've flown, either new, used, or borrowed.ĭepends on where you are. Mostly today you'll see people flying pods (closed in the back, zips open in front to let the legs down) or cocoons (open in the back, hold up the bottom part on launch to run.) Some people seem to be very particular about how their harness has to be set up to be comfortable. I'm not a big fan of knee-hangers, but they're inexpensive. Cocoon harnesses are cooler in the summertime. I'm not particular I've flown different kinds at different times. The sport is a community, and if you're flying and you need something, it's amazing how often it becomes available. You'd probably buy your first glider through your instructor, who is probably a dealer for one of the manufacturers, or who may have a line on suitable used equipment. Pretty much all the manufacturers do a pretty good job of producing good gliders.
The first high flight will probably give you a lot to process, even if it's tandem with someone else flying the glider.
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It's presented in the media as this adrenaline sport, but while you might support adrenaline for a two-minute skydive, soaring is more like solving a series of puzzles as to how to stay up with no engine. It's as safe or as adrenaline packed as you care to make it. Over 40-ish years, it's probably thousands. I had, however, been interested in aviation from an early age, and I knew how things flew. It was 1973, and there wasn't much in the way of good instruction. My brother bought a glider, asked if I was interested.
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