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At the end of August we were lucky enough to be available to help out when Open Country visited Airways Airsports to get 4 blind people up in tandem hangglider flights. The weather was very changeable which meant sneaking in…
We’re very pleased to share that Marina managed to get flying in a tandem hangglider in gorgeous North Devon with Sam from Fly Like a Bird. Marina was born multiple limb differences but with some adaptions to her harness and…
We’re delighted to share that after a health and weather enforced delay, Sally finally got airborne in a tandem paraglider with Mick from YX Paragliding in the beautiful Welsh countryside. I finally did it!! Plagued with bad health and then…
After the success in 2022, the wonderful people at the Great British Aerotow Revival offered us a gap on one of their warm up days to get disabled people flying. We managed to get four people up thanks to our…
We’ve just come back from Buttermere Bash 2023. We have never been (Helen and me ) although this event was behind the original fundraising to set up Flyability over 25 years ago. The festival is full of awesome people in…
We have been contacted by Altitude Trips about a training course in the Swiss Alps they’re offering in October. They’re keen to include paragliding wheelchair pilots in their courses. Altitude Trips are a BHPA registered school operating outside the UK.…
Flyability have been invited back to GBAR for 2023 following our successful Disabled Tandems Day in 2022. Once again we’ll be offering free hang glider tandems for disabled people. Find out more and register here:
We’re delighted to be included in the Summer 2022 Newsletter from the Royal AeroClub. The Royal Aero Club of the United Kingdom (RAeC) is the national co-ordinating body for Air Sport in the United Kingdom. Their quarterly newsletter covers updates…
By Samantha Dryden-Sillars On a clear Thursday in June, I had the opportunity to go paragliding with Flyability (http://www.flyability.org.uk/). Flyability is a branch of the British Hang Gliding and Paragliding Association dedicated to supporting people with disabilities to go paragliding…
This Spring Flyability was invited by organisers Tony Smith and Steve Blackler to run hang gliding tandems for disabled people during the warm up days of the Great British Aerotow Revival competition. Judy Leden MBE from Airways Airsports travelled down to help with…
