Places to Hang Glide in Australia

When you think of hang gliding, you think of freedom and silence and soaring; soaring with the wind and salt sea air in your face as close to naturally flying as possible and what better place to obtain his freedom than Australia. Here are some of the best places in Australia for hang gliding. There are areas within a few short miles of Sydney in New South Wales, Australia; Byron Bay, Newcastle, and Stanwell Park that are excellent for both beginners and advanced hang gliders. These areas are blessed with a long coastline and excellent wind currents that are perfect for hang gliding.

The Seabreeze Hang Gliding in Byron Bay was recently featured in a Getaway article featuring tandem flights of up to 150-250 meters (492-820 feet). Anyone between the ages of 14 until 80 can learn to fly from one of the hang gliding schools nearby Sydney. If you're wondering if hang gliding dangerous? Any height-oriented sport is dangerous and even birds have suffered injuries in flight. However, as with birds, the injuries are rare and with the proper equipment and safety procedures, flying can be as safe as taking a walk in a park. If you are hang gliding over the ocean, falling injuries are minimized and the use of floatation devices and parachutes to reduce the risk to getting a little wet.

How long are hang gliding flights? In the old days, hang gliding was restricted to gliding down the face of a mountain with the limitations of the equipment being the ability to slow down the descent. Today, when hang gliding, using the air currents the pilot has the ability to stay aloft for hours and the limitations are broader by staying warm and keeping nourished. Hang gliders have been known to fly for hundreds of miles across all kinds of terrain. How does hang gliding work? You can either start the flight through the practice of foot launching from a hill, being towed behind a motor powered aircraft, boat or ground vehicle. Once moving the air pressure exerted on the hang glider will lift the glider upwards where the pilot will seek warm air currents or thermals that will carry the hang glider upwards like an eagle.

From there you can hang glide almost to the sun, or where the trees look like green treetops, swaying to and fro and the air currents guide you across the sky. Silent and hanging you will begin to experience freedom as if you never imagined it could be. Check out hang gliding in Australia on your next trip, you will not be disappointed.