CAA Part 115 Adventure Aviation Certificate for Coronet Peak Tandems

New Civil Aviation Rules, Part 115 Adventure Aviation – Certification and Operations came into effect 10 Nov 2011. This includes hot air ballooning, gliding, tandem hang glider and paraglider operations, tandem parachute descent, and parachute-drop aircraft operations. We had to comply by 1st of May 2012, which gave us less than 6 months. And ... we have been one of the first ones in the industry to receive our certificate today! Wohoooooo!

Well done and many thanks to Angus and Barry for all the time and effort they have put into this. It has been a huge project, especially over our very busy summer season.

You can never be too young to for a paraglide!

Finally, it was her turn today. Ana got the chance to join her Papa Angus today for her first paraglide ever. What a cool thing to do when you are only 7 years old! It was a stunning day with light southerly winds. Just perfect for this wee button to experience what Papa is going to work to every morning. Don't know who actually had more fun! See for yourself.

What do you think of our new looks?

Wohooooo! We have got a fresh new look on the www. A big thank you to Ulf, who has been very helpful in creating this. Happy browsing - www.tandemparagliding.com - but wait, there is more to come!!!! Watch the space. :-)

Amazing summer with fantastic flying

Hi everyone!

It has been a while.
This summer has just been so incredibly busy. Good weather just keeps coming in bucket loads, so not much time for this little duck to update our wee blog.
We have been having the most incredible summer ever. Hot sunny days just keep coming. Sunscreen and my hat are life's essentials these days. The other day I think I heard the weather man saying - the last decent rain we had was mid December - and that is now 1 month ago! No, I am not complaining. I love our Queenstown summer, just keep it coming!!!!!!!

Angus, our chief pilot, managed to get away this month too. On January 7th, he flew some impressive 127km off Coronet Peak to the top of Lake Ohau on his solo paraglider. And that in a respectful time of 5 hours. Mt Cook was soooooooo close, and the NZ Distance record was another 14km away, but he was simply running out of daylight. See below some of his amazing pics.
Well done, Angus!

It's officially Spring! Time for Hang Gliding again!

Wow! Doesn't time fly? (pardon the pun!) We are very excited to announce that our Hang Gliding tandems are back up and running again for another season.

Don't worry though, winter is not over yet. We are still operating our spectacular Winter Paragliding flights over the skifield from the summit of Coronet Peak at 5400ft!!

This year we have a brand new Hang Gliding van to add to the fleet, Angus and Fi have been busy getting it all ready & kitted out with all our equipment & making it all nice & shiny for our customers!

Give us a call on 0800 467325 (GO PEAK) or +64 21 826336 (from overseas) for all Hang Gliding and Paragliding enquiries

Our winter Paragliding is well & truly under way! We've been enjoying awesome flying days from the summit of Coronet Peak. Snow flurries again today so come up & enjoy the snow with us!

Another awesome summer of Paragliding & Hang Gliding over - bring on the winter Paragliding!!

What a brilliant summer we've had this year with the Hang Gliding and Paragliding.

Well done to all the boys for all their hard work and giving our customers an experience of a lifetime!

Below is one of our customers enjoying amazing autumn Hang Gliding with Angus!

We are now busy getting ourselves ready for another wicked winter!

Yes, it's time to get the winter layers on & come join us for spectacular flying from the summit of Coronet Peak at 5400ft.

Taking off in the snow, we fly above the ski field & you can wave to all your buddies down below!

Coronet has had a dusting of snow in the last week, won't be long before we are knee high in the white stuff, we can't wait!!