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!!

Angus came second in the Hang gliding Nationals

Congratulations to Angus Tapper, our chief pilot, who came second in the Hang Gliding Nationals, recently held in Wanaka. 4 Tasks have been flown. The field of 35 pilots from all over New Zealand found great, sometimes challenging flying conditions.

Well done, Angus!

Beautiful winter flights

Wow, what a fantastic run of stunning winter weather we have had.


The snow launch off the summit of Coronet Peak has been very popular. Here are pics of a beautiful winter flight off Coronet Peak.
The wind has been finally picking up today after about 14 days of flying straight.
With the weather forcast being stormy, lets hope there will be some snow coming to Queenstown!

Brand new gear!!!!

Brand new gear!!!!

Oh it has been a rather busy summer despite of being in a recession. But Queenstown's numbers in general have been up.

Just recently we have upgraded our gear and bought 2 new tandem paragliders and 1 new tandem hang glider. See pics of our new babies below.

First frost today! Ohhhh winter is coming! Very exciting, we are starting to look forward to the winter flights off the summit of Coronet Peak!

Hang gliding is up and running again!

Hooray, we are Hang Gliding again!

After a fantastic paragliding winter we are delighted to be able to open up our Hang Gliding operation. Departure times throughout the day. Reserve your spot under Freephone 0800 46 7325 (only works within NZ) or global phone +64 21 826336. Internet bookings possible too (info@tandemhanggliding.co.nz)

Winter paragliding flights up and running!

Our winter paragliding is running now the Coronet Peak ski field is open for 2009. We had some stunning views up there yesterday with calm clear skies. Give us a bell or drop us a line and come have some fun in the snow! Freephone 0800 467325 (NZ only) or out side NZ +64 21 826336. info@tandemparagliding.com

Tandem Hang Gliding up and running!

Our tandem hang gliding division has started up again for the season ahead. We have already had some great flights, so looking forward to getting you up there!

Great skiing and lots more fun at Coronet Peak, Queenstown

Yes, it has been a great ski season so far!

Good snow conditions, nice winter weather and a brand new base building up at Coronet Peak!

We have also been quite busy with our tandem paragliding off the summit of the skifield.

We take the chairlifts to the summit and launch off in the snow. Spectacular views and quite a thrill ride experience! Check out the pics below! Or call us on freephone 0800 GO PEAK (0800 46 7325) - only works within NZ or on our global phone line +64 21 TANDEM (+64 21 826336).