We get hoards of pilots who were certified elsewhere visiting Santa Barbara to connect with Eagle for continuing education opportunities. We will fully customize training to meet your expectations. We will help you with ground handling, launching, spot landing, thermal flying, and cross-country insights. We charge $250 a day for pilots who already have a minimum of a P2 rating with USHPA. Its common for pilots to spend a few days with us, and even more as we customize programs to match each individual pilots wants and needs. We have seen what was expected to be two or three days of continuing education turn into a week, and pilots wanting to stay even longer. We developed the “Eagle For Life” program for pilots who were certified elsewhere, and realize the benefit of access Eagles continuing education programs. The program cost is a one time $2500 fee, and gives you unlimited coaching any day we are with students at the flight park or in the mountains. We are flying all of these locations when Mother Nature is offering favorable flying conditions. Certified pilots have found this program to be of great value when they plan on spending some time flying in Santa Barbara every year. The “Eagle For Life” program does not apply to our tours and clinics. However, the program does give you priority registration on our World Wide Paragliding Tours and Paragliding Clinics. Our tours and clinics sell out every year, and have earned eagle the worldwide reputation as being educational leaders in these arenas.
We customize 3 day clinics for pilots wanting to receive focused training at the flight park and in our local mountains. This program is perfect for pilots visiting Santa Barbara for a few days, and don’t see themselves visiting annually where the “Eagle For Life” program would make more sense. These custom clinics are developed around your experience level and desires. We strive to develop a custom program to meet each pilots needs depending on their experience and goals as a pilot. Our mountain flying season lasts from September through the end of May. These months are great for flying at both our flight park, and soaring in our local mountains working on improving our thrermaling and cross country skills and knowledge. Our ability to be many places at once with our high caliber staff is unmatched as is our presence in our community support all pilots.
Numerous pilots have taken advantage of the “Eagle For Life” program. Those who know they will be spending at least a week a year in Santa Barbara, and have spent time working with our team see the enormous value in this program. We are available to instruct and guide pilots in this program anytime we are teaching at Elings Flight Park or guiding in our local mountains. There aren’t many flyable days at either these locations where the Eagle team is missing from the action. Our local presence is obvious when following the dialogue on the Santa Barbara flying communities chat box discussion. The Eagle team is always in action flying with our students and supporting our local flying community like nobody else.
Pilots wanting their P3 certification can schedule a training with Eagle in order to have us to make an evaluation, and help you achieve the P3 rating. We review your log book, the glider models you have flown, and go over the requirements checklist together. We work to build your knowledge and skill set, and discuss your flying goals. This perspective and view allows us to get a vision of where you see yourself as a pilot in the future, and develop specific goals to get you there. Pilots who spend time with our team in any of our continuing education offerings usually end up joining us at our Paragliding Tours and Paragliding Clinics.
Text – Pilots wanting their P4 certification can schedule a training with Eagle in order to have us to make an evaluation, and help you achieve the P4 rating. We review your log book, the glider models you have flown, and go over the requirements checklist together. We work to build your knowledge and skill set, and discuss your flying goals. This perspective and review allows us to get a vision of where you see yourself as a pilot in the future, and develop specific goals to get you there. Pilots are often interested in attaining a tandem instructor rating after receiving their P4 rating, and meeting the requirements. Eagle is the only school on the south coast with the authority to certify P4 pilots who have met the requirements at Tandem instructors.