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Training in progress in karela
If you are planning to learn Paragliding
these are the places to begin with.....
Happy flying!!!!!!!!!!!!
These are not in order of recommendation or for
that matter in any order. Posted as the information reaches me.
1. Manali: Lots of people teaching
here.
| Bhola Thakur | Ph.01902-56317 / 52365 bholathakur@hotmail.com |
| Vinay sharma | Ph:01902-57174,57061 skyvinay@hotmail.com |
| Snowland holidays | Ph: 01902-52248, 54168 snowland@vsnl.com web: http://snowland.4mg.com |
| Roshan lal thakur | Ph:98160 16154 |
2. Bir: Billing, the local site is
rated among best ten in world and is excellent site for intermediate
level and cross country coaching. A basic site is about 13 Km from Bir,
so all level of instruction is available along with very competent instructors.
| Bruce Mills | paranirvana@rediffmail.com |
| PG-Gurukul (Gurpreet) | A school conforming with european norms. can issue International certifications via a european association, web: www.pgindia.net/gurukul (BHPA instructor certification) email: guru@pgindia.net or gurpreet.paraguru@gmail.com |
3. Bilaspur: (info removed due to protest by local schools, new content will be as submitted by them, when i recieve it.: gurpreet) been more than a year now and now content recieved.
4. Kharapathar: Wg cdr Anuj tiwari runs training courses in this tribal area (Saaroru / H.P) though he lives in Noida Ph: 011-8-4535370 email : anujt@vsnl.com
5. Uttranchal: Pouri Gharwal is the place where More-Adventures is running a school.... Manish Joshi is there chief instructor (trained in Austria and Germany they say..... .there contact : www.moreadventures-india.com/advtr.html, www.moreadventures-india.com/aboutus.html .They are running basic as well as cross-country (advanced courses). Well got to check them out ...looking foward to meeting them.
6. Delhi: As far as I know there are two parties
running Winch Launch based training programes around Delhi.
| Jaini Brithers | 011-26868614 |
| Pankaj Tyagi........... | .011-2150972 info@paragliding-india.com and site: www.paragliding-india.com Pankaj is certified pilottoo, licence from France for Tandem & Paramotoring, and for Winching from Netherland. |
7. Bihar: Yes someone is running a school
in Bihar(two serdi brothers......details awaited)
8. Bombay/Pune: these are the places where running a paragliding
school is actually viable business:).
| National paragliding Acadamy... | .Rajan Juvekar 020-7292000 npa@hotmail.com |
| Nirvana Paragliding | Sanjay Rao sanjay@nirvanaadventures.com www.nirvanaadventures.com |
| Om Air Paragliding | D.C. Patel dcpatel@bom4.vsnl.net.in |
| United India Paragliding Association | ERIC MENEZES Website :www.paraglidingindia.com e-mail : paraglider@ip.eth.net |
| Temple Pilots (pune) |
contact person: Avi (Amarjeet Singh Malik) |
| Samson D'silva | s_dsilva@hotmail.com |
9. Kerela : Wg Cdr Palat (retd) started operations
in Karela few yrs back, I havent heard anything recent from that part
of India. 91-484-2375609, Mobile: 94470 23756 E-mail:
palatuk@zyberway.com
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Palat teaching PLF. Ex- Airforce are big on PLF all over world..i saw same involvement in UK too. But how do you PLF with modern airbag or bumpbag harness? :) no offence intended though. Shows safety is on their mind. |