Mentoring Instructors and Tandem Pilots

Instructor Training

The Torrey Pines Gliderport is one of the largest pilot training facilities in North America. The TPG team has created a top notch teaching curriculum. We want to share it with you. Gabriel Jebb, lead instructor and flight director, has developed a mentoring program to support instructor candidates, new instructors and current instructors looking to increase their teaching proficiency.

The USHPA requires 3-days of training to complete your instructor requirements. We find that silly. It takes 30 days to become a yoga instructor… How can we begin to competently teach new pilots with only 3-days of training?  These are peoples lives we’re responsible for.  There are few published guides, syllabuses and best practices available for a new instructor.  How about the business side of paragliding?

We’ll open our books, supply you with tools, demonstrate how to be safe, competent, successful and an asset to the flying community.  Your success will increase the community and bring more visibility.

The mentorship programs extend 15-days, 30-days, and 45-days, depending on your level of interest. This program allows you to participate, learn and teach next from several of our top instructors.

Our success, will be a reflection of your success and we’ll provide guidance and nurturing along the way.

What to expect:

  • Theoretical training:
    • Theoretical training; during our morning lectures, weather classes, Thursday evening lectures and online courses.  You’re going to keep our syllabus and improve on it for your school.
    • Practical training and participation in our unique ground handling and kiting school.
    • In-flight training and what we teach on the radio, flight mechanics, thermal training, ridge soaring, efficiency, top landings, radio communication and more.
    • Special skills clinics, we do 20+ big clinics per year and weekly clinics on different topics.  We’ll give you copies of all our clinic packages.

We want you to be a safe, intelligent, ethical and in growth mode. Let the Gliderport be a resource and spring-board for your teaching aspiration.

Tandem Training

The Torrey Pines Gliderport is the largest tandem operation in the world. No other paragliding or hang gliding entity comes close to the number of flights, passengers or instructors dedicated to introducing potential pilots to the joy of free flight. The Gliderport is 4x larger than its closest US competitor and 30% larger than its closest global counterpart. The safety record of the TPG team is impeccable and our accident rate is approximately 1:100,000. To put that into perspective, the 2nd safest tandem operation globally is 1:1200.

Want to know the secret to our success? Come out and spend some time with us. Fly with our instructors, take part in the tandem instructor discussions, experience the tandem program at Torrey Pines Gliderport first hand, learn the advanced launching and landing techniques, learn the mindset and the attitude, required to succeed as a tandem program.

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