On behalf of everyone at the Freedom Flight School, we would like to wish you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

It was a fantastic flying season in 2018 and we look forward to more in 2019!  Thank you to all pilots, students, tandem passengers and drivers for making it a memorable season.

See you next year!

November has been a surprisingly decent month for flying, compared to usual (let's hope that's not due to global warming!).  Last week Don took on of our recent student graduate's husband Glen out for a tandem from Coopers.  You've got to dress up warm for this time of the year...but your reward is some "Frosty Cloud Surfing"!

September wasn't the best month for flying, but a few sunny weeks in October made up for it.  That helped one of our students, Rebecca, complete her P2 training on October 24th.

What a great way to end the season.  Congratulations Rebecca!!!

The annual Thanksgiving Fly-In and Potluck dinner was held on a glorious fall day last Saturday.  All pilots were treated to fantastic conditions with rare October thermals allowing for some super flights. 

As usual we had the "flour bomb drop" competition (little brown paper bags with flour that tend to explode when they hit the ground) and a spot landing event was also added this year.  Congratulations to Jesse Scrimbit who won the hang gliding spot landing and Matt Paley who won the paragliding division.  Dave Underwood and Victoria Gladue were closest on the bomb drop but that wasn't a difficult task as they were flying tandem so they had a dedicated bombardier...but it was all in good fun.

Over 50 people enjoyed the turkey dinner and a great bonfire to finish off a wonderful day.

Happy Thanksgiving!

The August long weekend was filled with pilots, students and passengers filling their boots with air time.  Conditions allowed for many students to get early morning flights a few had their first taste of thermalling.  Every day we had tandems taking to the sky with some of them soaring over 8000 feet!

The summer's not over so come on out and fly!

Shay Galor, the local community reporter from Global Okanagan News in Kelowna came out for a tandem paragliding flight.  Check it out here:  httpsglobalnews.ca/video/4308837/paragliding-over-lumby-with-the-freedom-flight-park://globalnews.ca/video/4308837/paragliding-over-lumby-with-the-freedom-flight-park 

Two Albertans, Ron and Kyle, came out to the Freedom Flight School to take their P1 course.  Over 6 days, they did ground handling, small flights from the training hill, ground school, towing and finished off with some solo flights and a thermalling tandem.  Congrats guys!!!

Saturday morning started with an amazing tandem with Holly from Nova Scotia.  Holly was hit by a drunk driver 6 years ago and lost the use of her legs, but that didn't take away her desire to fly like a bird.  We rigged up an interesting looking "sled" to keep her legs up for landing and it worked magnificently.  Thanks to the help from a number of other paragliding and hang gliding pilots, the launch was smooth, the flight magical and the landing, well, a bit splashy (we skidded in to a puddle on the runway).  Holly was grinning from ear to ear as was everyone else.  Thanks for coming to fly with us Holly!

Two students graduated as well.  The cool thing is that they are stepbrothers.  Great job Joey and Jacint!

And on Monday the flight park was full of free flyers.  Nine hang glider pilots and over 20 paraglider pilots including some tandem flights.  The conditions were super and there were lots of smiling pilots!  Great way to finish the long weekend.