5-Day Adventure / Advanced Paramotor Training

Prepare To Taste Adventure!

Get ready to escape the hustle and bustle of traditional life and venture out into some of the most incredible terrain the west coast has to offer. This 5 day adventure training program is designed to push your limits, test your comfort zone, build your skills, and create memories that'll last you a lifetime!

This training is broken up into two main parts: skill building training and guided adventure flights. During the first half of the training we as a team will help you improve whatever skills you need/want help with. That could be things like launching, landing, energy managment, barrel rolls (if you're ready), and more. During the second part of the training our instructors will guide you on flights around some of the most incredible scenery Utah has to offer. 

This training is designed to be a safe way for pilots with all different experience levels to improve their skills and also enjoy some incredible flying. This training is designed to cater towards the newer pilots, intermmediate pilots, and advanced pilots. If you're a newer pilot looking to get some additional help, or a more experienced pilot looking to push your limits, this is the training for you. This is a great refresher course for those that need that little extra help. Maybe it's been a while since you flew, or maybe you'd just like some help getting more flights, this is a great training program for you. This training is a great way for pilots with a wide range of skill and experince to work on their skills, while still having a ton of fun!

Please plan to bring a strobe, because we will be flying every second we legally can. From 30 minutes before sunrise to 30 minutes after sunset, if we can be flying we will be flying! If you're not totally worn out and ready for a nap by the end of the training, we didn't fly enough!

Watch This Video Outline Of The Class: 

 

Training Details:

• 5 days 
• 6 students (very strict)
• 2 instructors
  
• Ground support for all adventure flights
• Equipment rentals are available
• Accomodations are your responsibility 
• 25 flights minimum (flexible)
  

 

Training Dates:

Salton Sea, California
November 12-16 (2025) (1 spots left)
January 28-1 (2026) (2 spots left)
February 11-15 (2026) (5 spots left)
February 18-22 (2026) (4 spots left)
March 18-22 (2026)

2026 Salt Lake City, Utah
May 6-10 (2026) (4 spots left)
May 27-31 (2026)
June 17-21 (2026)
September 9-13 (2026)
September 30-4 (2026)
October 21-25 (2026)

Training starts on a Wednesday morning and ends on a Sunday night.

Training availability is upadated daily.

 

Day by Day Breakdown of the Training:

Day 1 (Wednesday):
Morning at home LZ (skills training) 
Evening at home LZ (skills training) 

Day 2 (Thursday):
Morning at home LZ (adventure flight) 
Evening at home LZ (skills training) 

Day 3 (Friday):
Morning at home LZ (adventure flight) 
Evening at home LZ (skills training) 

Day 4 (Saturday):
Morning at home LZ (adventure flight)
Evening at home LZ (skills training)

Day 5 (Sunday):
Morning at home LZ (adventure flight)
Evening at home LZ (adventure flight)

 

 

Skills Training:

During roughly half of the training program, we will be working with you to improve your flying skills. The skills sessions part of the training is a great opportunity for you to pick our instructors brains, work on techinuqes you may feel weak on, and push yourself outside of your comfort zone. Our instructors are prepared to help you work on a large variety of different things during this time. 

Improved Launches & Landings:
One of the most commonly worked on skills during the training is the basics of launching and landing. Whether you're rusty, or just not as confident as you'd like to be, our instructors are ready to help you improve your launching and landing technique. This can include going back to the basics, working on your kiting, doing some power taxis, and rebuilding your techniques from the ground up. This is one of the most common things we work on with students who have less experince and need to build their skills, increase their confidence, whip off some rust, or get back into it after not having flown for years. If you want better launches and landings, we're here to help!

Energy Managment:
One of the most common skills we work on is energy managment. This incompanies a variety of things, inlcuding the basics of building and burning off energy, to the extreme side of wingovers and barrel rolls. Our team has worked hard to create a strucutred syllabus to help walk students from the basics of energy, to big wingovers in a safe, step by step process. These techniques have also been very valuable and appriciated by students who may not want to do wingovers and barrel rolls, but benefit from better understanding how the glider moves, flows, builds energy, and burns energy off. We highly recommend every pilot understand how energy work and most importantly, how to get rid of it.

Equipment Help:
Sometimes you've got gear that you're not confident in, whether you can't get your motor working right, you can't get the harness to feel right, you want to tie tip steering in, or you'd like to learn to use the speedbar, we are there ready to help.

Ground School:
Another common thing during the adventure training is a overall recap on ground school topics. This can be a great recap of important topics like weather, FAR 103, reserves, glider dynamics, risk management, and more.

Spot Landing Drills - These drills are designed with a focus of improving pilots consistency at landing within a very tight locations. We can layout cones, and set targets for students to approach and land at safety. 

Motor Out Drills - This is an addition to the spot landing practice, where pilots will kill their engines at random times and will work on landing in exact spots without the assistance of the power. This will help improve pilots safety in the off chance they have an real world engine out and have to land in a very tight location without a go around option. This drill is extremely helpful to pilots and is something that should be done on a regular basis.

Other things we can work on during the training (if requested):

• Cross wind launches & landings
• Turbulence tolerance
• Energy managment
  • Steeper turns
  • Spirals
  • Wingovers
  • Barrel rolls
  • SAT's
  • And more (no stalls or spins)
• Foot drags
• Formation flying
• Speedbar training
• Tip steering instruction
• Glider tuning and adjusting
• And more

This training is here to help you improve, no matter what it is that you want/need to improve on. We're happy to help you work on whatever it is, that you want help with!

 

Adventure Flights:

The best part of this training is the mix between the skills training and the adventure flying. We feel we've struck a great balance between helping students work on key skills and techinques, and just having a great time flying. These adventure flights will be guided flights with our instructors leading you into some of the most beautiful terrain the west coast has to offer. These locations can be remote, at high altitudes, with jaw dropping terrain. These group flights will include how we plan, prep, check weather, and flight breakdowns of what were thinking and where were going.

These are a great way to explore new areas in a safe way, while learning more about how to safely explore the sky. Some of the areas include mountain peaks, lakes, sand dunes, dry lake beds, buttes, and more. These adventures will also include ground support helping you in the off chance something goes wrong. Our team has zero tolerance for leaving people behind, and you'll be carefully watched over for each and every flight with our team ready to help recover you from any situation. Rest easy knowing we are there to help. 

Planning & Prep - Prior to each adventure flight, our instructors will sit down with you to show you what they do to plan and prepare for each adventure flight. This includes weather checks, engine out risk, rotor planning, and more. If you want to know more about planning and preparing for real world big flights, this is a great way to learn.

Live In Flight Feedback - One of the best parts about having a guide through these flights is that you can get live feedback on the conditions, environment, and situation you find yourself in. During the flight the instructors are more than happy to share what they are seeing, experiencing, and thinking as they go throughout the flight. Nothing beats live in flight feedback.

Flight Debrief - Another great tool for learning more is doing post flight debriefs. This can include reviewing the student launches and landings via video, walking through flight logs to see where and why we flew where we did, and more. We try our best to have one of our instructors on the ground filming every launch and landing to later review with the students. Often times more can be learned in a flight debrief than the flight itself. 

 

 

Training Location:

Salt Lake City, Utah:
Training will be held at a small private airport in Eagle Mountain, Utah called Cedar Valley Airport. This airport is located roughly 45 minutes south of Salt Lake City, Utah itself. 

During our Adventure Training we will be traveling in the evenings to a different location that is roughly 45-55 minutes from Cedar Valley Airport. The reason for this is because Cedar Valley Airport rarely ever has good flying conditions in the evenings, due to it's location in relation to nearby mountains. As a result of that we do travel roughly 45 minutes north to a seprate location that has a much better evening training enviroment, offering smooth winds, a more friendly launching surface, and an abundance of space. This location doesn't offer as good of conditions in the morning hence why we commute back and forth.

Full Transparency: The area that Cedar Valley Airport is located in is growing at an insane rate. New houses are built daily, and we are unsure on how this will change our ability to use the airport. As a result we do have a great fallback location that is roughly 30 minutes from the airport (same distance to evening location). Given that our 2026 classes are far in advance, there is a possibility that we may have to shift to this other location. Please be patient and understanding if that is the case. Thank you.

In addition to traveling for our evening sessions, one of the things we do like to do during this class is travel roughly 3 hours south to another location that offers some of the most beautiful flying ever. This is weather dependent, and from a logistics standpoint we understand the struggles of that. We would encourage you to book your lodging for the full 5 days near Cedar Valley Airport but if the weather permits be prepared to also book a hotel or camp for 1 or 2 nights at the other location. Trust us, if the conditions are good it will likely be the coolest flying you will ever do. Again, this is all weather dependent and if the weather permits we will travel, if not we will stay local to Cedar Valley Airport.

Camping is welcomed at the airport we train at, but there is no water or power. It is only dry camping. There are lots of airbnb's available in the towns Eagle Mountain and Saratoga Springs. We do have a list of recommended places to stay, things to bring, where to go, what to expect, etc, that will be emailed to you upon registration or request.

CLICK HERE to view photos of our Utah based Adventure Training.

Training is held in Salt Lake City from April - October.

Salton Sea, California 
Training will be held at a small RV park called West Shores Marina on the shoreline of the Salton Sea which is roughly 45 minutes south of Palm Springs, California. Training will be held on the runway which is attached to the RV park itself. Yes, there's a built in runway for paramotoring! There are local accommodations, hotels, and airbnbs within a short drive. We do have a list of recommended places to stay, things to bring, where to go, what to expect, etc, that will be emailed to you upon registration or request. We will be training in one location except for our final flight on the final day. We like to travel roughly 1.5 hours south to some local sand dunes for our final flight and trust us, it's worth the drive. If you're renting gear we will haul it to and from that location, otherwise please plan to haul your gear down and back.

CLICK HERE to view photos of our California based Adventure Training.

Training is held at the Salton Sea from November - March.

Additional Information:
If you're interested in additional information on the logistics, schedule, or more, we would be happy to discuss the class in more detail with you. Please feel free to reach out to our team via email, text, or call - anytime.

Email: Info@BackcountryPPG.com
Text or call: (801-599-1684)

 

Equipment Rentals:

We do provide equipment rentals for students who are traveling in from far away! We've got half a dozen paramotors to choose from. We encourage all students to bring their own wings and reserves if they do plan to rent equipment from us. Motor rental is $100 per day (which includes oil and fuel) and $150 per day for wing and motor rental. Contact us directly and we would be happy to help you with renting equipment.

 

Training Requirements:

We designed and structured this training with a slew of skill levels in mind. The locations we will be launching, landing, and flying at are both friendly for new pilots, and exciting for experienced pilots. This training is not for people looking to take their first flights, but instead for pilots who are already flying and looking to improve their skills and build their confidence. Our minimum is *roughly* 25 flights, and were willing to have students with less. The overwhelming goal of this class is to help you improve, so no matter if your rusty, current, skilled, or still a rookie, we're here to help. Our training locations are fields with lots of space, and are very friendly to newer pilots. 

 

How To Sign Up:

Once you're ready to rock and roll, add the training dates of your choice to the cart, proceed to checkout, and complete the checkout. Once we see you've completed the checkout, we will reach out directly via phone and email with additional information on where to be, when to be there, what to bring, etc. 

 

Refund's & Rescheduling:

One of our core values is being transparent with our students and customers, and refunds/rescheduling is one of the things we try to be very clear about. Here at Backcountry PPG LLC, we do not offer refunds on any equipment or training purchases. We are a small business, and refunds can quickly put us in a difficult position, which we are not willing to do. We also want commitment from our students; meaning, if we offered refunds for our training, we would often encounter people who bounce back and forth, causing us headaches and financial losses due to credit card and refund fees. To avoid dealing with flaky students, we don’t offer refunds. We want to be fully transparent about this, and when you sign up, we want you to understand and be committed.

That said, we fully understand the logistics of life and how unforeseen circumstances can arise, causing you to reschedule. We are always more than happy to reschedule you to any future class, at any time, with no questions asked—even if it’s years down the line. We will work with you to find a time that fits your schedule, as we understand how challenging it can be to get ten days off. The only request we have is that you give us as much notice as possible, so we have the opportunity to try and fill your spot.

Learn more about our refund policy here: https://backcountryppg.com/pages/refundpolicy

 

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