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 Utah 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. 

Be ready to hit the road because during this training we will be traveling to a few seperate locations to explore some jaw dropping areas and most importantly, enjoy some incredible paramotor flying. Be prepared to enjoy 2 nights camping under the stars and a slew of epic paramotor stories with some cold beverages. We will be camping for 2 of the 5 nights of the training, and traveling for 3 of the 5 days, starting and stopping in Salt Lake City, Utah. We hope you're prepared to have the most fun flight of your life, the second most fun flight, and the third most fun flight - EVER.

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
• 2 nights tent or rv camping
• Ground support for all adventure flights
• Equipment rentals are available
• Accomodations are your responsibility 
• 25 flights minimum 

 

Training Dates:

Salton Sea, California:
Nov 6-10 (2024) (FULL)
Jan 29 - Feb 2 (FULL)
Feb 12-16 (FULL)
Feb 19-23 (FULL)
Mar 12-15 (FULL)

Salt Lake City, Utah
April 23-27 (1 spots left)
June 4-8 (3 spots left)
Aug 13-17 (3 spots left)
Sept 10-14 (4 spots left)
Oct 1-5 (5 spots left)

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

 

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 Utah 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. We've learned that debriefing is a great way of see what you did right and wrong, and improving it.

 

 

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. During this training program we will be driving up to 1 hour to a different training location for better flying conditions. 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.

Training Logistics:

During this training we will be camping for 2 of the 5 nights and traveling for 3 of the 5 days, starting and stopping in Salt Lake City, Utah. This training will be broken up into two seprate sections, the skills training and the adventure flying. The first 2 days of the training will be fully dedicated to our skills training, and will be located at our home LZ in Salt Lake City, Utah. The remaining 3 days of the training will be on the road and fully dedicated to our adventure flying. During the adventure flying, we will still be offering assistance, instruction, tips, and tricks to help continue improving your flying skills.

Day by Day Breakdown of the Training:

Day 1 (Wednesday):
Morning at home LZ (skills training)
Evening at home LZ (skills training)
Airbnb's & hotels are available

Day 2 (Thursday):
Morning at home LZ (skills training)
Evening at home LZ (skills training)
Airbnb's & hotels are available

Day 3 (Friday):
Morning at home LZ (adventure flight)
Afternoon driving roughly 2-3 hours
Evening at LZ #2 (adventure flight)
Tent or RV camping

Day 4 (Saturday):
Morning at LZ #2 (adventure flight)
Afternoon driving roughly 2-3 hours
Evening at LZ #3 (adventure flight)
Tent or RV camping

Day 5 (Sunday):
Morning at LZ #3 (adventure Flight)
Afternoon driving roughly 2-3 hours
Evening at home LZ
Airbnb's & hotels are available

This may vary from class to class.

Traveling:
As part of this training, we've decided to take the class on the road in pursuit of the best flying possible. This will mean we will be driving up to 3 hours in the afternoons to travel from one location to the next. These locations are fairly remote, so don't worry, there shouldn't be any traffic! Transportation is your responsibility, but you are more than welcome to carpool with other students.  

Camping:
There will be 2 nights of camping on this trip and we would recommend either bringing tent camping equipment or a camper/RV. These locations are accessable with larger campers but be prepared to drive off road. You will be responsible for your camping equipment or camper/RV. This is not "fly camping." 

Equipment:
During the training our team will be following along with our company support truck and equipment trailer. If you need a hand hauling your equipment from one location to another, we will be happy to help. If you're planning to rent equipment from us, we will be hauling that around for you. Fuel will be your responsibility, unless you're renting equipment from us. 

Food:
You will want to plan and prepare for these 2 nights of camping. There may not be food nearby and you will only have what you packed in. Food is your responsibility.
Our team is more than happy to get together with the class, prepare some group meals, and do some grilling in the evenings with everybody.

Cell Service:
During this trip there will not be service at every location we travel to. With this in mind, we will be bringing our company Starlink that way you can connect anytime. Although being fully disconnected can be very fun and is encouraged, we understand that there is a time and a place.

Weather Dependent:
Due to weather restraints, our route may vary from training to training to guarantee the best flying conditions possible. Please be patient, and trust we will work hard to seek out the best flying conditions we can get.

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:

Onve 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. 

 

All Sales Are Final:

Due to the nature of the paramotor business, all sales are final with Backcountry PPG. We are more than happy to move students around from one class to another if they have to for no charge. Students can also transfer their training spot to their friends / other pilots for no additional charge.