About birdman academy
Are you man enough??
MAN ENOUGH TO BECOME A BIRD??
Pledge your allegiance to the Birdman Academy. Led by a renowned visionary, now referred to as "the Birdman", the Academy seeks to single handedly save the sport of hang gliding and humanity itself from global destruction for all time.
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Birdman Academy Instructor experience
We take your flight training seriously at Birdman Academy. Our founder, Kevin Koonce, had taught thousands of beginner Hang Gliding lessons while working for a few years as an instructor at Kitty Hawk Kites. Over thousands of lessons, he has seen many different people make the same beginner mistakes while learning how to Hang Glide, and has many helpfull techniques to help beginning students that have been learned from spending many years travelling around the U.S. and talking to many different Hang Gliding instructors.
While working at Kitty Hawk Kites, "the Birdman" oversaw the first Hang Gliding lessons of approximately 8,000 first time Hang Gliding students.
As well as teaching Hang Gliding, "the Birdman" was not only privlidged to fly a 1902 Wright Brothers Glider replica, but was key in the "figuring out" of how to fly, launch and land the glider replica; not only with the fellow Hang Gliding instructors, but also in working with the team of hot shots (an F-18 test pilot, a few airline pilots, astronaut trainee, an Apache attack helicopter instructor, and others) that were trying to learn how to fly the glider replica in order to help them learn how the 1902 powered Wright Brothers glider will fly!
Weather Policy
If for any reason the weather prohibits us from conducting any training, you may reschedule to the next avaliable class free of charge. Usually training can happen using different sized gliders for different wind conditions. And plus, it is the Point! We are known for the best conditions. The instructor will call the night before to reschedule if necessary due to bad weather forecasts. Click here to view our pricing.
For videos showing the different phases of training please click here.