Fly Sussex Paragliding Reviews Summary

Instructors

Pros:

• "The instructors are brilliant and impart their love for the sport by the time you leave."
• "Very knowledgeable, helpful, passionate and friendly group of instructors"
• "Together with her co-instructors, I was made to feel completely safe and they were brilliantly helpful, patient, knowledgeable and friendly"
• "The instructors are fantastic and get you confident with the theory and equipment very quickly"
• "All the instructors are extremely accomplished flyers with years of experience."
• "The instructor Jess Cox was enthusiastic, encouraging, and extremely knowledgeable"
• "some excellent and inspiring instructors"

Cons:

• "Nice group of people, but I felt more should have been done to support those struggling."
• "the instructors contradicted each other in their teaching, which led to confusion among students"
• "There were a number of occasions where I felt students were being rushed, which led directly to a number of accidents"
• "the lead up to the flight was a bit shambolic"
• "was treated like dirt by the staff there in general"

Experience

Pros:

• "I would recommend this and do it again in a heartbeat"
• "Would highly recommend for anyone doing their EP/CP courses."
• "can't recommend these dudes enough"
• "Cannot recommend highly enough. They got me airborne and signed off with a big smile on my face!"
• "I would wholeheartedly recommend them to anyone who wants to learn to paraglide"
• "If you’re thinking about trying out this amazing sport then I can’t imagine anywhere you’ll have a better time than Fly Sussex."
• "Such an incredible way to make everyone’s dream of flying a reality."

Cons:

• "arrived 25 mins late due to an traffic accident on the way and was told I couldn't join"
• "If you have money to spare and feel like wasting £130 then go for it... Not worth £130 + additional fees for insurance to run around on a field while holding a rucksack."
• "I read such amazing views and on a whim impulse bought a ticket for myself, (ADHD behaviour) A year has passed and I had completely forgot about it, and just found the email the voucher only lasts 9 months so that's it - money lost. The company don't honour it."
• "They took her money and used the fact of her being a young and inexperienced person to wriggle out of their obligations"
• "Would not recommend"
• "I personally WOULDN'T recommend it, based on my experience."
• "the course did not justify the expense"

Physical Aspects

Pros:

• "Within 4hours I had completed 4x 50ish ft high 300-400mtr flights"
• "I was surprised at how much solo flying we did considering it was all new to me."
• "I loved it so much in fact I bought the whole course and I am now on my day 3 of CP!"
• "Amy was a fantastic instructor making me feel confident and relaxed on the four top to bottom flights I ended up doing over the course of the day."
• "Graham was my tandem paraglider and what a great guide & pilot he was"
• "After a few hours training we went for short low level solo flights...absolutely fantastic!!"
• "off I went, proper solo flight with turns, I was in the air for maybe 2 minutes (hard to tell), on my own up with the birds"

Cons:

• "Reasonably enjoyable day, but even though I go to the gym several times a week, I was struggling to carry the chute up the hill from where we did our jumps."
• "BUT I am quite heavy (100 kg) and struggled to get off the ground while everyone else started getting off the ground"
• "It's pretty physical though, as lots of hills to climb up"
• "The climb was very difficult and it was one of the hottest days of the year"
• "So we all went further up the hill where take off should be easier but partly due to light winds and partly my incompetence I failed"
• "most of the day had gone & we only got about 15 minutes in the air"