Log: Hang Glider

Hang gliders for me have two flavors: powered and unpowered. In 2015 I started hang glider training and my official logbook is stored in these pages. But I started flying weight shift much earlier when Harry Rosset and I went in to buy a Cosmos Samba together. As of 2019 I still had it.


Cosmos over Fantasy of Flight

Beautiful weather lured me aloft for a quickie around home. As usual, I checked out Fantasy of Flight and the nearby expanse. The Hang Glider So I had just finished flying a POWERED hang glider. While driving just past Fantasy of Flight, I noticed something in the sky...

Morningside Flight Park

We didn’t get to fly here last time. What a beautiful place! Wonderful folks, too. Tim and I launched late. Poor Tim got the short end of the wind stick: a tailwind after he setup. His launch was brilliant but, by then, it had gotten bumpy. Not by soaring...

Jeff Goin’s Hang Glider Logbook

Oct 21, 2015 shifting weight. This is also as my official hang glider logbook since I’ll lose the paper one anyway. My first exposure to hang gliding was at 13 years old. My brother brought home a book showing a hang glider on one page and a sailplane on the...

Hang Glider First Solo!

I soloed a hang glider! (sorry Mom). Hang glider logbook here. No, I’m not going to go bonkers like I did with paramotoring but will try mastering the basics. I’ll take more training from respected mountain instructors before launching willy nilly into...

First Solo!

I soloed a hang glider! (sorry Mom). No, I’m not going to go bonkers like I did with paramotoring but will try mastering the basics. I’ll take more training from respected mountain instructors before launching willy nilly into rocky highlands.What...