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Lookout Mountain Flight Park
7201 Scenic Hwy
Rising Fawn, GA 30738
Phone: (706) 398-3541
Fax: (706) 398-2906
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ABOUT LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN

Tandem Hang Gliding at Lookout Mountain Flight ParkLookout Mountain Flight Park has earned the title of America's #1 Flight Park. Since 1977, more hang glider pilots have earned their wings at Lookout than anywhere else. And is there any wonder why? Learn what happy pilots from all over the world already know.
Just a sampling of what Lookout Mountain has to offer:
  • Best training hills in the USA, foot launch, tandem and aerotowing.
  • 120 novice pilots graduated in 1998.
  • In 1998, we trained and certified 5 times as many Novice rated pilots as any other school in America.
  • Easiest, safest and most used launch in the world.
  • Over 20 miles of beautiful, soarable ridge.
  • Easy interstate cross country flights for novice to master rated pilots.
  • World's largest and best stocked Pro Shop, Sew Shop and Repair Shop.
  • Camping, swimming, and deluxe bath house in our 45 acre manicured LZ.
  • USHGA certified hang gliding flight school.
  • The Nation's first and most experienced on site aerotow tow operation.
  • Record altitude gain of 10,400 feet!
  • Georgia XC record of 154 miles!

TRAINING AT LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN

Training Flight From the Bunny HillLookout Mountain Flight Park wrote the official training manual for the United States Hang Gliding Association and is the nation's best hang gliding school. We are completely dedicated to helping you get into the air and realizing your dreams of flight as quickly and easily as possible. For your convenience, we offer a variety of training programs.

Whether it be foot launching from our famous training hills or tandem aero-towing behind one of our ultralights, the choice is yours! With classes offered every day of the week, most of our students are able to solo off of our 2000' mountain in about a week, but, with our flexible schedules and choices of morning or afternoon classes, you can train at your own pace. Take a week or take a few months, but take your lessons at Lookout Mountain.


Step 1: A Taste of Hang Gliding
Discovery Tandem Flight $129 - Soar like an Eagle in this purest form of flight!
Try Hang Gliding Once for memories that last a lifetime! Fly with a professional certified instructor pilot by your side for a birds eye view of beautiful Lookout Mountain. Whether you want to try hang gliding once, or learn, the Tandem Discovery Flight is the best, first step. This flight is to 2,00 feet. In-flight photos available. Satisfaction guaranteed and we mean it!
Weekend Package $399 - Immerse yourself during this 2-day training program.
In just 2 days, you achieve the skills necessary to successfully complete the requirements for the Hang I, Beginner rating. Students learn to foot launch and land a hang glider and also acquire beginner flying skills though our high altitude lessons with an instructor by your side. See discovery Tandem Flight above.

Step 2: Learn to Fly!
Mountain Package $599 - Fly solo in the mountains in as few as four to seven days.
Students just can't beat this price anywhere in the country. Designed for the active student on a tight budget! This is the best priced solo mountain flight package from America's #1 flight school! Successfully complete your Beginner and Novice Foot Launch ratings. You progress at your own rate of flying, learning how to execute turns, and perfecting your landings on our 125-foot training hill. Once you have graduated from our comprehensive hill training program, you are ready for your first supervised solo mountain flights.
Eagle Package $999 - The Integrated Training Approach with More Flying Time!
State-of-the-art Tandem Aerotow Flight Training is the perfect complement to your hill training lessons and provides the best integrated and streamlined method of learning. Students progress faster and safer, and are more confident and better prepared then ever before for solo mountain flying and soaring. Emphasis is placed first on developing your flying skills through multiple tandem instructional flights. Intensive tandem training enables you to take you flying skills to the training hills where you learn to foot launch and land in a quicker, safer, more skilled manner. You gain valuable flying experience at altitude and you have the opportunity to practice setting up landing approaches. This training package is designed for the student who is time conscious and desires to spend more time in the air and less time on the ground during your training.
VIP Package $1495 - The Most Training, Preparation, and Flying Time!
This package combines all the features of each of our training packages for a completely integrated approach to learning at a generous savings. It provides the safest, most reliable, streamlined training program for the focused, time conscious individual who enjoys the benefits of inclusive payment. Students benefit greatly from nearly three hours of actual flying time with a certified professional instructor by your side before you solo from the mountain.

THE SHOPS AT LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN

Outside the Hang Glider Shop at Lookout MountainPro Shop
Lookout Mountain Flight Park has the biggest and best stocked pro shop in the country! Every thing that you need to make your flying easier and more enjoyable can be found in one convenient location right next to our world famous concrete launch ramp. Our pro shop stocks everything. We carry a huge selection of new and used gliders, as well as custom made harnesses and mitts. And we have various, helmets, glider racks, radios, t-shirts, and almost any accessory you could ever want. If there is something that you do want and we don't have it, we can get it.

Lookout Mountain Flight Park is an authorized dealer of Wills Wing and Airborne hang gliders. This means that we always have the full support of the two largest hang glider manufacturers in the world. This also means that we always have the latest and greatest gliders in stock or that we can get them in quickly. Demo gliders are always available to test fly and we can expertly answer any questions you may have about any of the gliders we have available. So if you are looking to buy a new glider, we are the place to do it.

Lookout Mountain Flight Park also has one of the largest inventories of used gliders and equipment available anywhere. All of our used equipment and gliders are completely disassembled, inspected for dings, dents, corrosion, and wear. Parts are replaced as needed. All used gliders get new side wires and are tuned and test flown by our experienced, professional, glider technicians. The thoroughness of the inspections that we subject ALL of our used equipment to exceeds even the recommendations issued by the U.S.H.G.A. in regard to used gliders and equipment. This extra care assures that there are no hidden damages in the used equipment we sell and allows our used gliders to be purchased and enjoyed with the highest level of confidence.

Repair Shop
Lookout Mountain Flight Park is a dealer authorized service center for Wills Wing and Airborne gliders. We are a full service repair shop, and can handle all of your repair needs from sail repair to downtube replacement. We have experienced glider technicians ready to handle almost any repair. And, with a large inventory of glider parts in stock, most repairs can be done on the spot to get you back into the air quicker.

All glider manufacturers recommend a yearly glider inspection including complete sail removal, replacement of flying wires, and new hang straps. It is also recommended to have this inspection done on any used glider that you purchase. The Repair shop offers all of this in one package and all for $199.00. Get it done any time.


DIRECTIONS TO LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN

From I-59(approx. 15 minutes from Exit 2):
Get off at Trenton (Exit 2)
Turn left at end of exit ramp
Turn right at stop light (onto Highway 11)
Turn left at blinking light (onto 136)
Turn left (Piney Road)
At top of mountain, turn right at stop sign (onto 189)
Flight Park is on your right.

From Atlanta:
Take I-75 North to Chattanooga.
Take I-24 West (Exit 2)
Take I-59 South (Exit 167)
Follow directions from I-59 above.

From Nashville:
Take I-24 East (almost to Chattanooga)
Take I-59 South (Exit 167)
Follow directions from I-59 above.

From Knoxville:
Take I-75 South to Chattanooga
Take I-24 West (Exit 2)
Take I-59 South (Exit 167)
Follow directions from I-59 above.


For more information send a message to Lookout Mountain Flight Park.

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