GPS coordinates: lat: -33.991440 - lng: 22.587088

Cloudbase Paragliding

Address:

P.O. Box 446, 6560 Wilderness

Telephone:

+27 (0)44 877 1414

Fax:

+27 (0)866 517792

Description

We offer paragliding tuition, license courses, powered paragliding tuition, accommodation, tours, and equipment sales and rental.

We are based in the Garden Route town of Wilderness on the East Coast of South Africa.

Our nearest large town with an airport is George, 20 km to the Northwest.

There are 24 flying sites within an hour’s drive. These range from easy coastal soaring to cross country thermals.
Learn with the 3 times Female South African champion Khobi Bowden and twice National team coach Jan Minnaar

Keywords

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Company description

Jan Minnaar, is the Chief flying Instructor, and proprietor of Cloudbase Paragliding School, and has been paragliding since April 1991.
He learnt to fly in Cape Town with Daedalus Paragliding under the instructorship of Kobus Botha and Springbok Parachutist and multiple National Paragliding Champion, Jay van Deventer.
In April 1992 Jan; Julian Herbstein and Anthony Allen started as assistant instructors with Jay and Jan took over the day to day running of Daedalus Paragliding. In February 1993 he received his instructor rating. During this time Daedalus saw good growth and organized many popular flyaway weekends to Wilderness.
In July 1993 Jay and Jan, (as team assistant) were in the South African National team at the Paragliding World Championships in Verbier, Switzerland.
Jan spent a further 2 months in Germany and Switzerland flying and seeing how European schools operated. He also attended a safety course and experienced tow launching from a static winch.
On his return he was offered the position of factory manager at Fun 2 Fly Paragliders in Durban. Together with Herbert Forsthofer, the factory expanded and moved premises.

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