I'm so envious.
I gave up on paragliding when I moved to the UK.
I eyed microlight club east of Edinburgh two years ago.
Gliding (soaring) is the best recreational flying ever. No engine howling, just pure flying. I'd like to do some gliding and FW PPL later on.
Yeah, I'm going to do rotary PPL as it's part of my career plan over coming years. But glider towing and gliding is great. Anyone seen Ushuaia with Nicolas Hulot gliding about? Yes, you guys know what it's like.
Awesome.
I find it very interesting way to do some gliding for fun and up the hours helping out in the club as FW PPL with all the training etc.
As I can see, tailwheel planes such as Cub or Pawnee are useful to be familiar with. Shouldn't be a problem later :-D
as for 'reading' the skies, I've got some touch already from some PG flying. Though, very frustrating not being able to reach thermals far from take off hill, when the wind speed or direction aren't best. Or too strong wind for basic paraglider, taking off right into thermal licking the hill or just sinking to LZ when soaring in front of hill isn't an option or easy.
What better way to kill the non-flying blues (was hard to push out paragliding from my head) during week at school or work? All in the UK.
Popping in to local club on a weekend or so and up we fly :-D
Safe flying