Meet the Team

Name: Paul Williams

Age: 46

Experience: Paul's been flying paragliders since 1989 being one of the first pilots of this then new sport in Wales. He has been instructing since 1991. He started Paraventure in 1993 and is our Chief Flying Instructor. He has personally flown over 150 different paragliders and has seen the sport grow from its roots to what it is today. His flying experience includes airtime in many different countries and is an expert in local conditions. Paul's input was used in the development of the BHPA training syllabus and the content of the FLPA exam paper. Paul has one daughter who first flew tandem with him at age 5.

Paul has done TV work for BBC1, BBC Wales, Sky News, HTV Wales and S4C.

If you are are also looking at other schools for training, ask your instructor how long he's been in the sport - you simple don't get twenty years experience in 5 mins...

Bio: Ex British Aerospace engineer. Interests as well as flying include travel, mountain biking, climbing and motorcycling.

Name: Chris White

Age: 47

Experience: Chris is actually one of our ex-students. Now pilot and instructor extraordinaire, Chris helps run all our current courses and when not working for Paraventure, he works on advanced maneuver clinics with world famous advanced instructor Jocky Sanderson. Chris is also involved in development work for disabled pilot training. Chris has vast experience of big mountain flying, competition and acrobatics. He has done work for TV including the BBC and S4C being the instructor on the award winning programme, 'Flying with kites' with Iolo Williams.

To say flying and instructing is Chris's life is a total understatement. Chris's 3 boys give him more than enough to do when they can't get on the tandem with him.

With 12 years full time involvement in flying and teaching all over the world, Chris is simply one of the UK's most experienced instructors.

Bio: interests include flying, river kayaking, flying, climbing, flying and flying.