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Thank you all, much to think about and ponder.

Thanks for all the really useful replies. I prefer the idea of doing an intensive course as there aren't many places to learn near me, it's either down to Cornwall to Cloud9 or over to Wiltshire/Dorset. That means taking a weekend and, because we run a little glamping site as our business, I don't really get weekends free over the summer when the weather's supposedly at it's most amenable to flying. If I do a two week course, I only need to find cover for a 2-3 weekend and then I'm set up to be able to buy my own gear and start flying locally. I'm fortunate to have some fields of our own, though not always easily flyable. However, there's a grass strip airfield just up the road I'm fairly sure they'd let me fly from. It was the same when I did my PPL, Did an intensive course where we were flying several times a day without weather issues and it really locked all the muscle memory and routines into place better than doing bits every few weeks. @Hann__, riding a bike to Spain or Italy sounds like a fabulous idea, I may just do that as I don't get out on mine as much as I'd like @admin (Simon W) Do you find most people who do your 2 week course manage to get to their PPG Pilot license or do many have to come back and do it later due to weather?

Hi all, new member (based in North Devon) currently looking at learning to paramotor. I have a lapsed PPL that's not been used for 13 years and I've been looking at options to get back flying more affordably. I also have about 160 skydives so I have a bit of canopy flight experience but, again, it's been quite a few years since I last did any jumps. I was wondering, as a beginner, how big an issue waiting on weather is likely to be when doing courses in the UK. When I started skydiving in Kent, we'd spent a lot of time waiting for the winds to die down to allow the novices to jump. What sort of wind limits are there for beginner paraglider/motor pilots? To make best use of limited holiday time, is going to a school in Spain or Italy (such as skyschool) likely to give me a better option to progress and gain my pilot's license in a 2 week period compared to training in the UK? I'm most likely to have holiday time available in spring and autumn so not always the best times of year to be doing things like flying in the UK. I'm sure I'll be back with plenty more questions but this should at least help me decide when/where to look at training.