Airways Airsports

Airways Airsports is an airpark at Darley Moor Airfield, Derbyshire, offering hang gliding, paragliding, paramotoring, and microlight training and flying.

[1] Airways also teach paragliding, hang gliding, paramotoring, and microlight flying at BHPA and BMAA schools in the Alps.

Compared to training on the hill, this is a faster and less physically demanding way to try out paragliding, as Darley Moor airfield is big enough for the winch to be moved around if the wind changes.

In the clubhouse there are male, female and disabled, showers, light refreshments, a shop, and in 2011 a brand new hangar has been built.

[12] (2010) Geologist Iain Stewart flown over a waterfall in a paramotor buggy by Airways CFI Chris Dawes.

[13][14] (2010) Country Tracks presenter Ellie Harrison flew above Derbyshire with Airways instructor Andy Snell.

[17] (2011) The Gadget Show presenter, Jon Bentley, flew with Judy Leden, competing with a peregrine falcon to track a lure[18] (2011) Judy Leden takes BBC Breakfast Weather reporter Carol Kirkwood flying in a hang glider to see a cloud close up and weight it, for BBC's The Great British Weather Show.