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The BHPA Pilot Handbook, now further revised and updated in a fourth edition, includes all the basic and advanced techniques, flight theory, specialist know-how and background studies that a pilot will require from Club Pilot training onwards - in one exhaustive volume. Author Mark Dale was the BHPA's full-time Technical Manager for thirty years, an experienced competition pilot and an acknowledged authority on hang glider and paraglider stability and airworthiness. He has logged 2000 hours spread across hang gliders, paragliders, sailplanes and microlights. He holds an FAI World Hang Gliding speed record.