Community
Local pilots
Maui’s free-flight community held space after 2011: rides to launch, site briefings, patience while gear and bodies adapted. This page will grow with names and stories as photos and notes arrive.
Home mountain
Maui
Where the crash happened — and where the return keeps unfolding. Polipoli, the local school, and the pilots who never left.
Photo
Maui ridge / Polipoli — launch, LZ, or flight over central valley.
School & sponsor
Paraglide Maui
Oldest full-time paragliding school in Hawaiʻi. Polipoli Flight Park on the lee of Haleakalā — tandem, solo instruction, visiting-pilot orientations.
Place
Polipoli / Kula
Morning glass-offs, grassy launches, central-valley views. Home air for a wheelchair pilot who still lives upslope in Kula.
Photo
Maui launch or LZ with friends — Polipoli morning light preferred.