Lookout Mountain Flight School

Want to become a pilot? We have the training program to fit your needs.

LMFP has been training pilots since 1978 and no other flight school can boast the resources we have at our disposal. Your first flights will happen just five feet off the ground on our training hills, situated a few miles down the road at the base of Georgia’s stunning Cloudland Canyon. As you progress – shoving your brain full of aerodynamics, micro-climatology and first-hand folk lore from the heydays of hang gliding – tandem flights with our expert instructors will give you ample airtime to learn how to control a glider at altitude. Once you’ve gotten your Hang 2 and cleared the Big Hill, you’ll be ready to take on our 1,400-foot radial mountain launch. Open year round, morning and evening “sled runs” off our ramp will help you refine your skills and give you the self-confidence and know-how to take to the skies and soar with the eagles!

With Lookout Mountain running for miles both north and south of us, ridge soaring opportunities abound, offering hours of flying fun for the experienced pilot! As your skills progress and you become inducted into the art of “thermal-hunting,” you’ll be able to reach cloudbase at two, four, eight, maybe even ten thousand feet above the ground! Pilots have flown off of our ramp and gone as far as Bowling Green, Kentucky and south of Atlanta!

From your first steps carrying a hang glider to multi-hour XC flights, Lookout Mountain can satisfy all your flying needs! Our staff live and breath flying; no other flight park can lay claim to the diversity of dedicated pilots that call Lookout home; they literally live in our Landing Zone. Our flying community is our greatest strength. Come for a week, stay for a year; let LMFP give you wings and you’ll walk away with friendships and memories that will last a lifetime!