Paul Hamilton, CFI, DPE (SPE, SPIE, PE)
Paul is one of the first people to receive Sport Pilot Certified Flight Instructor (CFI) and Designated Pilot Examiner (DPE) for Sport Pilots. As a DPE he is designated by the FAA to conduct Practical Tests (checkrides) and issue Sport Pilot and Certified Flight Instructor FAA certificates/licenses.
Flying for over 35 years, Paul holds ratings with the FAA:
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These are the highest (FAA) highest ratings possible for Weight-Shift Control aircraft (trikes) and is a FAA Designated Pilot Examiner (DPE) to test pilots for FAA sport pilot and flight instructor licenses.
Paul has accumulated more than 2,000 flying hours to date and is also is a FAA certified flight instructor for light-sport airplanes.
Paul wrote the FAA “Weight-Shift Control Flying Handbook” 8083-5 which is used as the basis for all trike training throughout the world.
Paul is a Master Rated Hang Glider Pilot and Advanced Rated Paraglider Pilot with the USHPA, United States Hang Gliding and Paragliding Association. Paul is used to flying the hang gliding wing, the same as a trike wing to high altitudes and landing with no engine.
Paul began as a flight instructor 30 years ago teaching Hang Gliding with a local ski shop, as well as, developed and taught Hang Gliding with the University of Nevada Reno as a credit course in the athletic department.
In 1978 Paul was issued a US Patent # 416406 for a variable camber inflatable hang gliding wing he developed, built and flew in college. He graduated from the University of Nevada Reno with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering specializing in Aeronautics.
Paul went on to work as an Engineer in Design, Analysis, and Flight Testing for the Lear Fan 2100 business turbo prop/jet.
Lear Fan sponsored Paul to modify/beef up a hang glider, optimize it on a test rig, modify a trike undercarriage
for the trike wing and than fly it as advertisement as a trike and a hang glider. This was back in 1982 before trikes were available.
Paul had to design his own trike, test it and fly it. This is how Paul get started with trikes.
After his work at Lear Fan, Paul founded Adventure Productions in 1988, a full service multi-media production company specializing in adventure sport aviation productions. Adventure Productions produces features, DVD / video series, books, and CDs. With a specialty for capturing Point Of View (POV) adventure sport aviation footage, Paul is Producer
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of over forty films on ultralights and light sport aircraft including fixed wing airplanes, trikes, powered paragliders, powered parachutes, paragliders, and hang gliders featured at Adventure Productions online store. When the Sport Pilot/Light-Sport Aircraft new FAA rule became effective in 2004, Paul combined forces with the largest aviation publisher in the world ASA to publish his works.
Today, specializing in weight-shift control trikes and light sport airplanes, he continues to develop and publish books, DVD’s and on line training for the adventure of flight and learning how to fly.
Over the years Paul has experience with teaching people how to fly plus developing the leading light-sport aircraft pilot training system. This is not just how to prepare for your FAA tests, it is how to learn to be a safe pilot and fly with confidence. Whether you train with Paul, or use his “Hamilton Pilot Training System” (HPTS), you know you have the “industry standard” learn to fly program.
