About Us
Training pilots how to fly safely since 2008
Our goal
We want all students to have a long, safe, and pleasurable career as a paraglider pilot. This takes extensive training and lots of practice, especially on the ground kiting the glider. But it is worth the effort! Along with hang gliding, it is the rawest form of aviation and the closest thing there is to being a bird. If you have dreams of yourself flying through the air, they will end when you begin flying a paraglider!
Accreditation
- Powered paragliding – U.S. Powered Paragliding Association (USPPA) school #1672. Instructors are USPPA certified.
- Paragliding – Professional Air Sports Association (PASA) school #23. Instructors are
U.S. Hang Gliding & Paragliding Association (USHPA) certified.
- Southwest Airsports, LLC operates in accordance with all PASA Safety Guidelines and all PASA School Standards.
Dedication
This website is dedicated in memory of the heroes of U.S. Navy SEAL Team 10 and the SEALS in Operation Redwing who perished fighting the enemy in Afghanistan, June 2005. We are proud to train warriors of the U.S. Armed Forces and those of our allies.
Our faith in Christ and His protection while we fly is a great help and comfort to us.
We honor Taylor Morris and warriors like him, including his wife, Danielle, who stood by her man after he was gravely wounded in 2012 while fighting the Mohammedans.
Southwest Airsports is a U.S. Department of Defense contractor. Please view I Fought for You.
Staff
Had Robinson – USHPA Master Pilot (P5), Tow Observer, Tow Tech 2, Advanced & Tandem Instructor, Gold Safe Pilot Award, Instructor of the Year 2017 – USPPA Advanced & Tandem Instructor, Instructor Administrator – Champion 2010 Spring Fling competition, La Belle, Florida
José Muñoz – Assistant Instructor & Sports Promoter José, a U.S. citizen, lives in Chihuahua City, Chih., Mexico and helps with our operations in Mexico. He travels frequently to the U.S. and has a home in El Paso, Texas U.S.A.
Marilyn Robinson – Flightbabe#1, assistant instructor, & tow operator assistant. If it were not for Marilyn, Had's wife, we could not have a safe towing operation.
Anna Pauline Brock, Marilyn's mother, was an airman long ago. During WWII, Pauline's father traded use of his farmland for a military airstrip if the Civil Aeronautics Administration would train his two daughters how to fly.
Please remember that enemies of our country and our Constitution are present at home and abroad. Fight to preserve our Constitutional Republic. Remember the parents of our fighting men – they raised sons who someday might have to do the heavy lifting only required of all young men.
