Hang Gliding Instructor; Nags Head, NC

Hang Gliding Instructor (Nags Head, NC)

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Enjoy learning and have a coach‑able mindset. Have excellent athletic potential. Look for opportunities for advancement and growth both professionally and personally. Can commit to an unpaid training program.

• You earn the opportunity to teach people to fly.
• You earn the opportunity to learn to fly.
• You will change lives every single day.
• You will grow as a pilot and instructor, but also as an individual.
• You will forever be part of a one‑of‑a‑kind community that spans the globe.
• You will leave here in the best shape of your life.
• You get to live at the beach and take advantage of all that it has to offer.
• You will not make a lot of money, but it will be the best summer of your life.

The Academy is the only program of its kind in the United States. Since 1974, we have taken people with little or no flight experience and brought them through our training programs. Within these programs new instructors work hard on both their teaching skills and on their own personal flying skills.

Instructors are able to do these things while earning money teaching beginning hang gliding in Jockey’s Ridge State Park. Those instructors who return for a second season, or remain through the off‑season, are sponsored by Kitty Hawk Kites to attend a United States Hang Gliding Association, Instructor Certification Program. Instructors who earn their certification are eligible to teach, and issue ratings anywhere in the U.S. Most are offered positions as Lead Instructors, and remain at Kitty Hawk Kites to assume a greater role in the school and in the Academy’s training programs.

• Full‑time commitment from new instructors.
• Physically demanding work: carry a 55lb glider up the sand dune 50 times and run down the dune while teaching students to fly.
• Typical workday about seven hours long, most of which will be spent actually teaching out on the dune.
• Temperatures in the summer average in the nineties and humidity high.
• Must maintain responsibilities as an instructor despite exhausting conditions.

• Opportunities for advancement and growth both professionally and personally.
• Potential to earn money teaching beginning hang gliding.
• Work travel and life on the Outer Banks.
• Learning opportunities through various training clinics throughout the summer.

Kitty Hawk Kites, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer.