Cloudbase offers you a taster course based in Christchurch which gives you the skills to fly under radio instruction from our training site. You will practice take off/turning in flight/landing and will have two flights from our lower training site (50 metres in elevation) and either a flight from our high training site (200 m) or a Discovery Tandem Flight if the wind is too strong.
http://cloudbaseparagliding.co.nz/