Good stuff Simon.
I learnt to paraglide in 2003, once I'd completed my BHPA CP and I bought my own wing the school instructors were there to support me on my first flights on this new wing.
50 (flying) hours later when I moved up to a new wing I was able to test fly it and give & recieve feedback from the instructor I was buying it through, then when my new wing arrived he met me on the hill and checked the wing with me before its first flight.
Be safe!