The sky is for you

Sharing the wonderful experience of paragliding motivates us to provide you with an excellent instruction process, where we focus on your safety, your purposes for the flight and the acquisition of an adequate flight technique, which will allow you to enjoy this fascinating sport by connecting with nature.

At DREAM OF FLYING Paragliding School, we offer you a safe and professional learning experience, which will allow you to gain confidence and peace of mind when paragliding. Our teaching methodology will allow you to advance in an evolutionary way, acquiring the ideal technique to make each flight a pleasure. During the development of the course we supply you with equipment. From learning you will live the most wonderful experiences in flight.

 

Paragliding initiation course

This course is designed for those who start from scratch, it is not even necessary that they have made tandem or tourist flights in Paragliding since we are going to do it during the course.

It is divided into two stages, one theoretical and one practical.
We believe that more emphasis should be placed on practical classes, which is ultimately what interests students the most.

 

1. Theoretical classes

Fly safety
Meteorology
flight rules
Knowledge of the material

2. Practical classes

They are divided into 4 phases:

- First phase: Paraglider inflation practices (5 classes)

These practices are carried out on flat ground, here we learn the names of the elements that make up the paraglider, later we begin to practice inflating by running, which is to initially walk and then be able to jog with the inflated paraglider at our "12" or over our head. We will be able to put the paraglider in our vertical and what we have to try is that it does not fall, we achieve this by means of the lift in relation to the wind and by means of the controls that we carry in our hands, with these we will learn to direct the paraglider where we we want.

 

– Second Phase: Takeoff and landing practices (3 classes)

In this phase we go to a hillside. As we already control the inflation, the next exercise will be to run down the slope and the paraglider will make us lift off the ground and fly in a straight line until landing. These practices are extremely simple and will help us to know the race (speed) that we must have so that the paraglider takes us to fly, the brake we have to give, running down the slope without sitting down or jumping and at landing time the moment in which we have to completely brake the paraglider so that we land gently on the ground, these are flights short (toads) and you have to do at least 30 to finish this phase.

It is ideal that 20 of these short flights are carried out in the school's paraglider, then the remaining 10 flights will be carried out in the student's paraglider, who must manage the purchase of it in this phase of the course.

 

– Third phase: Tandem training flights (2 flights)

You fly with the instructor in the tandem, you begin to apply the knowledge acquired up to that moment and you begin to practice the different paragliding flight techniques in the air (ears, approach and landing procedure, hillside flight, Top landing ), these flights are carried out in the place where the altitude will be flown.

 

– Fourth phase: High altitude flights (15 short flights)

The flights are made from a mountain with a minimum of 300 to 1,200 meters of height difference from the sea. These flights are carried out and directed by an instructor, in order to verify all their previous learning

 

COURSE REQUIREMENTS

• Older than 18 years old
• No heart problems or osteoporosis.
• No pregnancy.
• No physical limitations.
• Arrange at least two days a week for class.
• Respect the rules and regulations of the school.

WHAT DOES IT INCLUDE?

• This initiation course is from 10 to 20 days of practice.
• Theoretical classes in the process.
• 2 tandem instruction flights.
• 15 high flights.
• Starter book.
• Flight license.
• Certification to request FAI sports license. (requires joining a club registered with fedeaereos).
• While the course is provided basic school equipment, radio and additional equipment.

Do you want to learn to fly?

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