This course is aimed at pilots with a minimum of 200+ flights, 50 hours of airtime, and more than 1-year of active flying experience. The course is designed to build pilot confidence to progress to flying higher-performance gliders and obtain their SAPHA sport license. This course includes simulating paraglider collapses and advanced manoeuvers as well as covering more advanced theory lessons.
Duration : 4 flying days
Included
- Advance pilot online training module
- Theory briefings during practical training
- 2 Instructional tandem flights
- Multimedia footage
- Paraglide Africa drawstring bag and stickers
- 1 Dinner on us
Practical
- Good layout and pre-flight checks
- Very good unassisted ground control in all conditions
- Good reverse pull-up technique and take-off in soar-able winds
- Top landing
- Thermalling achieving a 500m height gain.
- Landing accuracy
- Point of stall
- Asymmetric collapses trim and accelerated speed
- Frontal collapse trim speed and accelerated speed
- Point of spin
- Roll control
- Wing-overs
- Big ears landing technique
- B-riser stall
Theory
- Aerodynamics and glider behavior
- Advance flying techniques
- Glider recovery techniques
- Emergency procedures
