PARAGLIDING COURSES IN ARIÈGE
🗓 Calendar for Paragliding Courses
How are the lessons going?
Elementary pilot courses
5 consecutive days where very good results are observed. Being totally immersed in the activity is great.
This course lasts 5 days according to weather conditions and the Trainee’s level. Starting on a basic, well adapted slope to learn both theoretic and practical basics (equipment/material, take off, control, acceleration, landing, etc..) followed by full flights with radio contact (a fully qualified teachers at take-off and landing). This course will take place on a secure site under suitable conditions. You will be supervised by instructors who will guide you vigilantly by radio during all stages of your flight.
The progression Pack
With this pack you can fly and progress whenever you are available and weather conditions are suitable.
Just register to are dedicated WhatsApp group and get inform everyday about weather conditions and book your flights.
We will keep provide you with the best paragliding equipment and help you to progress.
The Initial certificate pack
It begins with a 5-day initiation course which consists of 2 days on a school slope and 3 half-days of guided flights.
Following your internship, you will benefit from a logbook of 20 flights to reach the level required, both theoretical and practical, to pass your initial pilot’s license.
At the end of the course, we will take you through the initial theoretical and practical pilot’s license exam.
Discovery day
The morning will be devoted to the discovery of paragliding equipment and ground handling with the glider. Under the guidance of your instructor, you will better understand the piloting of the paraglider. Soon, with the paraglider above your head, you will be setting off on the school slope. (Session of about 2 hours and half)
In the afternoon, we fly: An educational tandem paragliding flight to allow you to pilot yourself and thus discover the basic maneuvers. (10 to 20 minutes flight depending on the areological conditions of the day).
Advantages for our trainees
Instructors
Kymaya has 4 permanent instructors which allows us to provide an elementary course, Progression Pack and initial pilots’ licenses every week.
Trainees
We limit our Elementary courses to 6 trainees to work in small groups which allows us to have a high level of progress.
Our wings
12 complete packs ready to fly in all sizes. We work mainly with the Swiss manufacturer: Advance to guarantee you fly with the best equipment on the market.
The Fly Alert !
You have subscribed to a Progression Pack or an Initial Pilot’s Certificate and you want to be warned each time it flies so as not to miss anything and progress quickly?
Benefit from our weather analysis and be notified in advance to schedule your flights by subscribing to our WhatsApp Group.
Then all you have to do is confirm your presence via the group.
Please note, this is not a discussion group but only a one-day flight registration.
Our flying sites
Both located in the heart of the Ariège Pyrenees natural park, they are close to Toulouse:
- Prat d’Albis, FOIX (45 min of Toulouse)
- Port de Lers, Vicdessos (1h of Toulouse)
FFVL Label
Ariege Pyrenees Outdoor Quality label
Each structure of the ” French school of hang gliding and paragliding ” is committed with the French hang gliding and paragliding association (FFVL) to train you in accordance with a quality charter.
At the end of the internship, a quality survey will be sent to you by email. It will allow the school to know your feelings, and the teaching of our disciplines to make further progress.
It’s an innovative approach implemented in the Ariège department in order to guarantee quality outdoor services.
This approach is based on a number of principles to which professionals are attached and to which they commit themselves through more than 140 criteria, checked during mystery audits. Conviviality, Sharing, Respect, are the key words of these labeled companies which will make you spend unforgettable moments of adventure and pleasure!
