Pilot’s license
Four different modules bring you to the paraglider pilot’s license.
Initiation course
(No 1 green module)
The adventure starts here!
The initiation course takes you to your first solo flight, under radio guidance. In a gently sloping field, you learn the basics of taking off and landing with a paraglider. At the same time, we organize one educational tandem flight with an instructor. During these flight you will learn how to pilot a paraglider and you will do the figures required for your pilot education. These educational flight will give you the knowledge and the confidence you need for your first solo flight. Supervised at the take-off and the landing by 2 instructors, you will then perform your first solo flight under radio guidance. A flight you won’t ever forget!
Everything you need for your first solo flight is included in the module. So you don’t need to have your own equipment.
Rate: 550 CHF
(including transportation to the flight sites)
Develop the basics.
(No. 2 blue module)
Discover the fascinating sensations of flying!
This module includes 15 flights under radio guidance. During these flights, you will progressively acquire all the basics of flying a paraglider. A first step towards flights in complete autonomy.
Equipment rental is included in this module; this allows you to discover flying and to test different models of gliders and harnesses. Our instructors will be happy to guide you in the choice of the equipment that will best suit to your future life as a pilot.
Rate: 825 CHF
(excluding shuttle bus fees)
Progress in complete safety
(No 3 red module)
Develop your skills.
This module includes 20 flights, with and without radio guidance. Depending on the weather conditions and your abilities, we will gradually lead you to fly without permanent radio control. The flights with radio guidance will allow you to perfect the figures learned during the blue module and to learn new, more complex. An pedagogical tandem flight is also included in this module. It gives the opportunity to improve certain figures or to discover new facets of paragliding, such as thermal flying.
Equipment rental is no longer included in this module. At this stage of the formation, it becomes interesting for the student to acquire his own equipment that will accompany him throughout his future life as a pilot.
Rates : 750 CHF
(excluding shuttle bus fees)
Advanced training
(No. 4 black module)
Training for the practical exam.
This module allows you to finalise your training. It includes the flights necessary to take the final practical examination (at least 50 flights in total, see below). If the student needs more flights than the minimum required, he or she can continue to fly and improve with the school without paying for the extra flights! (maximum of 30 flights included in this module). It is essential for us that students who leave our paragliding school are ready to start their pilot’s life with all the required qualifications.
Equipment rental is no longer included in the training. The student has his/her own paraglider and harness to practice with.
More advantages included in the “Super package”!
(detailed information below)
Rates: 540 CHF
(excluding shuttle bus fees)
The Super Package!
The ideal way to discover paragliding and get your pilot’s licence at a very attractive price.
7’300 CHF for your complete formation, new equipment included !
Save 20 % on the acquisition of your equipment !
Keep all the advantages of the 4 modules and buy your new equipment at a top price!
Pay for your training and equipment in successive steps:
- You discover paragliding through the green module (initiation) & the blue module (15 flights with the school’s equipment).
- This will allow you to discover all the basics of learning for the pilot’s licence. You will have the opportunity to test the equipment and this will help us to advise you on the choice of paraglider that will accompany you during your training and the beginning of your life as a pilot.
- You order your equipment at the end of the blue module and finish your training with it to prepare you for the exams.
- The rest of the training and equipment is paid in 1 or 2 payments.
- Profit from advantageous offers dedicated to Fly Riviera students (purchase of flight equipment, helmets, clothes and much more…).
For more information, contact us.
Fly Riviera advantages
Professionalism
A school certified by the FSVL (Fédération Suisse de Vol Libre) which promotes safety through increased training. We want that the students have all the required skills, from their first solo flights to the beginning of their pilot’s life.
Sonchaux
Our main spot is a unique flying site!
The 1’000m of altitude difference offered by this site will allow you to develop the basics of piloting in complete safety and to improve your skills by having the possibility to practice the figures many times.
All this while flying over Lake Geneva and the Riviera 🙂
Dynamism
An active school that flies regularly and on many flying sites. Under the sharp eye of our instructors, you will review not only all the exercises required for the pilot’s license but also many others that will help you to improve your skills.
Equipment at its best
You make your beginnings with the school’s material before investing in the glider of your dreams.
This allows you to try out and choose what will suit you the most for your future life as a pilot.
The Swiss pilot’s licence in detail
The Swiss paraglider pilot licence is a very complete formation. It gives the students a solid foundation to become an autonomous pilot. This training includes theoretical and practical parts which are validated by two exams dispensed by the FSVL (Swiss paragliding federation).
Becoming a paraglider pilot in Switzerland requires the following conditions:
- From the age of 14 it is possible to start paragliding at school.
- From 16 years old it is possible to pass the practical final exam.
- The theoretical exam must be passed during the formation, before the practical exam.
- The final practical exam gives you the license.
- A minimum of 50 flights on 5 different flying sites is required to take part in the practical exam. Fly Riviera is a school that flies on many different sites. You will therefore have the opportunity to fly and to discover many paragliding spots during your formation.
Once the license is completed, the pilot is licensed forever. He is therefore not obliged to maintain a number of flights annually to keep his license. The Swiss license is very well recognized internationally and therefore allows you to fly in many countries of the world ( depend
Pilots who are on a comeback after a break are of course welcome in our school so that they can return to flying in complete safety.