First of all, they're fun to learn! They're also a valuable skill in real flying situations, for example, when you need to make a quick course correction to avoid another pilot or clear a cravat.
What happens during a spin? How does your glider react? What should you do, and how do you recognise the signs?
April & May 2027 dates available.
April 10-12 · 15-17 · 20-22 · 25-27
May 1-3 · 6-8 · 11-13 · 16-18
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SIV doesn't have to be extreme or all about big manoeuvres!
We start with the fundamentals and build up progressively. If you're ready and keen to explore more, we can work towards stalls and more advanced manoeuvres (always with safety and proper guidance)
April & May dates available :
April 10-12 · 15-17 · 20-22 · 25-27
May 1-3 · 6-8 · 11-13 · 16-18
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Frontal collapse: What happens, and why staying calm is half the job.
Knowing how to react makes all the difference. Learn to understand your glider, recognise what's happening, and know what to expect depending on the type of collapse.
We all have our own ideas about collapses. Some pilots think they're a big deal, others don't. But what actually happens when your glider collapses?
Does it reopen straight away? Is it sticky ? Can it lead to parachutal ?
Every glider reacts differently. Come and experience it for yourself in a controlled environment, and learn to understand your wing better!
Want to build your skills and confidence in the air? Join us for an SIV course at Lake Garda in 2027.
April & May dates available
April 10 - 12, 15 -17, 20 - 22, 25 - 27
May 1- 3, 6 - 8, 11 - 13, 16 - 18
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Tricia came to us July 2024. She was a new pilot.
Over the last two years, her progress has been amazing to watch. Someone with her schedule to be able to add paragliding to the list isn't easy one bit.
It takes so much dedication to get to this point.
Now, she's getting comfortable with the full limits of the wing during SIV's. Consistency in XC flying and even done a few competitions.
My job is to get you to a place where you don't need me anymore. Tricia is doing the work.
🥰 @triciayap
It's not the mistakes we do that counts. It's what we do after that matters!
Our course curriculum is built as a stepping stones, eatch exercise preparing you for the next. By the time you get to more dynamic moves, you know what to expect and how to deal with it when things dose not go your way.
Stall to backfly in four stages. Pierce, hands up, choke, backfly.
The pilot in this clip is doing it for the first time.
For years, we have taught it in two moves. Slow the wing to minimum speed, punch it through, ease up, then straight into backfly. It works. It also feels aggressive, because you start from a wing that is already on the edge and then you hit it. It throws you around more this way. And you learn less about what the wing is actually doing.
We where not happy with this way and we thought it could be done better, and we were experimenting with different approaches last session.
Then, last May, we went back to Malin Lobb to shadow him and have a chat about how to improve. @malinlobb He had allready came up with a solution.
This session we switched. Start at trim speed. Pierce it in one go. Hands up. Choke it. Bring it into the backfly. Four stages, and you can feel each one.
The entry is cleaner, there is less violence in it, and you get the time to understand how the wing behaves on the way instead of just surviving the moment.
It is also closer to real life. In thermic air you would not have the time to slow the wing down first. You go from trim.
To me, this is how backfly training should evolve. Closer to what happens in the wild, more controlled, and it is not throwing you around. This is how I enter them myself.
This was the first course where we taught it this way.
#committedtoprogression
Most pilots meet their first spin by accident.
To me that is backwards. A spin you understand is a tool. It turns the wing fast when you need to be somewhere other than where you are, which matters the day someone flies at you and there is no other exit. And when one does catch you out, your hands already know the answer, because you have been there on purpose, over water, with a boat underneath you.
The more we play with spins, the less likely we are to spin one by accident.
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October 2026 - 1st to 3rd and 5th to 7th
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Once rotations, collapses have been trained and understood, we move on to autorotations !
In this video, the pilot has already completed several autorotations and is now working on full understanding of the manoeuvre as a choice.
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September 2026 — 23rd-25th / 27th-29th
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Here’s the very first step we work on during our SIV courses: rotations.
They allow you to understand all the axes of your wing and build the foundations needed to progress safely, without rushing. It may look simple, but once these fundamentals are mastered, everything else becomes easier and your progression becomes much faster.
We believe in adapting the training to you, not just ticking boxes. If you’re looking for a safe, progressive SIV course adapted to your needs, come and join us.
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Lake Garda, Italy
September 2026
23–25 / 27–29
October 2026
1–3 / 5–7
See you over the lake!
Some pilots arrive at SIV and want to Backfly, Helico, SAT…
Some arrive wanting to understand every step in details and take it slow…
Both are valid. Both work.
At Flying Karlis SIV, we don't have a fixed programme, we have your programme.
We talk before we fly. We understand where you are, what you want.. Then we build a training that makes sense for you, whether that's pushing limits or solidifying foundations.
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September 2026 23rd - 25th / 27th - 29th
October 2026 1st - 3rd / 5th - 7th
Thermalling? You're rotating. Landing approach? Rotating.
Every wingover, every spiral, every tight turn to avoid traffic, it’s all about rotations. It's the most fundamental thing we do in the air.
Before we teach you an autorotation, backfly… we teach you rotation and how to exit in a safe way. Every axis. Every input. Every reaction, understood in a rotation first, before we take it further.
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September 2026 23rd - 25th / 27th - 29th
October 2026 1st - 3rd / 5th - 7th
