Organisation profile

Aero Club Lombardia

• School

Aero Club Lombardia uses the grassy slopes of Montalto Pavese for initial training and Palazzago for high flights. The basic course combines theory and a simulator with launch and landing practice, an instructional tandem and one radio-guided solo high flight. The school supplies the necessary equipment. Theory also addresses managing emotions in flight. The length of this first stage depends on student progress and weather.

The subsequent course prepares students for the examination: its published programme includes five advanced launch and landing lessons, thirty guided high flights and sixteen hours of theory. At this stage the school requires personal equipment supplied through it. Training is mainly at weekends, with weekdays by arrangement except Tuesdays.

Individual progression training is for qualified pilots with at least fifty solo flights. An entry assessment informs a personal plan: three two-hour lessons combine theory, ground practice and tandem instruction. They focus on launches and landings, ridge and thermal soaring, and an introduction to cross-country flying.