Organisation profile

Aero Club Pisa – scuola di parapendio

• School

Aero Club Pisa’s paragliding school offers year-round training towards independent flight. It identifies the Monti Pisani near San Giuliano Terme as a flying area. An instructional tandem with an instructor forms part of the course, introducing students to flight before further progression.

The initial stage mainly uses training hills in the provinces of Pisa or Florence, selected according to wind direction. The published outline provides fifteen theoretical and practical lessons over a period of up to four months, depending on weather. Students work on wing control, two launch techniques, short flights and an initial radio-guided high flight.

For this stage the school supplies a wing, harness, helmet and reserve parachute subject to availability. Students must obtain their own equipment before continuing. Further preparation combines training-slope practice, radio-guided high flights and theory taught both in person and online. The progression programme aims to reach the standard required for the pilot examination; the published initial-stage duration does not itself determine an examination date.