Organisation profile

AFS Flugschule

• School

AFS Flugschule in Bad Wildungen–Mandern offers a two-day taster, an approximately five-day basic course and a seven-day combined course. Basic training includes at least twenty flights, theory, radio guidance and evening video debriefs. The school supplies a wing, harness and helmet. The combined programme brings together hill and winch launches, high flights and theory; further training leads towards the A-Schein. These day counts describe the course structure.

The school emphasises small groups and an individual approach without specifying a capacity. Alongside hill training, it also teaches the “Stufenschlepp” towing technique on its own tow site. Its site list shows several options in Hesse: Weinberg and An der Saale in Mandern, Am Schleifenstein in Wellen and Am Göbbelsberg in Albertshausen. These slopes have different orientations and height differences: the guide lists forty and sixty metres for the Mandern slopes and sixty-five metres for Albertshausen. They complement winch training; the published list is not a fixed site schedule for each course.