Organisation profile

FlyLibell

• School

FlyLibell runs beginner training at Alpe Giumello in Valsassina. Its VDS/VL course is described for groups of up to six students, moving from a training field and two or three instructional tandems to high solo flights with radio guidance from instructors at launch and landing. It lists 23 theory hours and a variable duration of around four to six months. Equipment loan ends after the tenth high flight; transport back to launch is excluded.

Qualified pilots can take a separate two-day wing sensitivity and control course. Based at Alpe Giumello, it focuses on ground handling, launches and landings. Technical briefings and individual corrections address each participant’s errors and objectives. This provides focused practice in skills already acquired.

Another two-day advanced course is aimed at qualified pilots with flying experience. It develops weather-based planning, interpretation of clouds and terrain, and thermal flying; the school also presents it as preparation for cross-country flights. The initial route towards the examination therefore has distinct follow-on options for ground skills and further flying development.