Organisation profile

onair Paragliding Center

• School
• Trip organiser
• Tandem flights
• Dealer
• Equipment service

onair Paragliding Center is a paragliding school in Bach in Tyrol's Lechtal valley, run jointly by three instructors who are also the managing directors of onair GmbH. It is on the Austrian Aero Club (ÖAeC) list of schools and is also listed as a school by the German association DHV; its second base is in Wiesbaden, from where it uses training slopes in the Taunus and the Nahe valley.

The route to the Austrian pilot licence (Paragleiterschein, the equivalent of the German A licence) starts with a three-day beginner course on the training slope at Elbigenalp or near Wiesbaden and continues with two high-flight courses from the Jöchelspitze above Bach: forty high flights in total with radio guidance, theory, simulator training and the final exam. For licensed pilots the school offers a thermal course, a B-licence course, a week-long cross-country seminar over the Allgäu and Lechtal Alps, launch training, a winch course and a tandem-pilot course. It also runs flying trips, among them hike & fly in the Lechtal, the Vosges, Annecy, Tenerife and Bassano combined with an SIV course on Lake Garda run together with the partner school X-dream Fly.

Tandem flights take off from the Jöchelspitze in the Lechtal and from the Neunerköpfle in the Tannheimer Tal, and in Germany in the Taunus and the Nahe valley. In Bach and Wiesbaden the school has a shop for wings, harnesses, reserves and accessories and a workshop for two-year wing checks, trim checks, harness checks, reserve repacks and repairs.