Paragliding Spain Courses

Southern Spain, Algodonales is the most popular flying resort in Southern Spain. It has everything any pilot of whatever level might like, Reliable weather, easy access to a mixture of flying sites, easy launches and tidy landing fields. Cheap food and drink and an easy going style of life that’s perfectly Spanish. We cater for all levels, the keen Xc pilot and the beginner. The Pilot thermalling holidays are geared to the individual. Join Extreme Sports Cafe in Spain for an unforgettable Paragliding Holiday.

In sensible hands, paragliding can be amongst the safest of adventure sports. The expertise you need to keep you safe starts with the school you choose to learn to fly with. Extreme Sports Cafe's partner Spanish Paragliding School aim to equip you not only with excellent flying skills, but also with the knowledge to keep you flying safely whilst having fun! 

For more information on Paragliding in Algodonales Spain from Extreme Sport Cafe, please check our Paragliding Algodonales Spain page.

For more information on Paragliding Guided Holidays in Spain from Extreme Sport Cafe, please check our Paragliding Guided Holiday Spain page.

Spain Tandem Paragliding Flight Experience €120 p/p
A Tandem Paragliding flight is the easiest and safest way to feel the thrill of soaring like a bird. No experience needed. Fly with the most experienced Tandem pilots in Europe and get a birds eye view of the beautiful scenery below.

Paragliding Spain Courses and Paragliding Tandems in Algodonales from Extreme Sports Cafe

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Spain Paragliding Course 5-Day Beginner Elementary Pilot £750
This paragliding course includes accommodation & *airport transfer. The paragliding course takes roughly 3- 4 full days but with weather on our side and more days available to teach we aim to get you to a higher than usual standard. The first couple of days will either be spent at the beach or on nearby slopes learning to kite and confidently launch our glider in both alpine and cross brake reverse launch techniques.

• By the end of the two days you should have a good feel for the pitch and roll of your glider and making short solo flights from no more than 50 – 100 feet. The next two days will be aimed at improving glider control in turns of 90 - 180 degrees and figures of eight flying patterns from heights of around 300 - 400 ft either using towing or from smaller hills.
• When you have comfortably satisfied all these aspects of flying we will progress up to the larger hills and mountains surrounding Algodonales. The practical side of the Elementary course will be completed here, on hills between 500ft – 2000ft. Your last couple of flights will see you making confident site assessments, demonstrate good controlled launches, co-ordinated turns and safe and sensible landings, completely unassisted.
• The week will be broken up by simple theory lectures on Air Law, Flight Theory and Meteorology of which there will be a simple multiple-choice exam at the end.

At this point you will have completed your Paragliding Elementary pilot qualification and will be ready to progress on to your Club Pilot course. You can either continue into the second week completing the Club pilot course or book another week when it suits. 

Spain Paragliding Course 6-Day Club Pilot £850
This paragliding course includes accommodation & *airport transfer. Whether you are picking up where you left off with us or coming from another school. Depending on how current you are we will initially concentrate on some essential basics. We will spend some time making sure you have good and comfortable skills in Alpine and reverse launching our glider.

• You will then be fully equipped with a fitted reserve and radio on all flights. The radio is for coaching in glider skills and manoeuvres only or when flying on much larger sites where a simple flight to the landing field might take up to 15 minutes. 
• Our aim is to produce a free thinking pilot not a radio controlled one so radios are there mostly as a safety and coaching aid. Our aim for this course is to teach you the finer points of flying. 
• The week will be broken up with slightly more in depth lectures on Weather, Flight theory and Air law with a multiple choice exam at the end of the week. 

We would expect you by the end of the week to be both confident and conversant with soaring, pitch control , utilising available lift, (i.e. some basic thermalling) top landing where appropriate, Big Ears decent technique, accelerator systems & circuit landings, 360's and possible rhythmic turns.

Spain Paragliding course Pilot Thermalling & Xc - €500
The paragliding courses are tailored to each persons abilities with coaching in the air and from take off. The courses are suitable for the very new pilot abroad as well as the slightly more hardened.  If you can already thermal then we take you cross country and show the locality. The paragliding holidays run side by side, the more experienced join the lead instructor during the stronger part of the day , the lower airtime take off later with another instructor.

• Our paragliding holidays run from saturday to saturday, include valuable *airport transfers, accommodation and professional guiding so you have a stress free week. We offer class driven and informal briefings on both sites and the local weather. We discuss how to get the best from the day and potentially make short Xc´s in the company of seasoned pilots. 

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Paragliding Spain Courses Notes

• Included in our Paragliding Spain Courses price is tuition, paragliding equipment, transport around sites, *airport transport (depending on your arrival time) and accommodation. 
• Accommodation is included in the price which is based on two sharing a room in our house.  If you prefer to have a separate room there is a single person supplement. 
• The paragliding course dates given are the arrival/departure days, tuition begins the following day. 
• *Airport Transfers - Flights to Spain. When booking your flight into Malaga please try and arrive mid-morning and depart mid-afternoon as this will ensure you, airport transportation (the school car arrives at 1pm for arrivals and departures). Buses and taxi’s are available outside of these times and we can advise you on these. 
• Please remember that on our change over day there is NO flying.  This is also worth remembering if you are with us for two weeks.  Obviously, if the weather has been unkind to us then we do try and make arrangements, if possible, for a morning flight.  

Spain Paragliding - Important Notes!

• You will need to have a European Health Insurance Card (EHIC) and medical (including emergency repatriation) insurance for your time here. It is essential that you have both these items, as without them you will not be able to undertake the course. We are supported with an almost negligible liability. So we strongly recommend that you also have a personal accident policy, it’s worth having if your employment doesn’t cover sickness cover, in the event of any possible injuries and your families’ peace of mind.
• CP & EP Courses- Not included - Fee for license and membership to the Spanish Federation, FENDA.
• All pilots, even student pilots must be a member of the BHPA. If you live outside of the UK then you will be signed up to the Spanish Federation of flying automatically upon arrival. (not included in course fee)
• All paragliding holidays are inclusive of Accommodation and retrieve.
• Everyone is welcome. There will be an accommodation supplement for partners and children. Algodonales is a stunningly beautiful area. Reflexology, Homeopathy, horse riding, kitesurfing, Picnics, canoeing on the lake, stunning restaurants, charming bars and the beautiful white hillside villages of Andalusia, everything is out there to do and explore.
• Non-flyers - there is a  supplement for non-flyers.
• All qualifications attained with us are UK BHPA qualifications recognised the world over!

Safety is paramount to the sport of paragliding. It is important to understand that paragliding can be a dangerous sport. The potential is there to do yourself some real harm. However both Instructors and current paragliding pilots alike already appreciate the importance of sensible and progressive pace setting in tuition, tasks and future improvement. Paragliding can be and generally is as safe as you choose to make it. Like the car driver who takes a corner in wet or icy conditions at high speed, the statistics favour the driver who drives to the conditions of the road.

Paragliding Spain Courses and Paragliding Tandems in Algodonales from Extreme Sports Cafe

All of our Paragliding Spain Courses in Algodonales can be booked online