Tandem pilot license course

El Speedo AIR TAXI team has been flying tandem paragliders for many years and since then we have created fine adjusted teaching methods which ensure your safe and comfortable flying with a passenger. High standards of piloting and character traits are demanded from all tandem pilot license candidates – no matter if you want to […]

Competition pilot license

The Head paragliding operations inspector of LAA CR will approve one’s Competition Pilot Personal certificate where proof of following requirements is confirmed: 1) A valid Sport pilot license held for more then 6 months, 2) two cross country flights of minimum 30 km FAI triangle or 2 cross country out and return flights of minimum […]

Conversion to Sport Pilot license

In El Speedo, we also do retraining for flying with higher category paragliders. Tuition is again based on compulsory training curriculum of LAA CR – the prescription PL3. Current performance EN-C and EN-D gliders, which one can, in the Czech Republic, only fly under the Sport Pilot license or higher, however, require not only mean […]

Flying abroad legally

Whether you want to fly anywhere in Europe or other terrains around the world, you should always prepare by getting information about the legal conditions for paragliding in the country. Preferably through their official organizations and local flying clubs. Some of them can be found at this link: http://start.fai.org/hg-federations.asp. For legal flying abroad you will […]

Expired Pilot license

Each pilot license contains information about the pilot, the serial number of the license and the dates of issue nad expiry. For Pilot license, Sport pilot license and Competition pilot license the validity period is 10 years from the issuance or the last prolongation. Tandem pilots and Powered paragliding pilots have their licenses valid for […]

Expired Personal certificate

Paragliding tuition in the Czech republic is regulated by the LAA CR PL3 prescription. This prescription also defines the duty of instructors to record the evidence of specified lessons in so called Personal certificate. This document is the record of your theoretical and practical preparation and also the proof of passed examinations. In El Speedo […]

Legislation for obtaining a PILOT license

How to get a pilot’s license? During our Basic Course we prepared you practically and theoretically for a final examinations. You’ve had fulfilled the training syllabus and in the end of your course you passed the examinations with the Paragliding operations inspector LAA CR. If you succeeded, and would like to continue on independent flying, […]

Training center laws and prescriptions

In our paragliding training center we train new pilots, educate advanced pilots and also prepare future professional pilots. Administration of sport flying, including issuing necessary licenses is, in the Czech Republic, solely managed by the LAA ČR (Light Aircraft Association of the Czech Republic) on behalf of the Ministry of Transport. Tuition and licenses issuing […]