Amongst other documents which a pilot has to carry while flying a paraglider in the Czech republic or most of another countries is a proof of insurance of liability for damage caused to others property or health while operating a paraglider. Shortly, liability insurance. We can suggest one of these two options for Czech pilots: […]
Compulsory liability insurance of our paragliders for our courses in the Czech republic is managed and payed for by El Speedo. This insurance should cover the costs of damage caused to a „third party” by a paraglider operation. In other words, if you break something around you while taking-off, flying or, most usually, landing or […]
There are several types of insurance that a paraglider pilot might use in a case of an accident. One of them, the liability insurance of damage caused by paraglider operation, is even mandatory in some countries including the Czech Republic. And usually also a minimum amount of cover is prescribed. If you travel after paragliding […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]