Paragliding

In Germany, all pilots must carry a rescue-parachute. Guest pilots are permitted to fly equipment satisfying the current airworthiness requirements and regulations of their homeland. Paraglider and hangglider are allowed to fly in the airspaces G and E. VFC according to SERA 5001.

The Chiemgau region is ideal for those who want to try paragliding in Germany for the first time, thanks to its wide range of tandem flights. About 1 hour away from Munich, paragliding providers offer a variety of different paragliding flights. For this reason, there are several flight routes in the area around the Hochries, where take-off and landing sites can be freely chosen.

For beginners, trial flights, called “standard flights” among paragliding experts, are suitable here, as they can take place in almost all thermal conditions. The flights are usually particularly quiet and last between 15 and 30 minutes.

There are plenty of paragliding schools all over Germany. Most of them are in the middle (North Rhine Westphalia for example) or in the south (Bavaria) of Germany.

There are two different ways to get a first feeling of the sport. One of them are trial Days the other ones is a tandem flight with a professional pilot. On the offered trial days; you learn how to take off on a small practice hill and land by yourself. If there is no hill or mountain in sight, you must rely on winches, which pull you up a few hundred meters from where you are and let you glide back to the ground.

Tandem flights are offered by most flight schools or other providers of paragliding tandem flights, which can be easily found on the Internet.