Course content
Participants who complete the theory and practical training take a written exam. Participants who fail the practical training are removed from the course, with the reasons recorded.
The pass mark is 75%. Participants who fail the written exam can ask for one day to prepare and then retake it, orally and in writing. Exam results are entered on the participant’s record sheet.
Certificate requirements
Students fly together in groups, staying in the air as long as possible by ridge soaring and thermal flying, including in light and moderate turbulence, while following air traffic rules.
At this stage students are expected to look after their own safety and the safety of other pilots.
Each student completes at least 30 flights and 10 hours of thermal flying. Flight times (soaring and thermal) and distance flights must be recorded by GPS.
At the end of this stage, students practise the full set of emergency manoeuvres in flight.
