Advanced Training
The goal of Advanced Training is to learn to find and use thermal currents so that non-powered flight can last many hours and the pilot is able to perform shorter thermal cross-country flights.
Entry Requirements
- Valid GLD glider pilot qualification
- Medical fitness
- Restricted radio operator certificate
The first part of training takes place in two-seat gliders with an instructor, and after mastering thermal flights in the area, you train thermal flights under instructor supervision from the ground. During training you can transition to single-seat performance gliders, which take performance flying in thermal currents to another level. After meeting FAI-D requirements, the so-called Silver “C”, consisting of a long-duration local thermal flight lasting more than 5 hours, altitude gain of 1000 m, and successful solo cross-country flight of 50 km, you finally become a mature pilot. You can participate in gliding competitions, fly ridge or wave. You are now a pilot in Sport Training.
Sport Training
The course goal is to teach pilots the tactics of speed flights and cross-country flights, wave and ridge flying, and support their participation in sport competitions.
Entry Requirements
- Valid GLD glider pilot qualification
- FAI-D badge
- Medical fitness
- Restricted radio operator certificate
As a sport training pilot, nothing prevents you from heading out with our racers on long and even longer cross-country flights. Pre-planned routes between turnpoints measure first 100 to 200 kilometers, more experienced racers declare routes of 300-500 km, and the real racers, often members of our republic’s national teams, head out several times a year, weather dependent, on flights longer than 700km. From Zbraslavice in 2012, two cross-country flights longer than 1000 km were flown. To achieve gold and diamond altitude or exceptional speed flights, our pilots head into wave. Pilots also learn to perform very interesting speed flights on ridges. Sport pilots contribute records from completed flights to the National Gliding Competition (www.cpska.cz). Pilots then submit significant flights to the sport commissioner for evaluation, and after meeting conditions receive further recognition – the FAI Gold Badge. Exceptional sport achievements are recognized with diamonds, which are added to the Gold Badge with a maximum of three. A pilot who has met the conditions for obtaining the FAI Gold Badge with three diamonds is recorded in the international database.
If you don’t have sport ambitions and interest in performance distance flights and race medals, you can just leisurely circle over the local landscape, within gliding distance of the airport so you don’t have to worry about landing in a field, or take friends for rides in two-seat gliders.