The process to become a licensed SAHPA/RAASA Tandem Instructor is a minimum of 5 years with 100s of hours, the pilots I spoke to couldn’t quite remember the exact number. What was a consensus was that they all said they required many more years and hours before they felt comfortable with the responsibility of someone else’s life!
Commercial Tandem paragliding is only legal if done by approved instructor pilots. It also can only be done on the understanding that it is instructional and conducted by a certified paragliding instructor or an assistant instructor affiliated with an official paragliding school.
We recently went paragliding from Signal Hill, the preferred place from where to paraglide Cape Town The company we tried out for tandem paragliding Cape Town has a collective 51 years of incident free experience amongst the three of them. Whilst all mention it isn’t risk free, what is? One website I looked at put it in perspective for me with the line “not risk free but neither is driving”. I feel comfortable that they definitely err on the side of caution with final confirmation being done very close to “take off” to ensure they have factored in the wind and all factors to create a fun, memorable let’s do it again and again and again experience! Its as simple as, if the winds are not correct, they won’t risk it! To make you feel more at ease, we wrote a complete review of our recent paragliding experience
2020 requires more safety checks and here the civil aviation authority has set out procedures for the safety of the pilots and passengers alike. It is very important to note that you have to bring a signed copy of a COVID screening form. Our partners e-mail it through to you the day before for ease. Masks are compulsory and tandem paragliding signal hill, only takes place if all covid 19-avidavits have been completed.
