Infinity’s advanced pilot pathway is open to pilots trained at other schools and in other countries. We begin by understanding how you currently fly, then establish a clear technical language and build from there.
You may arrive with a New Zealand rating, an overseas licence, years of experience or a specific gap you want to close. The expectation is the same: active participation, disciplined practice and a willingness to examine every input.
We begin with a conversation and an honest assessment. Then we shape the coaching around the pilot.
We take you through your first tandem training flights, your first flights as pilot in command and the remaining work required for your tandem rating. We can also prepare you for the transition into commercial tandem operations.
+ Training tandem flights
+ Commercial preparation
Build the four fundamentals before your SIV. You’ll arrive at the tow boat better prepared, more coordinated and ready to use the height and airtime for deeper manoeuvre work.
+ Trust the harness
+ Situational awareness
The PG3 demonstrates a high level of piloting ability, opens access to advanced PG3 sites and is the gateway to becoming a tandem paraglider pilot in New Zealand.
+ Advanced site skills
+ XC progression
Learn the foundations of paraglider acrobatics through positive and negative manoeuvre families. Understand the control each manoeuvre requires, how energy moves and which cautionary measures belong with it.
+ Positive manoeuvres
+ Cautions & recovery
Learn the topography, meteorology, site procedures and local decision-making needed to fly from Queenstown’s gondola site, and complete the pathway toward your gondola flying certification.
+ Topography
+ Certification pathway
Understand single-skin launch characteristics, suitable launch sites, glide ratios, roll and pitch control, and specialist landing techniques that open access to places that were previously out of reach.
+ Launch techniques
+ Control & landing
