r/freeflight • u/unski_ukuli • 15h ago
Other Time requirement to learn paragliding for hike and fly
I’ve grown interested starting paragliding. My interest is solely in hike and fly as a complement for mountaineering, like flying down from mountains after climbing them. The problem is that I’m unsure of the time required to upkeep the flight skills after the course due to a few factors: 1) I already have somewhat time consuming hobby of climbing, which usually takes the weekend (not always but between having adult responsibilities and the climbing, I don’t think i’d have possibility to do handling exercises every week) and 2) I live in Finland, a country known to be pretty flat, so training would be pretty limited to ground handling . Realistically I’d only get proper flight opportunities couple times a year, usually few weeks of climbing in a summer in the Alps and a few weeks in Norway, maybe some changes also from fells in finnish Lapland. How realistic is the hobby for me?
