Hundreds of first flights each season at Aguergour. The same worries before, and roughly the same sentences afterwards.
That is the sentence we hear most on the way back. The apprehension is real, and it concentrates entirely on the minutes before launch: the harness being tightened, the wing being laid out, the slope you keep looking down. Once airborne there is nothing left to dread, because there is nothing left to do.
The second most common sentence is a question: “can we go again?”. It almost always comes while the wing is being packed, once the adrenaline has settled. We did not invent that: it is simply what a good first flight does, on forgiving terrain, with someone who is allowed to say no when it matters.
No. The wing carries you before your feet leave the ground. This is not skydiving: there is no free fall at any point.
A few running steps downhill is the entire effort required. We regularly take passengers over seventy.
Vertigo needs a fixed reference close by. In flight there is none, and it almost always disappears within the first minute.
The pilot films on a pole during the flight if you ask when booking. Your hands stay free — you just look.
A glide gives no sense of speed: the ground is too far to act as a reference. What is left is the silence and the slowness.
Fifteen minutes in the air feel like four or five. That is also why we do not sell the flight by the minute: it is not what anyone remembers.
Roughly one passenger in ten leaves thinking about training. We do not sell courses, but we know who to point you to in Marrakech.
One price, no surprises when you arrive: the gear, the pilot, the briefing and the ride up to launch. All you bring is closed shoes and a little nerve.
Aguergour is a training site: an even slope, a lake breeze, a wide open landing field below. That is exactly the kind of terrain you take a complete beginner to — and it is what we have been doing daily for over ten years.
30 kg, and 100 kg at most. It is the only numerical criterion: no statutory minimum age, no particular fitness requirement. For a minor, a parent must be present and give consent.
Nobody has ever been pushed off that slope and nobody will be. If you back out at launch, you come back down with us and the flight is not charged. It happens once or twice a season, and it is not a problem.
Yes — it is a good share of our winter bookings. Book in your name and mention it is a gift: the date is then set directly with the recipient, around the weather and their dates in Marrakech.
Nobody really tells you what happens between being clipped in and putting your feet back on the ground. Here it is.
Everything people ask us before booking, answered once and for all. Site, drive, timing, price.
Who is behind you, what connects you to him, and why a two-place wing is not flown like a solo one.
A quarter of an hour like nothing else
Just tell us which day you are in Marrakech and we will handle the rest.
We come back to you with the exact time, by email and on WhatsApp.