Low cost accommodation prices: a Twin/double Room, only €40  (€20 each), a Single Room, for €35, an En-Suite for €50 for two, and the Bunk Room only €15 a bed!  This comprises all bedding, towels and self catering facilities, which includes a microwave, fridge, cutlery, kettle etc. etc. There is a fully stocked Intermarché supermarket within a four minute walk, so you can get all your provisions easily.

We also have a nice, comfortable lounge with wifi, TV/DVD, somewhere to put your feet up after a long days flying, and watch your GoPro Hero helmet cam vids! or other some such video camera arrangement, they’re all pretty good these days…. there are some nice local bars and restaurants, just a 10 minute walk away to if you fancy a meal out. A bit of a home from home really, but with a somewhat different scenery!

 Intermediate pilots during the summer months..

Why not try one of our special weeks (Sat to Sat) where cross country guiding, accommodation, airport transfers to and from Geneva are all including from an amazing 455 Euros person for the week. Go to 'XC Guiding' for the details

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Domancy and Chamonix Valley - August 16th

  2009 conclusion.. 

Since the beginning of July the weather has been dry with only a few of days of rain. It's been sunny, warm if not hot at times, thermic and with long period of excellent flying conditions. Since July there has been cumulus clouds most days and cloud base has varied from 1800-4900m asl. Temperatures have reached 36c, though averaging 28c and the valley winds have been light to moderate.

Well what a year! 231 flyable days with only 12 non flyable days in the past four months, since the beginning of July. please the chart below.

The flying has been very good to exceptional at times and back in mid August 11 pilots landed on the top of Mont Blanc. What can I say when there has been just unbelievable flying. The only other Mont Blanc top landing was almost exactly six years ago and during a period with a very similar weather pattern?  See here for the photos: http://www.korteldesign.com/spip/?+Mont-Blanc-top-landing-for-the+

Throughout the summer pilots from this region and the southeast of France have had just great flying with very good XC flights and distances to 330kms. Many good local XC flight have been made all the summer.

Fingers crossed for 2010!!!

     BHPA - EPC - CPC Courses.......  We are a BHPA registered school..!

We are offering EPC and CPC course using either our 'Daily Training' or 'Direct Instruction'.

'Direct Instruction' is a great way to complete CPC training as quickly as possible and not only does it include all the BHPA tasks but we add a number of mountain and thermalling tasks to the course, ensuring the new pilot is ready for mountain flying in the high Alps. 'Direct Instruction' training means you have your own instructor exclusively and it costs 225 Euros a day.

'Daily Training' is ideal for those wanting to train to any level, EPC or CPC or needing to complete unfinished CPC tasks, and in the CPC training we add in some Mountain Thermalling tasks. 'Daily Training' costs 125 Euros a day. (There may be group sizes of up to three students/pilots). Please see the 'beginners page' for more details

From March to October the weather conditions are at their best for beginners and new pilots to the mountains. As autumn approaches the stable days are long and the steady flying conditions suit all standards and our chalet is just a few minutes from our training and flying area maximizing the day's training.  Go to our 'Direct Instruction' page for more training details!

     Annual Flying...

The flying year 2009 turned out well with 231 flying days from last December to the end of October: please see the chart below for details.

We had some pretty good flying conditions during the season with long periods of pleasant thermal flying. The spectacular periods with high cloud base and good thermals generally came in the late spring, May and June though September and early October also provided us with some spring like conditions. The rest of year gave good training conditions for both beginners and intermediate pilots, and all in all we had a very busy year.

The flying season gets going in March, though mid to late winter can provide reasonably active conditions and good afternoon flying.

Our winter ski and fly market gets under way from December 12th: the chalet is a good low cost place to visit compared with many. Our accommodation costs includes lifts to and from the local ski lift station and afternoon fly guiding when the flying conditions are good. see our Skiing pages for details

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We have kept a record of all the flying days we've had in this area since 1996 and you can see on the chart below the number of flying days doesn't change much each year. The mid winter flying window is around 2-3 hours extending to 11 hours in the spring and summer. Some mid summer days have strong thermic periods where pilots become grounded for a few hours, otherwise the annual flying conditions are very good. It has to be said that not all the days produce fantastic flying conditions but it's not bad here and realistically we fly for about 65% of the year: the chart speaks for itself.