Leisure and pleasure

A paragliding flight near AIX-LES-BAINS

Stop waiting and try paragliding and do your maiden flight on one of the most beautiful flighting area. There are sensations at everytime and at every moment: discover the lake, and the freedom feelings.

Takamaka's staff offers you: paragliding flights more or less long (around 10min or 30min) and flights with or without acrobatics.

Paragliding above Lake of Bourget

This is a wonderful sensation fly above this blue lake which is surrended by several mountain ranges!

A unique experience that you are not about to forget.

After your first paragliding flight, you will not see landscapes as you saw it before.

- Paragliding tandem "Discovery"

This is a maiden flight indented for those who want to discover the flight pleasure.
You will take-off in tandem paragliding on one of our 4 sites : one from Sapenay's col, le Revard, Chamoux sur Gelon ou Verel (depend of meteological conditions), you will be dazzled by our beautiful landscapes.

You will fly above the Lake of Bourget and its mountains, a dazzling scenery.
An original and sensationnal way to discover Aix-les-Bains region.

- Paragliding tandem "Sensation"

The pleasure to discover abrobatic paragliding. After the take-off and the warming to introduce these new sensations, your pilote will propose you several abrobatic figures which put you inside your seat : straight turns, wing over, 360°. Strong sensations garantee to increase adrenaline !

- Paragliding tandem "Performance"

It is a thirty minutes flight above the Lake of Bourget which is surrended by several mountain ranges to discover the region as an unknown world.

Without vertigo sensation, you will enjoy the view of the biggest natural french lake, the Lake of Bourget and the second biggest Nordic plateau of France, the Savoie Grand Revard's plateau.

- Paragliding tandem "Adrenaline"

For the most audacious, do a thirty minutes paragliding flight with acrobaties ! After a sweet take-off your pilote will make you crazy with several acrobatic figures : straight turns, wing over, 360°... Big sensations to increase adrenaline.

Find all our options right down and choose the one which envy you to discover this outdoor sensations sport activity!

Did you know it ?

The first tries were done in 1984. There were made on Brasses'slopes in Haute Savoie. After several tries, technic enhanced et flies over 1000m of difference in height were done. Fly after fly, take-off and landing became less dangerous and more precise. 
Today, we do not have to take-off on straight slopes as it was done yester years.

Why do we say paragliding " flight " instead of " jump "?

Because you have not any vertigo sensations: there is no fall in the air before flight indeed but a simple take-off.

So come to see sweet sensation of sliding in the air !

FAQ - first flight in paragliding

1) DO WE FEEL DIZZY DURING OUR FIRST FLIGHT?
Don't worry, you can't get dizzy while paragliding because you are not connected to the ground. It's an amazing and soft sensation, we see the landscape a little like on a photo. Like in a plane, you can be a little afraid at first, but no sensation of vertigo.

2) IS IT PHYSICAL/SPORTING TO FLY PARAGLIDING?

No, paragliding is still a physical activity, but you will only have to take a few steps to take off.

3) HOW DOES PARAGLIDING TAKE OFF WORK?
First of all our instructor will explain you the take-off instructions: you just have to make small strides and don't stop. Then the glider starts to take off and takes us gently into the air. Under no circumstances will you have the sensation of throwing yourself into the void or falling!

4) AND IN THE AIR UNDER THE PARAGLIDER?
Once in the air under the paraglider, all you have to do is sit in your harness and let yourself be carried! In the air you will be sitting a little bit like on a swing with a backrest.
Once comfortably installed, enjoy your flight, and if you wish we can even fly you for a while !

5) AND AIRSICKNESS?
In paragliding, very few people are prone to airsickness! (about 5%).
These are people who are also very sensitive to seasickness or to the back of cars. In this case take an open flight, nobody gets sick before 20 minutes.

6) AND THE LANDING?
It is done standing up and smoothly on the landing area, passing over the reception chalet.

7) WHY FLY IN PARAGLIDING in Aix-les-bains?
Paragliding sites at the Col du Sapenay, at Revard, at Chamoux sur Gelon or at Verel (depending on the weather conditions). The view is unique, you will fly over the lake, the surrounding peaks and the take-off and landing areas are perfect!

It's a magical site, one of the must to discover paragliding !

8) I STILL HESITATE ...
Don't hesitate anymore, you just have to know if you want to do it or not!
Sign up for your paragliding flight in Aix-les-Bains, it's a unique and unforgettable experience that you won't forget !!!

At your arrival: On the D-day, 15min before the scheduled time, present yourself at the paragliding landing base which will be communicated to you by the instructor the day before according to the weather. Then you will go up to the paragliding take-off area located at the Col du Sapenay, Le Revard, Chamoux sur Gelon or Verel. (Remember to ask if a shuttle bus is available, otherwise be transported).