There are flying days that fade from memory, and others that stay with you forever.
This winter 2025–2026 in Agaete was one of those days that deserves to be remembered — and above all, photographed. The wind was smooth and laminar, with a few gentle thermals drifting through, just enough to gain some height without making the conditions demanding. The result is the photo gallery you see on this page: a visual story of students, pilots, and guided clients sharing the same sky, each with different goals, emotions, and expectations. Keep reading after the photo gallery.
First High Flights: The Moment Everything Changes
In one of the first images, you can see a student on his first high flight. The tension is still visible in his body language: firm hands on the brakes, eyes fixed on the horizon, the Agaete valley opening beneath his feet. Just minutes earlier he was on the takeoff, mentally rehearsing every movement. Now, with the wing perfectly overhead, everything goes quiet — only air, space, and focus remain. For him, this photo is proof that the step from ground to sky is real, and that all the training finally makes sense.
From Student to Club Pilot: Learning to Fly Independently
Another photo shows a pilot who is finishing his Club Pilot course. His posture is relaxed, confident, settled into the harness. He plays with the ridge, lets the terrain guide him, and gently turns in a thermal that offers a few extra meters of height. Below him, the large student landing field looks like a green carpet waiting at the end of the flight. That visual security — knowing there is plenty of space to practice approaches or even repeat them — allows students to focus on what truly matters: making independent decisions in the air.
Advanced Training Above Agaete and the Teide Skyline
In contrast, the gallery also features a pilot in an advanced training phase, using this calm winter day to refine technique. His glider cuts across the sky with Mount Teide rising clearly in the background. At this height, Agaete’s coastline, the harbor, and the agricultural fields become a living map. Every reference point serves a purpose: optimizing glide, managing altitude, reading airflow, and planning lines with precision. This is no longer about discovering paragliding — it’s about mastering it.
Guided Paragliding Flights for Visiting Pilots
The photos also include two clients who came to Gran Canaria specifically to fly with me as their local guide. They are not here for licenses or exams, but for a safe and rewarding flying experience in unfamiliar terrain. In the images, you can see their wings sharing the same ridge line, following clean lines, exploring different heights, always with multiple safe landing options in mind. For them, the experience is twofold: the freedom of discovering a new flying site, and the peace of mind that comes from having a local pilot managing the strategy and airspace decisions.
From Takeoff to Landing: A Complete Flying Day in Pictures
If you look closely at the details within the gallery, you can recognize the full rhythm of a typical flying day in Agaete. One image shows a student at takeoff, standing in front of his wing laid out on the grass, carefully checking his lines, taking a deep breath before inflation. Another captures him already airborne, floating in front of the cliff, with the white houses of the valley below and the Atlantic stretching endlessly behind. Later, the sky fills with color as several wings glide at different altitudes, each drawing its own path through the same air.
Different Landings, One Sky: Field, Beach and Valley
Some of the photos reflect the final phase of the flights. Several students chose the large official landing field, perfect for training and controlled approaches. Another pilot extended his glide all the way toward the beach near the harbor, his silhouette standing out against the ocean in the final meters of flight. Different decisions, same safety framework — and the gallery tells that story without needing explanations. Every flight adapts to the pilot’s level, experience, and personal goals.
Why Agaete Is One of Gran Canaria’s Most Versatile Flying Areas
This post is not meant to repeat technical explanations or course structures — you can find all of that elsewhere on the website. Here, the images speak for themselves. They show real progression, real concentration, real joy. They show the calm of a winter day with laminar wind, the privilege of taking off with Mount Teide in front of you, and the quiet satisfaction of landing with a smile that lasts long after packing up the wing.
What These Photos Really Show: Progress, Focus and Pure Emotion
If, while browsing these photos, you can already imagine yourself up there — whether on your very first flight, completing your Club Pilot training, refining advanced techniques, or discovering Gran Canaria with a local guide — I’ll be happy to help you plan your next step.
Flights change. Conditions change.
But the feeling of hanging in the sky above Agaete, facing the silhouette of Teide across the ocean, is something you should experience at least once.
Our Chief pilot in Gran Canaria Christian Fernández del Valle wants to fly with you.