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Group charter for schools and clubs
You have the pilots and the instructor. We have the ground — on both sides of the border.
Almaty is the easiest base in Central Asia to bring a group to. Direct flights from most of Europe, Turkey, the Gulf and China; a paved road nearly to the launch; a real city with hospitals in it forty minutes from the main site. For a school that has never run a trip this far east, that combination is what makes the first one survivable.
You bring six or more pilots and your own leader. He keeps his group, his teaching and his authority over flight decisions. We supply the ground: vehicles and drivers, retrieval, hotels, transfers, radios, LiveTrack from town — and the morning airspace briefing, which here is the part that actually matters and the part a visiting instructor cannot do for himself.
The thing only we can offer
Because we run the ground in Kyrgyzstan as well, the same charter can cross the border mid-trip. Almaty and Karakol sit at opposite ends of the same range with different weather, four hours apart by road. A school that books twelve days across both is buying insurance against a stalled week — and its group is never handed to strangers at a checkpoint, because the same people meet it on the other side.
How the money works
Quoted per group; the per-pilot rate falls with size, so a single published figure would be a lie for most groups. Dates fix months ahead. A group that shrinks after booking changes the per-pilot price, and we say that at the quote stage.
What we will insist on
Insurance naming free flight and helicopter evacuation for every member, with both countries named if you are crossing — they are separate policies' worth of wording and some policies list one and not the other. We check the documents, not a list of names. And our airspace briefing is information for your leader, not a clearance: the Kazakh AIP is the document that counts.
Group charter for schools and clubs
Price on request
A school, a club or a group that flies together brings six or more pilots and its own leader; we supply the ground. Almaty is the easiest base in Central Asia for this — direct flights from most of Europe and the Gulf, paved road to the launch, hospitals forty minutes away — and because we run the ground in Kyrgyzstan too, the same charter can cross the border mid-trip without handing your group to strangers.
| Duration | 7 to 14 days, your dates, one or both countries |
|---|---|
| Group | per group, quoted |
| Regions | Ushkonyr · Oi-Qaragai · range front east · and across the border on request |
Included
- Vehicles and drivers for every flying day
- Retrieval across the agreed zones
- Airspace briefing every morning, with the uncertain parts marked as uncertain
- Hotel and breakfast in Almaty
- All transfers and airport pickups at Almaty (ALA)
- Radios on loan and LiveTrack monitoring
- Border crossing and the Kyrgyz leg, if you want both countries
Not included
- International flights
- Flying equipment
- Insurance covering free flight and helicopter evacuation — mandatory, and named for both countries if you cross
- Your own instructor’s fee
Who this is for
Six or more pilots with a named leader responsible for flight decisions inside the group. Our airspace briefing is information for him, not a clearance — the Kazakh AIP is the document.
The honest version
Cheapest per person, least flexible on dates. And the airspace here is narrow enough that a group used to open sky elsewhere will find the first morning briefing longer than it expects.
Related
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- Does travel insurance cover paragliding in Kazakhstan?
- How does retrieval work near Almaty?
Tell us your dates
Send the dates you are in the country and we will come back with the slots that have the best chance of usable air. A person reads it and answers within one working day.
Or just get the season report
One email at the end of each season with the flyable days we actually logged, and one more if the SIV course opens. Nothing else, ever.