The Rescue Parachute
This essential accessory that we like to forget, but that could one day save our life!
Training on how to use the rescue parachute with throw on zip line
Some thoughts heard randomly at take-offs…
I give my parachute to be repacked every year but what for?
I am apprehensive that one day my rescue comes out accidentally from the harness and ruins my flying day
I bought this parachute, but I have never seen what it looks like. How is all this assembled?
I would really like to know what it feels like to pull on that famous handle!
I would like to be effective the day I really need to pull my rescue!
Come and demystify the rescue parachute and train yourself in its use
Have you already had this kind of thought? Then this training is made for you!
In serious paragliding accidents, it is very often observed that the reserve parachute is launched too late or worse, not launched at all.
Not due to lack of equipment, but because in a situation of intense stress, the pilot acts above all by reflex. Or if the gesture has never been practiced, it is not part of the available automatisms.
This training allows transforming a theoretical knowledge into a bodily reflex.
Understand – handle – practice
Because the rescue should not be only a mandatory gear, but an well known equipment with a mastered gesture by each pilot.
Come and demystify the use of the rescue parachute and train yourself in throwing on a zip line.
Program of the training day
Here is how this training day on the throwing of the rescue parachute is divided.
1. Theoretical course
All about the rescue parachute
This theoretical part reviews all the aspects of the rescue parachute.
- The different models of parachutes
- Their advantages and disadvantages
- How works a rescue parachute
- When, why and above all how to use your rescue (decision, throw, collapse of the wing, mirror effect, landing)
- Why must it be repacked regularly
- The risks linked to a rescue badly or not repacked
2. Practical exercise
Extraction on frame
The objective is to extract and reassemble your own parachute in order to be able to do it in an autonomous way afterwards.
- Knowledge of your own equipment
- Extraction of the rescue parachute on frame
- Reassembly of the system together
- Tricks and tips to be efficient
- What must be paid attention to
3. Throw on the zip line
Throwing of the rescue parachute in real conditions
Training in throwing the parachute on the zip line in order to concretely feel the opening of the rescue, to train, to sharpen and to integrate the gesture.
- Zip line
- Practice the gesture
- Demo rescue parachute models available
- Tests with your own rescue parachute
- Several throws
4. Presentation of folding
⚠️ This is not a parachute packer course
Demonstration of the folding of a rescue parachute by a professional.
- Steps of folding of a round rescue parachute
- Passing a lace in the folding loops
- Arranging the “pine tree”
- S-folding of the fabric
- S-folding of the lines
- Closing of the POD
Prices
Here are the different prices:
- CHF 120.- Rescue training day only (without parachute folding)
- CHF 200.- Rescue training day + professional parachute folding
- CHF 270.- Rescue training + parachute folding training (1/2 additional day)
- CHF 80.- Parachute folding only (possible surcharge for complex systems or siliconized fabrics).
Next dates
Here are the next dates.
Are you a club or a school? Contact us for a personalized day.
- Thursday July 2nd 2026
- Thursday August 13th 2026
- Thursday September 17th 2026
- Thursday October 22nd 2026
- Thursday November 5th 2026
- Friday November 6th 2026
- Saturday November 21st 2026
- Thursday December 3rd 2026
- Saturday December 5th 2026
Practical information
📍 In Villars-sur-Ollon (VD), at the take-off at Curnaux.
⏱ 1 full day
👥 In small group
Frequently Asked Questions
The training in throwing the rescue parachute takes place in Villars-sur-Ollon at the take off at Curnaux.
A custom training is possible. Contact us to discuss it.