Philippine Association of Paragliders & Instructors
Fly like a bird
Experience the freedom of flight and explore the adventure of sports aviation, PAPI is the pilots best friend.
Pilot: Ian Veneracion in PPG training course
First hike and fly from the highest peak in the Philippines
photo by: John Chua
Education system
PAPI provides a paragliding certification based on a local learning syllabus in the country. It is an educational system that regulates the scientific and practical way of paragliding. It set the standards for paragliding pilots, tandem pilots and instructors.
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A PAPI member’s card is a national certification that guarantees the best qualification and formation of a pilot.
Flying tropical conditions
Pilots from various countries come visit the Philippines to experience one of the best tropical climate and year round warm and cool weather. More and more flying sites are yet to be explored and discovered through 7,100 islands.
Team Pilots
The country’s most active pilots based in various flysites in Luzon, Vizayas and Mindanao promoting the best practices in paragliding.
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Dedicated to creating the perfect learning experience build information to share to the paragliding community. The attitude in respect of pilots progression is the perfect way to learn to paraglide.
About PAPI
Philippine Association of Paragliders and Instructors is a Manila-based non-stock, non-profit organization which advocates paragliding as one of its means of promoting air sports tourism. It aims to provide education to local pilots and set learning standards in the sport of paragliding.
An affiliate of the Federation of Paragliding and Hang Gliding of the Philippines (FPHGP).
VISION
To produce a world class paragliders and instructors who surpass the safety and standards set by the global community; gain recognition from other regulating bodies that is born out of Filipino ingenuity.
MISSION
Integrate the sports to the Philippine education curriculum; and through its system, the sports become accessible to everyone, in general.
