....... on the right La Baule airfield from 20,000ft - the highest our instructor has ever flown. This flight was carried out solo in 1995. However microlights are not only capable of flying high, but long distance as well. Every year, many microlights travel from several locations around the UK across the Channel and on to us at La Baule, trips ranging from 400 to 1000 miles in length. Visiting aircraft from the UK are always welcome to come and see us.
People still imagine that microlights are only capable of flying "low and slow". Nowadays, nothing's further from the truth! This photo on the left shows La Baule bay from a height of 12,000ft, but that's not the limit for a modern microlight.........
Although enthralling to fly, the modern microlight is safe and reliable enough to regularly do the sort of flights that you see on this page and all the others.
As an example, at right is shown a photo of Gemma, the Chief Flying Instructor's daughter, with our microlight, at age 10 yrs in 1996 having just completed the flight to Belle-Ile with her dad! As far as we know, Gemma is the youngest person to have made the Channel crossing by microlight.
