Tandem & XC
Chief Tandem Pilot
Flies the escarpment more days a year than anyone else on the team, and has a reputation for finding lift where there is supposedly none.
Kijabe Hill2,600 m ASL
Our story
It started with one wing and a long drive out of Nairobi.
Paramaestro Ke grew out of the small community of pilots who have been flying the Kijabe escarpment since the site was first opened up in the 1990s. What began as weekend flights with friends turned into a full-time operation the moment it became obvious how many Kenyans had never seen their own country from the air.
Today we run tandem flights most days of the week, teach a structured pilot course, and host visiting pilots who come for the Rift Valley thermals. The team has grown, the equipment has been replaced several times over, and the drive from Nairobi is still exactly ninety minutes.
What has not changed is the way we make decisions. Every flight is a judgement call about air we cannot control, and we would rather disappoint a booking than push one.
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Years flying Kijabe
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Flights logged
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Rushed weather calls
What we stand for
Four things we will not trade away
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The weather has the last word
Any pilot on the team can stand a flight down without discussion, without justification, and without cost to you. Nobody here has ever been asked to explain a cancellation.
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Checks you can hear
Pre-flight checks are run out loud so you know they happened. Equipment is inspected before every flying day and retired on schedule, not on optimism.
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A briefing, not a sales pitch
We tell you what paragliding actually is, including the parts that are inherently risky. Informed passengers are calmer passengers and safer ones.
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Kenyan skies, Kenyan pilots
We train local pilots and we fly a local site. Every course we run adds another name to the very short list of qualified Kenyan paraglider pilots.
Our promise
We would rather rebook you twice than fly you once in air we do not like.
That is the whole policy, and it is not negotiable in either direction. If we cancel, you choose: a later slot the same day, a new date, or a full refund.
The team
The people you will actually fly with
Small team, current ratings, and a shared habit of looking at the sky long before anyone looks at the schedule.
Pilot course
Head of Instruction
Runs the ground-handling slope and the radio during high flights. Believes, correctly, that great pilots are made on the ground.
Kit & checks
Safety & Equipment
Owns the inspection schedule, the reserve repacks and the retirement dates. The reason nothing on our racks is a year older than it should be.
Pilot names and ratings are confirmed with you when your flight is booked.
Managed, never gambled.
Every wing, harness and reserve on our racks has a date on it — and we retire kit on that date, not on how it happens to look.
Safety
Managed risk, stated plainly
Paragliding is an air sport and it carries real, inherent risk. Pretending otherwise would be dishonest. What we can do is manage that risk deliberately, and tell you exactly how.
Reserve on every flight
Passenger and pilot both fly under a reserve parachute, repacked on schedule.
Certified equipment only
Wings, harnesses and reserves are certified, logged, and retired by date rather than by feel.
Radio on every course flight
Student high flights are talked down from launch to landing.
Conservative windows
We fly the middle of the envelope, not the edges of it.
Come and fly
The escarpment is ninety minutes away.
Tell us roughly when you are free and we will match you to the right air.
