About Us

South Florida PPG was first established in Mobile Alabama in 1999 under the name SkyAdventures, LLC. Its founder Carlos Segnini, a USPPA certified Powered paraglider Instructor and USHGA P3 rated paraglider pilot, started flying paragliders in 1991 in his home country of Venezuela. While attending architectural-engineering school in the beautiful city of Merida, located deep within the Andes mountains, he spent most of his free time soaring the ridges of that spectacular mountain region.

In the mid nineties he moved to southern Alabama. Due to the flat geography of the area he decided to get into powered paragliders. This gave him the ability to take-off in the flat terrains of the gulf coast region and reach the necessary altitude where he could catch the thermal activity that allows the paraglider to gain altitude without the use of the motor. Now Carlos has over 19 years of experience flying paragliders and over 11 years flying powered paragliders.

In 2004 Carlos decided to move his training operations from Alabama to South Florida. Now the company, properly renamed South Florida PPG, LLC., is the only fulltime certified PPG school and dealership in south Florida. The school operates 7 days a week.

In 2005 Carlos partnered with his longtime friend and pilot Oscar Aranguren. Oscar, also from Venezuela, studied commercial aviation in the early nineties while being trained by Carlos in the art of paragliding. He moved to the United States at the turn of the century and established himself in south Florida where he once again met up with Carlos and began his transition into PPG’s. Thanks to his aviation background and prior paragliding experience, Oscar has become an essential member of the Fly2Now training team.

About Us