A flight with a friend is not, by itself, a tourism service

Precise case

A licensed tandem pilot and a friend visiting Montenegro intend to fly. Nobody sells a seat, nobody publishes availability, there is no service contract. The flight remains a private sporting activity between them.

That is not yet a tourism service only because the passenger is a tourist, or because the flight goes from one place to another.

Pilot and passenger rules

The amended paraglider rulebook distinguishes a tandem pilot and retains pilot, medical, passenger, and T-authorization requirements. The private character changes the commercial analysis. It does not remove tandem qualification or safety.

The off-aerodrome approval question is maintained separately in the take-off and landing outside an aerodrome guide. It is not used here to classify a tandem as private or commercial.

What “non-commercial” must mean here

The label holds only if the facts hold it:

• no seat price, flight fee, donation-for-flight, or other compensation;
• no public advertising and no open invitation for passengers;
• no service contract and no promise of availability;
• no organizer assigning a pilot and direction as an offering;
• no recurrent schedule designed to supply passenger flights.

Friendship, a private arrangement, or a flight from one place to another is not enough by itself. Conversely, calling a payment a “gift” does not close the question either.

The ordinary limits still apply

T authorization, documents, equipment, passenger briefing, and current weather judgement are still required. The flight must fit current airspace rules, and the pilot must have the right to use the launch and landing. See the off-aerodrome guide: those are separate checks.

Source review 30 August 2026. A disputed payment or organization structure is not decided here. If a third party, NVO, tourism provider, or recurrent group enters the facts, move to the matching case and, where needed, ask the authority for a current view.