Roland was born in Albania in 1972. He graduated as a Mechanical Engineer from Technical University of Tirana. After his graduation, he undertook a training in building, maintaining and flying ultralight aitcrafts in Torino, Italy (ICP).
He started his adventure with paragliding by flying on his own in April 2001 and continued it in his home country until 2005, when he met Mendo Veljanovski who became his instructor. From that moment he have experienced a big progress, aiming at the highest level of this sport. Soon after he started to flying Acro.
My first APPI instructor pro-workshop, as a student, took place in 2014 in Montenegro.
After this, in 2015 to update my knowledge I attended two more APPI pro-workshops, one in Greece, and one Bulgaria. Following, this time as a teacher, I took part in several APPI proworkshops and pro-courses in Kosovo, North Macedonia, Greece and India.
During my flying career, I have continuously tried to make paragliding more popular in my home country and raise the level of education, professionalism and safety among pilots. In 2009 I founded Aeroclub Albania – first Albanian paragliding school and club. Since 2012 we became member of APPI.
In 2008 I took part in World Acro Cup – Acro Attack in Oludeniz, Turkey. From 2019 I have been trained and certified as an official FAI Acro Judge.