About my paragliding experience

Paragliding is an extreme air-sport and you will get a lot of adrenalin during the flight. I love paragliding but I couldn't find time to go flying these days, and that makes me sad. I decided to make time for that this summer.

If you're interested to find out the details of my story how I learned Paragliding, here it is:

When I tried the first time I was so terrified about tandem flight because take-off point was at the altitude of 1920m. The pilot is my close friend and he did a lot of aerobatic maneuvers. I will never forget that flight.

This is interesting to me because when I learned to fly single it didn't terrify me a lot - to be honest actually my first, second and third flight did terrify me a lot :) -.

If you want to learn how single flight is possible you need a license for paragliding and if you want to get the license, Paragliding course will take one week and you'll have to do 10 successful flights during the course. After that, if the course teacher is confident in your new skills, you will get the license.

The first two days of the course, you are learning about ground control, turning left to right and right to left, braking time and take-off timing and learn a lot of detail about canopy characteristic and take-off security.

After that, you're going to Denizli mountains for the first solo flight. There is a great slope for easy take-off and short flight. Every flight takes 2-3 minutes and you easily get muscle memory regarding take-off maneuver. You will do about 10 flight until you make a successful take-off and successfully land without any assistance.

And after all of that the next day you'll do a first Babadağ flight from an altitude 1200 meters and if you do it right, you'll have lots of fun and you can get a chance to take-off from the highest altitude on your next flight. This will be an unforgettable experience for you because the highest take-off altitude is at 1920meters.

I still remember my first flight in detail and it was great, I felt like a bird. But when I talked to my course instructor he said to me that I need to start from the beginning again because it has been a while since last my flight.

As said before, I'm trying to be positive about paragliding and it doesn't matter what happened before. I'll do more flight in the near future.

I hope you'll get a chance to fly from Babadağ Mountain. Everybody should do once in a lifetime. You will never ever regret it.

That's it for now.

see you soon my lovely diary...