About my paragliding experience
Paragliding is an extreme air-sport and you get lots of adrenalin when you're on a flight. I love doing paragliding but I couldn't find time to flight nowadays. It's a little bit sad for me but I decided to make time for that this summer.
If you're interested in to know the details of my story of how I learnt to Paragliding, here you're;
When I tried to first time I was so terrified to tandem flight because the take-off point was at 1920mt. The pilot was my close friend and he did lots of aerobatics movement. I never forget this flight.
It's interesting for me because when I learnt to fly as a single it didn't terrify me a lot - to be honest actually my first 2, 3 flight were terrified me a lot :) -.
If you want to learn how does single flight possible you need a license about paragliding and if you want to get a licence, Paragliding course takes 1 week and you have to be done 10 clear flights during the course. After successful flights, if course teacher is sure about your new skills, you'll get a licence.
The first 2 days of the course, you are learning about ground controlling, turning left to right and right to left, braking time and take-off timing and learn a lot of detail about canopies characteristic and take-off security.
After that, you're going to Denizli to the first single flight. there is a great slope to easy take-off and short flight. Every flight takes 2-3 minutes and you'll get easily muscle memories about take-off movement. You'll do around 10 flight until to successfully take-off and successfully landed without any assessments.
And after all of them the next day you'll do a first babadağ flight from 1200 meters if you do a great job you get lots of fun and you can get chance to take-off from the highest altitude for your next flight. it would be an unforgettable memory for you because the highest take-off altitude is 1920mt.
I still remember my first flight and it was great for me I felt like a bird. But when I talked to my course instructor he said to me, I need to start the beginning because it has been a while from my flight.
As said before, I'm trying to be positive about paragliding and doesn't matter what happend before. I'll to more flight next days.
I hope you'll get a chance to fly from Babadağ Mountain. Everybody should do once in life. You never ever get regret it.
that's it for now.
see you soon my lovely diary...