Paragliding mini-XC to Butterfly Valley Turkey

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Жыл бұрын

After an SIV with Jockey, it's tradition to fly a mini-XC to the amazing Butterfly Valley. The beach is surrounded by very high cliffs and a low valley culminating to a very steep climb out. Fortunately there's regular boat runs to the site for tourists in Oludeniz to spend an afternoon there so us pilots can hitch a ride back!
Being my first time to this site, and the fact I have an undersized wing, I wasn't absolutely sure I'd make it! That said, Babadag mountain is very high and even in no thermal conditions provides a huge range of glide!
Come check it out!

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@sandrainthesky1011 Жыл бұрын

I want to wish everyone a Happy New Year 2023, may the year be great to you all and have many happy flying days! 🥰 Sandra

@steveo726 Ай бұрын

Fantastic I love paragliding and Turkey

@sduru 10 ай бұрын

i love watching this again

@styx85 Жыл бұрын

You are one sporty lady! Always love to see "grownups" enjoying the sport 😄

@sandrainthesky1011 Жыл бұрын

Thank you! Wish I wasn't so all grown up and stuff!

@lovelyeyes818 3 ай бұрын

bumisita po ako sa bahay nyo kabayan

@lovelyeyes818 3 ай бұрын

wow beautiful and thank you for sharing it with us

@Kolyan1981 Жыл бұрын

Nice landing in such a place on Earth!

@lucasta-oceansounds870 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing your experience with us, the scenery is beautiful, wish you have a good time.

@lovelyeyes818 3 ай бұрын

bumisita po ako sa bahay nyo kabayan

@carlcolorado3549 Жыл бұрын

I was quite relaxed watching your video. Put me in a good mental state of happiness

@seosiappa Жыл бұрын

a fine flight. nice landing 😊 This is Korea.

@brucemcnair2 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for taking us along Sandra. 😊

@lovelyeyes818 3 ай бұрын

bumisita po ako sa bahay nyo kabayan

@MarkLoves2Fly Жыл бұрын

What a lovely flight! Thanks for sharing.

@EmuSkywalker-mb5jk Жыл бұрын

Fantastic! hope to make it someday 🤞🏼

@NorwayHikesTrails Жыл бұрын

Nice flying 👍 My uncle flies allot. Looks like great fun. Thank you for sharing 👍

@barrywebber100 Жыл бұрын

Amazing flight. Amazing place. Amazing experience. Thanks for posting Sandra.

@JohnnyFaber Жыл бұрын

Awesome video. Great flight. You're an inspiration 😊

@SpeedRick Жыл бұрын

Amazing!!

@balkan_pil0t Жыл бұрын

mini-xc's are the best! Nice flying Sandra!

@papanikolaouvassilis Жыл бұрын

This was an awesome flight and place!

@TheHienax Ай бұрын

looks like a great place to fly.. Should have some lift by dynamic wind.. less command and more body in the turns.. it will change your fly..

@conradobuhrer7916 Жыл бұрын

Your videos are awesome 😎 make more!

@CityViewtours Жыл бұрын

What a beautiful flight! 👍👍👍 Thank you for sharing😊😊💕💕💕

@frankhilario2263 Жыл бұрын

Hi Sandra love ❤ your videos. Couldn’t help noticing that you hooked up with your speed bar pulley to the inside. Do you always hook in like that? Or is it a mistake?

@sandrainthesky1011 Жыл бұрын

Yes that’s on purpose. I have resolved the issue since. The biners really want to flip outwards but have been forcing them in with the flight deck attachments. Now they go the right way. (Gates inward ) it was safer to let them go outward before as I kept ending up with a twist in the brake lines thinking they were forward or grabbing the A’s the wrong way around on launch No biggie but annoying!

@Xnocturnus Жыл бұрын

Great flight, Sandra but no altimeter? I guess that's one way to get good at height estimation! Enjoying your journey immensely. Greetings from Australia ☺

@sandrainthesky1011 Жыл бұрын

Thanks! No it wasn't working right so didn't take it. Since fixed ready for the next adventure though, cheers!

@smislovpg Жыл бұрын

You all landed downwind? Great video, nice story. I hope that one day I too will fly from Babadag.

@sandrainthesky1011 Жыл бұрын

Pretty much, wasn't much wind though, just enough to get sand in there ;)

@trebtv119 Жыл бұрын

nice..hope i can try..

@sandrainthesky1011 Жыл бұрын

Are you going to Turkey?

@niculupu5801 8 ай бұрын

Very nice flight! In the last three years I am coming every summer to fly in Oludeniz but I never land to Butterflies Valey. I would like to make it. Did you booked before the place in the recovery boat or you take the regular boat back to Oludeniz beach? How much cost the boat ticket do you remember?

@sandrainthesky1011 8 ай бұрын

Thanks! No just caught the boat back. I think it was around $12 or 260 YTL

@allfactsaboutazerbaijan 7 ай бұрын

💙❤💚

@jardah38 3 ай бұрын

Why does everyone land downwind ?

@calvinhall1405 Жыл бұрын

scuse my French but bloody awesome girl , the feeling of safety once you hook into some lift mean you really get tpenjoy the flight and scenery and thats boxes ticked again big time .. just out of curiosity the landing looked tight coming in but ya nailed it , so what happens to the piolts that dont make pick up point ? other than the dreaded walk back LOL is that semi guided flight as in easy to follow route ? if i watch any more of these im getting my licence renewed and going once i get some airtime back :-)

@sandrainthesky1011 Жыл бұрын

Ha ha, do it!! Thanks! Yes those pilots that didn't make it, not sure. Ya better make it I guess! Walking out of the valley is more of a mountain climb out of there; rock faces and such. No pack is challenging from what I've heard, hauling a paragliding rig, an iron man hike, really!

@frankmeijer8306 Жыл бұрын

Butterfly is an easy glide from any Babadag start. If for whatever reason you don't make it you can land on the main beach or even on the beach of the resort in the middle. The beach is quite long (300meters) and as long as you do not leave the wall too soon you will always have a smooth landing in the middle where there are not so many big rocks.,

@PhilippeLarcher Жыл бұрын

what time is the last boat ?

@sandrainthesky1011 Жыл бұрын

At 5 PM....which is odd but that was in October so...

@PhilippeLarcher Жыл бұрын

@@sandrainthesky1011 apparently it's the same right now

@JanPBtest 11 ай бұрын

1:56 A right-turner! Me too 🙂The place looks great and so does the video work! (I tend to turn my head around a lot when I'm flying which used to render my videos partially unwatchable until I got a 360 camera which cured the problem.) How did you get into paragliding? For me it was a decision made completely on a whim to go on a tandem ride in Switzerland about 10 years ago. And I had never been into aviation, never even had flying dreams (maybe once as a child). Now I _do_ have flying dreams sometimes, haha. I also have a _completely_ different view of birds now, and what they are "going through". Their spot-landing skills are most impressive. Although some of them could use a spot-landing clinic: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/q7qarcaDqt61nac.html

@sandrainthesky1011 11 ай бұрын

Cute miss, but caught it in time, I was expecting sparks OMG!! I know with the head turning, I must consciously avoid too much of it while filming. You should see my generic sports cam videos before I got into GoPro's. Shake, turn, shake some more. That said, it would make for great SIV video because that's what it's like, a GoPro would make hitting a tree look smooth. Anyway, it's a long story to do with wanting to fly over water like a giant drone, (yep was going to build it!) then I saw a video of a guy soaring an endless beach ridge with cool Spanish EDM playing. It was the coolest thing I have ever seen! Then I fell in love with Geti G videos and the rest is history. Went and bought a 6 year old wing and began kiting and playing around all over the island for a year (which explains the right turn) then decided to go get help. Cheers!

@andrew6274 Жыл бұрын

lame landing nice leggins thou

@sandrainthesky1011 11 ай бұрын

Those are my racing flag ones, they make me go faster on better glide ;)

@LukeSchneider Жыл бұрын

9:28 It's NEVER good to land in the water!!! Especially in moving water. NEVER EVER do that! Check the safety instructions on landing in or near the sea! Lots of pilots died because of that!

@Kurikost_ Жыл бұрын

True ... I know of cases where pilots have drowned in a small stream.

@sandrainthesky1011 Жыл бұрын

I would choose water over rugged cliffs any day of the week. I agree it's not ideal and we wear life jackets to help with water landing during an SIV, so that's why SIV's are always over water. Flip a leg over the harness back to stop it from turtling you face down. I agree it can be deadly though, especially without a life jacket. I think the key is to unbuckle before hitting the water and get the hell away from the harness ASAP to avoid lines entanglement.