Kaş Paragliding Festival: 5th - 8th April
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We turned up for the last couple of days of the festival - Saturday and Sunday - meeting up with Ozgun and the Bilkent student pilots and a couple of Canadian pilots who had come down with them, May and Dennis, who live in our D block building on East Campus believe it or not. Free transport was on offer all day. I enjoyed a spectacular 1 1/2 hour flight from the new 650m South take-off on Saturday afternoon. This was a first flight in Kaş for both Annie and I. Kaş and the surrounding countryside is beautiful as you can see. And the local pilots are committed xc and acro pilots and their hospitality is unbelievable. We have spent a couple of days in the company of Murat Cakmak and Uğur Yavaş who runs one of the two paragliding companies in Kaş. Uğur is Murat's instructor, and Uğur has 600 hours thermic flying experience, so you get some idea of the standard here. I've been looking for a new harness for months - years actually - and I struck lucky with Uğur who had a Paratech D2 to sell me at a Turkish price. I tried it out today and you can see how happy I was to have it! It was great.