Ölüdeniz Babadag - Gust Roll hits Paragliders - 1200m Takeoff - 04.05.2023
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- Опубліковано 6 тра 2023
- On 04.05.2023 a gust roll hits the 1200m Takeoff at Ölüdeniz Babadag in Turkey.
Just 60s before the Video was taken, there was nearly no wind at all and no cloud in front of the takeoff area.
The cloud formed right in front of the takeoff area and at least 10 tandem-paragliders and 6 solo-paragliders got stuck in the fast moving cloud.
Surprisingly, all paragliders survived and only one of them was critically injured and got taken to hospital by a military police rescue helicopter after he deployed his reserve and crashed into the mountainside of Babadag.
Lesson for all paragliders:
Look out for the cold downdraft coming kilometers in front of the actual rain.
I am surprised that the commercial tandems are not taking of
They did. Minutes before. 14 persons were missing most of the day. Several reserve throws, one tandem landing 30km away.
10 tandems took of and were sucked in a cloud.
Stupid passengers always find a reason to trash a good day...
Saw this from the nearby Patlangiç area. It was really a sudden hurricane, there was nothing in my forecast app. Noticed a tandem flapping in the wind like a plastic bag. The glider almost collapsed several times because of the side wind. Eventually they lauded in the trees on the nearby mountain. I had to jump in the car and come closer to get the actual location point to pass it to the rescue teams. And ambulance, firefighters, police cars were rushing all over the area that day. As my buddy pilot instructor told me, only Turkish tandem pilot started that day. Everyone was found, but some were injured.
Awesome video. Great training aid for what gust fronts can do!!
Thanks for posting the video - post more!
I was on that mountain in the 90's. We were all getting ready to take off my wife was going to fly tandem for the first time. She was so excited to try paragliding . I had taken my own wing and the weather was glorious. The ride up there was truly horrendous, believe me and I think that had something to do with what transpired. We're on this huge mountain and the conditions were perfect....or so I thought. In a few moments everyone packed there gliders away and I'm asking them all. "What's wrong? you're not flying?", "No they said, the conditions". Next thing I knew they were all going back down, my wife included. "I'm not going down there with those maniacs. It's not even a track and they drive live lunatics" I said. I could not understand why they were driving down. I thought they must be afraid and to hell with that. I took off with no problem. I may even have called them all pv55ies. Less than a minute later one of those hit me.
I was right there in ölüdeniz when this thing occured. that was a really bad situation for all pilots. there was a massive wawe like cloud that coming towards with high speed. The fact that i notice, that day, at morning weather is quite indecisive. hour by hour clouds on top of ölüdeniz was dissappear and appear again and again. one hour air was open and sunny, and next hour is like a heavy rainy day. I cannot understand what these pilots trusted when they decie to fly at these indecisive weather conditions. (the dominant weather of that week at all of western turkiye area was cloudy and rainy)
radar and satellite were not ambiguous
I was there when this came thru. This was a Low pressure event that had us shut down for 3 days no flying. It was no surprise to those watching the weather....
People checked the forecast and thought it was…flyable…that day?!
approx 20-30 people were hospitalised. mostly tandems
Anyone with an open glider in a harness surprised by this need to go to specsavers. Asap. Embarrassing.
This is why I ALWAYS have fast-packing "bubble" in the ballast pocket of my harness: just to be able to pack my glider in 40 seconds and run away from something...
You are just justifying purchasing of your useless ballast😊
Normal pilots even weren't on the launch this day
Well spotted...I had to slow down the vid and increase the quality to see it. Hope they're safe and sound.
Yeah same, but mainly from angry cows and angry farmers. :)
@@OldBalance42 I fly without ballast. The harness has a ballast pocket by default.
Incredible and terrifying
so you are telling me all the "professional" piolets didnt foresee this happening? it just randomly arrived out of no where????
oh f**ck.. i can see someone jn paraglider in the right side of the storm at 0:02... It`s very bad situation to bee in air while this happened.
Abaut 20 tandem and solo met this storm in the air. A lot was enguredinjured. they fell on the city and on the rocks.
Bruh, I'm not even a pilot, I'm a goat shepherd and I know that's not a reliable weather; unstable winds, slightly overcast but not much. It's probably either warm and humid (which is bad because it could generate a cumulonimbus) or cold and humid which is also bad because it's so damn cold.
How high were these people?
Looks different to when I did a tandem off babadag, was all loose scree, was worried that I was gonna slip and shoot off the edge
Maybe it was a morning glory? It doesnt look like a gust front from a storm , it's missing the Cumulus Nimbus above or behind
It was a typical gust front. In the region this happens often but this one was approaching fast and the winds were pretty high. All was over in 20 minutes.
Serious?
That's the launch site? Nice! In Idaho it's just boulders and sage brush.
google the 1700m launch site, the 1200m site shown here looks like a rough field compared to that
What happened to the guy still in the air? Ouch..
If you call the clouds in the background at the start of the video "nearly no cloud", I suggest back to the books :))))
please read carefully: there was nearly no wind (not no cloud) at the takeoff area and no cloud directly in front of the takeoff, you could see the landing site at the beach down below. This was meant to emphasize that the visible part of the gust roll you see "created" itself just in front of the takeoff area as the lifted cold air from the gust roll pushed up the mountain reached its max. humidity and the water condensed. And the comment was made about the situation 60sec before the start of the video. So with only this video there´s no way for you to refer to the situation that took place just seconds earlier, you would have to see the pictures taken just before the video started. Unfortunately, I coudn´t add the picture taken at 11.50, while the video was taken at 11.51
@@schwabe141 surprise - it works exactly as explained and weather is not what you see directly in front of you. By just looking at clouds layers above at the start of your video, I would be thinking twice and checking more data. To convey that things happen by surprise and there were no clues - is simply not fair, neither tells people who are new to flying how to approach this sport. It is not about luck in the end of the day.
@@dimitard80 true, and that´s the whole reason I uploaded the video, to remind everybody to look at your surrounding and not just start because some other pilots did so. I never intended to convey sb that there were no clues or surprises, maybe the message of the video isn´t clear enough
Frage... was soll da ein Vario helfen?
Als Orientierungshilfe, um zwischen den zwei Bergen gerade in Richtung Fethiye zu kommen, statt gegen die Felsen, die Bergbahn, die Stromleitung oder andere Hindernisse zu fliegen?
Und im Falle eines Absturzes zur Lokalisierung, entweder selbst über das GPS oder die eingebauten Rettungshelfer, da man ja meist kein mobiles Internet am Handy hat, sondern lediglich die Notruf/Telefoniefunktion
@@schwabe141 ah ok. Bei mir ist ein Vario einfach nur das Ding das piepst, wenn es rauf und runter geht. Und ich glaube das würde da viel Piepsen.
Aber ich glaube nicht, dass die die in diese Waschmaschine gekommen sind, von einem GPS profitiert hätten. Fraglich wie viel du noch als Pilot entscheidest wo es hin geht, und dann bist vermutlich 110% damit beschäftigt den Schirm offen zu halten, da wirst keine Zeit haben für einen Blick auf das GPS.
Gut zu hören das es insgesamt ja recht glimpflich ausgegangen ist.
Danke für das Video, schon beeindruckend diese Walze
Everybody able to read could check this is coming. All up there with a tandem glider should get their license revoked forever.
no need to read, satellite and radar in meteoblue were very clear
i was sat in the bar having a beer, watching the black clouds rolling in! it was obviously on its way.
Страшно завораживающее зрелище!
Horrible conditions. Hope the passengers of tandems are alive and not so harmed. READ THE WEATHER FIRST
No deaths, but about 20-30 hospitalised.
So people not look at weather forecasts? I’m sure that there was something in the forecast. But those people had wings out when that thing was approaching so probably not 🤦🏻♂️
That was frightening. I was up there (not then) and wow you can see for 100 km pretty much, so how did anyone miss that? Hell I would have been properly concertina'd by that time wtf?
Anyway, everyone there gets lulled into a false sense of security because 99.9% of the time the weather is fantastic... same mentality as "Yellowstone caldera can't blow and put us into a nuclear winter, because we're here..."
Moni 👋🏻
I was stopped from getting the Gondola down from the bar up there. 1 minute earlier and things would have been fun!
I flew the day before, and that was a day after a unfortunate death of the Turkish pilot.
Snap, I flew the day before having bought it forward a day. Me and my girlfriend were very lucky.
@@britabf glad you had the experience we did. It’s amazing.
1 min of my life wasted