Take-off – Gicki mountains
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- Direction
- NNEESESSWWNW
- Coordinates
- 40.4178, 49.0088
- Altitude
- 1035 m
- Region
- Qobustan, AZ
- Landing
- 2.1 km from the take-offView on map ↗
Take-off description
Grassy with a wide rage of locations possible. Just arrive and pick based on wind and your wishes.
Getting there
drive towards Shamihi from Baku along the Hwy. 50m after a cafe on the left is a small track to the left also. Take this track for 15 mins though a village and onwards to launch. Best to use site launch details, then check google maps. The track to take off is shown on google.
Weather
the valley behind can funnel the last ESE wind. Look out for venturi points if completing a small XC and looking to land in the valley near the HWY.
Rules / airspace
For termal and XC flights aviation permission might be required. Please contact Rockstone club for the permission from authorities
Comments
best site by a mile so far in Azer. Late in the evening seems to always get a strong but soar-able ESE. Earlier in the day the higher S face is a great launch and offers great XC potential. First test of South face today and Base was at 3300. Jason set the new Azer XC record, 40kms. https://vimeo.com/14326528