BLUE WORLD SIV, 20-24 April 2025
Blue World Paragliding safety courses are run by Josh Sanderson and Berkay Nal, who are both extremely talented XC & Acro pilots and guides. They are compassionate instructors who will take you through a carefully designed SIV flight schedule which will build your confidence and skill level, at a pace that is comfortable for you. These courses are mainly run parallel to Jocky Sanderson courses.
Berkay runs the June, July and August courses, with a maximum of 3 pilots to ensure a very high level of coaching.
Oludeniz is the world renowned SIV location, where Jocky filmed the Security in Flight films. With very reliable weather and up to 1500m altitude in the flight zone, you can maximise your learning with multiple repetitions for every manoeuvre.
You are taught all aspects of controlling your wing during the SIV, from deflations and fine manoeuvrability, through search for moves, descent techniques, to stall-back fly recovery and wingovers. As a result, when you fly XC, you have the added confidence and skill in glider control, which allows you to focus on positive things like finding lift and coring, which frees your mind and helps you fly further.
We offer 3 formats of training to suit pilots of all levels. These formats can run in parallel during a course, so for example, one pilot could be doing pilotage manoeuvres while the other is perfecting their SAT technique.
Fees : £745
Pilotage
Pilotage is a mild form of an SIV course, where the pilot focuses more on glider control, manoeuvrability and sensitivity. This builds up your skillset and confidence in turning tightly, understanding the limits and using the pitch to core in thermals etc.
SIV
SIV is designed to give pilots more confidence in their ability and know the limits of your glider. It teaches you recovery techniques for situations you may encounter during a cross-country flight, enabling you to turn a negative into a positive and fly further.
Intro to Acro
We teach the main foundation acro moves and acro philosophy, including SATS,
2-stage stall and back fly, spins, wingovers and helli. We also coach combination moves and flips while also progressing through SAT to rhythmic and beyond, depending on the pilots skill level.
Instruction & Briefings
We want you to fly with as little stress as possible, in an exciting and progressive way.
Prior to each flight you will be given detailed briefings & filmed demonstrations of your flight plan to help you understand and visualise the move you are about to do.
In-flight 1:1 Instruction will be over the radio from Josh or Berkay beneath you in the safety boat. As your flights are 1:1 you can perform any manoeuvre and routine you want. So, together with you, we can add or remove, any moves that would help you increase your confidence and glider control skills.
Briefings and de-briefing are done in small groups of up to 6 pilots using filmed footage of your flight to enhance your learning experience.
At the start of the course you will be provided with an automatic inflatable collar and water proof bags are available, if you are not using a headset. We suggest you get a water proof bag for your phone.
Filming
All the flights are filmed with an HD camera. The footage is owned by BW and is used as a teaching aid to assist with the de-briefings. You are welcome to download your flights, free of charge, if you bring SD cards, pen drives etc. You can also film your flights but we only recommend you place camera on your leg or flight deck.
Course Schedule
Initial introductions, briefing and admin on the first day, followed by one SIV flight. For the next two days, we usually have 2 flights a day. Flights 5 & 6 are "coaching phase" flights. This is where the bulk of the main training manoeuvres have been completed and it is time to develop the pilots on a more individual basis, you tell us what you want to focus on. You can develop the newly learnt skills or try new moves that benefit your safety during XC flights. This is all explained and at the briefings.
The course finishes in 3.5 days, and we keep 1.5 days in hand as bad weather backup. If we finish on schedule then we can us this day to relax and free fly to Butterfly valley or beyond. This is a perfect way to remember why we fly and relax.
SIV
Typical course schedule
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Flight 1 :
Pitch, Cadence 360s, Symmetric Tucks, Big ears, cravat recovery, Wingovers
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Flight 2 :
Symmetric Tuck + Asymmetric Tuck, Trim & Accelerated + Wingovers -
Flight 3 :
Asymmetric Tuck Straight & 360s + Search For Spin and Stall, TR -
Flight 4 :
Stalls (2 stage and back fly), + Turn reversals + Wingovers -
Flight 5 :
Spirals, tuck spirals + Wingovers (Coaching phase) -
Flight 6 :
More personal Coaching moves
Coaching moves include
2-stage stalls and Back-fly, SATs, Full spins, stall from spin, cravat simulation, B-lines, Big big-ears with speed, reserve deployment, and developing the recently learnt skills.
Included within the course
6 x flights with 1:1 guiding and briefings with Jocky
Lectures on all SIV and safety moves together with thermalling and XC tips
Film footage of your flights
Automatic inflatable collar.
Equipment safety checks
Transport to the lift station, where possible.
Not included
Mountain transport/tele-cabin and take off tolls (aprox'£12 each flight)
Hotel and airport transfers
Reserve repack at £50 (if required)
Glider wash, if required, (aprox' £50)
We do not include mountain transport and tolls in the course fee because pilots have to pay their own tolls at the kiosk each time they go up as part of the lift membership scheme. Pilots are free to go up in the lift at times that suit you and as often as you like to free fly etc.
To use the take off on Babadag you will need to register your paragliding licences/ ID’s, (BHPA/national PG federation ID cards), etc to register for the cable car. To make things run smoothly please register for your lift passes up to take off now by going to this link and registering now https://shmfethiye.kapadokya.edu.tr/en/shm-panel/Login
- Please note this schedule is for reference only, and may change due to weather and/or pilot ability. You will only be asked to do manoeuvres you are comfortable with and capable of performing.
Please be aware of your own physical and mental limits throughout the tour and on each flight. We aim to do a lot of flying and this can be tiring, especially in heat that you may not be used to, so please be realistic and fly within your comfort and skill levels, cut the flight plan early if you feel tired, or if you feel you have had too much of the manoeuvres. We can always change your flight plan to suit what you feel happy dealing with.