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BASE Mürren / Stechelberg

Due to some dangerous situations in the limited airspace in Mürren / Stechelberg we had to find a solution acceptable to both, paragliders and BASE – jumpers. Jumping can continue under following agreement:

- No BASE jumping before 4.00 PM / 16.00 H

Most of the tandem and student activity is over before 4 pm, but there will be still paragliders around. Jump with open eyes! Jumping will be concentrated, so make sure to communicate with groundcrew / other exitpoints. Specially if you plan to fly along the wall.

- Do not use the paraglider landing area

They don’t want us there because we may scare pilots in the final approach. There is no specific landing area at the moment, we will inform later when we found a good solution. Until then find some short grass not to close to the paraglider landing area.

- Do not fly across / open above the paraglider landing area

- Never be close to a paraglider in freefall



Please respect this agreement, otherwise we could lose these exitpoints.

These are advanced jumps and not suitable for everyone. Be prepared.


Nose ,Yello and La Mousse are not affected by this.


Thank You

Swiss BASE Association

 
At what time the tandem paragliding operations start in the morning? Any way of jumping there very early?

V

not really, in the morning the sun is on the wall. they may go up with the first cablecar as well.

But i'm not the BASE police....

Hey Moritz!
Thank you for this info!
I think, u should discuss about an early morning agreement too. In Autumn, the sun is coming late into the valley- i never saw paragliders into the 1st cable car late in the year.

greets

miko

I think we should follow the agreement at least for this season.
If everything works smooth we can talk again.

Jumping in the morning until lets say 8am could be dangerous.
Imagine a big group goes up a little late, delays cause of the size of the group.
Everyone rushes to jump before time is over, no proper gear checks, the beginning of another tragedy....

In the summer there is plenty of time to do several jumps in the evening.
Cablecar runs every half an hour until 8pm , then every hour.
In the morning you can jump Nose, La Mousse, Eiger....

Attached the timetable for the cablecar.

We found a solution for the landing area.
Both landing areas are marked with a wind sock.
Be careful with the power lines, they are hard to see from above.
Air Glaiciers operates sometimes from the left landing area, so call them before you jump like you do on the other jumps in the valley.

Landing Areas Stechelberg
Red Line: No Landing Please Black Line: Danger! Power Lines! Yellow Line: BASE Landing Area

Please note we found a new/better solution with the paragliders for the Mürren exits.

Find detailed infos here:
http://www.basejumper.ch/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=19&Itemid=56

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