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OSTIV (Organisation Scientifique et Technique Internationale du Vol `a Voile) Congress, Poznan, Poland, 30 July - 06 August 2014, pp.43
Paragliding was discovered in the 1980s by a few innovative aviators. In
recent years, paragliding has taken place as one of the preferred extreme
sports in Turkey. Turkey's geographical structure and climatology are suitable
for this sport and this speciality provides paragliding to be held widely in
some areas. Since its an extreme sport, research and analysis are required for
paragliding to be done safely. As a priority, the analysis of the wind speed
and direction; the most important meteorological parameters for paragliding,
should be made. In this context, wind persistence methods; a measure of continuity of the wind at any
time and place, were applied to the wind speed data collected from Antalya, Kaş
(Antalya), Isparta, Denizli and İzmir. In this study the wind analysis were
calculated using two different persistence methods namely Conditional
Probability Approach (CPA) and Speed Duration Curves With Threshold (SDCWT) and
as a result of this study needful information were obtained for those
interested in sport aviation.