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Flying sites
Every flying area we drive to, with the sourcing status of every figure attached.
There is no canonical site guide for Kyrgyzstan in any language. What exists is scattered across trip reports, a handful of operator pages and pilots' heads. This table is our attempt at the missing document, and the rule we hold ourselves to is that a number without a source does not go in it.
If you fly here and can correct or add to a row — a measured launch altitude, a retrieval time, a valley we have wrong — send it and we will publish it with your name on the row. The dataset is also available as machine-readable JSON so that trip planners and assistants can read it without scraping this page.
One row per flying area we actually operate in or drive to. Every number carries its status: verified means we measured it or it comes from a primary operating document; claimed means a public source states it and we have not checked it ourselves; unknown means we do not know and will not guess. Retrieval difficulty is our own operational judgement, not a published standard. Where a site has a best known flight, it is the best flight publicly registered from it in the season named — not our own, and not a record claim.
| Area | Where | Launch alt. | Best registered flight | Season | Retrieval |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chon-Tash ridge (Ata-Beyit) | Kyrgyz range, 45 min south of Bishkek | unknown | 110.13 km · 6:21 h 2026-07-17 · Top-scoring flight registered in Kyrgyzstan, 2026 season verified |
April to October, with the big days in June and July. Best flights of both the 2025 and 2026 seasons were flown from here in mid-June to mid-July. | Easy near the launch, longer on the big days. A 100 km line down the Chui valley is on roads most of the way; pickup runs 20 minutes near the hill and up to two hours at the far end. |
| Too-Ashuu | The pass between the Chui valley and Suusamyr, ~2.5 h from Bishkek | unknown | 119.21 km · 5:27 h 2026-07-16 · Longest flight registered in Kyrgyzstan, 2026 season verified |
June to September. The registered flights here are concentrated in July. | Moderate. The highway is underneath, but a line that leaves it goes into terrain a vehicle does not follow. |
| Karakol ski base | Terskey Ala-Too, 12 km above Karakol town | 3040 m verified | — | May to October for free flight; the lift also runs in the ski season, which is when speedflying happens instead. | Easy to moderate. Standard landing is by the base; an out-landing down the valley is on a road. |
| Suusamyr plateau | Between the Kyrgyz and Suusamyr-Too ranges, 3 h from Bishkek over the Töö-Ashuu pass | valley 2200 m claimed | — | June to September. This is the high-altitude venue and it does not work early. | Moderate to hard. The valley itself is easy, side valleys are not, and from the far end a pickup is 90 min to 3 h. |
| Grigorievka | Issyk-Kul north shore, between Cholpon-Ata and Karakol | unknown | — | June to September. | Easy along the shore, harder inside the gorge. |
| Jyrgalan valley | 40 min east of Karakol | unknown | — | June to September for hike-and-fly. Winter is a ski-touring valley. | Hard. One road in, side valleys have none. |
| Toktogul | Naryn river reservoir, western Kyrgyzstan | unknown | — | Claimed as a shoulder-season site — warmer and workable earlier than Suusamyr. | Unknown to us. We have not run a retrieval day here. |
| Jalal-Abad | Fergana valley rim, southern Kyrgyzstan | unknown | — | Claimed as the earliest and latest site in the country — the south warms up first. | Unknown to us. |
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Send the dates you are in the country and we will come back with the slots that have the best chance of usable air. A person reads it and answers within one working day.
Or just get the season report
One email at the end of each season with the flyable days we actually logged, and one more if the SIV course opens. Nothing else, ever.