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Vol-biv: not here
We do not sell a vol-biv expedition in the Almaty region, and this page explains why rather than inventing one.
Vol-biv needs three things: roadless terrain, a lot of it, and airspace you can commit to for days without a boundary problem. The Almaty range front has the first, not much of the second, and very little of the third — a multi-day committed line here runs into controlled airspace or into valleys narrow enough that a weather change traps you.
The honest answer is 350 km east. The Terskey Ala-Too and the Jyrgalan side valleys in Kyrgyzstan have no roads, no controlled airspace and no fences for a week at a time, and that is where we run the expedition. If you came to this page from Almaty, that is not us fobbing you off — it is the same operator, with the same guide, pointing at the right mountains.
If the Assy plateau develops into something we can support properly for multi-day flying, this page will change. It has not yet, and we are not going to sell a route we have only driven.
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Tell us what you fly
Send your rating, hours, personal best and last SIV, and you get a specific answer — a route and a retrieval zone, not a brochure. 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.