Tochal

A 3,900 m ridge on the edge of a city of nine million

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The technical detail for Tochal has not been checked by a local pilot yet. Treat everything here as background reading, not as a site briefing. Fly with someone who knows the site.

Tochal tops out at roughly 3,900 m directly above northern Tehran, which makes it a genuine oddity: serious mountain terrain you can reach on public transport from a capital city. The proximity is the attraction and the complication — the airspace over the basin below is busy.

Editor’s note — fill the sections below from local knowledge, then set verified: true in the frontmatter.

The flying

Cycles, thermal quality, XC lines along the range.

Take-off

Which launch, how to reach it from the gondola, aspect and conditions.

Landing

Where you can legally and safely put down on the city side.

Airspace

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Getting there

Gondola times, seasons, and what happens when it is closed.

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