An official goes home with a wingsuit every day after work

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MUĞLA

A Turkish civil servant working at a cable car company in southwestern Turkey travels home in a wingsuit every day after work, having an experience that may be considered mind-boggling to some.

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Cengiz Koçak, the 49-year-old general manager of Babadağ Cable Car Company, located in the Mediterranean resort of Fethiye, arrives home by plane after the end of his shift on the 1,965-meter high mountain.

It takes three or four minutes for Koçak to reach his home from the mountain.

When Koçak was first appointed to his post, he considered the distance between the house and the mountaintop facility. Then he decided to put this idea into practice when he saw that his calculations were mathematically correct.

“I skydive from any fixed place like antennas, bridges, cliffs and buildings. At the same time, if those places are high enough, I jump with a wingsuit,” Koçak said, expressing that almost his whole day and now his life is spent on the mountain.

Noting that he decided to become a paratrooper at the age of seven, Koçak began skydiving in 1991 by jumping from planes as a cadet and became a free-type paratrooper while serving as a non-commissioned officer in the Kayseri 1st Commando Brigade.

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After retiring, Koçak became interested in base jumping in 2011 and became a wingsuit athlete in Turkey with training he received in California.

Koçak claims he has completed around 9,000 jumps so far after becoming familiar with the sport of wingsuiting.

Popular among those around him as “batman”, Koçak competed on behalf of the Turkish Armed Forces and the national team and achieved many national and international successes in this field.

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