Pivoting perch for flying wind turbine parking

A method of parking an aerial vehicle in an airborne wind turbine system in a raised parked position, the system including an aerial vehicle having a fuselage, an electrically conductive tether having a first end secured to the aerial vehicle and a second end secured to a tower, a rotatable drum positioned on the tower onto which the tether is wrapped when the aerial vehicle is reeled in, a perch extending from the tower, one or more perch booms attached to the perch and pivotably mounted to the tower, comprising the steps of:

• securing the aerial vehicle to the perch when the perch is in a first lowered parked position with a rear end of the fuselage extending downwardly;
• rotating the one or more perch booms with respect to the tower to raise the aerial vehicle to a raised parked position on the perch where the fuselage is positioned in a generally horizontal position.