Sylmar Hang Gliding Association

H Vrezh, I am so glad to hear you were able to get safely to the ground and our flying family was able to help so effectively with the emergency. Now in the aftermath, I can't imagine the emotions you are going through - fear? frustration? hopefulness? worry? determination? In any case, kudos for on...

wow, the bus was totally awesome!

short year for me because I tore my hamstring tendons off water skiing in July, but thankful for the precious opportunity for each flight.

https://youtu.be/5VnbT6dNNQw

https://youtu.be/5VnbT6dNNQw

Cheers,
Chad

Ave S was very good on Sunday. Thanks to Steve for taking a small group out there. Cold at 9200'...

actually medium-lights. The best clips were published in 2018. But before I purged my hard drive of 2018 video, I pulled out these few remaining clips.

https://youtu.be/e4kt2JdyiCE

Argg - why is the LA Forest closed this weekend? No current fires and no Santa Anas. Grrr.

hard to believe but seems legit:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/airline-pilo ... 00926.html

Nice flight. Looks like it was great conditions for a front range no nonsense run.

yesterday, 5/21/2020 was pretty rough with punchy thermal and/or converging air starting with some climbs reaching 600 fpm behind Big T. Then a couple hours later, mellower stuff up to 400 fpm. Then at almost 5 pm, close to the LZ (out in front of Scooters), I stumbled across one reaching 900 fpm (o...

Seems LeedsLive needs both some fact checking (it is a paraglider) and spell checking "This Hand Glider..."

Hey folks, my close nit mountain biking family has been asking one at a time, so thought I might proactively reach out to any members of our close nit hang gliding family who read this forum. I tore up my hamstring while pulling up waterskiing in July. I attempted a non surgical recovery (big mistak...

I pulled a few clips before deleting the hard drive: 0:0 - starts out with two views of a launch to a flight that begins with some wire slaps 1:25 - how quickly two gliders can separate in the big sky 1:40 - a landing from side view 2:25 - stuck VG, trying to shake it through 2:57 - gaggle flying 3:...

wow. I bet he will come back with some interesting stories.

darn it. I will be in New Hampshire for a family reunion. But if not for that, I would definitely be there. Rob and Janyce host the BEST after fly parties!

Saturday was after most of the fires died down. By the late afternoon the SW west had really brought all the smoke in. I think I heard a jab "its like san bernardino" oh snap. This was a demo flight of an Rx3.5. I spent the first 30 min well below the first bowl trying to get up. Not the glider's fa...

with my lower back problems, seems I am down to flying about once per month. Grrr. Gotta fix that, but for now leaves some time for marginally interesting videos:

https://youtu.be/-fe97qQLI0c

A big thanks to Phil.

If a measure of success, the 2018 had 29 gliders simultaneously on launch up from 23 gliders in 2017. 2017: https://www.chadandrea.net/Links/BlogHangGliding/2018-10-09_DahlstenGliderCount/Dahlsen2017_23Gliders.JPG 2018: https://www.chadandrea.net/Links/BlogHangGliding/2018-10-09_DahlstenGliderCount/...

Saturday, 9/22. This is from a GoPro (wide angle) and quite far away but more dramatic when seen directly. The fire was noticed after launch, kinda a spec way out to the North, but grew quickly. Weird seeing the puffy white cloud of top of the column of dark smoke in the beginning. I read that this ...

Hey Rob, thanks for the great news. My weatherman says the flying and partying conditions will be much better on July 14th. Oh yeah, also, my calendar shows I will be out of town on the 21st .

Thanks to all who helped to make this a great event (again). Nothing great here, but FWIW:
[youtube]https://youtu.be/EASe6pPMTGA[/youtube]

https://youtu.be/EASe6pPMTGA

https://youtu.be/EASe6pPMTGA

Hi Richard, thanks for the lesson learned info. This shows that even really skilled and safe pilots like yourself can make minor mistakes that make the critical difference in (rare) cases where there is little margin for error. When I started learning to fly (still learning) in the 80's, I attempted...