Sylmar Hang Gliding Association

Don wrote:............Maybe someone that has a lot of experience with chutes can help explain what/why what happened.

There's a fair amount of discussion here: http://ozreport.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=13989 including some of our very own own members

For those of you who don't read my drivel on hanggliding.org, I'll just paste in my recent follies here: I had a wonderful 2 1/2 hour flight at Lake Elsinore on Saturday and was determined to land in Everyday Mike's new LZ. I watched another pilot (Mike Blakely) land while I was boating around 2,500...

I recently heard about this incident first hand when riding up the Kagel just after the fires. Guess who?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgWdQljmccI[/youtube]

.........I'm in for $20 bucks (even though it doesn't work for Nextel phones). Joe It helps your students call home and gloat about their experiences. It also helps our club's guests and visitors which ultimately helps bolster membership. We all win with this effort to make or LZ more modern than b...

I forgot about the temporary repeater install and was amazed that I was able to get 2-3 bars on my T-Mobile phone in the parking lot. I made my $ contribution. I hope everyone else who volunteered has also done so.
Cheers, Jonathan

Hey Everyone! We need good tracklogs as well as old and new video segments to create a worthwhile, 45-minute retrospective for the club's holiday party. I plan to run the tracklogs in SeeYou 3D animation and do video capture. It can be combined with photos or video from the same flight for more impa...

Hey Everyone! We need good tracklogs as well as old and new video segments to create a worthwhile, 45-minute retrospective for the club's holiday party. I plan to run the tracklogs in SeeYou 3D animation and do video capture. It can be combined with photos and video from the same flight for more int...

.........Would you be interested in helping me with content? We need 45 minutes of great video - preferrably SHGA-centric however, great HG history is a good alternative........... Hi Lynn, I'll be happy to do whatever I can. Portions of BBS feature footage of the old Polk St. launch site at Sylmar...

I posted my review here: http://www.hanggliding.org/viewtopic.php?t=9203

This would make a great 78 minute experience for a club meeting. Learn about your roots in case you weren't there.

Cheers, Jonathan

Looks like you prefer to thermal right :) Most og your good altitude gains are to the right and tighter than the left turns. :o Lefty - Loosey, Tighty - Righty :lol: :lol: I am indeed a righty when it comes to thermalling. I will reverse directions when I get tired. My stats: Circling: Time Vario A...

O.k. You've seen my video of climbing in the tight thermal core on Tuesday. Well, here's the entire 85-minute flight in a 3 1/2 minute complete re-edited with a soundtrack by Iggy Pop. I hope you all enjoy viewing it as much as I did doing the edit. Click here for high quality version..................

pretty cool but my computer's running to slow to see it smoothly. I'll run it on my Macbook Pro and see if it runs better. I like the mix of graphics and video. It looks to me like your ascent rate on the downwind portion of each turn is about the same as on the upwind portion. Is it? Hi Joe, My as...

[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=SBEsZo68s0o[/youtube]

3,846' to 5,647' between Trash and Kagel yesterday. Note: the circles were down to 110' in diameter and 7.5 seconds per revolution. It was that kind of day near Kagel. Good for hawks and R/C sailplanes and jellyfish.

Steve Ford wrote:Thanks for the welcomes. 'see you next week.......

In your honor, esteemed club member, Chadness just posted this detailed video of doing an 18 mile out and return from Kagel Mountain....

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siLG6d-PBFo[/youtube]

Hey everyone! Check out Chadness's video of his out and back flight on the same day. We crossed paths a few times during our flights except I just boated around while he took off.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siLG6d-PBFo[/youtube]

Hi Gang: ........Sylmar over November 3-6 (about 8 blocks from the LZ it appears)........ Hi Steve, Welcome to the most social HG club in the universe. I know Mark W. He's been around longer than anyone I know. The LZ is much improved since the pre and post fire cleanups. If you want to see a keel ...

4-minute video of today's flight in high res ~75MB Medium res steaming version

Note: the first minute is part of an ongoing conversation between me and Joe Greblo regarding old launch habits and improving them to increase my margin of safety.

I hadn't been back to the LZ since before the fire. It looks great. I thought everyone did an incredible job cleaning it up. I'm proud to be a member of the SHGA. Here it is from about 400' (click for full scale) http://photos.imageevent.com/aero92/kagel20081024/large/IMG_0059-.JPG Some more photos ...

...........BTW, How do you get the image to show here? I tried the html tags and have html turned on, but no image posts?? Get to the correct image url from the All Sizes button over the Flickr image. Right click on the size you want and copy the shortcut. Paste and block the image url then hit the...

Since I was too sick to make the LZ clean-up I make this modest contribution of a composite map of the LZ with accurate 50' grid squares. If anyone needs a different scale for the grid, or any angles changed just let me know. Click the image for the full scale version. http://photos.imageevent.com/a...