Sylmar Hang Gliding Association

Doug, now you need to post your flight into some of XC Contest site: http://www.paraglidingforum.com or http://www.xcontest.org This is effitient way to log and share your flights. For example, I can see who fly yesterday and how far they made: http://www.paraglidingforum.com/leonardo/tracks/US/allt...

List of Proposed Park Closures:
http://www.calparks.org/takeaction/closurelist.html

Including:
Torrey Pines
Palomar
...

It was interesting flight:
http://www.paraglidingforum.com/leonardo/flight/182158

Pictures:
http://paraplan.ru/photos/thumbnails.php?album=3154

Alex

NMERider, I did not saw you in AJ this Sunday, did you fly?

As for me, I try to fly west from Marshal, cross Cajon pass, but could not connect to Cucamonga:

http://www.crestlinesoaring.org/forum/2 ... mment-3431

Faiz, good flight!
Please let me know when you decide to fly Kagle next time, Kagel LZ is just 10 miles from my apartments.

We had a super good day at Marshal yesterday:
http://www.crestlinesoaring.org/forum/2 ... mment-3431

I'm in. How about meet in AJ LZ at 10am?

Congratulations with the great flight! Could you post your GPS track logs somewhere, so newbies can learn from it?

We also had good time at Marshal, 3+ hours, hit 7K few times:
http://www.xcontest.org/world/en/flight ... 2009/22:23

Thanks,
Alex

Hi Dave,
I'm also collecting interesting flights in SoCal and Owens areas:

http://extreme-nn.fatal.ru/socalxc.htm

Some flights is actual GPS tracks, but some of them is just recreated from story.

Its basically illustration of major XC routes in SoCal area.

Thanks,
Alex

Well, not exactly HG, but you will like this video:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=CA4G28fM_eI

How to actually set up then navigate a route to follow 1. [Menu]->[Menu]-> select Routes->[Enter] 2. Create new route by clicking [Enter] 3. Use Up/Down to select waypoint you need then [Enter] 4. After you add all waypoint [Quit][Quit][Quit] to return 5. To start navigation [Nagigate]-> select Nav...

http://www.contracostatimes.com/california/ci_10143065

do you happen to have a version in english?

No, sorry. You can try Google Translate:

http://translate.google.com/translate?u ... l=ru&tl=en

We also was in Zion this spring and choose Angeles landing trail. Its amaizing. Some photos: http://bp2.blogger.com/_P8O1PWdPSng/SBTKoS77yYI/AAAAAAAAAFc/UoIZYuMwVME/s400/img+138.jpg http://bp2.blogger.com/_P8O1PWdPSng/SBTKNS77yXI/AAAAAAAAAFU/vt-5Jl0lRlE/s400/img+123.jpg http://bp3.blogger.com/_P8O1P...

Is anybody use this service?
http://apps.xcskies.com/xc/surface/xcmap.cgi

Current values looks too high. Could you adjust "tuning parameter", so during the night hours parameter "Above Launch (ft)" must be zero. It will make sense.

There is another error. Launch Altitude < LZ Altitude for all new sites, they must be swapped.

Thanks,
Alex

Alan, Two sites from my list already included, so info for the missing: Name, Lat, Lon, launch (feet), LZ (feet), zipcode ----------------------------------------------------------------- Calabasas 34.134575 -118.687689 1640 770 91302 Saddle Peak 34.076058 -118.658831 2770 0 90264 Garlock 35.418766 ...

Alan, Is it a big deal for you to add more sites? I'm interesting in following: Calabasas 34.134575 -118.687689 Saddle Peak 34.076058 -118.658831 Chiff Peak 34.502467 -119.168578 Sky Port 34.480786 -119.684908 Garlock 35.418900 -117.695100 Blackhawk 34.344300 -116.820000 Slick Rock 36.140200 -118.79...

Mike,
You can convert waypoints to any format you need using GpsBabel (it's free):
http://www.gpsbabel.org/

http://www.geocities.com/extopaflyer/US ... cords.html

There is no FW Out-and-return record for Kagel, so you can clim any

The same for PG. Hmmm... intersting...

the current launch doesn't look to me to be safe for a PG. You probably right, launch doesn't look friendly. Then you'd have to set up the same type of system that the HG pilots have with site monitors I think this is a main issue. But I do wish you luck if you try to get it set up. I think it woul...