Sylmar Hang Gliding Association

Andy & Emily - I'm in.
Dave Teal

I'm in.
DT

The video shows an upper Parma PG landing with an east wind. HG's never land in uppers when it's east. Use lowers or lower-lowers. Also, uppers is somewhat short and there's no place to go if you overshoot. Also, if it's strong west, you may end up short if you try a long final - I've done that a fe...

On Saturday (3-5-11) we jumped the Suburban to take it up the hill, and I left my heavy duty (red) jumper cables in the back so Hungary Joe could jump it again if needed at launch. If anyone sees them, could you grab them and then email me at daveteal@sbcglobal.net - I'll most likely be there next w...

I was almost done setting up when I heard Erik's glider hit the ground, so I didn't see anything that led up to impact. I ran down to assist and Erik seemed fine, only complaining about his right toe. Once we verified that he had no broken bones, we got him unhooked and I carried his glider up to th...

We moved some serious earth and had some great flights in the beautiful Ojai Valley on Sunday! Emily has pictures of everything rock pile we moved and my entire body is sore today – getting too old. Road crew/pilots were: Andy & Emily, Fast Eddy, Arthur, Chris, Katherine, Richard & Kat, Ad...

On Monday (7-5-10) several pilots few Pine Mountain. Joe Greblo, Andy Beem, Fast Eddy, BJ Strand, Jay Devorak, Greg Dewolf, and me. Kris Greblo was the driver. We met at Andy’s LZ in the upper Ojai valley and it was socked in with marine layer. Andy said that it was pretty much the same as the pre...

On Sunday, a boat-load of pilots met at Andy & Emily's LZ in the upper Ojai valley for the site intro and tour of their LZ and several bailout LZ's. Got to Chiefs launch about noon and it was blowing in nicely. It was a beautiful day and we could see forever. I launched about 1:30 and took one t...

I always email DC after flying to give my "report". His forecasts are pretty darn accurate. I periodically do better than his "max altitude", but not often. I even use his forecasts to decide if I'm flying or not, so I hope he keeps them coming....
DT

Joe - when will you think you'll find out if the authorities have returned our lock to the gate?
DT

If these people have half a brain (which is unlikely), they indeed may be reading this discussion. I would suggest that the admin remove the entire thread and let's take it private. Chip - isn't there a way to create a private section in the forum that's only viewable with a login ID? Or maybe an em...

Joe - you are the man!!!!

I thought that the rest of you were joking about Joe running for office, but I guess I was wrong: http://www.tsgnet.com/pres.php?id=37074 ... ltl=Hsfcmp

You have my vote and support all the way!!!

DT

Yes indeed, it was a great day at Kagel - well worth the day off! George - once we hit 8000 over big-T, I bugged out and headed back to the west, but after tagging west towers with Chad, I was wondering why I didn't go to Lukens when I as at 8K? I guess I was spooked by being so low initially and al...

I find it hard to believe that no one has flown all week - with the blipspot at 8K and big puffy clouds all up and down the range..... What gives? Ok, I know it's going to be difficult, but here's the plan: pull that index finger out of your nose for a few minutes and click off an email report when ...

Jeff,
Is there a free-ware utility to upload/download waypoints that you would suggest? I'd like to save what I have, then download all the Sylmar waypoints. I have a Garmin GPSmap 76cs.
Thanks,
DT

Back in mid-July, I was scratching at Volcano and eventually gave up. Arrived over the LZ at 1900 and my Z5 harness zipper was jammed solid - couldn't even force a knee above the jam to apply pressure. As panic set in, I made several attempts to break away the velcro on one side with no success. Wit...

Thanks Jeff - that helps a lot.
DT

With Cutter gone for a week, I find myself wanting to determine the soar-cast myself, but currently only use the skew-T. Cutter frequently talks about inversions above or below launch, and the skew-T doesn't seem to show those. Does anyone know where he gets that info?
Thanks,
Dave Teal

I'm posting this for SBSA. Contest url = www.rrsd.com/sbsa/contest.html The date will be determined on a Thursday prior to the weekend to assure that weather is good. You should watch http://www.sbsa.info for news or info. Contact Robert Ramey (ramey@rrsd.com) with any questions about the contest. T...