Sylmar Hang Gliding Association

yeah, i dunno, something about seeing the right wing broken and dangling there made it seem much more intense than a typical bad landing. then the whole thing collapsed into the dust under its own weight. i hope windsports can being her back to her full glory.

Here's my accident report i submitted to USHPA about my Garlock flight: 4th flight on a new glider on an XC day in the north desert outside of LA. Preflight and launch were good, immediately found lift and climbed 2k over launch. Other pilots were leaving on course so i left as well even though i wa...

i second that. the trip was awesome! thanks to all the drivers and especially don for organizing everything.

where we going next?

now some of the forecasts are showing north winds for sunday. blip spot shows north wind today. should we have a backup plan?

anybody checking the barren ridge blipspot. the hcrit has been rising all week. today it's at 14k. hope it holds out for sunday.

here's the waypoints joe greblo gave us that i made those files from: Garlock 35.4189, -117.8502 Ridge end 35.4547, -117.6951 Radomes 35.4795, -117.6833 395/Trona Rd. 35.4856, -117.6373 178/Trona Rd. 35.6468, -117.5105 L/Z 35.6811, -117.3905 don't know if the radar domes will be restricted airspace ...

do you accept telegrams?

i'm in too. and seth presley was interested as well.

here is the route and waypoints from the last time out

not that i ever got to use them last time...

i'm in for one day. either day. let me know when you're thinking. i can bring my car if we need a chase vehicle. i just have a ladder rack so i can't carry too many gliders but i might be able to squeeze a second one on there.

eric

i'm with vrezh. option a with additional storage somewhere else. my first response was "c" until i saw this rendering: http://www.shga.com/gallery/Hiro/pages/Hiro7.htm it seems way over-complicated and the flow seems really broken with all those beams. is there any way to chill it out a bit?

me too.

eric

sweet. thanks chip!

yeah i saw that but i didn't know if that was just for the open class or all the classes.

hey chip, any idea if hang 3s can enter the sport or single surface classes? couldn't find any info about that on their site.

hi i left my ptt wires at ave. s on friday. they're a bunch of black wires with a velcro band around it. anyone happen to pick them up?

yeah it's gone. the pole looked burnt like they set it on fire.

Two awesome flights. Fun flying with everyone. Special thanks to Jim Shaw for getting me up and down the ridge. Flight Date: 8/31/06 Pilot Name: Eric Brown Rating: H2 Glider Make/Model Flown:Falcon2 195 Total Flight Time: 2:28 Waypoints Tagged Locals (15 points) Yes Towers (10 points): Yes 1500 (10 ...

ok don, i think i'm finally starting to free myself from your summer comp jinx. after my last good flight being the day before the comp started i finally had a decent flight (although clearly not enough to catch mal) Flight Date: 8/19/06 Pilot Name: Eric Brown Rating: H-2 Glider Make/Model Flown: Fa...

Saturday 4/22/06 I showed up at Kagel for the Spring Air Festival only to see launch fairly obscured by clouds. The Fishbowl comp was cancelled. It was cold and miserable and the small bunch of pilots that were landing were pretty wet and unhappy. Freddy Wagner and I decided to go up anyways and get...

Can someone recommend a good inexpensive gps to pick up for us novices? Will something like this work? And how do you mount one of these?