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Welcome
Sylmar is the world capital of hang gliding and pilots have been flying hang gliders in these mountains since 1969. The first U.S. National Hang Gliding Championships were held here in 1973.
The Flight Park is located just outside of Los Angeles and we enjoy around 300 days of flying a year. Please check out the rules and site information before flying here. The Sylmar Hang Gliding Association is a 501(c)(3) charitable non-profit organization. Dues and other payments can be sent via PayPal.
Pilots and non-pilots are welcome to enjoy our flight park year 'round! Fly high, fly far, fly safe!
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Chloe Burgis learning to fly, with Baby Lamb as copilot, 6/21/2020
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November 15th, 2021
The The latest magazine features our club, it's long history and present operations. Don't toss that magazine until you check it out.
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 December 1, 2021 9:04 am
Report of down all day again. No flights on Tuesday. TODAY.....launchable late. The NE has higher velocity this morning but looks to drop off by 2pm. Still looks down at 1pm with NE winds aloft between 10 and 12kts. By 2pm the winds aloft are SSE between 8 and 10kts and SSW at launch level. Max altitude 4,000ft.
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Christmas Party!
We missed it last year but intend to have a Christmas party on the second Saturday of December (12/11). We will have a large tent in the LZ, and like last time, it will be a pot luck affair. So bring your best dish or eat someone else's!
Barbeque
Come on out tomorrow, Saturday, 11/27. Wolf will be cooking up some beer brats!
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Cloud suck
Here are three signs of potential trouble:
• Widespread cloud cover overhead
• Large areas of strong, smooth lift
• Dark clouds with flat bottoms in the area
Any one of these calls for an active awareness of the conditions and how they are changing over time. Any two calls for immediate evasive action, such as getting away from the lift, or maintaining at least a 1:1 glide UP to clear blue sky past the edge of a cloud. All three are a dire emergency, and one must use any means possible to escape, ignoring niceties like restricted airspace and safe landing areas.
Urban Flying Site
Are you on radio?
We are a flying site on the edge of a major urban area. We've powered air traffic including 3 airports nearby and a victor airway directly overhead.
Additionally, we have a complex visual backdrop, looking for air traffic while on approach to our LZ.
Please monitor and use the standard club radio frequency to announce the presence of powered aircraft, and to announce when you cross the Gavina Street bridge on approach.
Alternate Landing Zones
A great deal of freedom comes from cutting the imaginary tether to the primary LZ and being willing to land out. Along with that freedom comes the responsibility to know the alternate LZs well enough to be safe. In the blue menu bar, the Site Dangers link includes short descriptions, GPS coordinates, and links to maps for eleven choices. Then again, reading about an alternate LZ is no substitute for walking it in person, so these should be considered ideas to encourage exploration. If you’ve landed at all eleven of them, let me know!
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