Looking for a site intro

tavis · Post by **tavis** » Mon Mar 12, 2012 12:04 pm

Hello Sylmarians. I'm a P3 living in west LA. I've mostly been flying out at Marshall and Soboba but would love to start flying closer to home. I'd like to come out and get a site intro to Sylmar.

I've got most of this week off so anytime really.

thanks

-tavis
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nzlinus · Post by **nzlinus** » Mon Mar 12, 2012 7:38 pm

Hi Tavis,

I'm not sure who the /official/ person or persons are that would normally handle that, but anyone on the BOD http://www.shga.com/bod.asp should be able to point you in the right direction. Of those listed, the Windsports guys (Joe Greblo and Fred Ballard) are usually on site teaching throughout the week.

I'm sure the longer term members will chime in if this information is not correct.

Enjoy the flying... it's a great site.

Lin.

jdevorak · Post by **jdevorak** » Tue Mar 13, 2012 8:24 am

Another source is Russ Richard. He is a paraglider pilot that lives in his motor home. He doesn't live in the LZ but he can be found there most days. Ewrin does live in the LZ and he can point him out. Welcome to Kagel.

Dizzy · Post by **Dizzy** » Tue Mar 13, 2012 12:25 pm

Hi Tavis,
Kagel is a fun place to fly. Make sure to launch early, nornally by 12-12:30 because its get windy later on the most of days. Also be aware that wind pick up around 3 pm much more then on Marshall. I usually go XC if weather permite or land by 2 or 3 pm.
Alex (PG)

tavis · Post by **tavis** » Tue Mar 13, 2012 6:21 pm

Thanks for the tips everyone. Tom gave me a call today I went out to Sylmar for a site intro and pretty awesome flight. I was in the air for 1:30 with plenty of fast small cores, a quick 40% deflation, and a southwest jet headed for burbank passing about 1000' feet over me. A very exciting day although I would have appreciated some warning about those Jets

j/k.

I think I'll be coming back to Sylmar quite often.

http://www.paraglidingforum.com/leonardo/flight/563754

thanks again.

Tom Cornelius · Post by **Tom Cornelius** » Wed Mar 14, 2012 3:24 pm

welcome to sylmar . Victor air way is 7000 ft I think ! I,ve seen them much lower coming into burbank , carry a lot of change in your pockets , might show up on radar .

Sylmar Hang Gliding Association

Looking for a site intro

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Thanks everyone.