Yeah I remember standing in my backyard watching you launch Edward’s.. then fly right back *into* launch in an amazingly fast succession. I left my house to see what happened and you were in great spirits. Hope the couple teeth went back in OK, but overall nice fly into the wall landing.

Anyway I read your write up in post above and kinda figured this was one of those times.

<p style=”text-align: left;”>We’ve been seeing regular groups of SD pilots typically with the aim of leaving the area and hitting soboba. So it’s understandable skydive elsinore is now requesting communication, with large numbers of PG’s traversing their approach.</p>
Locals take this route too from time to time.. but most of us stay back in the mountains with the aim of top landing or hitting one of the usual LZ’s.

Just making us a new training hill. They mean well.

Here here

I think what you are referring to is at the bottom of the middle bowl. It was nice of the city to offer it. However it’s an awkward spot and potentially dangerous on North days… pilots will tend to stage and land somewhere that works more year round.

Some trees have regrown, and homeless are in/near that area. Flying over, one can see the tents and trailers etc among the vegetation, but it’s less than, say even 5 years ago, as the city occasionally does a sweep.

Spike does have an LZ next to there, in part because he likes to scratch the e-cone all the way down if necessary. One time while he was breaking down his wing, one of those homeless, a huge dude, came after Spike with a pipe or something. Bunch of sherriffs tackled the guy pretty quick. That’s unusual though. (Usually they take an hour to get there, at least they did last time one was threatening me, of course i was ready for anything and didnt mind, just calling Sherriff as courtesy to the tweaker). But yes homeless are still there.

Thanks for the pic Tom, similar scene today and about same flight time, unfortunately. Soderquist, as usual, put up a great fight scratching today and looks like he got an hour of “close air support” flying and is flight of the day.

That’s the one, Alan. Being on a PG in same lift with a sailplane feels like diving with a whale (a fast one) or something. A much larger, more efficient and very impressive craft that Pilatus is.