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Somehow that footage captured the spirit of hang gliding better than many others. It’s up there.
And lest we forget, this is what happened to one of the best hang pilots in the world.. on his second flight at Elsinore… making one mistake we know to avoid
Elsinore is really a P4 site.. work on your chops, get closer to 50 flights then reply. For reference, I (10 year pilot) took a 100% collapse last week on a light non thermic day and went into freefall only about 200 feet up and recovered after losing about 70 feet. I was going for reserve when I reinflated.
This was due to a NNW direction, causing rotor and I recognized it and was leaving that ridge when it happened. Like Alan said there is a lot of rotor due to the complex geography, rapid shifting winds, and also the large amount of proximity flying we do. It’s a scratchy site in many ways.
Mornings aren’t all that safe they’re weird and lumpy as catabatic gradually becomes anabatic among different portions of the rugged terrain. It isn’t like a morning flight off the 750. That’s West facing. Elsinore is East (really NE) facing, this greatly affects how mornings work.
If you are at AJX you are at the best training site in the world. Focus on your kiting, launching, spot landing, and rack up some hours with great people you can learn a lot from 👍 when you’re ready for war, Elsinore is waiting. We can teach you how to fly it as safe (as possible) and it will improve you as a pilot everywhere.
Focus on your foundations for now.
Exactly. When in doubt, look at guys like Billie and Mickey and their outlook
Well, your altitude that day was not super great, but your attitude definitely was. And that’s ultimately the way it counts in this sport. Nice save and long may the spirit of the E shine upon you.
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.
There’s a storage facility spitting distance from that field. Looks like they dumped a unit there. The yellow/black glider very much looks like Steve Corbin’s harrier. He recently passed away, out of state. The rogallo wing suggests it’s some old timers collection.
Whoever did that has no idea how to setup a hang glider. The base tube step is pretty obvious for anyone.
November 6, 2024 at 4:52 PM in reply to: Elsinore protocols update for calling the DZ if you plan to cross the Lake on XC #21240<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.I wish.. I had to quit about 10 years ago because liver won’t tolerate that anymore. After about age 30 the return on investment went negative. I blame Tequila, specifically.
However, I did bring some Sakurao Gin back from Japan last time I was there. That’s all I got. Maybe I’ll get back to it and make some new threads : )
Every grammar nazi out there super biting their tongue off about now.
Just making us a new training hill. They mean well.
Do you have a speedbar on that one?
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