slope soaring who does it ? where and what are you flying?

[Islandflyer]

Now if someone can find a slope around Orlando, I might get an SOS back in the air!

 

[bigblueswope]

Now if someone can find a slope around Orlando, I might get an SOS back in the air!

They've got hills in FL, all the closed down garbage dumps ;-)


BJ Swope

 

[SleepyC]

Now if someone can find a slope around Orlando, I might get an SOS back in the air!

Can't you glide in the ocean wind? Seems to me there is ALWAYS a big incoming wind at the ocean.

 

[Judge]

All houses now everywhere you look.

 

[Judge]

Can't you glide in the ocean wind? Seems to me there is ALWAYS a big incoming wind at the ocean.

You can "glide" anywhere!! But you need at least a small hill (or thermals) if you want to SOAR

 

[Islandflyer]

They've got hills in FL, all the closed down garbage dumps ;-)


BJ Swope

I don't know why, but I am not really excited about standing on top of a pile of garbage...even if it's really old...

 

[Judge]

TPG has a new thermal flying field located in Encinitas on top of a closed landfill. For reasons I cannot explain, I always fly like garbage there

 

[Islandflyer]

TPG has a new thermal flying field located in Encinitas on top of a closed landfill. For reasons I cannot explain, I always fly like garbage there

That site was probably not there in 82~83 when I flew power between Encinitas and San Marcos: the Palomar RC Flyers had site off of Rancho Santa Fe Rd. I flew with Jim Meister there, before moving North to Orange County where I started slope flying at Kite Hill.
Now I feel really old!

 

[ExtraNuts]

I love slope soaring. Been flying Zagi's on slopes since the 90's. What got me started was when I got into paragliding, a lot of the guys had Zagi's and after getting one I was hooked. Great fun and the windier the better. Combat with multiple flying wingson a slope or mountain is so much fun. When its to windy to fly planes, you know like 40mph+, I head for the mountains.

 

[Wil Byers]

We're having a Scale Fun Fly this coming weekend at Eagle Butte, which is near Richland, Washington. The cost is $20 for three days of flying. It will be May, 29, 30, 31. Here are the GPS coordinates.
16803-17199 Grandview Ln
Kennewick, WA 99338
46.187062, -119.326038