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First Elsinore then Grass
Now to the 28th called Alan in the mornin and he was sure Grass was gonna be goin off Well, Raul had figured out the north was the way to go so Saturday we took the Ortega highway to the top of Elsinore to where the HangGliders take offf well here is this one guy suited up ready to go with hang glider in hand helmut on and the wind blowin up hiss a** Straight southwest!!!! Oh well we decided to go back to the spot we had stopped at about a quarter mile back down the road and ended up flying almost everything we had I crashed the Falco ,flew the wing raul flew the falcon the speed and ended up with the sharpy the only trouble was LANDING!!! Bill was rippin it up with his OmeiGod!! and ended up puttin it in the side of the wall across the street from the turnout All in all a good day but I still had a bad taste in my mouth about missin Grass Mountain. So the next day Sunday the 29th The whole crew was gonna meet at Grass. Alan had assured us that it was the same forecast as the day before (which turned out to be good for Grass) So here we are off to the best darn flying spot with the most consistent air I have seen in a long time!!!. It turns South everyday at 1000am at fifteen to twenty with gusts to thirty about everyday of the year Great for massive frontside and DSing off to the south end of the hill Had to contend with three wing guys and the only channel conflict was with me on twenty . So long story short I switched out my Expresso and Tsunami with two forty channel crrstals Raul had so I wouldnt have to play the are you off yet!!!!. Anyways I had two of the best Tsunami landings of my life Everyone had a great time The only mishap was Raul had a wierd glitch or failure with his sharpie and has some repair work to be done Just goes to show ya your plane can go out of control at ANY time through no fault of your own so I gonna start watching my COMIN IN HOT AND HEAVY from the right a little more closely and not try and drop guys to their knees which sorta happened last week with the F3F guys OOpps Anyways got to charge up my batteries for next Sat and see if I can pull a repeat of the 29th Jimmy
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Flyboy,
The launch that is about a 1/4 mile back down the road from the launch called The "E" is called Edwards bowl. The Edwards bowl has a bit of a limited pilot standing area, but shines on a more ENE wind direction. We hangglider folks use it a bit more in the winter, but prefer the "E" most of the time. As the price of our Hanggliders is now over 7K, we would prefer if the RCs use the Edwards bowl. That and safety. Thanks |
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I didnt know that had a name but it good to know in case the other side is being used for gliding I am the first one to go with safety first Good flying Jimmy
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