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Welcome
Sylmar is the world capital of hang gliding and pilots have been flying hang gliders in these mountains since 1969. The first U.S. National Hang Gliding Championships were held here in 1973. The Flight Park is located just outside of Los Angeles and we enjoy around 300 days of flying a year. Please check out the rules and site information before flying here.
Pilots and non-pilots are welcome to enjoy our flight park year 'round! Fly high, fly far, fly safe!
Thanks for visiting the Sylmar Hang Gliding Association's Web site.
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Photo by Larry Chamblee; large image here.
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June 28, 2009
Thanks, BJ for coordinating the barbecue on Saturday, June 27. Board members are always interested in suggestions or questions, if there are any topics from the club meeting that you would like to discuss further.
To open someone else's combination lock, rotate the last digit backwards one number at a time, and there's a good chance the lock will open in just a few tries. A combination lock with just one digit scrambled isn't really locked, so please don't do it!
Beware on launch of the two deep holes left from the ramp construction project. They'll be filled by heavy equipment sometime soon, but in the meantime, they're a hazard.
Upcoming trips:
• July 2-5: Hurricane, UT
• July 11-12: Yosemite, CA
Gopher whacks: 51.
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 July 3, 2009 8:00 am
No reports for Thursday. TODAY....inversion restrengthens. Again at it’s strongest. Blipspot down to 4400ft. Temps about the same but not enough to cast off the inversion.
Max altitude 4300ft. Reports Cutter or call (626) 260-1615. Thanks!
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Winds of a Hurricane, Utah
Qualified pilots are invited to join us for the Winds of a Hurricane Fly-in (pilots should be (min.) high-time H2 with sign-off). We always have a blast! Many pilots have made the trip several times. Most of the pilots are from Sylmar's SHGA and Crestline's CSS.
This free trip attracts intermediate and advanced HG/PG pilots and their non-flying companions (yahoos and wusses can stay home). Located 130 miles northeast of Las Vegas, we'll fly Hurricane Ridge and Cedar Mountain. The group usually stays in the Kanarraville campground.
Cedar Mountain is a morning site with easy XC flying over wide-open fields. Hurricane Ridge is a 15-mile windy escarpment jutting 400 feet above the desert. With afternoon ridge and thermal lift, you have got to fly over to the Virgin River. Sinking out is a no brainer with road along all routes outta there. A 4-wheel drive vehicle isn't needed for either (but is helpful -- and that's what friends are for)!
Want someone to share gas? Need a ride? Smart pilots will carpool and share retrieval drivers. Be ready for hot fun in the summertime.
For more details click here.
Yosemite Trip
Barton Davidson has hosted the Yosemite trip for the Club for over a decade. This is an Advanced-rated site (H-4) and if you are coming on the trip to fly, you must sign up on the Yosemite Hang Gliding Association site YHGA. Many years, floating down the river on rafts has been a prime après-flying attraction. Of course the park offers lots of other family activities including hiking and bike riding—or just relaxing.
See the pilot forum for more information about this year’s trip.
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An SHGA hero (or heroine) is a volunteer who takes the initiative to do a project, such as...
Pilot Photo Manager
See the pilot photos? Jim Thompson gets the credit! Contact him to add your own, and thank him for taking the initiative on this project.
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To join these heroes, you could consider this randomly chosen project:
(posted February 1, 2007)
Coordinate Hike-Bike-Fly events
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