My first tandem flight in 1988 was on a mountain in Southern Calif called Kagel. I started flying hang glider solo in 1990. Since then hang gliding has been my primary interest.
Wednesday, March 23, 2016
2 hour and 15 mins Lower Peterson 3/23/16
Since I didn't want to fly alone at Newberg, I decided to join Gabe & headed out to Lower Peterson this afternoon. We arrived launch at 12:15 pm and it was already blowing 20+ mph SSW. The skies were overcast with ceiling around 3,000 ft AGL. I launched first and flew for 2 hrs and 15 mins (from 1:00pm to 3:15pm), topped out 1,850ft AGL. Gabe and Chris launched about 45 mins later,I think they flew for more than an hour. The strong SSW (about 15-18mph) winds made it quite easy to bench up to the upper launch towers. There were a few short sprinkles during our flights, beside that everything else was perfect. Thanks Gabe for filming me with his DJI drone , I added the drone footage on my video.
About flying Oceanside tomorrow (Thursday), the winds direction and strength looks really good. However, there's a super high surf (16ft / 6ft High Tides at 2:30pm) which will probably result in no beach for landing in the whole afternoon. Yesterday at Oceanside there was a 10ft high surf and paraglider reported that there wasn't much beach for landing. Last month when I flew Oceanside with 13ft high surf , I almost landed on the water during the low tides. You can go to my blog to re-watch that video of that day. I'm debating if I should go or not?
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