Chehalem ridge was dry and soarable this afternoon. The low thick fog hung around launch till 2:45pm. I launched at 3:00pm (8-13mph straight up wind) and had over one hours flight. The highest I got was about 400ft above launch. It was a bit turbulent so others decide not to fly. Winds were pretty light from the south at the big LZ when I landed at 4:05pm. It was dead calm by the time I done packing up my glider. I went back to launch around 5pm and it was still blowing 5-8 mph straight up. A PG pilot Eric Miller showed up at 5:45pm and took two sled rides.
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.
Thursday, October 29, 2015
1 hour flight at Chehalem (Newberg, OR) 10/29/15
Chehalem ridge was dry and soarable this afternoon. The low thick fog hung around launch till 2:45pm. I launched at 3:00pm (8-13mph straight up wind) and had over one hours flight. The highest I got was about 400ft above launch. It was a bit turbulent so others decide not to fly. Winds were pretty light from the south at the big LZ when I landed at 4:05pm. It was dead calm by the time I done packing up my glider. I went back to launch around 5pm and it was still blowing 5-8 mph straight up. A PG pilot Eric Miller showed up at 5:45pm and took two sled rides.
Monday, October 26, 2015
1 flight Chehalem Sledder report 10/26/15
I flew Newberg Chehalem ridge with 4 bags (Dave B, Greg, Steve F, Jay Z) today, all para friends launched earlier in the light wind with overcast skies and got a few hundred ft above launch in mostly ridge lifts. I was hoping for the wind to get stronger so I waited. However the sun never came out and the winds started to diminish from 5-8mph down to 0-3mph when I got ready to launch at 3:00pm. So I took a sledder and landed in zero wind. Ray Berger flew his trike to launch around 4:00 pm and it was completely dead calm by then.
Saturday, October 24, 2015
3 hrs/ 2 flights at Cliffside (10/24/15)
Thursday, October 22, 2015
1.5 hrs at Bingen on Oct 21,15
30 mins/ 2 flights at Cliffside . Oct 15th 2015
Five hangs (Mark R, Enrique, Gabe, Kory and myself) and one bag flew Cliffside today (Thursday Oct 15th, 2015). I launched at 5:00pm on my 2nd flights when the winds were still way too cross from NE. Also the wind were slowly dying and without a thermal in sight, I barely managed to maintain some attitude that close to launch to extended my flight for about 25 mins until the winds completely shut down. This footage was film by the fake GoPro that I bought it for $30 on ebay a month ago.
Tuesday, October 13, 2015
2 hrs/ 4flights at Bremer and Dog Oct 11-12, 2015
Photo By Jeff Lemon
Buddy Carroll may be gone, but he is far from forgotten. We had a good memorial over the weekend at Dog. David (Buddy brother) had a nice bench at the Dog launch to pay tribute to Buddy.
Although, the flying condition wasn't great on Sunday, I was still able to take an extended sled ride to test fly my glider with a new sail at Bremer in very calm smooth air condition. The perfect condition for first flight of a glider with a new sail. I went to Dog after Bremer for Buddy's memorial. It was also no wind at Dog so nobody flew except for those wing have a power. Larry J and Russ G who had their plane skim close to the ground chasing each other. Chuck demonstrated some very interesting launch and landing approach with his trike to entertain the spectators. It was quite an exciting evening.
On Monday, my original plan was to go fly Bremer with Kim but other hangs prefer Dog so we flew Dog instead. We (Enrique, Rick Weber and PG Kim) started early sledder so I had a total of 3 flights; the 3rd flight I flew for 1.5 hrs with Kim and Alan.
My first flight with the new sail on Oct 11th, 2015
Monday, October 5, 2015
3 hrs/ 3 flight at Cliffside fist weekend of Oct
1 flight
40 mins
It was REALLY light at Cliffside today. The West winds were still blowing about 5-10mph at the hang launch when we arrived at 11:30am. It turned ESE around 2:00pm and more East around 3:30pm. Five hangs (Neil, Gabe, Mark R, Enrique and myself) launch around 4:00pm at the Paraglider launch and it was pretty easy to climbed above launch. I was lucky that hooked up with few small thermals that extended my flight to about 40 mins and got 1200 AGL few times. The LZ by the river also very calmed , it was pretty much zero wind at the LZ.
Oct 4th 2015 Sunday
2 flights
over 1 hrs
We had a beautiful day at Cliffside today. 3 hangs (Gabe,Mark Rabe and myself) and a lot of paragliders. Everyone had a great effortlessly flight cruising around till sunset. A few PGs made it above the wind mills and I think some got 4k earlier. My max attitude was 1,600 ft AGL. I had over 2 hrs of air time landed around 7:00pm on my second flight.
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