Crestline Soaring Society

A memorial service for Jeff Craig will be held this Saturday, Sept 13 at Sylmar in conjunction with the annual Dahlsten Cup http://www.shga.com/.

We've had many visitors from Sylmar this summer and I hope we can return the favor and have a good turnout at their event.

- Alan

We've lost another brother:

http://www.shga.com/forum/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1098

Let's learn from this tragedy. Let's re-examine our site and our habits. Are our flying habits and landings safe?

A visit to Rob's accident "red dot" page shows that we may well be next on the news, for reasons much worse even than developer hassles.

What can we do to honor Jeff's life by learning from

The SHGA has scheduled the Dahlsten Cup Fly-In for Saturday 9/13/08 - one week after the CSS Fly-in.

Activities vary from year-to-year but have included an Open Class and Sport Class competion with GPS scoring, a Chili Cookoff, spot landing contest, stated duration flight, and more.

There is no fee to participate.

The SHGA's day use fee is $5 but is pretty much an on-your-honor pay basis - no one is actively monitoring payment. If you honestly forget to pay - oh well. If you intentionally don't pay - you're a "real piece of work".

With great sadness, we report that Richard Seymour was fatally injured while flying on Saturday, June 21, 2008. He was 57 and had been flying for nearly 20 years. He is survived by his wife, Julie.

The exact cause of the accident is uncertain, but Richard was unable to maintain control of his glider while on approach to land. The last hang gliding fatality in Los Angeles County was more than 21 years ago.

With great sadness, we report that Richard Seymour was fatally injured while flying on Saturday, June 21, 2008. He was 57 and had been flying for nearly 20 years. He is survived by his wife, Julie.

The exact cause of the accident is uncertain, but Richard was unable to maintain control of his glider while on approach to land. The last hang gliding fatality in Los Angeles County was more than 21 years ago.

Does anyone know more deatils about the reported fatality at Sylmar today?

http://cbs2.com/local/Hang.Gliding.Death.2.753918.html
Jun 21, 2008 4:39 pm US/Pacific
60-Year-Old Man Killed In Hang-Gliding Accident

LOS ANGELES A 60-year-old man died in a hang-gliding accident near El Cariso Golf Course, according to a city fire official.

Authorities received reports of the accident at 2:55 p.m. in the 12000 block of Gridley Street, said d'Lisa Davies of the Los Angeles Fire Department.

Flyin appeared to be a success. Lots of pilots, Great food, and friendly people. Got to 5000 on my Skyhawk and probably could have got higher, but the drift was severe and had to pull out well before thermals topped out. Air was really rowdy at times and got pitched around pretty good several times. Launched the Towers West of Kagel and got pummeled pretty badly. Crossed over to Kagel and
made a low save. Flew for two hrs and then made an attempt to land.

Sylmar Hang Gliding Association cordially invites CSS friends and pilots to join us in our Flight Park on Saturday May 3, 2008 for our annual Spring Air Festival and Competition. Among many reasons to celebrate, we are 25 years old! It should be a great day of flying, BBQ and festivities. And, we would love to set our best pilots against yours!

Pilot check in: 9:30-11am
Pilot Meeting for Comp: 10:45am

Looks like Sylmar will be running an aerotow ground school today (Saturday, Oct 27) and be towing at El Mirage next weekend (weather permitting). See http://www.shga.com/

- Alan

New sail,pristine condition $600,located at Kagel Mntn. 818 259-1729 cell,windgypsy[at]gmail[dot]com

I am now running a local soaring weather forecast (DRJACK's BLIBMAPS) for our LA area. The model predicts thermal strength, wind condition and some other flight related paramters for various times of the day. Results are visualized in 2D maps that cover the area from Kagel in the upper left corner to Warner Springs in the lower right. The url right now is http://www.its.caltech.edu/~gliding/SOCAL/

I've heard those things are dangerous:-)

http://www.shga.com/forum/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=687&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=

http://ozreport.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7745

Some interesting posts lately at the Sylmar site. Check out their Utah trip under 'Amazing Flights' and an equipment-driven parachute ride under 'General Discussion'.

See the 'Pilot Forum' at http://www.shga.com/

(Seems to take a long time to load sometimes).

Alan