Does anyone know about the quality of maintenance at the Daniels launch and LZ.? Is it suitable for hanggliders?? Also I assume the road is passable with a 4wd?? Haven't been there in a couple of years at least.
Dan T
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Marcel Dettling
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Daniels was a blast this weekend. On Saturday, we were 7 PGs. My first flight was an extendo, launching at noon was still too early. The second was much better, I got 540m (1800ft) above launch, flying time just above 1 hour before I got flushed. A bit surprisingly there was a nice glass-off, too. It yielded another very nice hour of flying.
Today Sunday was again an excellent day. We were 4 PGs and 4 HGs. My first flight was again at noon, scratched for 20 minutes but just couldn't get more than about 30m (100ft) above launch and finally sank out. Caught a quick ride back to launch and the conditions had already improved a lot. Despite I could only get around 150m (500ft) above launch, I flew for about 2 hours, but finally was flushed again (argh!). Again today, there was a very nice glass-off which yielded almost another hour of flying. I think I was the last one in the air and landed just a few minutes before sunset.
I think the HGs who flew today can describe the condition of the slot better than I can. For PGs its perfectly fine. The road is not too bad. It's a bumpy ride but today even a normal 2WD car made it to launch.
Cheers,
Marcel
Today Sunday was again an excellent day. We were 4 PGs and 4 HGs. My first flight was again at noon, scratched for 20 minutes but just couldn't get more than about 30m (100ft) above launch and finally sank out. Caught a quick ride back to launch and the conditions had already improved a lot. Despite I could only get around 150m (500ft) above launch, I flew for about 2 hours, but finally was flushed again (argh!). Again today, there was a very nice glass-off which yielded almost another hour of flying. I think I was the last one in the air and landed just a few minutes before sunset.
I think the HGs who flew today can describe the condition of the slot better than I can. For PGs its perfectly fine. The road is not too bad. It's a bumpy ride but today even a normal 2WD car made it to launch.
Cheers,
Marcel
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Marcel Dettling
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Pics from Daniels
I posted some pics (the slot is visible on 2 of them)...
http://stat.ethz.ch/~dettling/daniels.html
Cheers,
Marcel
http://stat.ethz.ch/~dettling/daniels.html
Cheers,
Marcel