On 24 Dec 2014, at 10:11 pm, Peter (PCS3) <[email protected]> wrote: > > Great place to ridge soar unless the vog is blown in from the Big Island > volcano. f/vog like when we were there. The ridge is parallel and about a > klm from the runway.
I visited in 2008. The commercial operation there has a clause in their ops manual saying they can’t ridge soar, which was a bit disappointing. I suppose you could as a private owner, but there’s no club as such. The “joyflights” are carried out by people with little or no gliding experience: Aerotow to 5000’, float down, land. I didn’t get the impression that the pilots knew or cared much about thermalling, the one I flew with was sensitive to unusual attitudes and got nervous when I slowed to thermalling speed, and didn’t want to know about flying close to the rocks. Bit of a waste of a good site. It’d be great in a northerly! - mark _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [email protected] To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring
