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Yup def so side of point of the mountain.xc when I flew there thier were no poles wires houses just that road at the Bottom. That should of been left alone for flying?Comment on "There I was flying along when this thing almost killed me ..."
...where the surface of the earth curves away. If mountains are in the way, estimate...zon. When you are climbing along the ridge of a mountain, you are at the same altitude as the point on the mountain that crosses the...- +364 more Comments
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- Working my way up the East River past Crested Butte, to 10707 ft Schoefield Pass, and on to the beautiful grass strip at Marble, Colorado. The big mountain at the center is Gothic Mountain.
- We steadily climbed out of the valley to reach the top of the 12,500 ft mountain north of Creede, Garita Peak. From there we followed a high mountain ridge to the east. This is a view back to the northwest to Garita Peak and the large park below the mountain.
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- We have 3 mountain ranges to the north of us - Outeniqua, Kammanassie ,and the mighty Swartberg Mountains. When we have extreme cold a...for a flight to photograph the beautiful mountain. The flight took me over all...
- I rode with XC Triker on his Airborne 912 and Ken flew with Leo....J Ranch, landed at Big Bear airport. Then flew over the mountain and landed at the Flabob airport, then went over the mountain back to the Flying J ranch. &...
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Brocken spectre-- I learned a new word-- I always thought it was just called a "Glory"
A Brocken spectre (Germa...called Brocken bow or mountain spectre, is the apparently en...e phenomenon can appear on any misty mountainside or cloud bank, or even fr...bsp;Brocken, a peak in the Harz Mountains in Germany, have c...
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- Hey gringos, anybody want to travel down to Rocky Point around the first week of January? You can leave your trike home-there's plenty to fly there. You can leave your car/truck home too and share a ride with me in my coach. Get on down with the Free Mexican Airforce. Vamanos cabrones!
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Bush Pilot: 'Brakes were my enemy': Landing a one-way airstrip in Southcentral Alaska
It doesn't look challenging -- it looks like a huge airstrip with a tiny b.... The runway is plenty long enough, but it's a one-way landing because of that mountain dominating the uphill end. f...- I recently had the need to decode the following NOTAM, but information on how to do this is not easy to find.&n...place names. I know some of you will easily know how to decode, but the point is...
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- Nothing is infallible. Question everything. Check everything. Fly with a backup plan (plans B, .... C, D, etc), sufficient altitude. In most systems there will always be a single point failure spot--- even if equipped with a backup fuel pump. Revo
- Pilots tip of the Week: Forced Landing Checklist Question: "I had an engine failure on down.... I walked away without a scratch, but did $50K damage to my airplane. At what point is...
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- This is a cool story, of a hang gliding dog and his friend at Point of the Mountain Utah. When POM is on, it b...Ken, we should do the dunes at my house then road trip up to Point of the Mountain. When it's on, it&#...
V8 Supercars - Bathurst - Australia's gr8t race.. Lowndes & Winnicup fly Hornets
Not trike related,, but some damn good RAAF footage of aviation. A snippet of B...certain for me.. only true glory for the 2014.. Bathurst 1000 King of the Mountain - Australia.- +35 more Top-level pages
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- Wills Wing Sport 2, 155 hang glider, Robertson pod harness, PDA reserve chute, and Mountain High Oxygen system for sale. To see them in action search for "Larry Kaiser" on You Tube, then watch the Sabbath Flying" video. All equipment is in good shape. $900 for wing only or $1450 for everything.
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- Hey gringos, anybody want to travel down to Rocky Point around the first week of January? You can leave your trike home-there's plenty to fly there. You can leave your car/truck h...
Fly Rocky Point Mexico- Toes in the Warm Breeze ~January to ? late February?
Reposting this for Ole: Hey gringos, anybody want to travel down to Rocky Point around the first week of January? You can leave your trike home-there's plenty to fly there. You can le...- +3 more Events
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It was my true first cross country mountain flying through potentially very hostile and...nditions and even sought some thermals under mountain clouds. I gained a lot of con...experience the next day with flying another mountain cross country....- Saturday morning - I flew inland from Knysna to find the snow on our highest mountain range in this area. 100km north from my Hometown Knysna.
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Cross-Country Trikers
A group for Trikers around the world who are interested in Long Distance trike flights.Member's Life Stories
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Dog ‘asks’ to go flying with Hang Glider
This is a cool story, of a hang gliding dog and his friend at Point of the Mountain Utah. When POM is on, it blows nice all day, and is easy to top land and launch again and again, big slider stops, etc. There's a great video that goes with the story! Ken, we should do the dunes ...Tags: Hang Gliding Dog, Point of Mountain, story, great, mountain, point