Best consistent ridge soaring site
On Thursday, November 16, 2017 at 7:05:37 AM UTC+3, wrote:
Dillingham Airfield on Oahu is the absolute best ridge soaring site. The trade winds are very consistent. The view is impossible to top. A 500 foot tow and you are off. Leave the ridge and fly out over the ocean to look down at the coral reefs.
I have done it five times. The winds failed to blow on only two days. Within two days things were good again.
I don't think you've really experienced ridge soaring until you've done a 50 km or 100 km or longer run at high speed without turning.
Doesn't look possible there.
Along the chain on the east coast of the island, maybe, but that's a totally different wind direction than would make Dillingham local ridge work.
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