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Ardoin Turnpoint in Marfa area?
I was looking on the map trying to figure out some of the tasks that
Moffat wrote about in Winning on the Wing. In that book and his July 2003 Soaring article he writes about tasks using a turnpoint - the town of "Ardoin". I cannot find Ardoin on a map of TX or NM. Does anyone know where this is? Chris |
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Page 8 of the 'Marfa Report' by Wally Scott(available from Marfa Soaring) has a description of it. On the attached sectional it appears just of the Salt Flat VOR(NNW of Marfa). At 02:30 29 December 2003, Chris wrote: I was looking on the map trying to figure out some of the tasks that Moffat wrote about in Winning on the Wing. In that book and his July 2003 Soaring article he writes about tasks using a turnpoint - the town of 'Ardoin'. I cannot find Ardoin on a map of TX or NM. Does anyone know where this is? Chris |
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is it now a ghost town?
BT "chris" wrote in message om... I was looking on the map trying to figure out some of the tasks that Moffat wrote about in Winning on the Wing. In that book and his July 2003 Soaring article he writes about tasks using a turnpoint - the town of "Ardoin". I cannot find Ardoin on a map of TX or NM. Does anyone know where this is? Chris |
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Chris,
The Ardoin turnpoint described by George Moffat in "Winning on the Wind" was about 115 miles northwest of Marfa. It was a private airstrip near the salt flats southwest of Guadalupe Peak, on the south side of highway 62/180 that goes west to El Paso. It is no longer there, at least it does not appear on a current El Paso Sectional or the WAC Chart CH-23 (both useful for XC planning out of Marfa.) The "Figure 2" Ranch private airstrip is up thataway, south of where Ardoin used to be, along highway 54 - by the Sierra Diablo Mountains. Sounds like you are putting together a set of good turnpoints for your Region Five group's summer 2004 expedition to fly with us at Marfa, near the mountains of west Texas. We will have a "Marfa Gliders" booth at the Atlanta SSA Convention - see you there! For more info on Marfa see our webpage at www.FLYGLIDERS.com Burt Compton Marfa, west Texas Site of the 1970 World Soaring Contest 800-667-9464 |
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