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Current Conditions

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Remember before every flight, check your equipment, reassess the conditions and ask yourself if 'I'm safe'?

Required Launch Wind Direction

Directions

Take Off

38.3105, -78.512 : 498.0 m

Landing Zone

38.2995, -78.5098 : 221.0 m

Sunrise

6:25 AM

Sunset

8:00 PM

Time Zone

Eastern Standard Time (-0400)

Description

Not much parking. Hiking up is an option via a fairly direct 4WD road. Charlottesville airport is 15 miles SE of site. Track is not currently passable without 4WD.

1700 MSL, 880' vertical Gentle slop, slot. Glide slope to LZ: 4.3:1 Careful with rotor in bowl to right of launch. Soarable along 1.5 mile ridge. Large pasture From DC: I-66 W to US-29 S (exit 43A) proceed 63 miles R Fredericksburg Rd, then 4.0 miles R US-33W, then go 3.2 miles L Dyke Rd, then go 2.4 miles R Rosebrook Rd, then R snow mountain road, then onto track Previously sensitive site. Now owned by a hang glider pilot and historical issues seem to have been put to rest. Previously sensitive site. Now owned by a hang glider pilot and historical issues seem to have been put to rest.