New Slope Site in Southeast Wisconsin - Orientation Sunday, October 21, 2007
Howdy slope pilots! The long wait is over. Things turned out a bit differently than we’d originally planned but our friends and fellow club members at AstroWings of Wisconsin helped us finally gain access to one of our local “Holy Grail” slope spots. Thanks to AstroWings and especially Roger Zahn, as well as the folks at Waste Management for this opportunity.
On Saturday, October 6th Mirko, Greg and Tracy made a preliminary venture to the Omega Hills Waste Management site in Germantown, Wisconsin for some test flying of what promises to be a great venue for slope soaring action in Southeast Wisconsin. On this particular day the wind was about as poor a direction (SW) as we could have and we still had many flights of 10-15 minutes. I had on at least 20 minutes. Remember this was in the least favorable wind direction!
For those of you who have been looking forward to flying at Omega hills please mark your calendars for Sunday, October 21st at Noon. We will meet at the Omega Hills gate on County Line Rd. and be given an orientation by the site manager outlining the few rules that we need to be aware of. After that we will be free to fly!
If you will be attending the orientation please RSVP greg@slopeflyer.com. I need to get a head count for the site manager.
Also, please remember, to fly at this site you will need to be an AMA member and an AstroWings of Wisconsin member too. I will have membership applications for AstroWings at the site.
FYI, this has been over 5 years in the making and we are really looking forward to making this relationship work. Your help as responsible pilots and people will be greatly appreciated!
October 19th, 2007 at 7:43 am
I’m looking forward to checking out the site on Sunday. I have my 36″ wing charged up and ready to fly. The weather sites are predicting 18MPH winds from the SW, 72 degrees.
October 21st, 2007 at 7:44 pm
The new site is very cool and we had a great turnout. The winds were 30 to 35MPH, I have posted photos of todays events.
October 22nd, 2007 at 1:32 pm
Here is the google Satelite Map of the site:
http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&q=county+line+road,+menomonee+falls,+wi&ll=43.194179,-88.072286&spn=0.010872,0.014291&t=k&z=16&om=1
October 24th, 2007 at 9:35 pm
I flew again today from 3:15 to 4:15PM. The winds were between 12-18 MPH from the North according to all the weather websites, they felt stronger on the top of the hill.
I walked the length of the hill trying to find some nice lift, I think the south side of the hill was better. The best lift I could get was on the outside 100′ on both sides hill (north side). Man it was cold up there, 52 degrees with 20+ winds really takes it out of you.
There was a big red-tailed hawk soaring with me off and on. He seemed to stick to the same portions of the hill that I found the best lift from.
October 24th, 2007 at 11:01 pm
Orientation day on Sunday was about as perfect as could be hoped for! Mid-70’s and 30mph of wind! I think there were at least 30 visitors to the site and a dozen or more pilots flew. I had a great time with my Pixel and Wizard.
Team Bandt form Janesville proved the potential for PSS planes like the LEG warbirds and Steve Meyer flew the largest plane of the day, an over 3-meter Fazer with a pound and a half of ballast.
I plan to try Northeast winds with Dave K on Thursday.