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Dressing for Cold Weather Flights

The time has once again come for all of us to pack it up or bundle up. With the cold weather upon us, it is important to know how to dress properly and know what to do if you land out in the back country.Most experienced pilots will tell you that when flying in the [...]





Backwoods Landing

Skydog Blog – editorial and opinion
If you have been flying for any length of time you have probably had to make an unexpected landing. Most of the time these emergency landings are caused by poor judgement, equipment malfunction, or weather conditions.
While its almost impossible for the cross-country flyer to avoid these types of landings, there [...]





GPS 101 – The Basics

Your at 800 feet, thermals are playing out, you see the landing zone about a mile away and wonder if you can make it. No time to second guess, so you check your glide path with your GPS system. The GPS checks your location in reference to the landing zone, calculates the distance between, calculates [...]





Wind 101 – The Basics

What makes the wind blow? There are two primary causes for the wind.




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While competing in a hang gliding competition in Ecuador in 2008, Jeff O’Brien was touched by the poverty stricken region. He vowed that before coming back again for the 2009 competition that he would try to do something to help those less fortunate.  Jeff and fellow hang gliding competition pilot, Ricker Goldsborough, organized a nearly year [...]

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