1. Conditions
2. The club supporting the site / Le club supportant le site : SHGA.
3. Events / Evénement : SHGA.
4. Bulletin board / Tableau d'affichage : SHGA.
5. Articles
6. Schools / Ecoles
7. Lost and Found / Object perdu ou retrouvé : No info.
8. How to get there / Comment s'y rendre : SHGA.
9. Maps / Cartes
10. GPS coordinates / Coordonnées GPS
11. Site frequency / Fréquence du site : 147.555 .
12. Insurance / Assurances
13. Lodging / Hébergement
14. Restaurant : No info.
15. Car rental / Location d'auto : No info.
16. Image
17. Video or Animation / Vidéo ou Animation
18. Cross Country / Vol Voyage
19. Hazards / Dangers

Conditions

We are hoping for light SSW (202 degree) winds. By order of interest :

• Forecast :
  • Joe Greblo of WindSports (updated daily at 8:30 AM).
  • Soaring Predictor (updated daily at 7:30 AM).
  • Sylmar forecast (Weather.com): Today, 10 days.
  • RASP (Regional Atmospheric Soaring Predictor) for Southern California. The mouse wheel changes the opacity of the RASP data.
  • Wind forecast - San Bernardino (Intellicast.com).
• Current :
  • Kagel Kam (WindSports.com) shows the windsock in a continuous video stream.
  • Sylmar weather station (in the city of Sylmar): Meso West.
  • Radar animation - Sylmar (Weather.com).
  • Radar animation - Los Angeles (IntelliCast.com) shows relief map.
  • Camp 9 weather station (Location): CDWR (graphs) + CDWR (text).
  • XC Skies.

Articles

• SHGA History.

Schools / Ecoles

Ordered alphabetically / Ordonné alphabétiquement :

• Jérôme Daoust.

Maps / Cartes

• SHGA
• Google Earth: Local points of interest. A great way to explore this flying site in 3D.
• Google - Satellite: Launch, LZ. You can drag the map with your mouse.

GPS coordinates / Coordonnées GPS

Description	Latitude	Longitude	Altitude (ASL)
Launch (Saddle)	N 34° 20.001'	W 118° 23.072'	1074 m (GPS*)	3523' (GPS*)
LZ (next to parking, not the wash LZ)	N 34° 19.036'	W 118° 24.412'	414 m (GPS*)	1358' (GPS*)

* GPS = Bräuniger / Competino, using WGS84. WGS84 (World Geodetic System 1984) is the Standard Geodetic Datum & the common reference datum used for civilian aviation world wide. More info: Mean Sea Level, GPS, and the Geoid.
** Reported GPS altitude, to be verified.

For a great way to explore this flying site in 3D, see Google Earth's Local points of interest in the Maps section.

Insurance / Assurances

• You will need to become a USHPA member and it's not expensive for the 1 month membership. Just contact one of the Schools so you can take the one month membership for 10$. It is good all over the US for the 30 day period.
• Tu devras devenir un membre de l'USHPA et ce n'est pas cher pour être membre pour un mois. Tu as juste à contacter une des Ecoles afin de prendre le membersip d'un mois pour 10$. Ce sera bon pour tous les sites aux Etats-Unis pour une période de 30 jours.

Lodging / Hébergement

• No Info.

Image

Pictures/Images from others (click thumbnail to open full size image in a new window)
Photos/Images des autres (clique la petite image pour ouvrir la photo pleine grandeur dans une nouvelle fenêtre)

528 kB	2002/7/13	Picture of launch from Dimitri Keller.
		Photo du décollage fournie par Dimitri Keller.
588 kB	2004/1/1	Picture of launch from Dimitri Keller.
		Photo du décollage fournie par Dimitri Keller.
424 kB	2004/4/18	Picture of launch and behind, from Scotty Farnsworth.
		Photo du décollage et derrière, fournie par Scotty Farnsworth.

Personal pages :

• No info.

Video or Animation / Vidéo ou Animation

• SHGA (Quicktime VR format) : Kagel Landing Zone, Emergency Landing Zone, Kagel Launch.

Cross Country / Vol Voyage

• No info.

Hazards / Dangers

• SHGA