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New Southeast Wisconsin Slope Site – 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 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.

 

 

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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!

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2 Responses to “New Southeast Wisconsin Slope Site – Orientation Sunday, October 21, 2007”

  1. szastoupil says:
    October 18, 2007 at 10:40 am

    Congratulations on the success of gaining access to this site. I will seriously consider joining the club to come fly a few times a year. Now I just have to rebuild the Weasel and find a little more aggressive slope model.

    Scott Zastoupil

  2. greg says:
    October 29, 2007 at 11:11 am

    Scott! Glad to hear from you.

    The Omega Hills site is working great! We’ve already been there several times and look forward to a lot of flying. Planes from Weasels to PSS Warbirds to Ballasted slope racers all work well so come on and join us.

    Greg

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