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Mara is BACK!

6/22/2017

We have secured a new LZ for the Mara Launch.

It is located at 7920 Vernon-Sicamous Hwy.
https://goo.gl/maps/yeiFcLBr7QH2

The owners are Heidi and Dave Green. They have graciously consented to landing on their property.
This LZ is suitable for both HG’s and PG’s
With that said they have a a few things that they would like us to keep in mind...

• Parking is provided at the farm please park as directed.
• Don’t land in the tall grass (this is a hay field) the north side of the field is generally dryer and thinner grass.
• Entrance is through a gate at the south side from the parking lot
• Please use the outhouses near the Saloon. They have children and neighbours.
• This couple also have camping and rentals available on site and they sell farm raised meat and other items lets support them as much as we can!

OSA Spring Meeting - Saturday May 6th - Completed

5/5/2017

Completed

OSA Reserve REPAC Clinic, April 30, 2017 @ 9am, Kaltire Place - Completed!

4/22/2017

OSA REPAC Clinic, April 30, 2017 @ 9am, Kaltire Place

That time of year again.
Use this link to pay by Paypal...

$30 Registration

The 12th Annual Lumby Air Races For Hang Gliding and Paragliding

2/1/2017

The 12th Annual Lumby Air Races
Sunday June 4th to Saturday June 10th 2017 at The Freedom Flight Park...In conjunction with Lumby Days!

This is a fun, simple, safe and educational cross country triangle flying event and is our main Annual L.A.F. Fundraiser that helps support our non profit society who supports our local flying sites and designated landing areas .

10k, 25, 50k and 100k FAI official triangles will be mapped out and available to challenge or... make up your own FAI triangles! We like to keep it simple as possible and keep the FUN Meter running as high as possible : )

Pilots choice of task and launch (of either Coopers Launch or Saddle Launch ONLY to qualify for the LAR prizes as this event is sponsored in part by Lumby Days and the people can see both Mountains from the Lumby Days Event Location.)

Have your GPS and cable ready for self scoring. Computer and Internet connection available on deck in the pilots lounge. Mandatory online GPS tracking (Paste a link to your uploaded GPS track on Leonardo, XContest, etc. to the Scoring Link.) for each flight submitted You will need to indicate the verification method.

All qualified flights will count toward the BC XC League as well. Please make a donation to the West Coast Soaring Club site for the scoring setup.

Have fun with your flying friends and do as many FAI official triangles as you can during the week as you can manage safely. Prizes to be announced.

Celebration of Life and Free Flight Saturday June 10th after scoring closes for Flyers and Friends, dinner and jam as usual.

Registration will be available onsite and online soon at
http://lumbyairforce.weebly.com/

**LAF reserves the right to limit number of entries.

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Results from 2016 Lumby Air Races event
1st Place Open Hang Gliding - Dennis Turner - Crows Nest Pass Alberta
Second Place Open Hang Gliding - Randy Rauck - Lumby BC
Third Place Open Hang Gliding - John Lang - Kelowna BC

1st Place Sport Class Hang Gliding - Mark Bagg - Kamloops BC
2nd Place Sport Class Hang Gliding - Rick Hines - Hamilton Ontairio
3rd Place Sport Class Hang Gliding Garth Hemming - Lumby BC

1st Place Paragliding - Steve Park - Lumby BC
2nd Place Paragliding - Bill Goglin - Horsefly BC
3rd Place Paragliding - Dale Caldwell - Squamish BC

The 11th annual Lumby Air Races ran from June 5th to the 11th, 2016 and all the visiting and local pilots had a very fun time. 25 intermediate and above rated pilots entered the 10km and 25 km triangle race that was measured with GPS devices and many other novice pilots just flew for the pure fun of it....Though the weather wasnt good for racing on Friday and Saturday during Lumby Days, we had some good racing days during the week. The Lumby Air Force would like to thank all our sponsors for supporting this annual fund raising event including ...The Lumby Days Society, N.O.R.D., Super A Foods, The Freedom Flight Park and 2% Realty Okanagan

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Note: Until further notice landings in the Lumby Valley are only permitted at the Freedom Flight Park for rated H2 and P2 or above flyers with HPAC insurance, unless under direct supervision of a certified instructor and flight school. Advance permission and a signed Lumby Air Force Waiver mandatory for all flights from Coopers Launch and landings at Freedom Flight Park as well.

Do you use updrafts and air-pockets?

10/1/2015

The questions that pilots get from the public are vast and varied. There is, however, some standard ones like the title of this article. Here is a great video that quickly and succinctly describes the 'thermals' that we use to gain elevation and why our vertical goal is 'cloudbase'.

Keep this one bookmarked on your phone.

New Track Visualizer

12/24/2014

A new track visualization tool to add to your collection. Doarama is a very sleek and simple way to review and share your flights. It accepts .igc and .gpx file formats which most gps's produce. Simpler to use than Google Earth and smoother, it also has built in social media sharing tools to boot and the ability to use VR glasses. Enjoy!

Sample flight...
http://www.doarama.com/view/121940

Sites main page...
http://www.doarama.com

View of All Winds on the Planet

3/4/2014

Windyty.com is a new tool I stumbled upon. Quite mesmerizing. This thing is beautiful and has a road map layer when you zoom in close enough. It even works on smartphones. There is a link as well on the Pilot Resource Tools Page.

There is also http://earth.nullschool.net/ which was the original tool and has a more uniform colour style.

Epic Flight By Evo & Alex June 4th Coopers(Lumby) ==> Revelstoke

6/19/2013

Flight Log and Forum Entry

On Mon our trip started in Edmonton with me (Evo) being logged in my XCskies and looking for potential good XC weather in the mountains and my brother driving. First target was Golden,BC but rainy weather slashed our XC dreams for next day. So we continued to long missed Okanagan.

Forecast was looking great for Lumby with excellent laps rate and wind direction for a potential flight to Revy. Between Revy and Vernon we were planning the flight and potential routes in regards to conditions. Arriving late in Kelowna went to bed tired but full of good dreams for next day.

Tues June 4-th woke up and looked outside. At 9am nice puffy cumulus clouds were building already. We loaded our gear and headed out to Coopers. By the way the day was looking our dreams for an epic flight were one step closer. We caught a ride with cool HG pilots at Randy's place and Fred was kind enough to drive the truck down. On launch there was 7-8 pilots waiting for conditions to pick up. By the time we got ready fairly good cycles started coming. We launched a bit after noon time. Alex on Gradient Avax XC3 (an classic EN-D wing) and me on my new baby Aircross U6 Comp wing(a second generation true 2 riser design).

2013 Lumby Air Races Results

6/19/2013

Lumby Air Races

53 pilots entered and the awards were handed out Sunday evening.
The winds were much stronger than usual and made tasks difficult to accomplish.

Stewart Trowsdale wins Open and KP class in Hang Gliding!
2nd Open Tim Middlemiss,
3rd Steve Parsons open and KP,
2nd KP John Theoret.

Paragliding
1st Tom Clark
2nd Bill Goglin
3rd Jim Orava
4th Tonya Solaris
5th Peter Spear
6th Corine Orava
7th Andrew Berkley

More details and pics found at LumbyAirRaces.weebly.com

Hang-Gliding & Paragliding in the Okanagan!

4/12/2013

Paragliding and Hang gliding in the Okanagan is what it is all about? This is truly what it is like to fly!

This website is operated by the Okanagan Soaring Association. It is a place for hang glider and paraglider pilots to share news, tall tales and general information about hang gliding and paragliding in this fantastic locale. (truly some of the best flying in Canada!)

We've got excellent flying sites all within a few minutes of each other, big lakes, beaches, beautiful scenery, urban amenities, long season, local flying instructors, tandem pilots and equipment dealers right here in the valley. Best of all, we've got a growing group of enthusiastic local pilots always ready to head up for flights... What more could one want?

Look around! If you want to know more about the local flying please feel free to contact us or attend a monthly meeting. See the EVENTS page for the next meeting.

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