The 2017 season in the US has started with two amazing flights by two usual suspects.<\/p>\n
On May 6th, Josh Cohn<\/a> started the 2017 party with an impressive 164km flight in a rare location, taking off from the city of Vallejo north of the San Francisco Bay. He landed six hours later close to Merced, in the Central Valley of California. He shares his experience:<\/p>\n \u201cit was an unusual forecast, with cold post-frontal air leaving little marine inversion. I thought we would fly straight East at first but that involved crossing a lot of swamp and the place we topped out put us closer to the SE line to cross toward Concord. We had to skirt the Concord airspace for a ways and got low. We got a save in the shady lee of some hills at Port Chicago. Eric Ams and I worked those hills toward Mt. Diablo but then he landed in Clayton. I then crossed the hills to the E low and followed a spine for a ways with a quartering SW tailwind until some birds showed a good climb and then it was on, fighting cold fingers and avoiding airspace in the San Joaquin valley until the …read more<\/a> <\/p>\n Source:: Ozone Paragliders<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The 2017 season in the US has started with two amazing flights by two usual suspects.<\/p>\n