This page is for interesting cross country flights out of gliderports in the Southern California region. Anyone is welcome to submit flights of their own; contact <webmaster@agcsc.org> if you are interested. The graphics were generated from IGC flight logger files with the WinIGC_to_POV and POV-Ray freeware packages.

August 9, 2003. Bill Richardson's 320-mile diamond distance flight, Warner Springs to Jacumba to Barstow and back. Kestrel 17.

September 1, 2002. Bill Richardson sets another club record with this 135 mile out-and-return flight to Big Bear in the Puchacz.

August 17, 2002. The beauty of BLIPMAP. The local soaring forecast on this day was pretty marginal, with max altitudes of 7,000 feet MSL predicted. This would ordinarily not warrant the drive to the gliderport. However the BLIPMAP forecast indicated a line of superior lift over the mountain ranges to the east. The result was this 300K out and return flight to Barstow-Dagget and back, which saw altitudes of nearly 17,000 feet over Big Bear.

June 1, 2002. Wave flight out of Warner Springs. Track is colored red in areas of lift, green in areas of sink. (HV)

March 31,2002. Bill Richardson's unofficial distance record for the club's new SZD Junior.

April 20,2002. After an aborted attempt at going south, then an aborted attempt at San Jacinto, the best lift of the day turned out to be out near the Santa Ana mountains. There's a first time for everything. I didn't even have Elsnore in my GPS, because it's hardly ever worth flying that far west. The good pilots made it to Corona that day. (HV, Jantar Std.)

May 3, 2002. The usual milk-run out of Warner Springs, Jacumba-Big Bear, around 400 km round trip. The good pilots turned Barstow too. (HV, Jantar Std.).