Entries by Jon Blake

Spot landing contest Thursday at Elings

Got skills? Let’s see ’em! We will be having a spot landing contest at Eling’s flight park (training hill) starting at 4:30pm on this Thursday, Sept. 12th. Everyone is welcome to come out and enjoy so bring your family and friends. Plan is to have a little happy hour sunset watching following the contest.  Come […]

Locals + X-alps visitor = successfull meeting

Many have told me that the September meeting is called the “season opener” for the Santa Barbara mountains. Well if last nights meeting and enthusiasm about recent flight’s was an example of this then I’m a believer! While many or our SBSA pilots have had plenty of flying this summer in various locations, Ojai/Pine, local […]

EJ bowl to East Beach

Met Cracka, Bob, Bart and Dave B at parma at 11:30ish.  We took Bart’s van and headed up to EJ Bowl.  Bo and another visiting pilot were setup on launch and checking out the conditions.   It was blowing in nice between 5-10 miles per hour.  We didn’t waste any time, got setup and ready to […]