Ed Levin, 525 Meter

Soaringbedingungen:

Best soaring conditions
Ed Levin is usually soarable from the top launches in pre-frontal conditions. Post-frontal generally can't be done because the road to the top is closed when wet. For the same reason, timing your pre-frontal flights can be challenging. More than one pilot has had to leave their vehicle on top until the road was dry enough to pass, sometimes several days. Ed Levin is not generally thermal soarable in the summer due to an omnipresent inversion, but some of the best pilots seem to be able to break through the inversion or get long flights below it. Legend has it that on perfect days, some pilots have launched the 600 foot hill and managed to work their way up the ridges and over the top.

Anfahrt:

From 101 heading North or South: About 27 miles South of San Francisco International Airport, at hwy 101 in Sunnyvale, take the Hwy 237 Milpitas /Alviso Exit and head East.

Continue East on 237 about 9 miles to the exit for Calaveras Rd or Blvd. Calaveras Blvd will turn into E. Calaveras Rd. Continue on this east until it starts to wind into the hills. About 1/2 mile up, you will turn left onto Downing Rd. into Ed Levin Park. Just after this, veer right and you will pass the Day Pass station ( you will pay about $5.00 for a day pass here ). Continue into the park, past Sandy Wool Lake and look for the parking lot at the end. Park in the paved parking lot and we meet at the north end of this parking lot.

Sonstiges:

Flight school and further information:
Wings of Rogalla
web site:
http://www.wingsofrogallo.org/sites/ed_levin/index.html