Flying sites

Take-off – Weissenstein

Direction: NNEESESSWWNW
Coordinates: 47.2507, 7.5102
Altitude: 1240 m
Region: Solothurn, CH
Landing: 2.3 km from the take-offView on map ↗

Take-off description

Large take off for southerly or nill winds. Beware of westerlies, or Bise (NE), creating rotors (with Bise or NW go to Röti).

Getting there

Cable car up from Oberdorf, SO, or drive up. Launch is below the restaurant at the cable car station. If fenced off, use the southern end of the field. Do not walk straight through the field to launch, use the path to the side

Weather

SW-SE

Rules / airspace

Beware of Basel Tango airspace, in doubt stay below 1750m ASL Airspaces in Switzerland are a tough subject, get all the info you can get before flying: http://www.flyland.ch. DABS (active danger areas etc): https://www.skybriefing.com/portal/

Comments

This is Switzerland's most frequented XContest launch.