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Take-off – East Hill
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- Direction
- NNEESESSWWNW
- Coordinates
- 55.4406, -1.9494
- Altitude
- 214 m
- Region
- Northumberland, GB
Take-off description
A small grassy hill with good access, very good take off areas.
Getting there
A697 north to Powburn, Northumberland.
Weather
The hill is part of a spined back ridge so beware of strong winds if blown back (rotor) beware of strong sea breeze's
Rules / airspace
Notam site for mid week flying (low flying jets) Contact the Club before flying full details on their website.
Comments
A safe site to fly for hangglidng & paragliding, generally a sea breeze type of site XC's have been achieved in the right conditions. The very large grassed landng areas make you feel very relaxed when flying this site.