Take-off – kintail
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- Direction
- NNEESESSWWNW
- Coordinates
- 57.2226, -5.4078
- Altitude
- 159 m
- Region
- Highland, GB
- Landing
- 0.3 km from the take-offView on map ↗
Take-off description
Takeoff can be reached by a short walk from the water tank above the houses at Ault n cruinn. there is a flat grassy area between the heather at 170m on the cliff top. the steep drop generats good lift.
Getting there
The sight is located right at the side of the A87 about one hour west of inverness.
Weather
There is a cutting in the road whitch generats some rotor but is easly avoided by staying high when passing it. there is also a power line at the bottom of the hill runing paralell to the road. this shoulden't bother any one as it is well tucked in to the hill
Rules / airspace
The sight is in a restricted area mon to thu
Comments
This sight works very well in a nw wind generating lots of lift making it easy to cross on to the five sisters where more hight can be gained