DESCRIPTION

camp grounds on the take off, bath, call for equipment repair, top landing is easy M - F. usually a driver on weekends, 100 km potential XC flights up the valley. easy hitchhike back. You can live here for a week and never go down the mountain. this is an awesome place3 to fly in the summer, before the typhoon season.

ACTIVITIES

- paragliding
- flatland
- hanggliding
- soaring
- thermals
- xc

weather

GW has wrought havoc on the Taiwan weather system, hard to predict. Typhoons are forming further north. summer is best season , favorable winds develop often 7 am to 7 pm, 2000 m msl soaring WATCH TYPHOON SEASON -August Sept, usually coincides with the Int'l PG competition. ( kinda makes you wonder...) A typhoon from the south will set up a tail wind that will last for 3 days of Xcellent XC, good night flights

access

fly to Kaohsiung Int'l airport, bus from there to Taitung, bus to Lu Yeh taxi to take off. or, Kaohsiung to Lu Yeh by train ( 3.5 hours )

regulation

Don't land in the prison yard, watch the double set of high voltage power lines, occasional fly-bys from SAR heli's.