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 World > Europe > France > Rhone-Alpes - savoie > Chamoux
   Chamoux -rate- (2.7/5 - 3 votes)
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Last update : Jul 27th 2009
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GPS coordinates : take off : 45°31'46" (45.5295)N; 6°15'10" (6.2528)E - Elevation : 1250 m.
landing : 45°32'25" (45.5405)N; 6°12'51" (6.2144)E - Elevation : 293 m.
Take off : Small takeoff with nice slope. The take-off is located near the highest point in a valley. So you first have to fly through the valley to get the house-thermal at the beginning of the slope.
Lot's of local schools fly there. Good road to the starting place, last 100 meters by foot.
Landing : Very large landing field with parking, at left hand site on the road to chamoux sur gelon. (parking is at right hand site)
Going there : na.
Comments : na.
Weather hazards : na.
Flight regulation : na.
People to contact : na.
Parking :
Website : not available
Tourism  : na.
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 Clubs on Chamoux

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 Pictures
Montgilbert just after take off
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Montgilbert launch site
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Montgilbert view from take off
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Chamoux landing zone
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Chamoux landing zone
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 gps logs of flights from Chamoux

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 Situation
Take off : 45.5295 N; 6.2528 E
Landing : 45.5405 N; 6.2144 E
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Local weather :
from Chambery / Aix-Les-Bains (11.54 km from the site):
  • Age : 26 min ago
  • Wind : NW at 5 mph (7 km/h)
flying may not be good :
- wind direction : NW wind is not supposed to be good for flying this site
- wind speed : 2.1 m/s
- weather conditions : not given by our weather report... :(
 Comments
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by nico, 05/04/2006 : another french web link about this site:
http://buissair.free.fr/si...
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 Leonardo flights [?]
takeoff : Chamoux (45.529; 6.2492), 0.29 km from this takeoff
Pilot OLC type OLC distance (km) Open distance (km) Flight duration Date View flight details on Leonardo
H H Tsai 14.436 5.545 1:23:19 2009-04-23 View
Nuno GiraoExternal Entry 14.153 6.105 1:8:56 2006-06-02 View
Mikael Henry 13.753 4.218 1:22:16 2007-05-18 View
Glenn Meurrens 8.96 4.138 0:41:2 2010-04-10 View
Colin Hawke 11.223 4.285 1:13:23 2009-04-23 View
Tom Payne 11.165 4.35 1:7:7 2009-04-23 View
mart dockerill 8.548 4.023 0:56:6 2009-04-23 View
Nuno GiraoExternal Entry 8.11 3.333 1:52:25 2006-05-24 View
Yves Martinon 4.665 3.274 0:12:25 2009-10-10 View
Jean-Yves Squifflet 4.436 3.4 0:10:36 2009-05-23 View
Nuno GiraoExternal Entry 3.81 3.285 0:20:0 2006-05-25 View
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