Originally Posted by
mjh FE
T-O from rwy 14 looks quite interesting for Grob 109 and not so good climb performance. Was the accident on T-O or approach of level flight?
-M-
I did my paraglider training out of Mt Beauty. Throughout the course sailplanes were cable launched to the north and landed to the south. The map doesn't make it particularly clear that the lake on the south side is elevated above the level of the runway with a high embankment, with trees on top of the embankment, so nobody wants to fly in that direction.