Ardoin Turnpoint in Marfa area?

[chris]

I was looking on the map trying to figure out some of the tasks that
Moffat wrote about in Winning on the Wing. In that book and his July
2003 Soaring article he writes about tasks using a turnpoint - the
town of "Ardoin". I cannot find Ardoin on a map of TX or NM.
Does anyone know where this is?
Chris

[Stewart Kissel]

Page 8 of the 'Marfa Report' by Wally Scott(available
from Marfa Soaring) has a description of it. On the
attached sectional it appears just of the Salt Flat
VOR(NNW of Marfa).

At 02:30 29 December 2003, Chris wrote:
>I was looking on the map trying to figure out some
>of the tasks that
>Moffat wrote about in Winning on the Wing. In that
>book and his July
>2003 Soaring article he writes about tasks using a
>turnpoint - the
>town of 'Ardoin'. I cannot find Ardoin on a map of
>TX or NM.
>Does anyone know where this is?
>Chris
>

[BTIZ]

is it now a ghost town?

BT

"chris" > wrote in message
om...
> I was looking on the map trying to figure out some of the tasks that
> Moffat wrote about in Winning on the Wing. In that book and his July
> 2003 Soaring article he writes about tasks using a turnpoint - the
> town of "Ardoin". I cannot find Ardoin on a map of TX or NM.
> Does anyone know where this is?
> Chris

[Burt Compton]

Chris,

The Ardoin turnpoint described by George Moffat in "Winning on the Wind" was
about 115 miles northwest of Marfa. It was a private airstrip near the salt
flats southwest of Guadalupe Peak, on the south side of highway 62/180 that
goes west to El Paso.

It is no longer there, at least it does not appear on a current El Paso
Sectional or the WAC Chart CH-23 (both useful for XC planning out of Marfa.)

The "Figure 2" Ranch private airstrip is up thataway, south of where Ardoin
used to be, along highway 54 - by the Sierra Diablo Mountains.

Sounds like you are putting together a set of good turnpoints for your Region
Five group's summer 2004 expedition to fly with us at Marfa, near the mountains
of west Texas.

We will have a "Marfa Gliders" booth at the Atlanta SSA Convention - see you
there!

For more info on Marfa see our webpage at www.FLYGLIDERS.com

Burt Compton
Marfa, west Texas
Site of the 1970 World Soaring Contest
800-667-9464