Thunder Ridge Airpark

Thanks Lynn, appreciate your local knowledge.

Also thanks for the weather brief for Backcountry Santa. Spent 7 hours in the cub out of Blanding that day. Delaying a couple days was a good move.

Jim

Jim wrote on 6/9/2020 8:24 AM:
Does anyone have information on Thunder Ridge Airpark in Utah? Is it landable for a 20 meter ship? Airnav shows the runway as only 48 feet wide, on the video online the brush looks low on the sides.

Thanks, Jim Dingess

Sometimes I wish I had a 15M ship instead of 18M.

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On Tuesday, June 9, 2020 at 7:24:21 AM UTC-8, Jim wrote:
Does anyone have information on Thunder Ridge Airpark in Utah? Is it landable for a 20 meter ship? Airnav shows the runway as only 48 feet wide, on the video online the brush looks low on the sides.

Thanks, Jim Dingess

I just landed my 13.5 m Silent2 Electro there last week. I had 20mins electrical sustainer left for a 25 min flight over unlandable terain to get back to Hebert.

It is 50' wide and paved. The "shurbury" is about 2' tall at the edges.
I landed up hill so that my wings could spread out in to the tiedown area.
It is developing and I imagine the developer would be glad to run a grader for some distance to accomodate a 20m glider. Just have to hire him : )