Soaring in China

Mitch wrote:

I'm based in Shanghai, have been here a couple of years, and as far as
I know, there's just one place in China where u can go gliding. I never
been there, it's about 3/400kms from Beijing but I cant find the link
of the website at the moment.

I've had an email from the Aero Sports Federation of China who state
that there is Soaring at the Datong Aero Sports School. Datong is in
Shanxi Province and is about 260km W of Beijing. I have a contact phone
number but I'm told they don't speak much English. I'm hoping to get
an email and/or web address.

Having way too much time on my hands I used Google Earth (and
maps.google.com) to find pictures of gliders at an airfield ( 40°
2'22"N 113°23'30"E). http://tinyurl.com/gkmtx

There is another airfield about 8km east of this which might be Datong
airport (DAT)?

There are regular trains from Beijing to Datong.

--
Neil

Hi Neil,

yep, that's the place. They have some puchaz and the chinese built Yaks
as tow planes. I wonder how fast do they climb...

I've been 2 yrs ago in NZ to fly, I stopped in Taupo and Omarama,
really really amazing!

Cheers
M

wrote:
Mitch wrote:

I'm based in Shanghai, have been here a couple of years, and as far as
I know, there's just one place in China where u can go gliding. I never
been there, it's about 3/400kms from Beijing but I cant find the link
of the website at the moment.

I've had an email from the Aero Sports Federation of China who state
that there is Soaring at the Datong Aero Sports School. Datong is in
Shanxi Province and is about 260km W of Beijing. I have a contact phone
number but I'm told they don't speak much English. I'm hoping to get
an email and/or web address.

Having way too much time on my hands I used Google Earth (and
maps.google.com) to find pictures of gliders at an airfield ( 40°
2'22"N 113°23'30"E). http://tinyurl.com/gkmtx

There is another airfield about 8km east of this which might be Datong
airport (DAT)?

There are regular trains from Beijing to Datong.

--
Neil

wrote:
2'22"N 113?23'30"E). http://tinyurl.com/gkmtx

Nice

Anybody with computer vision expertise out there? We definitely need an
aircraft feature detector, parametrizable for gliders and have that
running on all Google data to detect all those hidden glider sites!

Regards
-Gerhard
--
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+41 (0)76 505 1149 (mobile) / +41 (0)44 668 1878 (office)
+41 (0)44 668 1818 (fax)
http://gwesp.tx0.org/

wrote:
Mitch wrote:

I'm based in Shanghai, have been here a couple of years, and as far as
I know, there's just one place in China where u can go gliding. I never
been there, it's about 3/400kms from Beijing but I cant find the link
of the website at the moment.

I've had an email from the Aero Sports Federation of China who state
that there is Soaring at the Datong Aero Sports School. Datong is in
Shanxi Province and is about 260km W of Beijing. I have a contact phone
number but I'm told they don't speak much English. I'm hoping to get
an email and/or web address.

Nice! Can you give me the phone number? My wife is Chinese so I can get
her to be the intermediary over the phone. Feel free to e-mail it to me
(mike at mikeash.com) if you don't want to post it publicly.

260km is not far at all! That's only about twice as far as I am from my
regular US glider operation.

Having way too much time on my hands I used Google Earth (and
maps.google.com) to find pictures of gliders at an airfield ( 40?
2'22"N 113?23'30"E). http://tinyurl.com/gkmtx

Cool find. I wish my airport were available so clearly; at maximum zoom
you can just barely make out the *runway*.

There is another airfield about 8km east of this which might be Datong
airport (DAT)?

There are regular trains from Beijing to Datong.

This is all great information. Thanks a lot.

I searched around a little bit and the only mention I could find on the
internet (searching in English) was a brief mention on this page:

http://www.changjiangunlimited.com/J...day%202004.htm

According to that, they have almost 20 ships, so it sounds pretty sizable.
That's about all the information it has, though.

--
Michael Ash
Rogue Amoeba Software

wrote:

I've had an email from the Aero Sports Federation of China who state
that there is Soaring at the Datong Aero Sports School. Datong is in
Shanxi Province and is about 260km W of Beijing. I have a contact phone
number but I'm told they don't speak much English. I'm hoping to get
an email and/or web address.

My wife found their web site:

http://www.dthk.com.cn/

It's entirely in Chinese (with a Japanese translation, no English), but
there are phone numbers and an e-mail address at the bottom. I just had
her write an e-mail for me in Chinese asking for more information, and
we'll see what they have to say.

There is another site in Anyang, Henan:

http://www.ayhx.com/

Again, entirely in Chinese, and no e-mail address in sight, but there's a
phone number. It's a bit farther from Beijing but it looks like a decent
possibility.

It's interesting to see the contrast. My little club in the US owns a
grand total of three ships, plus some member-owned ones. These operations
have a large number of gliders and also carry out almost every other
sport-like aviation activity you can think of. On the other hand, there's
apparentlny only a handful of them in the entire country.

As always, I'll post back when I know more.

--
Michael Ash
Rogue Amoeba Software

I've had an email from the Aero Sports Federation of China who state
that there is Soaring at the Datong Aero Sports School. Datong is in
Shanxi Province and is about 260km W of Beijing. I have a contact phone
number but I'm told they don't speak much English. I'm hoping to get
an email and/or web address.

E-mail:
http://www.datong-flight-base.com
Tel:0352-6015396 (when I translated with Babelfish it suggested this
was the fax number)


Nice! Can you give me the phone number? My wife is Chinese so I can get
her to be the intermediary over the phone. Feel free to e-mail it to me
(mike at mikeash.com) if you don't want to post it publicly.


I delayed posting the info as I asked the ASFC for permission to put
the details on the NG and they have responded with their
website/contact details above.

I'll be contacting Datong soon to enquire about flying there using one
of our local contacts (and trying to get prices for local pilots as
well as the "waiguoren price" As I'm here until July/August 2007 I
hope to make a few trips there.

I look forward to hearing about your experiences in Datong. The
question of Gliding in China has been posted in this NG a few times
over the last year with few answers and if you get time it would be
good to "file a report" here or on your website for future reference.

Safe Flying!
--
Neil

There is another site in Anyang, Henan:

http://www.ayhx.com/

Again, entirely in Chinese, and no e-mail address in sight, but there's a
phone number. It's a bit farther from Beijing but it looks like a decent
possibility.

I spy, with my Google Maps eye: http://tinyurl.com/j6awc (36° 8' N,
114° 20' 30"E)

Their site has a 16minute WMV (129MB) showing the scope of their
facilities and activities and includes a couple of shots of some glider
aerobatics. It looks like they have a Grob G103 Twin Astir and a
Jantar 2 and use aerotow launching. There is a snapshot of a launch
grid with a German ASH25(?) ID:X3 and two other gliders (one possibly
from Switzerland). Does anyone have any comments about flying from
Anyang?

--
Neil

www.ayhx.com
0087-63931780
zhao hang
scam
they Invite people and cheat with people.
Its a same company named Kunming Bei Zhao Trade Company LTD.

On Friday, March 27, 2015 at 2:35:26 PM UTC-4, wrote:
www.ayhx.com
0087-63931780
zhao hang
scam
they Invite people and cheat with people.
Its a same company named Kunming Bei Zhao Trade Company LTD.

Scam sites are dangerous links to click on. Site is probably virus infected.

Many years ago, I spent more than a year in the far east including China. A few years ago, I was asked to translate my popular glider flight training manual into Chinese. It is a big effort, but the project is nearly finished.

Now the problem is how to produce it without the whole project being stolen and the book simply copied.

Frankly, I believe it is impossible. The answer is probably to sell the rights to somebody in China and let them do as they like in their language.

Tom Knauff