Currently (but maybe not for long) Chris Zimmerman lives in a
house that he built on a grass airstrip community forty minutes north of Austin,
Texas.

Of course, the house includes a hangar which holds his setup hang glider and his
ultra light trike (Part 103 legal with the USHPA/FAA exemption for towing).

Belinda and I were out there last Saturday and Sunday (after a father's day
celebration). Mike came by and hauled us into the air.

 

Photo by Belinda

I was pulled up at about 200 fpm, and on Saturday the tow was quite rough in the thermally
air. Apparently it is easier to tow the high performance gliders.

We're north of the Austin airspace and just outside the new Georgetown airspace
to the west. Plenty of open space nearby and to the north, two hundred miles to
Forth Worth.

Friends come by to fly.

Here is
a video from Nate towing at Chris' place. Mike is towing him and Mike
plummets on the back side of a thermal as he tows and Nate pins off to land next
door, away from the squirrely air.