SITE ACCESS INFORMATION FOR PILOTS
(Updated 31 March 2008)
Please review the 'Traffic light' status for CSC sites
The Cumbria Soaring Club administers a wide range of flying sites, both for the benefit of CSC members and for visitng pilots. Please take a moment to carefully read the 'SITE ACCESS' information below prior to setting out for the hills.
USE OF CSC SITES
IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO FIND OUT, AND THEN TO ABIDE BY, THE RULES RULES AND RESTRICTIONS THAT APPLY TO A SITE - BEFORE YOU FLY!! . A FEW CSC SITES ARE SUBJECT TO MINOR RESTRICTIONS ON USE. BECAUSE THE SITUATION IS CHANGING ALL THE TIME WE PLEASE ASK THAT YOU CONTACT THE FARMER AND/OR THE SITES OFFICER PRIOR TO FLYING ANY SITE.
Information on Cumbria Soaring Club sites
The Cumbria Soaring Club Sites Guide is available on-line by using the SITES GUIDE button on this home page
CSC Sites Information Service Tel: 015395 61969
Cumbria Soaring Club Sites Officers contact details:
Northern Sites Officer: Gordy Oliver 07830281986
Southern Sites Officer: Andy Plimmer 07974641924
If in any doubt about the status of a CSC site, please contact the Sites Officer before you fly. If you find any problems with a CSC site then please notify the Club Contact on (01539560897) OR leave a message on the CSC Sites Information Service number (01539561969)
NOTAM FREEPHONE NUMBER: 0800 515544
RED ARROWS AND ROYAL FLIGHTS: 0500 354802
It's the time of year when most crags in the Lakes will probably have a nesting bird of prey . If you fly near a crag be aware of this and if you see an agitated bird, then keep away from the crag
SITE STATUS
'Traffic light system'
BARKIN FELL
Take off only at the very top of the hill away from the 'enclosure'. NO SCRATCHING near to sheep and lambs - stay well away from all livestock
BARTON FELL
Please ensure you stay well away from the trekking ponies. DO NOT fly back to the car park area until after 5.00pm
BEWALDETH
Re-opened. Keep away from the sheep and no dogs please.
New rules for usage.
Access by car: Please park on the hard (muddy) standing by the motor cross track.
If this is full then please DO NOT park on any grass as it will cause much wear of the ground. If there is no space then park near the Lakes camp site, by the main road and walk up the track.
Footpath: A new footpath has been marked with Bamboo canes. This is situated between the two original access paths and traverses around the south of the gorse bushes.
Please only us this path to access the hill side, as the old worn footpaths have been the main stumbling block to reopening the site.
Numbers: A voluntary limit of 20 gliders max is to be established to try and stop over crowding of the site on busy days. Note that as it is an essential training site for low air time pilots, they and local schools will have priority over this.
If difficulties are incurred in the future we may have to close the site at short notice.
BLACK COMBE (EAST)
BLACK COMBE (WEST)
BLEANSLEY
BLEASE FELL
BRIGSTEER
BURLINGTON
BURNBANK
Parking fee of £1 to be paid per person (not per car) to farmer and permission to fly granted before going onto the site.
BURNEY FELL
BUTTERMERE MOSS
Please ensure the farmer at Wilkinsyke Farm is notified PRIOR to flying the site. He needs to be able to shut his dog away for safe keeping whilst we fly. Make sure you call in - if he's not there then leave a note!
CARROCK FELL
Closed except Saturdays from 1 April until 30 June (inclusive) due to nesting peregrines. On Saturdays do not fly near the cliffs shown on the site guide map.
CLOUGH HEAD
CONISTON OLD MAN
ELLERSIDE
FARLETON KNOTT
GREAT LANGDALE
HAIG PIT
HUMPHREY HEAD
JENKIN HILL
LATRIGG
Closed from 1 April until 31 May (inclusive) due to lambing. Do not fly - this site has only just been renegotiated.
LORD'S SEAT
LOWCA
REBECCA
SANDBEDS & WEST FELL
SILECROFT
SOUTHER FELL
Closed due to lambing. Please don't fly!
ST. BEES
SWINSIDE
DO NOT (under any circumstances) land in the fields below the wall
TROUTBECK
ULLOCK PIKE
WALLA CRAGS
SAFETY: This site lies in the path of the busiest military low flying corridor in the country. THIS SITE MUST BE NOTAM’d prior to ANY MID WEEK FLYING.(Tel: 0800 51 55 44 – SITE CODE 17.078 GRID REF: NY 277 214). WALLA CRAG IS NOW A NOTAM ONLY SITE (for ALL mid week flying). Any pilot who is known to have flown on Walla Crag 'mid-week' and has failed to carry out the correct NOTAM procedure WILL BE NAMED AND SHAMED. Continued abuse of the SITE RULES governing flying at Walla Crag WILL RESULT IN THE SITE BEING CLOSED and measures put in place to prevent future flying at the site.
WASTWATER SCREES
WHINFELL
HG site only- (NO PGs at any time)
WHITBARROW SCAR
WHITESTONES
WOLF CRAGS
Closed from 1 April until 31 May (inclusive) due to lambing.
WRYNOSE PASS
WINDER The CSC requests that no pilots fly on this hill. We DO NOT have any permission to fly on this hill and, by ignoring this request, you will seriously put at risk our access to more important and valuable CSC sites both in the North and South Lakes areas.
