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Clwydians / Wirral / North Wales coast · Paragliding site
Moel Accre paragliding site and weather forecast
Live seven-day flying weather with launch direction, altitude and local site information for Moel Accre.
Altitude365 m
Launch directionsNot recorded
Coordinates53.0720, -3.2443
AreaClwydians / Wirral / North Wales coast
Managing club: North Wales Hang Gliding and Paragliding Club · Access: open
Site briefing
Planning information for Moel Accre
Take-off
Getting to takeoff: Quite steep and quite long for hang gliders. Walk straight up the hill from the car, bearing generally to the left to reach the stile at the top fence and follow the track to launch. Take-offs and top landings as depicted on the site map. Beware the fence and wall behind take-off: it is quite close to the hill edge. The lower take-off is useful when it's too strong at the top launch, but hill is nonetheless flyable. Follow the track down to the right and through a gate to the foot of the gorse-line beneath the summit but caution the barbed wire fence running along the top of the field.
Landing
Plenty of bottom landing areas, but beware - most of them slope. Landings may also be made in the field beneath the lower take-off but the western edge of this field can be lifty in SW conditions.
Access and parking
Park at grid reference SJ174532 . Park in the field next to / north of the gate for Brenhille Bach farm. Park either side of the gate, but leave access clear for the farmer and other fliers. Be sure to close the gate.
Flight rules
http://www.nwhgpc.org/sites.html#moelaccre
Local guidance
Hazards and cautions
- EGNR (Hawarden) RMZ procedures:
- Moel Famau lies on the edge of the Hawarden RMZ (Radio Mandatory
- zone). Notify Hawarden ATC by telephone (01244 522012) or text (07786 208291) stating 'Llandegla
- active (dd/mm/yyyy) from (time)' if there is any chance of leaving the site to the east, such as XC. An
- acknowledgement must be received from ATC prior to commencement of activities. Pilots will not normally
- need
- to notify ATC of cessation of activities.
- The wind turbine 1.5km SW is s useful indicator of direction, strength and wave phase.
- On a weak soaring day the site is quite busy with only four gliders flying. Hang gliders bottom landing:
- beware of the long walk out via the road route, or be prepared to carry back up the face of the hill.
- Local residents request that pilots should not overfly houses at low level when going over the back.
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