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#1 Skyline
, Kingston
XC from Skyline (#1) In February 2001, 'flat-land' XC expert Claus Vischer from Germany took off for a casual afternoon flight from Skyline (#1) only to set a first record for X-country flying in Jamaica (approx. 10 km out and back). He flew along the Liguanea Ridge over to Red Hills, soared in front of Plantation Heights and made it back from there to Kingston. An hour later he landed safely on the wide open construction site (next to Barbican Square) where now is the Loshusan shopping center. In March 2002, accomplished paraglider pilot Roger Barber from UK visited Jamaica and flew east-bound from Skyline to Mavis Bank. A year later, in March 2003, Roger set a new XC distance record: 20.5 km! This time he flew north with strong south-easterly drift via Peter's Rock to Broadgate, 8 km short of the north coast. On other occasions Roger also flew via Hardware Gap to Wakefield/Cedar Valley in the Blue Mountains. In May 2004, Jurgen von Dueszeln, was the first local pilot to fly the 6 km along the Liguanea Ridge to Constant Spring golf course. Since then other pilots (Anna Kay von Dueszeln, Eladio Walker, Pedro Tirado and Vivian Gordon) have made this little XC flight over difficult terrain along the city perimeter.
XC from Malvern (#2) In Jan. 2010, John Crow Hill (#2), a new site near Treasure Beach was 'discovered'. This site has good XC potential even for beginners. In
March 2013, Jurgen von Dueszeln, flew 12 km N along
the mountain ridge to Park near Santa Cruz In Feb 2014, visiting US pilots Lee Haigwood and Dean Warren flew on different days approx. 12 km to Treasure Beach (Leonardo OLC). Lee also established with his flight a new Jamaican altitude record. He got as high as 5,878ft asl. In Feb 2015, local P-2 pilot Orson Brown, flew also 12km (the magic number?) along the ridge N to Lacovia (Leonardo OLC).
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