even on the short 30-minute flight, I've got some just spectacular places that we fly with,

you know, 6 to 800-foot bluffs all the way around a bowl-shaped basin. It's called the Bejew

Basin, kind of just north of the area that we fly. The hour flights, we can get either, you know,

up north of Colorado Springs, around the Castle Rock area, around Greenham, Parksburg,

where all the bluffs and the Buttes are, there's a lot of wildlife up there.

And also on the right day, the hour flight, I could get up over Garden of the Gods in Colorado Springs

and kind of around the Air Force Academy and over on the west side of the city.

Episode 83, Ultralight Piloting with Tracy Tomlinson.

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Get out there and have some fun. Thanks for tuning into another episode of the Adventure Sports podcast.

This is your host, Travis.

With over 15 years and more than 2,000 hours of experience in piloting ultralight aircraft,

Tracy Tomlinton knows about ultralight

flying. He started flying hang gliders in 1995 and has launched from pretty high peaks,

including 14,000-foot pike's peak in Colorado Springs, Aspen Mountain, Jackson Hole in Wyoming,

and even from the summit of Haleakula Volcano in Maui. Tracy, welcome to the Adventure Sports Podcast.

Thank you very much.

It's good to be a part of it.

I'm glad to have you.

So take a few minutes and explain to our listeners about how you got it started in ultralight aircraft.

Well, I started, say, flying hang gliders back in 1995, and hang gliders obviously

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