Kleinkrantz Car Park Paragliding Launch site

Bottom car park area is closed for paragliders by order of SAN PARKs for the following days 16, 25 , 26 , December and the 1 January due to high use by tourists .

Some days are better than others

Please check area for paramotors to build up height and fly over to Paradise ridge dont loiter over Kleinkrantz village .

Paramotor flying from Kleinkrantz car park : Please guys please turn back if you low at the Flyers Lodge Weather station / windsock ..dont loiter over Kleinkrantz village . Towards the West turn back before the houses unless very high and keep your distance from houses . Skywings is considering closing the site for paramotor flying for holiday season if we continue to get complaints like we had in the last few years . We are going to lose this site like what's happened in Hartenbos and is also about to happen in Buffalo bay if we dont manage ourselves and think rationally about our actions . Please this guys we are a community we need to act with the interest of the community in mind .Chairman Skywings Paragliding Club
Deon Borrett

The Launch area is slowly getting a grass cover but to accelerate this we need to lay some topsoil and compost and a bit of effort ..We will need funding ..Skywings Paragliding membership renewal November .

Have not been to site lately how's the grass looking ? We looking for volunteers to help maintain sites ?

Skywings cut grass and cleared a few alien bushes on site yesterday ..next year operation " mooi maak " ..R100-00 spent .

Cutting and clearing of both middle and top site by Skywings Club ..the site is looking great ! and almost fully covered with grass ..

Enjoying the site today pilots from Cape Town , PE and Jhb ..throw some Germans in and you have Kleinkrantz at its best ..

Hi guys please note that all sites are FREE except Brenton on Sea TOP LAUNCH and Serpentine as well as Goosevalley (when its open) . You need to pay Skywings membership or donation to Skywings through site access system in place . The Renewal date runs from the 1 November 2015 – 1 November 2016 . So those that need to update there memberships can pay Deon Borrett (for now until we get our Secretary back from project ) and monies are used to pay for site upgrades and maintenance . Please guys don’t fly these sites without paying as we paying thousands of rand a year to keep them open . We also raising funds to sort out Hartenbos and Dana Bay sites with the Municipality . Every Pilot must pay R100-00 we not negotiation with groups for better rates quite frankly its very cheap and we need the funds to develop other sites .

We have promise of donations to the club by various donors and some have been super generous and we thank them for there good work .

We are looking to remove some lamps at beach hotel and replace with low and safer option lighting . We also moving the benches and the dustbin to increase safety . R1500-00(estimates)
Kleinkrantz Car Park we need to cut grass every three months and also put in measures to prevent erosion on tracks .Top soil and grass needed .R 3500-00 (estimates)
Kleinkrantz Dune we need to cut grass and lay down some topsoil to flatten area of launch . R 3000-00 (estimates)
Brenton clearing vegetation that grows yearly.
Goose Valley road totally overgrown . ( estimate is big number )
Uplands the guys over that site are doing good work we need to offer some compensation or help them improve that site .
New sites we have established a new northerly site near Knysna thanks to Danie and the gang .
Mossel bay sites approval by Municipality with the process and adverts costing running into the R 5000-00 mark
Brenton on Sea R 6000-00 per year rental from Investec .
Serpentine maintenance and grass clearing around R 4000- R6000-00 depends on how much clearing needs to be done yearly as we have lots of young pines growing riot up the hill.

In general good things are happening to our area and we hope all pilots can enjoy and respect the work that is done for the benefit of all free flying pilots . We would like to invite all pilots to Flyers Lodge for a social meeting and bring and braai and informal discussion on how to improve the flying sites .November 18th 2015 at 18h00 Kleinkrantz Flyers Lodge.

Thanks to all for the support
Keep safe and reach for the sky .

We have started cutting but rain is buggering us around ..had a short flight in the SSE and took some pics we need to secure pathway as its getting eroded and finish cutting grass . We looking for top soil and wooden poles and grass .