Anybody out there into dynamic soaring??? I'm looking to get up on a hill this weekend to try it out for the first time. Looks like a total rush.

Any one with any experience with this type of flying, please tell us about it.

I've been doing it for about a year. My top speed so far is 130mph.

I can tell you that it's much easier to do after you've actually seen someone do it in real life. I struggled for a while at my particular flying spot until I was able to see someone else do it (turned out my circle was all wrong).

This site has some good tips to get you started:

http://www.thehelix.com/soaring/articles.htm

http://www.dynamic-soaring.co.uk
this site has a link to a DS sim, i've just been playing, its good fun, i keep hearing about the noise to listen for as you hit the wind, but i have no sound, dunno if thats my fault yet.
i cant get the hang of the loops close enough to the hill yet,, as per normal sim it dosnt help your not looking at the ground and loose orentation, but give it a go. switch the wind around and go slope soaring too

i want to give this DS a go, i dont have 400' hills, or anything considered good for it, what i have is an EPP viper or old Pheonix models Vagrant, and a 20' bank on a beach thats the right shape, but never tried to slope it, let alone DS, and i might have a few dips in the sand dunes i could try. any tips other than dont bother?

Seeing as it's a foamie, it couldn't hurt to try. On such a small hill, you'll probably really have to get really low and close on the backside to make it work.

heres pics of the two most obvious places i can think of near to me to try this..
first is this long bank, its not as high as i thought.

and this one is next to where we normally slope soar, i tried it today with my speed 400 glider, 0 wind anyway lol i just dipped in behind, but obvisiouly it wouldnt work today