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Dave Purdin Fly-In at Earl Thomas Conley Riverside Park

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Dave Purdin Fly-In at Earl Thomas Conley Riverside Park

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Spot Details

PPG friendly
Yes
Authorization
Not marked
Club / contract
Required
Launch faces
Not listed
Forecast point
Ready
Access notes
Earl Thomas Conley Riverside Park is a current Scioto County recreation property, but PPG use is documented through the organized Dave Purdin Fly-In rather than as ordinary walk-up park access. The 2025 Gaggle listing identifies the 26th annual Labor Day event at this address, and direct reporting from the 23rd event documents about 170 powered-paraglider pilots using the park. Fly only during a currently announced event or under a current organizer and land-manager process. Complete the current registration, waiver, fee, pilot, arrival, camping, and briefing requirements; free public spectator access does not authorize a pilot to launch.
Site rules
  • Use the park for PPG only during a currently announced Dave Purdin Fly-In or under separate current organizer and land-manager authorization; ordinary public park access is not flight permission.
  • Complete the current event registration, waiver, pilot eligibility, fee, arrival, parking, camping, guest, and briefing requirements before entering the flight line.
  • Follow the organizer's current sterile-area boundary, motor-start zone, launch and landing sequence, traffic pattern, spectator separation, fuel, fire, quiet-hour, and emergency procedures.
  • Yield to all closed areas, public recreation, park events, vehicles, pedestrians, model-aircraft activity, wildlife, and emergency access; do not create a launch line outside the event-controlled area.
  • Do not use the published event coordinate as a gate, parking point, exact launch, landing target, or proof that an event is active. Use current organizer directions.
  • Check current FAA airspace, NOTAMs, TFRs, nearby aviation activity, weather, wind, surface condition, wires, trees, people, water, and emergency outs before each operation.
Direction notes
No current source publishes field-specific compass headings or wind limits; none are inferred from the riverfront setting or event imagery.
Safety notes
  • Direct reporting from the 23rd event documented about 170 pilots and roughly 1,400 flights over the weekend. Dense event traffic requires the current briefing, disciplined sequencing, separation, and a sterile launch and landing area.
  • The venue is along the Ohio River and near the Scioto River. Water, riverbank terrain, changing surface condition, spectators, vehicles, park users, and temporary event infrastructure require a fresh site inspection and conservative outs.
  • No current source publishes survey-grade field boundaries, launch headings, wind limits, obstacle distances, a traffic pattern, or an emergency plan. Do not infer an all-direction field from the event history.
  • The displayed event point is 5.437 km from operational FAA facility 68OH Air Evac 97 heliport and intersects no current Restricted or Prohibited polygon.
  • The clean point screen is not route clearance. Review the full intended flight, nearby traffic and airspace, current NOTAMs and TFRs, and temporary event restrictions.
Additional notes
Added in the PPG-heavy completeness pass because the latest listing documents a 26th annual event and local reporting establishes repeated, high-volume powered-paraglider launch and landing use at the named non-airport park. It is shown as event-controlled, never as standing public PPG access.
Map pin (approximate field)
Published Gaggle venue coordinate for the recurring fly-in at Earl Thomas Conley Riverside Park. It is an event-property point, not a surveyed launch, gate, parking location, flight line, or LZ.
Navigation warning
EVENT VENUE ONLY - verify that the fly-in is currently announced, register with the organizer, and use the current gate, parking, briefing, launch, and landing instructions.
Official website
https://meetups.flygaggle.com/event/flv1-1754506299790

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