Hammondsport is a current RAF site on private property. Pilots need current USHPA and RAF memberships; non-local visitors must use RAF's current permission/local-accompaniment process, and every first-time pilot needs a site briefing. P3 is required, with P2 allowed only under direct supervision by a site-familiar P3 or higher pilot. Leave the access gate as found, use only the dirt road, drive slowly, stop at the cabin, and take no vehicle beyond it.

NW, N

Official range 300-360 degrees; NW-NNW is ideal, especially 310-325 degrees. Do not treat the broad N/NW labels as approval for a crosswind launch outside that range.

Hammondsport is current and operational, but the 2026 RAF page prints a launch coordinate only 77 m from its own embedded Main LZ marker, contradicting the same page's 0.9-mile distance and 660-foot descent. The older PGE launch point is 1.284 km from that LZ and is geographically consistent, so it is retained only as an approximate launch-area pin with a strict navigation warning. The guide covers foot-launched PG and does not establish PPG.

PGE's historically documented launch-area point is retained because the current RAF page's printed launch coordinate conflicts with its embedded LZ and published glide. Local RAF identification is required for the permitted upper/lower slot.

Approximate launch-area pin only. Do not navigate onto the private property or attempt to identify a launch from this point; arrange RAF membership, local accompaniment, and a current site briefing, then follow the landowner-approved route and launch identification.