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Are you a hang-glider or paraglider pilot visiting the mid-Atlantic area with hopes of flying at Woodstock, The Pulpit, High Rock, or other CHGPA sites? The best way to do so is to get in touch with the local pilots, so we've created this special forum for that very purpose. All you have to do is l...

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Important meeting : Election of new BOD officers, 2016 membership drive, and much more.

Per an earlier post by Matthew:

rain date October 17-18

Per an earlier post by Jeff:

Secondary/back-up dates will be the following weekend Sep 19-20.

Attempted to clean up the [img] and [url] tags Charlie, please let me know if I got something wrong...

Keep it civil people! Sheesh! There are two types of forum users : Those who are registered and have a CHGPA forum account. Those who are registered and have a CHGPA forum account, AND who have also joined CHGPA as a dues-paying member. The ratio of the former to the latter is about 5:1 . There are...

Ok... So there's another impact.... Our interim, somewhat-mobile-friendly solution of the past couple of years is broken with update #1. I'd prefer not to reinstate that interim hack, because update #2 introduces 'native' support for mobile devices, and it should be much better than what we've had p...

Oh, and my apologies to the sub-Silver fans.... I disabled that style with update #1 rather than with #2, because it will make the second (more significant) update less risky,

OK another reply on this topic.... My problem on my first tow this past Sunday was one of energy management : Winds were a bit strongish and cross, and I neglected to anticipate that as I was rolling out. So I found myself initially high on tow, and then my efforts to correct put me into a bit of a ...

Liking that video Charlie, and the acoustic version of Hotel California, good choice!! *smile*

Conditions at The Pulpit were strong and turbulent on Sunday..... So it's quite possible that a launch video might make a viewer go "Acckkk!". While that same launch might be considered "ok" from those who witnessed it. OTOH, an "Ackkk!" reaction to the video could actu...

CHGPA hopes to participate at the 2014 Smithsonian Kite Festival on the Mall in Washington DC on March 29th. Please visit that topic for more information, to volunteer, and to toss around ideas for making HG and PG more visible at this signature event.

CHGPA will be holding it's Spring 2014 meeting on March 28th. Please visit the topic in the Club-Related Affairs forum for more information, or to participate in planning.

A discussion about the requirements for flying the newly re-opened Edith's Gap site has been on-going, but it's more of a club-related business/management issue, so it has been moved over there. Please feel free to post your thoughts on that topic in its new home.

Moving this topic to the CHGPA club-affairs forum, since discussions about the requirements for flying Edith's certainly fall into the category of "Protocols for flying sites" (per that forum's charter). Wish someone would have done that earlier, but oh well... Will also create a pointer t...

Apologies for this non-Flight-Related topic, it is definitely outside this forum's charter. I'll understand and acquiesce if pilots object and wish to see it moved elsewhere, just say the word. However! Given the tone of some recent posts, so early in the (for many) non-flying winter months... I fee...

This discussion, although it is veering hard into site-protocol territory, and away from the specifics of the actual incident, is being conducted in a more productive way than some other recent forum topics. And this is a good thing! Keep it up! Content trumps invective, eh? But please be aware: If ...

(Apologies for the Off-Topic reply.... But I figured it wouldn't hurt to provide some advice, given that others might have the same problem displaying images within forum posts. Especially given that those photos are likely to be Flying-Related.) Hi Mobius! In theory, all you need to do to display a...

This topic (let's ignore those posts that are simply inflammatory/baiting/name-calling, at least for the moment) clearly falls outside of this forum's charter. Which states: Here are some examples of Off-Topic issues that must be discussed elsewhere: [....] Site protocol concerns So it is going to b...

Matt, MANY thanks for teasing this topic out of the recent incident report at Daniels! However, discussions about how the CHGPA observer system works (or doesn't work, which seems to be the perspective of some) is definitely an issue of club operations and responsibilities. So I'll be moving this to...

The Flight-Related Topics forum is intended for posts directly related to FLYING . "Flight related" is a fairly broad term... But here are some examples of On-Topic issues that are obviously appropriate: Where are people planning to fly on a given day Weather forecasts, and their impact on...

The CHGPA Club-Related Affairs forum is intended for topics that involve the operations and responsibilities of the Capital Hang Gliding and Paragliding Association . For typical day-to-day discussions about flying (Who, When, Where, Flight Reports, etc), please make use of the Flight-Related Topics...

There are several ways that our users can customize what they want to see within the CHGPA forums. One example : You can specify a list of forum users from whom you do NOT want to see any posts. Why is this useful? Well, If someone simply gets on your nerves, this feature allows you to screen out co...

The Bodner's are located at:

Dave and Jodie Bodner
3208 5th St. North
Arlington, VA
703-516-7101

And directions can be found at:

http://www.chgpa.org/Events/directions.bodners.html

If you spot any problems or mistakes, please let us know and we'll update the directions. Thanks!

Ever seen Hitchcock's "The Birds" ?

Sure sounds like those cows have!

*smile*

BTW: "Eat more chikin!"