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Thanks to those who attended tonight's meeting. On the main two agenda topics: 1. The 2023 board officers are: President: Richard Gillespie VP/Treasurer: Karl Shackmann Secretary: Ricky Fitzpatrick Flight Director: Tom Ceunen Director at Large: John Middleton 2. The board will consider measures to r...

Quick PSA for those of you (like me) who only read the flight-related topics...

Several important club-related posts in the club channel...

CHGPA- Here are the agenda details for Wednesday’s meeting (zoom details below): 1. Site Insurance. We currently have a total of 18 sites and 40+ flying “locations” that we maintain in the USHPA RRG database: - 8 Open Flying Sites (BH, DR, DM, PP, WS, HB, HR, EG) - 1 Excluded Flying Site (RR) - 4 Cl...

1) Last call for board officer nominations . We’re finalizing the slate of nominees for your 2023 club officers. If there are any additional nominations, please provide those by the end of the week. We plan to finalize the slate prior to scheduling an annual meeting of members in February (date fort...

Thanks, Mark. No, no takers on the host for a holiday party and thus, no gathering scheduled.

CHGPA- I hope everyone is enjoying a nice fall — the weather has certainly been outstanding. In our board call last month, I notified the other club officers know of my intention to step off the board as President at the end of this year. It has been deeply meaningful to work on behalf of this club ...

Two quick things: 1) Reminder to be a good courteous neighbor to our flying site neighbors and particularly our LZ hosts. Don't speed, and don't do anything that encourages trespassing on other properties (cutting through, etc.). 2) We're looking for volunteers to host our holiday social mid-Decembe...

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Reminder that Karl has reserved space for a CHGPA social meet up tomorrow night (Tuesday) 530-730 pm at Destino https://www.google.com/maps/search/dest ... a=!3m1!4b1.
1280 4th Street NE
Washington, DC 20002

Best,
Jeff

In case anybody is still considering PP for tomorrow/Friday, looks like a HGR TFR will shut it down.

CHGPA- Occasionally, we've given permission to bird-watching groups to use our site at the Pulpit to observer various bird migrations. The Conococheague Audubon society is planning a visit mid-day on Friday 9/30. They know to yield to any pilots using the site and to ensure the site is left clean. T...

FYSA - The PP (Pulpit) station is installed and operational. Thanks to John M, Raja and George for getting it up. So all 3 of the club stations are upgraded and operational. Next step is to consolidate the data on the club website, but for now you can access them directly from the links below or via...

CHGPA- Quick update on the new weather stations. Thanks to George and Dominique for helping install the new WS station yesterday. And to Felix and Brandon for repairing the EG station last week. The new PP station is ready and will be installed soon by John M. and Raja. The new stations are a differ...

Apologies for the 24 hour forum outage. We're working on upgrading the website in preparation of porting the new wind sensor data to our website, and the PHP update was not compatible with this forum. So we'll do some trouble-shooting. In the interim, the forum will stay up and we'll do more testing...

CHGPA Members- The mishap report from the fatality mishap earlier this month is on the club website, accessible only to members. It is accessible under the member section at the bottom under Reports. The report has been submitted to USHPA and it is archived in our club google drive folders. Vr, Jeff

CHGPA Members- We have completed our annual renewal of our USHPA/RRG insurance for our various sites. The following is a summary of the status of our club sites, along with the levels of insurance we’re maintaining for the 2022 flying season. We have four levels of site status/coverage, as follows: ...

CHGPA Members- You’re likely aware that our wind sensors at Woodstock and Pulpit are not operational. Those two Holfuy sensors use 3G cellular communication cards and stopped transmitting as mobile carriers terminate their support for the the 3G cellular network (in our case, this happened on March ...

CHGPA Members- You’re likely aware that our wind sensors at Woodstock and Pulpit are not operational. Those two Holfuy sensors use 3G cellular communication cards and stopped transmitting as mobile carriers terminate their support for the the 3G cellular network (in our case, this happened on March ...

CHGPA Members- We have completed our annual renewal of our USHPA/RRG insurance for our various sites. The following is a summary of the status of our club sites, along with the levels of insurance we’re maintaining for the 2022 flying season. We have four levels of site status/coverage, as follows: ...

The service is at Union Chapel, just north of the address above.

For anyone wishing to send condolences/flowers to Ward's wife Arlene, please contact Rich H, John M or myself to get the address.

A floral arrangement will be delivered tomorrow on behalf of CHGPA.

CHGPA- The service for Ward Odenwald will be held tomorrow, Thursday March 10th at 3 pm. The location is St. Andrews Church in Glenwood, MD. (Address = 2892 MD-97, Glenwood, MD 21738). Ward's wife Arlene said that all are welcome. There will also be a gathering at their house following the service. ...

CHGPA Members - I’m saddened to write that we lost Ward Odenwald in a fatal accident yesterday (Thursday) at Woodstock. The mishap occurred at approximately 3:10 pm when Ward’s hang-glider impacted a tree while setting up to land in the bridge/cornfield LZ. Local residents responded to the crash and...

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There is an old truck (with snowplow attached) parked on launch at Pulpit. No plates/no indication this is a club vehicle.

Does anyone know anything about this truck?

Thanks,
Jeff

So far, they've told us that they only plan to shut that gate on the 4th of July, which is very difficult for them in terms of people using the road and our site. So we'll need a way to allow our members to get to the launch if they want to watch the fireworks on that one night.

Sorry, just seeing this post now. The parking permit was discussed at the February and March monthly meet ups and was agreed by the board as the minimal near-term step to address concerns with some of the neighbors that we're not doing enough to keep our site from being used by people that they don'...