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I am getting rid of my years of PG magazines. Perhaps one of you wants a collection or is looking for missing issues in their collection. I'm impressed that 5 years of glossy mags = 27#. USHPA Paragliding Magazine (prior to being combined PG/HG : 2001-2003 (26 issues, missing Jan 2001) USHPA Hanggli...

A flying holiday in Costa Rica, As the spring skiing in New England was atrocious this year, my annual St Patty's day trip north went in the opposite direction. I went to Costa Rica to fly with Nick Crane (http://www.costaricaparagliding.com/) who has been leading trips there for more than 10 years....

Marko's SIV group is cancelled so I'm in Brad's Nov 16-18. Any ideas about accomodations?
Also, has any one been to Tenerife? Nice sea breezes, unless they are nascent hurricanes.
Cheers

I'm getting a new wing (Swift 4) and I learned long ago that an SIV course is the way to learn about flying a wing. SIV in Yelapa in early November. Does anyone have recommendations for accomodations in Yelapa MX ?
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I like the fast response vario idea (only 330 eu). and thought it would be a possible input to the Go Fly V4 instrument (saw one at Tater Hill used by Mert Kacmaz. Here is the answer to my question to GoFly: "Is anything gained by using the XC Tracer Vario/GPS as partial input for the V4 displa...

Update from Tater Hill Comp July 25 - Aug 1 We had extraordinary weather, flyable from Jul 22 thru the Aug 1! It made up for last year in spades. Tater Hill opened on Fri for pre-comp flying. Registration started at 2 pm on Sat July 25 and we flew in the afternoon. The comp started with an 8 am pilo...

I called USHPA and votes only before noon yesterday were corrupted/gone. Please re-vote.

I can't make the meeting and won't be online during the meeting.
I'd be happy to give my vote to a proxy OR put my name on the list for a PuzzleMonkey or whatever may be setup.
As they say, it's been an interesting year.
Michael Brooks, the quiet one from WVa.

I vote for Slide4 and Slide10.
Thanks Tom

From an infrequent local PG Pilot: It was nice to see so many club pilots at the NC Tater Hill Comp this year. Matt and Ben scored in the single digits for the two sets of tasks, LE, Jim, Krista, Patrick and Carl scored lots of points, while I was getting my wing out of a tree! It was super nice tha...

I'm happy to come down and show the flag (seldom flyer flag?) early Fri afternoon.
I won't be bringing the chainsaw this time.

don't take that out of context <g>

how boring...

Lowes sells Husqvarna brand helmet sets ($49) and lightweight chaps (36" , $60). The chaps we used in the course were not lightweight. Wade rolled his eyes when I mentioned the Lowes chaps, possibly because lightweight or Husqvarna <g>? There is more on the Husqvarna website but the same ASTM a...

Cameron checked with Jay: there is room for one more in the class (ie Matt). Getting First-Aid cert later will enable you to get the NFS saw cert after doing the course.

I can't come in for the meeting, so webcasting is fine with me. What do I need other than the CRT?
Mike

Apologies for any confusion about the chainsaw course dates. The 'Next Course' is Mar 3 and 4 of 2012, officially tentative dates. The next course after this (that?) one will be in 2013. Any club members interested in whacking timber in the GW national forest should let me know so the Forest Service...

Next year= 2013.

from Cameron by email re chainsaw course Mar 3 and 4: The next chainsaw course will be next year. There is no "cost" for the course itself. It will be at least 8 hrs/day; they don't provide accomodations. They provide the chainsaw. We bring boots, long sleeve shirt, CPR/first aid certifica...

Are the tops proportional to the manhood?
Only 8" are needed for the forestry work!

Thanks John,
So it's Peter H, Gary D and me. If anyone else is interested and can get the First-aid/CPR let me know so Cameron can have a 'waiting list' if other places aren't taken.

I think pilots and club members who are more active flying locally should have priority for the chainsaw course, so Gary will take my place. If a slot opens up, I'll be there too.
S: John H, Peter H, Gary D officially. I'll call Cameron tomorrow to confirm.
Happy Chips
Mike

Peter Hume just told me he has signed up for the course. So the 3 slots are filled at the moment. Any comments from John E, Dan or Marc?

PS. By sign up, please send me that information to me here, so I can send Cameron a list of CHGPA members ready to sign up. He can do without calls from each of us about space available, requirements, etc.
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The Lee District has 17 organizations interested in volunteer work in the National Forest. We are late in joining that group. The class is only 15 seats, and we have 3 based on John E's letter and my calls. If there is less demand for places in the course and we have a waiting list, we may get anoth...