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Day 8 gopro video here: https://youtu.be/0fwnb8diYJo

All, Last years comp on the Delmarva Peninsula was epic, many records set, and most flew to the beach. More info here: https://sites.google.com/view/hc2022/pictures-writeups?authuser=0 , there's also a write up in USHPA magazine as well. Its on again for this year. Given the small number of people t...

To all the local pilots If you haven’t voted in the USHPA election please vote today the elections close Monday. Also please consider voting for Nick, Stephan and I. Voting is easy and takes less than a minute. You should have received an email with directions, if you can't find the email try search...

Pete - Thanks so much for the words of endorsement. While Nick, Stephan, and I welcome all the support we can get even if you don't want to vote for us please vote, it literally takes less than 1 min. You should have received an email with directions. If you didn't get it search for the following Su...

The USHPA elections officially opened today. I’ve decided to run and also nominated Nick Greece and Stephan Mentler. As a group, we want to implement meaningful change for free flight for both hang glider and paraglider pilots alike. Instead of doing a long write-up, please take a few minutes and wa...

The weather at my place looks good Saturday as well if the wind is strong enough for the ridge to work. If there's some interest will push to make it work.

All, Jim Messina and I are organizing a small unsanctioned R2G mini-meet on the eastern shore (20m North of Ridgely). We have 2 tugs and Nick Caci and Jim Prawl are going to tow for us. There are a few open spots if you’re interest in joining please PM me ASAP, more details below: Practice Day : Fri...

As of this morning its looking really good for Liverpool. With 14mph on surface and 20 at 2000ft pulpit and other sites will likely be blown out. Anyone that's interested and doesn't have waiver should reach out today.

Charles

Friday's looking good at my place if there's any interest. Pool should be open as well.

Let me know,
Charles

Ward, I respectfully disagree. What you're proposing is essentially creating a club which none of the owners have the time or interest in doing. Further, it creates additional legal liability and could cost us our current hangar space. "if you opened your resource to past local Highland pilots ...

Ward, We didn't form a "club" for the exclusion of other pilots as you suggest. We all have jobs and don't have the time or interest in running a commercial operation. A club with all the Capital or Hyner participants invited to be involved is effectively a commercial operation, not sure h...

Ward, Just read your post and found it extremely upsetting. First off the things you state are simply not factual. The tone is very bitter and not appropriate given we have a shrinking community that should be sticking together, not having rants on the forum. The “privileged few” as you call it whic...

For those following the HC 2021 is off to a great start so far we have flown 3 of 8 days and everyone is having a great time. We have 2 dragonfly tugs for 6 pilots. Ric Niehaus missed the first day so we had 5 pilots for two tugs and we had Adam and Zack towing for us which brought back many memorie...

Knut - Makes sense, wasn't able to FL comps this year so have bandwidth. I'll send you an email about coming out for a few days.

Best,
Charles

Awesome. Will email you more details.

All, Jim Messina and I are organizing a small race to goal comp on the Delmarva Peninsula. We have the site and tugs lined up and Adam Elchin from Highland will be towing for us. We have a 2-3 open spots, let me know if you're interested. Given the small number of people there is only an Open class ...

Anyone interested in flying Thursday October 8 in Liverpool PA? Launch is on same ridge as SAC but 2miles east of river. So far Chris and I plan to fly.

Charles

My buddy Michal made two really cool videos of my electric rigs, links below. May get posted to OZ report as well, not sure though.

XTM 5500 Footage: https://youtu.be/oqqEOvN7l8I
Carbon Ehelp: https://youtu.be/2QEa9IL_ZlM

Charles

I'm interested but looks potentially blown out with 16mph winds. Thoughts? If there's interest could do my place instead, same direction but can handle higher winds. Posted on hyner site as well.

Plan to fly my place Sunday. Let me know if you're interested so I can get waivers in place. Video of me flying there last year [youtube]https://youtube/ycU4ZDrqKA4[/youtube]

Charles

My buddy Michal made a really cool video of the HC2019. While the weather didn't accommodated any epic flights we flew 2 of 4 days, drove 2 gliders setup in the back of my truck to launch, and those that came had a good time. Will likely do again next year and will research getting a tug as well. Li...

If weather holds the crew in the HC2019 (Jim M., John S., Ric N., Chris B, me) will be heading to jacks sunday with goal of flying back to my place in liverpool. If you're interested you're more than welcome to come out Saturday night and camp at my place. Let me know.

Charles

Flew yesterday. Got up to about 8,300 MSL, with one climb that peaked at over 1,000fpm. Video my buddy made here: [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaHeH5r1wH4ZwFAKbKDl0sj2hJT3v9Q6m[/youtube] and flight here: https://ayvri.com/scene/z15yrzn1jx/cjvzb8ngr0001286fpe39vzee . Posted on Hyne...

All,

I'm hosting a small 4 day R2G Comp from my house in Liverpool, PA from August 22-25. More info here: https://sites.google.com/site/highlandchallenge2019/ Would be great to get a solid group signed up.


Best,

Charles

Alternatively my Yaesu stopped working so i changed all my PPT to a different setup so have a bunch of part that work for you radio.