PG pilot from Russia needs help

[oleg.shelikhov]

Hello Everybody!

My name is Oleg, I am paragliding pilot from Russia. Now I am at business trip in the USA. I stay in Fairfax, VA until September, 19. I would like to meet USA paragliding pilots, rent equipment and fly during a weekend.

Can anybody help me?

I fly since year 2000. By now I took part in several PG competitions in Russia and Europe. This is my FAI ranking:

http://civlrankings.fai.org/?a=322&l=0&&person_id=5590

Now I fly on Airwave Magic-4. Unfortunatelly I leave it at home:(

Looking forward for your answer! My phone number in the USA is +1781 346 50 67

[davidtheamazing1]

I don't know of anyplace in or around DC that rents paragliding wings. If you can find someone to lend you one, there's plenty of local sites to come fly with us.

[markc]

Hi Oleg,

Some of the area PG pilots make use of a Yahoo group, in addition to these forums.

I am not *completely* sure, but I think that the URL is:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmv_pg/

If you don't get feedback here, you might want to give the group a try.

Cheers,

MarkC

[pink_albatross]

The reason Oleg is not getting feedback is because nobody has anything helpful to add. There is just no renta-PG gear around here
I have an old Arcus (OLD: first generation) I could lend out (not sure anyone would want to use it except for kiting maybe), but no harness, no reserve...
-- ellis

p.s. This forum *is* being read by the PG pilots. There are not many of us, so the PG traffic is negligible. This *is* the correct place to ask for info and contact PG pilots though.

[jimrooney]

I might be able to help.
My gear's a bit far, but if we can work out the logistics, I'm sure there's some way we can get him in the air.
Beats sitting around and not flying.

Jim