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Re: Yosemite
So if it still looks like we can fly next year, I'm going to give a shot at getting the group campsite there for a weekend in July. Maybe the weekend of 18-19 near the new moon. The first day (and only day, actually) to do that is March 15. I think if people could rely on having a campsite no matte...
- Mon Jul 16, 2018 6:33 am
- Forum: Safety and Incidents in flight
- Topic: Forced hillside landing
- Replies: 6
- Views: 8127
- Sat Jul 14, 2018 9:20 pm
- Forum: Safety and Incidents in flight
- Topic: Forced hillside landing
- Replies: 6
- Views: 8127
Here's what happened. It's kind-of embarrassing to lay it out, because it's all really a bit stupid. I wrote down a pretty detailed account of everything I remembered, but I'm going to summarize here. One contributing factor that occurred before the flight is that I had spent a lot of time flying we...
- Sun Jul 08, 2018 11:23 am
- Forum: Safety and Incidents in flight
- Topic: Forced hillside landing
- Replies: 6
- Views: 8127
- Sun Jul 08, 2018 11:19 am
- Forum: Safety and Incidents in flight
- Topic: Forced hillside landing
- Replies: 6
- Views: 8127
Forced hillside landing
July 7, 2018, approximately 4 pm. An H4 pilot with around 220 hours experience, mostly at Kagel, encountered strong winds in a known venturi location and was forced to land on the hillside. The pilot was uninjured, and there was only minor sail damage to the glider. Joe and Andy drove out from the L...
- Sun Jun 17, 2018 7:53 pm
- Forum: Events
- Topic: Yosemite July 28th and 29th with Andy Beem as monitor
- Replies: 4
- Views: 7004
- Fri Apr 27, 2018 6:53 am
- Forum: Safety and Incidents in flight
- Topic: Sometimes it's better to be lucky than good
- Replies: 9
- Views: 9282
- Thu Sep 15, 2016 8:28 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: HAM Licensing Class
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1637
I'd encourage people to do this. Ham radio is very much like hang gliding, in as much as the government (FCC in their case, FAA in ours) has delegated running the use of a segment of a resource to the recreational community involved. They can lose their playground just as much as we can lose ours, a...
- Fri Jul 29, 2016 6:51 am
- Forum: Lost and Found
- Topic: Guitar from the Parachute Clinic
- Replies: 2
- Views: 7010
- Mon Jul 04, 2016 7:08 am
- Forum: Lost and Found
- Topic: Wills Wing Bags Found
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6423
- Sat May 28, 2016 7:50 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Amazon Smile donates to USHPA
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3689
- Mon May 16, 2016 6:54 am
- Forum: Events
- Topic: BIG O LOOP LANDING PRACTICE 5/13/16 AJX
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4735
- Sun May 15, 2016 10:05 am
- Forum: Events
- Topic: BIG O LOOP LANDING PRACTICE 5/13/16 AJX
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4735
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0J4uu_U6hE[/youtube]
- Sat May 14, 2016 8:35 pm
- Forum: Events
- Topic: BIG O LOOP LANDING PRACTICE 5/13/16 AJX
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4735
- Sun May 08, 2016 9:08 am
- Forum: Safety and Incidents in flight
- Topic: Mishap at Big Sur 2012
- Replies: 7
- Views: 12841
Bumping this thread as a reminder and for people who haven't seen it before, and because it just happened to me. Yesterday I had the same assembly error, fortunately discovered when I picked up the partially assembled glider to move it out of someone's way. I'm pretty sure I would have caught it at ...
- Sat Apr 30, 2016 9:07 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: LZ Whack, Weather Cam
- Replies: 16
- Views: 6744
- Sat Apr 30, 2016 8:37 am
- Forum: Events
- Topic: BIG O LOOP LANDING PRACTICE 5/13/16 AJX
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4735
- Sat Apr 30, 2016 8:12 am
- Forum: Events
- Topic: BIG O LOOP LANDING PRACTICE 5/13/16 AJX
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4735
- Sat Apr 30, 2016 8:05 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: LZ Whack, Weather Cam
- Replies: 16
- Views: 6744
Broadcasting is taking more CPU than I think we have. OK, not that I think, that I know. The broadcasting is too CPU extensive for the old computer I put in there to get the whole thing going. I'll get a better computer in the near future. So for the time being, the best thing to do is look at the ...
- Thu Apr 21, 2016 5:50 am
- Forum: Politics of flying
- Topic: Calling USHPA's Bluff
- Replies: 222
- Views: 119726