Doug wrote:

ushawks is dead and gone …

No. We’re still here. It has been an uphill battle to grow due to the “fear, uncertainty, and doubt” spread by USHPA and their minions. But we are still in existence, and we are still trying to save the sport of hang gliding one member at a time.

Doug wrote:

If you stop paying Ushpa membership then please join ushawks.org

Actually, it’s wise to join the US Hawks even if you continue paying USHPA. The USHPA model requires an endless stream of money to renew their insurance every year. If that money dries up or gets too small for the insurance company to consider worth their time, then poof, it will disappear, and most sites (which have been fear-mongered to drive the need for insurance) will also disappear.

The U.S. Hawks takes a different approach. We focus on assuring land owners that they are protected by the recreational land use statutes in every state. Here, for example, are links to the statutes in most of our popular flying states (including California):

Recreational Land Use Statutes by State

But USHPA won’t promote the recreational land use statutes because they are in direct conflict with their cash cow insurance business. Without USHPA’s insurance holding the sport(s) hostage, USHPA couldn’t sustain itself. Insurance is USHPA’s felicium, and they use it to keep us addicted just as the Brekkans used felicium to keep the Ornarans addicted. As with the Ornarans, we have already developed immunity to the disease. But USHPA isn’t telling us that our addiction to their insurance drug has already become obsolete due to the recreational land use statutes in every state.