FOOTLAUNCHDecember
Soon be spring…
guess what? Not lot
to report for this month. Lots of acronyms though. As
everyone knows, the BHGA AGM, known as SPLASH was held at the NEC in
Safe flying,
Richard.
Next club meeting; on Wed 14th
December at the Pheasant,
SAFETY MATTERS and other stuffDeath is just nature's way of telling you to do a hang check.
Truly
superior pilots are those who use their superior judgment to avoid those
situations where they might have to use their superior skills.
Flying
is the second greatest thrill known to man.... Landing is the first!
Dear Doreen,
Got a flying problem? Sort
it out yourself! Doreen has left the windsurfing instructor and gone back to
her old job with Woman’s Realm. Tempt
her back!
Technology
Sort of carrying
on in an un-newsy way from the news about the GPS integrated Motorola mobile
phone last month, I have to report on a PDA program
called PocketWeather from SBSH Mobile Software. This is a
great little application that has been around for a while now. It runs on a
Pocket PC powered PDA, though to be really useful to fliers the PDA needs to be
wirelessly Internet connected. The program updates current weather conditions
plus gives a basic nine day forecast from hundreds of locations across the
globe – including many around the
Humour
Flying at
night is the same as flying in the day, except you can't see.
One of
the most beautiful things about a single piloted aircraft is the quality of the
social experience.
Gliding
is to power flying as seduction is to rape.
Internet
Anyone
interested in the history of hang glider development may want to look at this site.
I found it
fascinating. Okay, pretty interesting then…
Go4IT
Probably the final result
Rules
1.
2. No infringement of airspace.
3. Must have Pilot rating or be under instruction from one on
the day.
4. Flights between 01/12/04 to 30/11/05.
5. Co-ordinates for T/O and landing required plus distance
from point to point in Km as a
check.
Flights will be scored to nearest 100m.
6. Defined flights (BHPA rules, see below) Coordinates for
turn points in addition. Bonus
distance
awarded provided 60% of flight outside ridge lift.
7. Stone’s throw award for smallest flight submitted (or
known about) provided
distance 5km or greater.
Go4IT
Flight Types
Open Distance
(score = distance)
Open Distance flights do not have any turnpoints. Open distance flights will score the
straight-line distance from the start point to the end point.
Dog-Leg (DL)
score = distance
Dog-Leg flights are open distance flights with a
single turnpoint. The turnpoint
does not need to be declared beforehand. The turnpoint
is permitted when pilots are forced to make a substantial change in direction.
Out and Return
(OR) score = distance x 2 when the majority of the flight is out of ridge lift.
Out and Return flights commence at a start
point, go round a single turnpoint, and return to the
original start point. The coordinates of the start point and finish point are
therefore identical. The start/finish point may be different to the actual
launch/landing points but the flight distance is only measured from the start,
to the turnpoint and back.
FAI Triangle (T)
score = distance x 3 when the majority of the flight is out of ridge lift.
An FAI Triangle is one which satisfies the FAI’s 28% Rule (shortest side must be greater than, or
equal to, 28% of the distance flown). To fly a triangle you must round three turnpoints, and return to the original start point. The
coordinates of the start point and goal are therefore identical and for declared
triangles and local records, must be one of the turnpoints.
The start/goal point may be different to the actual launch/landing points.
Special Rule to
encourage pilots to attempt triangle flights
Note that for non-declared triangles, using GPS
verification, you can fly a loop and you will be scored the best triangle which
can be fitted inside it. Your track log points must cross to complete the loop.
This means you don’t have to start and finish at a turnpoint
but may start midway along a leg. This is to encourage pilots to try triangle
flights.
Flat Triangle
(FT) score = distance x 2
A Flat Triangle is a triangular flight as above,
except that it does not conform to the FAI 28% rule. Completed Flat Triangle
flights score the distance multiplied by 2 when the majority of the flight is
out of ridge lift.
Failed Triangle
(score = distance)
A Failed Triangle is an attempt at a triangular
flight in which the pilot fails to make it back to the start point. Failed
Triangles score the total distance from the start, around up to two turnpoints and back towards the finish point.
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Bryan
Hindle |
40.4 |
42.6 (DL) |
85.4(FT) |
6.7 |
17.6 (DL) |
34.9 |
62.4 |
26.7 |
49.1 |
54.5(DL) |
54.8(G) |
52.6 |
527.7 |
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29.8(DL) |
15.8 (DL) |
22.3(DL) |
31.6 (DL) |
63.4 (DL) |
26.4 (FT) |
18.6(T) |
5.1 |
56.3(DL) |
72.4(DL) |
45.0(DL) |
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386.7 |
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Dave
Jackson-Hobbs |
60.8 |
53.8 |
10.6 |
18.8 (DL) |
39.1 |
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183.1 |
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Nigel
Dewdney |
27.0 |
19.6 |
15.5 |
46.0 (DL) |
18.9 (DL) |
20.6 |
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147.6 |
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15.5 |
22.6 (DL) |
10.1 |
50.1 (DL) |
13.4 |
31.4 (DL) |
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143.1 |
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Rob
Davies |
20.4 |
8.7 |
83.1 |
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112.2 |
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Dennis
Ferneyhough |
40.4 |
15.9 |
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56.3 |
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Rich
Sheppard |
24.3 |
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24.3 |
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Carolyn
Dewdney |
13.5 |
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13.5 |
news
stories
A woman who allegedly stole a watch from
a Queenstown shop later escaped police capture by paragliding from the top of a
gondola and disappearing.
Constable Aaron
Owen said the woman entered a shop yesterday morning and asked to look at a
couple of watches.
The shop
attendant temporarily left the woman with the watches on the counter while
helping other customers but returned to find the woman and one of the watches -
a $250 silver and gold coloured Anne Klein - had disappeared.
Mr Owen said
the woman was “very talkative” and had told the attendant about her plan to go bungy jumping at the town’s Skyline complex.
He said he went
to the complex, discovered the woman had gone up in the gondola and waited at
the bottom for her to return.
“She had gone
up about 45 minutes before I arrived so I thought she might be down soon.
"But
during that time she has got a parapente ride and
floated down over the top of me," Mr Owen said.
"We
thought she had popped up there to have a bungy and
would come back down."
He said he
later discovered the woman had earlier purchased a ticket for the ride and
probably didn't know he was waiting for her.
Police
described the woman as a "scrawny" and talkative Caucasian aged in
her 30s with a weather-beaten complexion.
Q. What’s
worse than getting blown back at KS?
A paraglider who was carried
over the border into
"Only when I saw Hezbollah 100 meters away did I realize
how serious my situation was," Adam Wexler, 26, from Tel Aviv, said
yesterday. "I collected my equipment quickly so I would not be identified.
Hezbollah started to shoot at me and I crawled toward the fence, hiding in the
bushes. All that time I was on the phone with Meir, who works at the Manara
Cliff, and he directed help toward me," Wexler said.
"At that point I heard the
footsteps of the terrorists crunching in the bush next to me. I told the man on
the phone not to speak so they wouldn't hear him. Our soldiers already had a
jeep by the fence. I kept on crawling and I told them to stop. It took a few
minutes to get the gate open. They didn't have a key and they couldn't cut the
lock. I was wondering whether they would capture me or finish me off," he
related.
Wexler continues to maintain he
requested permission from the army to paraglide there and the duty sergeant
told him if there was a problem she would call him. "I waited until 3:45
P.M., the wind died down and I took off," he said.
The army said in response that it had told Wexler in no
uncertain terms not to paraglide in that area.
Merry
Christmas!
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