Gary Osoba, the organizer of the 2011 WRE, will be down at Quest
Air and Wallaby Ranch for Wills Wing Demo Days and is happy to talk to pilots
about coming to the 2011 World Record Encampment. A group of Brazilian pilots
are coming to the WRE for a week to ten days on their way to the Worlds in
Italy.Come by and speak with Gary on Friday or... mehr

I'm in the middle of a series of launching videos. They are intended to show you
how to launch and maybe what needs improvement in your launch. Now the best
thing is to concentrate on the best launch and just practice that and ignore the
not so good launches. I have them here just to motivate you to practice the good
launch techniques.Do... mehr

According to the 2010 version of the FAI/CIVL Sporting Code for
hang gliding competitions, found here:
http://www.fai.org/hang_gliding/documents:
12. 6.3 Helmets
All pilots competing in 1st Category events must wear a helmet certified to
EN966 (HPG) at all times whilst flying.
My sources from the CIVL Plenary tell me that "any modification"... mehr

Mitch Shipley launches and then another pilot on the north side. Compare with
the south
side launch from
Daniel Velez:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubsDNV6wPj4

Play at 480. mehr

Thanks to Mick Morris for this:
http://weatherspark.com.
WeatherSpark is a new type of weather website, with interactive
weather graphs that allow you to pan and zoom through the entire history of any
weather station on earth. Get multiple forecasts for the current location,
overlaid on records and averages to put it all in context. mehr

Andy Long <<andylong>>
writes:
http://vimeo.com/21201789

Between storms, the ever reliable Fort Funston comes through again. Two hours of
flying, six flights on the VQ. mehr

We didn't fly on Sunday even though the sky was full of cu's
(unlike on Saturday when we struggled in the blue with a low inversion). The
forecast for gusts to 25 mph and winds 10 to 15 mph out of the east northeast
discouraged us. It would have been possible to getaway before noon in the
lighter less gust winds, but then we would have to... mehr

Steve Bellerby <<sbellerby>>
sends:
Damian had a hard week. He messaged his Mommy every day and cried
himself to sleep every night. But she's back at Quest and he sure is HAPPY!
mehr

These wells have been drilled in and around Zapata and along our
course over the last decade.http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/10/101022-breaking-fuel-from-the-rock mehr

Leo Jones <<thermaleo>>
writes:
Here are a couple of photos I took on Thursday March 17th from a
plane at 35,000ft, of cloud streets running north from the Texas coast. mehr

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/22/arts/music/pinetop-perkins-delta-boogie-woogie-master-dies-at-97.html?hp

Pinetop
Perkins, the boogie-woogie piano player who worked in
Muddy Waters’s last great band and was among the last surviving members of
the first generation of Delta bluesmen, died on Monday at his home in Austin,
Tex. He was 97. mehr

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8LamZuMbrg
mehr

How can the USHPA and you working together vastly increase the number of people
hang gliding (and paragliding)? The Oz Report has always been a very big
supporter of instructors and the best methods of instruction. Given what is
happening with Groupon and Groupon like promotions what can be done to help use
this tiger to grow our... mehr

On-line coupon discounters are going wild. See
here,
for example. I've been pushing and publicizing how successfully the schools have
been using Groupon and their brethren to attract potential pilots to their site
ever since Steve Wendt jumped first and wrote up the story about how it went for
him. The schools who have done this have been... mehr

There is something to be learned by comparing these launches to the
previous one from
Daniel Velez:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnskAvrfKEc

Play in 1080p HD. mehr

Gary Solomon <<gary>>
writes:
Kris has applied for and received FAI/CIVL sanctioning. Link to
the Midwest HG Comp news blog:
http://www.midwesthgcomp.org/newslink.html
There is a link to the FAI calendar there. mehr

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I've put together a series looking at the launches at Roldanillo to see what can
be learned (through imitation). The first and best launch is shown below.Please, help us out. Support something that you find useful so that it can
continue to be there for you.You can send $20 or more for a yearly subscription/donation. To pay for
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American hang glider and paraglider pilots can head south of the
border in January through March for some good flying when it is too cold in the
US. Valle de Bravo is a popular spot and I've been there on two trips with Ole,
as well as on a trip with him to Guatemala, Lake Atitlan.
Another possibility rather than going to Valle de Bravo is to... mehr

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JQeYJqJFsk
View this in high definition 1080 mode.

This launch by Daniel Velez was the best launch that I witnessed. It is on the
moderately sloped south side with a very slight wind coming in. Daniel is a
small, thin guy but he raises the glider higher on his upper arms (which raises
the base bar up higher... mehr