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Ollie Gregory <<email>> writes:
Mayhem Flyin with the Tennessee Tree Toppers will take place over the Memorial Day Weekend. We'll have a covered plate dinner Saturday evening May 23rd and Flyin stuff to do Saturday thru Monday May 25th. Locals will have daily weather reports and some fun things to do for pilots coming to enjoy... mehr

http://soaringspot.com/dba2009/
The later versions of SeeYou explicitly allow for entry circles and perhaps this check box was checked automatically. That caused a few problems at the start of the meet. Also you have to be sure to use decimal hours as the format in the DayTag to give the start time, interval lengths, and number of intervals.
My... mehr

http://soaringspot.com/dba2009/
The later versions of SeeYou explicitly allow for entry circles and perhaps this check box was checked automatically. That caused a few problems at the start of the meet. Also you have to be sure to use decimal hours as the format in the DayTag to give the start time, interval lengths, and number of intervals.
My... mehr

The Oz Report was started to bring hang gliding news from around the world to the somewhat isolated world of hang glider pilots. I don't get all the news but I do cover a bunch of it. This issue I go back for a look at recent events in Australia.
Thanks to Serge for help from Tahiti.
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The Australian National team (at least the first four) looks to be set after the Dalby Big Air. It appears to be Jonny Durand, Curt Warren, Steve Blenkinsop, and Scott Barrett (winner of the 2008 pre-Worlds). I don't know who the fifth member would be if a fifth slot becomes available. mehr

I was quite involved with helping the scorekeepers figure out the problem with scoring at Dalby (wrong checked box), so I forgot that Jonny Durand was flying the Moyes Litesport that I flew when I was in Australia this season and he came in second. He won the day that no one made goal and came in third and second on two other days.
See, it's the... mehr

http://ozreport.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=15384
I have added a 'Current+2' forecast to the NSW Blipmaps, only accessible via the Univiewer at this time:
http://blipmap.walsys.net/UNI/univiewer.html mehr

http://www.hanggliding.org/viewtopic.php?t=11114
Bob:
This letter is in response to your repeated requests for USHPA support in helping get you a seat on the Soaring Council. After discussing this matter, the Executive Committee (“EC”) has determined that USHPA is well represented on the Soaring Council by Brad Hall. Further, we... mehr

http://soaringspot.com/dba2009/
The later versions of SeeYou explicitly allow for entry circles and perhaps this check box was checked automatically. That caused a few problems at the start of the meet. Also you have to be sure to use decimal hours as the format in the DayTag to give the start time, interval lengths, and number of intervals.
My... mehr

Here at the Oz Report we believe in science. And we get very unhappy when folks go off half cocked trying to do good by making up rules out of whole cloth without any scientific backing for their rules.
We start jumping up and down and calling people names. Names that they deserve.
If you want to have someone fighting for reason and rationality... mehr

There was a great discussion of foot launch technique found here: http://ozreport.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=14994. You'll love the photos, especially of Kari Castle.
Dustin mentioned to me, that on launch he squatted down and grabbed the downtubes down low to bring the glider up high and off his shoulders with the hang strap tight (on harnesses... mehr

http://ozreport.com/13.37#1
I wrote earlier about tails for flex wing gliders in relation to a tucking and tumbling incident at Manila on an Aeros glider. Aeros apparently has a number of gliders with tails at the DHV for testing. But the difference in sprog settings for the Combat L 13 07 with and without a tail is miniscule so it is unclear... mehr

A thirty mile three hour flight.
Jonathan Dietch writes:
On Thursday, March 5, 2009, I had the best flight of my life in terms of challenges and personal accomplishments. Plenty of things went wrong along the way and I struggled to salvage what I could from the flight and was handsomely rewarded in the end. I was able to capture the first hour... mehr

Great conditions again on Monday as the British pilots show up for training for the Worlds. mehr

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Jim wrote:
What a treat to fly with these guys over much of central Florida we've flown many times before. There's lots of collective experience/capabilities that I wish we had some way to harvest. Yet all of them with the same shared appreciation for what we all love to do. The guy in... mehr

http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Newcastle/blog-382061.html
Tomorrow, I will fly back home to Germany. I will be taken to the airport by an ambulance, fly via Singapore to Frankfurt, and from there, an ambulance will take me to a rehabilitation hospital in the city of Tübingen. I will be accompanied by a German... mehr

Ollie Gregory <<email>> writes:
http://www.tennesseetreetoppers.org/
I just got home from the Tennessee Tree Toppers board meeting. Tennessee Tree Toppers is the greatest club on the planet! The Tennessee Tree Toppers board voted to contribute to the US National Team fund! We collected donations from the usual suspects and some from... mehr

http://www.slate.com/id/2212340/pagenum/2
Go down to "9. The match game"
Click the audio player just above it.
Thanks to Glen Volk for his generous support (as always).
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New Flytec Speed Sleeves are available at the US National Team web site here: http://flytec.com/worldteam/support.html. They are reduced in price to $35.
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