Wellington Hang Gliding and Paragliding Club
Next Meeting: Tuesday 7 October 2008, 7:30 pm @ The Valley Club, 10 Daly St, Lower Hutt (MAP).
Minutes: 3 June 2008
AGM AGENDA
Apologies
Previous AGM Minutes read/acceptedReports:
President Paragliding Safety Officer Hang Gliding Safety Officer Secretary/Treasurer ; Financial ReportElection of Officers:
President Secretary / Treasurer Hang Gliding Safety Officer Paragliding Safety Officer Airspace Officer Newsletter Editor & PublisherGeneral Business:
Consideration of proposed budget and determination of club subs for 2008/09 year. WestpacTrust Helicopter/Ambulance donations Peter Button Trophy. Radiometer. (cross country flight – wgtn area) Rick Fogel Trophy (member that has best provided the ideals of the sport of Hang Gliding and Paragliding. (Quoted from original minutes, AGM, 1978.) Ice Eagle (most improved new pilot) Other business as tabledThose members holding these trophies please bring them along.CLUB MEETING FOR OCTOBER 2008
General business
Christmas Presents: Allocate responsibility
Site information
Comp dates
Other business as tabled
Fly safely
Grant Tatham
Secretary
Hawkes Bay HG league.
Jan 17, 18, 19 2009 Grant Tatham 027 636 3491
Wairarapa PG League
22 Jan to 27 Jan, with no reserve, and the first four valid days counting towards the ladder (and any remaining days counting towards the XC comp)
SITEGUIDE
Grant will have copies available for those who have pre-paid!
Wairarapa sites status
Information about current status of the Wairarapa site is on the Flying Sites page (password protected - members have been previously advised the password)
Lake Hawea dune soaring
NZ Online XC PG Competition
For web-surfing pilots, the Leonardo online competition has been updated with a new sub-competition for NZ XC flights, with its season starting and ending dates now adjusted to start in the NZ autumn and end at the end of summer, i.e. an April to March competition season. Now that the NZHGPA XC Champs’ requires GPS track log documentation for flights 50km or more, one could possibly argue that the time has arrived for the NZHGPA Champs’ to swap to being an online, web-based competition, because to be able to achieve a high ranking in the NZHGPA Champs’ a competitor now needs to have easy access to a computer with a GPS download cable, i.e. those without easy computer access are already somewhat excluded from the NZHGPA XC Champs.
To gauge interest in such an idea, if you like the concept of a NZ online competition then I encourage you to enter the online champs too. As an added ‘carrot’ Wings & Waves is putting up a prize of a piece of Gin or Swing clothing of choice or $1,000 off a new Gin or Swing glider for the pilot with the best score out of 3 flights. (By default the Leonardo online competition is a 6 flight competition, but the prize recognises that a 3 flight competition is better suited to NZ with its fewer days available for XC flying. 6 flights for a NZ competition would overly advantage those pilots living close to one of NZ’s best XC sites).
You can find this competition using this link: >> NZ Online XC Competition at Leonardo
or if you visit http://www.pgforum.com and then choose: Leonardo > XC Leagues (top left) > NZ online XC > 2008 Season.
XC Champs' Rules for the 2009 season. The Champs' rules for the 2009 season are contained in Section 6 of the NZHGPA Paragliding Competition Manual (PDF, 245KB). The biggest change from last season is that 3-dimensional GPS track logs have become mandatory for all flights scoring 50 points or more.
Send submissions within 30 days of flight to: Tim Percival, 47A Brook St, Nelson 7010, phone: 03 548 7397 or email: percival@actrix.co.nz. All March flights must be submitted by April 5, 2009. Please include your name, flight date, take off site, task type, start description (if different to the take off), landing description and flight distance. GPS track log documentation is required for flights scoring 50 points or more.
The competition rules can be found here (PDF, 245KB). Scoring can be lucrative for Out and Back and FAI Triangle flights (i.e. OB flights score 1.2 points per km and TR flights score 1.4 points per km). The Champs winner is he or she with the best total from their 3 highest scoring flights.
Flights
Grant Tatham: "Got 2.5 hours today [2 October] at Oystershell. last minute decision to go there, was coming over to Pukerua Bay, decided the southerly was hanging round long enough. Was quite nice."
German HG pilot
Juergen, a German hang gliding pilot, is planning to immigrate to NZ in June 2009, and settle down in Wellington. On 28 February 2009 he will come to Wellington for approximately 10 days.
For some pictures of hanggliding in Germany have a look at the web page of the German hg/pg association
Retrieve driver!
Jane is keen to take photos for a personal portfolio of hang gliders and paragliders on the Kapiti Coast! In exchange she will do "retrieve driving"! Call here on 021-074 7733 or 04-587 0159 during weekends.
Email Kris at whgpceditor@backup.net.nz with any news you may have!
Once you have tasted flight, you will walk the earth with your eyes turned forever skyward, for there you have been, and there you long to return" Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
