Wellington Hang Gliding and Paragliding Club
Next Meeting: Tuesday 2 February 2010, 7:30 pm - http://tinyurl.com/11-Mawson-St
Minutes: February 2010
CLUB MEETING - APRIL
Will be at Andrew and Alex Bridger's place - 11 Mawson St,
Waiwhetu: http://tinyurl.com/11-Mawson-St
RASP BLIPMAPS:
http://www.zakalwe.com/rasp/ - a very useful tool for deciding whether to go out flying! Regional Atmospheric Soaring Prediction Boundary Layer Information Prediction maps is a specialized weather analysis tool intended for glider pilots. The lower North Island has information only available in low resolution.... Better than nothing though!!
North Island PG Champs
Results from the PG Open in Rotorua.
Barry Baxter's video from flying at the Rotorua PG Open. It was entered into the video comp, but didn't win....
Eight day comp with six tasks completed, almost unheard of these days!
BANFF Mountain Film Festival
Tuesday 27 April at 6:30pm: Winter
Two films that may be of interest:
Medeoz: Filmed in the Mont Blanc range this features climbing, skiing, snowboarding,
speed riding, paragliding and BASE jumping. A photographer wants to take one shot
showing all the sports.
Birdman of the Karakoram: Experience the world of extreme-altitude paragliding in a
remote and hypoxic world of snow, ice and previously unexplored terrain.
Tickets available from The Paramoun $20 Preview: www.banffcentre.ca/MountainCulture/Tour/
Twitter
A useful function for Twitter? Tell everyone in the club when you are going flying! See: http://sites.google.com/site/mtclimie/tweet
Marlborough Easter
Paeroas Easter
A group of pilots went to the Paeroas for Easter and had good flying on the Friday and Saturday... No other news though!
Manilla
Barry, Laurie and Kris headed to Manilla in early February for some flying to escape what was supposed to be summer in Wellington! Kris's photos, and his flights...
Facebook
The club's Facebook page.
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)
