September LIFT Want to give lift to someone or something in hang gliding

"What this tells me is that any of us are at risk of making a poor decision in an emergency situation. I never say "That could never happen to me" when I see this. Instead, I remind myself to remember to keep the airspeed up, stay coordinated, and even choose to damage/destroy a plane on landing if that's what is necessary to stay in controlled/coordinated flight"
~~Jackie B in an OZ Report thread

CANADA: (yet still refrain from flying in the Canadian national parks until specific park permissions are arranged)

It is essential that no one fly in any national park as that act could very likely burn that park for our sport and we would be banned before we even get an opportunity to make our case with the Local Superintendent.

September 10, 2010

A NEW NATIONAL POLICY!

Our National Parks in Canada have been off limits to Hang gliding and Paragliding for well over two decades. Tomorrow Parks Canada will make the long-awaited announcement on their website (www.pc.gc.ca) that their National Assessment of our sport has been positive! A new national policy paves the way allowing individual Park Superintendents to consider our sport in their park, by conducting a Local Assessment.

Nearly six years ago this process began with the BCHPA commissioning the first ever comprehensive Overview Environmental Impact Assessment of our sport from Golder and Associates, an internationally respected company. It dealt not only with environmental impacts but also socio-economic impacts, history, instructional standards and ratings, safety, and risk mitigation and is a document that has been shared with a number of other countries as a template.
HPAC joined this initiative and together we set out to approach Parks Canada to reverse the prohibition of our sport in National Parks.

Two years ago to the day, a two-day National Assessment was held here in Vancouver, focused exclusively on Hang Gliding and Paragliding. The group that Parks brought together included over thirty Parks officials from across Canada and we put together a National Assessment team for our sport: Dom Juretic (President of HPAC, Quebec pilot), Rob Samplonius (BCHPA and author of most of the tenure documents and management plans in BC), Robin Sather (West Coast Soaring Club), Will Gadd (well known international speaker on various sports and pilot resident of the Rocky Mountains), Pete Ehlers (South Okanagan Hang Glider Pilot) and me, Margit Nance (BCHPA Pres and Site Preservation Chair, HPAC).

The two hard days were preceded by a tantalizing warm-up: the visitors from Parks Canada were treated to a beautiful sunny fall day in the Fraser Valley and enjoyed tandem flights from both Bridal Falls and Mount Woodside, courtesy of a great team of tandem pilots who donated their time and energy to this project: Kevin Ault, Jim Reich, Colleen Varcoe and Todd Weigand. Bob Krider coming out with his hang glider and great hospitality at the Fly BC Ranch after the flights rounded out the experience. It was an opportunity for their officials to experience what our sport is truly about. It also set the tone for the two-day Assessment in a way that no words alone could have.

Over the last two years, Parks Canada has been working on their national policy which has led to tomorrow's announcement. In addition to our sport, the other activities that will be approved in principle are mountain biking, traction kiting, tours that include canopy walks, zip lines, via ferrata and aerial park elements, and community gardens.

OUR APPROACH:

What has been the winning approach in this endeavour is that we have presented our sport for what it is, in harmony with park values, quiet, non-intrusive, and a sport that neither required nor wished new infrastructure development nor special policies. We are recreationists like every hiker, rock climber, skier, and will conduct ourselves in the same way that other users of the park do. We will not create problems or conflict with existing activities and will endeavour to blend in seamlessly with other users of the park.

WHAT THIS NEW POLICY MEANS FOR US AND NEXT STEPS:

It is critical that everyone understand that flying continues to be prohibited in National Parks at this time. What is next are Local Assessments in individual parks, a process that is expected to last several months. Local Parks Superintendents will have the final word as to whether they will allow our sport in their park. It is essential that no one fly in any national park as that act could very likely burn that park for our sport and we would be banned before we even get an opportunity to make our case with the Local Superintendent.

A Local Assessment Team has been created who will conduct the Local Assessments. The Park Superintendents will be dealing only with these individuals as mandated by Parks Canada. They are: Michael Fuller (Atlantic Canada Parks), Dom Juretic (Quebec), Will Gadd (mountain parks) and Margit Nance (BC).
More information will be forthcoming over the next few months.

Airspace Issues: Martin Henry has agreed to advise on any Transport Canada/Nav Canada airspace issues that might be connected to flight over parks.

Potential commercial operators in Parks: Only AFTER the National Assessments allowing flying as a sport in any given park are completed, will more information be forthcoming as to how commercial operators might approach existing parks and park contractors to inquire about commercial opportunities.

Parks on Initial List for Local Assessment: Two Parks in Atlantic Canada, one in Quebec, several in the Rocky Mountains and one on the west coast. More will be added as flying opportunities are identified but these will be a start.

Potential media inquiries after tomorrow's announcement: Please direct all inquiries to Dom Juretic, President, HPAC domjuretic@videotron.ca HPAC has worked out a cohesive message and it is important that we speak with one voice through HPAC as this is a national initiative.

All other inquiries: Please don't hesitate to contact me by private e-mail regarding any other aspect of this process margitnance@shaw.ca

FINAL WORD: Thank you to all the many pilots who gave innumerable hours, well informed advice, who wrote the many documents, who gave tandem flights and demonstrated our sport to the Parks Canada folks.

Watch this space as we hit the home stretch and thank you for your cooperation in continuing not to fly in the parks at this time.

Margit Nance
President, BCHPA
Chair, Site Preservation, HPAC

Jack Schroeder

Icarus V or Easy Riser ???? accident. Spinal.

Pt. Fermin

http://www.delta-club-82.com/bible/photo.php?id_aile=650&langue=en

Shown in special Seagull Aircraft model.

1974

Escape Country, CA, National champion

Jack Schroeder

Rigid Wing

Eipper Quicksilver

vid title: "First Ever" Human-Powered Ornithopter Flight
Students at University of Toronto make claim. "The Snowbird Human-Powered Ornithopter was designed and constructed by a team of students from the University of Toronto. On August 2nd 2010 it sustained level flight for 19.3 seconds, becoming the world's first successful human-powered ornithopter. Music by Nicholas Martel and Daniel Gauthier. Visit hpo.ornithopter.net ."

Story HERE
Pilot: Todd Reichert

The towing makes analysis of the flapping benefits difficult. How will the FAI handle the questions involved?

Leonopteryx 11-1 of Avatar: First Flight & Gliding with New GLDAB

http://bigsurhanggliding2010.shutterfly.com/

Big Sur 2010

Hi Everybody!

The Big Sur trip this year was an unbelievable experience; Joe said that in 30 trips he has seen these conditions only once before. Many pilots got way over launch (up to a mile) and had hour long + flights. The weather was clear and warm and incredibly beautiful.

I would like to thank everyone for making this trip a huge success. A special thank you to BJ for bringing up tons of food (in spite of breaking down twice and hitting a deer on the way up) and providing breakfast and lunch for everyone, and dinner for those who were hungry. I also truly appreciate Kat Shaw for helping me reserve campsites and to Katherine Yardley and Chris Armenta for getting up there early and snagging two additional spots. And of course, none of this would have happened without Joe Greblo and Windsports sponsoring the trip - Joe you are the best! Next year, we plan to reserve spots again and hope to get some for Thursday night as well so that those that can go up early have a place already reserved.

Additionally, thanks to all the pilots who paid me promptly without me having to harangue anyone and pitched in to prepare breakfast! Because a few extra pilots came up that I had not originally accounted for, we ended up with about $50 extra – Kat and I decided a good use of the funds would be to buy a pump-pot thermos to allow those of us who don’t function well in the morning without coffee to not have to wait for my 6-cup percolator to make the next batch. We’ll store it at Windsports.

Steve Murillo set up a Shutterfly site for this trip. Please see the following information to access it. You will need to sign up with Shutterfly if you want to post or comment on pictures. He is the owner of the site and will confirm new members. It would be great to have all of the pictures in one place instead of scattered all over Facebook!

If you were not able to come this year, do check out the pictures and plan on joining us September 23-25, 2011!

Other news!!!!! – The Dahlsten Cup is this weekend (October 2). If you can help, please contact Lynn Mclaughlin at lynn.meetings@att.net. She will be at the LZ about 9am and could use help marking landing spots, setting up shade, etc. And don’t forget to make a pot of chili for the Chili Contest. Details can be found on the website – www.shga.com .

See you all Saturday!

Cyndia

October 2, 2010
Dahlsten Cup
The annual Dahlsten Cup is a day of fun and flying contests in honor of Mary and Karl Dahlsten, neighbors and active supporters of the Club.

Welcome to the "Big Sur Hang Gliding 2010" site

I've created a web site called “Big Sur Hang Gliding 2010” to share pictures with friends and family. I'd like you to be a member of the site. Come check it out at http://bigsurhanggliding2010.shutterfly.com/.

Sincerely, http://bigsurhanggliding2010.shutterfly.com/
Steve

http://www.hanggliding.org/wiki/Big_Sur

Series 4	Delta-Winged Aircraft	1904-1982, n.d.
extent:	14 boxes
description:	The series holds over 1,000 photographs of delta-wing planes, especially the Me163, the fastest plane of World War II. Many articles (see Box 21) and patent applications (Box 14 and Box 17 are strongest) about the wing Lippisch designed are contained here, too. Additionally, this series contains test results and experimental data (refer to Box 18, Folders 13-29 and all of Box 20).