Joe Greblo, he of flaring after you land fame, was telling me
about another technique that he has been encouraging his students to use. He
reminds me that while hang gliders don't have rudders while they are in the air,
they do when you are on the ground. With your feet on the ground you can yaw
your glider to balance it. You are not... mehr

We used to have a big problem with SPAM ads flooding into the Oz
Report classified ads (http://ozreport.com/freeClassifieds.php).
We put in a three day waiting system to allow me to clear out the junk before it
reached your tender eyes.
Now Gerry has implemented a much easier system for me to delete this offending
material, and while a bad... mehr

When the DHV was approached with the idea of supporting scooter
towing, they didn't see the point. After all there had been plenty of winch
towing over the years in Germany and it hadn't done anything to save hang
gliding from its precipitous decline. What was new about this approach?
It's so funny when you think you know something as you've... mehr

The Sport Pilot Brochure.
The FAA Sport Pilot web page.
Thanks to David Glover
More Sport Pilot discussion and clarification at the Oz Report forum
here. mehr

Our "best selling" story of how the long distance world records
were set in Zapata, Texas is now available from the USHPA on-line store.
http://ushpa.aero/store
Just in time for Christmas.
http://store01.prostores.com/servlet/ushpa/Categories?category=Publications mehr

Die 38-jährige Deutsche zog sich dabei ein Schädelhirntrauma sowie eine Wirbelsäulenverletzung unbestimmten Grades zu.

Den kompletten Pressebericht findet Ihr bei tirol.com mehr

The FAI reports that Armand Acchione didn't send in his paper work
for his record:
Type of record : Speed over a triangular course of 25 km
Course/location : Zapata, TX (USA)
Performance : 59.33 km/h
Pilot : Armand ACCHIONE (USA)
Hang Glider : Aeriane Swift Light mehr

http://ozreport.com/data/California_SanLuisObispo.kmz
Jérôme Daoust <>
writes:
Here are three more sites around San Luis Obispo, California. mehr

Recently Russell Brown from Quest Air obtained his helicopter
pilot's license. In addition on the same day, but in Oklahoma, David Glover
obtained his private pilot's license for single engine aircraft after being
taught by Pete Lehmann. Congratulations. mehr

On the way up to the Marshall launch the other day (I love these
California shuttle services) Rob told me about how he started his question of
the day that you need to answer to access his daily forecast (http://www.flytandem.com/OBSERVE.HTM).
He had observed that the deaf pilots that he had trained had developed their own
this flying sub... mehr

Is there a US national team for the 2007 Flex Wing Worlds at Big
Spring, Texas in August? If so, who's on it? And who is the team leader? Who is
going to register the team for the competition? Who is going to see if the
foundation has any money for support of competition pilots at the Worlds? mehr

Task
6
Overall
Attila beats Jonnie by four lousy points. Gerolf comes back after falling down.
Airborne puts two pilots in the top ten.

PlaceNameGliderNationTotal
1BERTOK, AttilaMoyes Litespeed S 5HUN5185
2DURAND, Jon JnrMoyes Litespeed S 4AUS5181
3HEINRICHS, GerolfMoyes Litespeed RS4AUT4746
4FREISENBICHLER, MichaelMoyes Litespeed S... mehr

Mike and Gail Haley
write:
We sent the sanction application to USHGA last week. Hang Gliding
Nationals at Lakeview July22-28th. We haven't heard back but should by this week
some time.
Mike and Gail will be putting on two big paragliding... mehr

http://ozreport.com/data/SylmarLZ.kmz
http://ozreport.com/data/MainKagelLaunch.kmz
www.shga.com
After a good day on the Friday after Thanksgiving, four dozen or so pilots
showed up for flying on Saturday at the Sylmar Flight Park. The cu's started
early (before 8 AM) in Century City so it was looking good to me. Joe Greblo was
a little... mehr

Task
5
Overall

PlaceNameGliderNationTotal
1BERTOK, AttilaMoyes Litespeed S 5HUN4439
2DURAND, Jon JnrMoyes Litespeed S 4AUS4197
3HEINRICHS, GerolfMoyes Litespeed RS4AUT3798
4FREISENBICHLER, MichaelMoyes Litespeed S 3.5AUT3748
5HOLTKAMP, RohanAirborne C4 13.5AUS3581
6PARER, AdamAirborne C4 14AUS3468
7SMITH, ChrisMoyes Litespeed S 4.5USA3391... mehr

Pascal Legrand legrand.
writes:
http://delajoie.blogspot.com/
Check out the progress of the Souviron team in Australia. They went there just to cuddle the roos, as you can guess.
These are the records set at Wilcannia previously by Tomas... mehr

BHPA Competitions Committee writes:
During the November planning meeting it was decided that the 2007
UK Nationals will (like 2006) be held at St.Andre in the French Alps. It will be
run as an Open competition (i.e. also open to non-UK pilots) and run as an FAI
category 2 competition. 2007 will be different in that the Class 5 (Rigid wing)... mehr

NY Times story
Mr. Thomas created his first company in 1996. He called it Zero,
because skateboarders were deemed zeros — losers. But in the past 10 years,
skateboarding’s popularity has soared, with more than 11 million participants.
These days, the only zeros in skateboarding are organized in groups of three, to
the right of dollar signs,... mehr

Over the last few years there have been a number of examples of
USHPA leadership. For example, Bill Bolosky, Mark Forbes, Jayne Depanfilis, and
others took leadership when they decided to proceed with acquiring a USHPA
headquarters in Colorado Springs. This took a very significant commitment of
financial resources and required that the... mehr

Phil Beck,  Airborne Australia,
writes:


Click on photo above.
We have the same type of snakes as the Durands -Diamond Pythons - or "carpet
snakes" They are not poisonous & mostly friendly. As well there are a few
poisonous Black snakes that... mehr