The cu's up high are still with us and it looks like they will be
until sundown
The forecast for Saturday was for light winds (I won't go into the
fact that the RUC called for 15 mph out of the southeast later in the day), and
we had light and variable winds with a predominant flow out of the southeast
from 3 to 9 mph. Cloud base was 5,500'... mehr

The
National Weather Service called for 74 degrees as the high on Friday. But
when I looked at Dr. Jack's RUC
miniBLIPSPOT forecast and noticed the forecasted surface temperature was
much lower:Instead of 74 it was 67.7. This would make a big difference in lift value,
height of lift, and cloud base.
Here
is the overall RUC surface... mehr

Paul Montville, the USHPA Executive Director, and non pilot, will
be visiting southern Florida during the upcoming competitions. Every USHPA staff
member is assigned to attend one function in 2010. They get to pick which one to
go to.Paul says that he will later be going to the Northeast to visit Ellenville and
Morningside. mehr

http://facebook.com/ozreport900 visits during my USHPA BOD meeting reporting. mehr

38 58 10.92 N,75 52 0.00 W, Highland Aerosports, Ridgely,
Maryland, USA

http://ozreport.com/uscompetitiondates.phphttp://www.midwesthgcomp.org/register.htmNo pilot list.http://www.aerosports.net/ECC.htmlPilot list here: http://www.aerosports.net/pilots.htmlhttp://2010bigspring.blogspot.com/The pilot list is up for the US Nationals. mehr

Selected images: http://ozreport.com/images/DustinMartinFlyingCovertHarnessPrototype.htm
Source video: http://vimeo.com/10301895


Thanks to Scare for taking these images out of the 40 minute video. mehr

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1320836793168&oid=14216823753The actual USHPA Group Facebook page.This video is very cool. Put up by Robin our IT person who was there at the
meeting and taking pictures. Now if this is the future of USHPA communications,
then we have a lot to look forward to. I certainly hope that this is. mehr

38.847773848549,-104.84527260661,USHPA headquarters, Colorado
Springs, CO, USA


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I'm always checking out new software for hang gliding. You'll find out about it
first here at the Oz Report. I'll have a full package for meet organizers up
soon.Please, help us out. Support something that you find useful so that it can
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We'll be putting on an informal gathering at the Wallaby Ranch
during the Wills Wing Demo Days, Friday evening April 2nd, to let the USHPA
Regional Directors in attendance answer questions about the USHPA from the
interested pilots. I first suggested holding this informal session in early
March here: http://ozreport.com/14.045#3. I said at... mehr

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Gary Solomon <<gary>>
writes:
Midwest HG Comp 2010 near Chicago USHPA (NTSS) Sanctionedhttp://www.midwesthgcomp.org/Thu. May 27th, 2010 thru Sun. May 30th, 2010
Registration is OPEN!http://www.midwesthgcomp.org/register.htmWe hope to draw a lot of new pilots into the competition family. We plan a cross
country competition where... mehr

http://videos.tennesseetreetoppers.org/TTT%20Scoring%20App.pps

http://ozreport.com/docs/OAC-3_9.ppt
http://sequatchiecompetition.com/
The TTT folks are creating a complete on-line competition support system for
scoring all types of hang gliding and paragliding competitions. They have
started with their weekend series, but they are moving on... mehr

http://ozreport.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=19309&start=37
So let's take a recent decision by the board, and go through the
logic. The topic is speed wings; these little-bitty paragliders flown down the
sides of mountains, as you've seen in YouTube videos. The question was whether
USHPA should provide 'support' for such wings, in the form... mehr

Richard Hunt <<richard.hunt>>
writes:
IGC2KML has just been updated to version 2.9. This fixes an issue
where it did not correctly detect where Google Earth was installed, in
particular the latest version. As a result of this "View in Google Earth" did
not work. Now resolved.
Download from the usual place at... mehr

Andy Long <<andylong>>
writes:
Every year, Sonoma Wings does a chute tossing and repacking
clinic. Here's some video of the antics.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tD9i-mZVoA mehr

Raul Guerra <<dr.raulguerra>>
sends:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9VtmUfx3dI

JELKO LOOR. mehr

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