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Coyote Howl 2008! We need your support! Hang Glide at the 2008 Lake McClure Coyote Howl May 17, 18, 2008. Announcement It will be Spring Flying time soon at the Mother Lode Sky Rider’s annual Coyote Howl Hang Gliding event. As always, visiting pilots are most welcomed at the “Howl”. The popular Speed Gliding event will be held both days at 9 am. The cross country competition and spot landing contest begin around noon depending on conditions. Or participate in the event by flying for fun. A $30 donation will allow entry to the competition, all the food and drinks you wish and provide MLSR with important fund raising. Directions: Take State Highway 132 east towards Coulterville. Go about 1/2 mile past the turnoff to Horseshoe Bend Recreation Area and look for the Landing Zone gate to your right. If you end up in...(more)Discuss

Marina Beach Festival of the Winds Ridge Race I'm pleased to inform you that the Marina Beach Festival of the Winds Race is good to go for the weekend of Mother's Day. A Rigid Wing Class can be added with those specific entry fees as Prize money. If you have further questions please email me at lgardner01@sbcglobal.net. Lee Gardner Meet Director for the Wind Festival Racing. Marina Wind Festival Steeple Chase Race Date: May 10-11, 2008 Registration will be at Marina State Beach Saturday only 8-10am. Contestants will Start at Marina State Beach/Ramp, Fly to a pre-determined Turn Point and Return to a Goal line at Marina State Beach. Saturday: 3 Flights maximum for scoring. Fastest time scores for the day. Sunday: 2 Flights maximum for scoring. Fastest time scores for the day HangGliding will have 2 Classes....(more)Discuss

Help needed at Torrey Below is a copy of the letter from Gary Fogel, chair of the Torrey Pines Soaring Council. If at all possible, please attend this meeting and help spread the word. Should this project go ahead it will forever shut out sailplane opps at Torrey and set a president for future development, possibly into the hang gliding area. Brad Hall "Torrey fans, There will be a very critical meeting held April 21 at 6pm at the Fishman Auditorium at the Burnham Institute for Medical Research at 10901 N. Torrey Pines Rd., La Jolla, Ca. 92037. This meeting is arranged by the San Diego Consortium for Regenerative Medicine and will review the potential impacts of a stem cell facility proposed for the east end of the Torrey Pines Gliderport within the boundries of the gliderport property currently...(more)Discuss

Marina Beach -Wind festival and Steeple chase May 10/11 Windfestival and Steeple Chase: The windfestival is off site from Marina were they will have kite flying. The steeple chase being held at Marina. Date: May 10-11, 2008 Registration will be at Marina State Beach Saturday only 8-10am. Pilots Meeting 10am each day. Contestants will Start at Marina State Beach/Ramp, Fly to a pre-determined Turn Point and Return to a Goal line at Marina State Beach. Saturday: 3 Flights maximum for scoring. Fastest time scores for the day. Sunday: 2 Flights maximum for scoring. Fastest time scores for the day HangGliding will have 2 Classes. FlexwingSport (FS) and Topless Flexwing(TF). FlexwingSport and Topless Flexwing will race for elapsed time from Launch to Indianhead Turn point and back to goal at Marina. ...(more)Discuss

Wings of Rogallo club picnic April 26th WOR club picnic April 26th 10ish. til ?? Ed Levin, CA Spot landing contest. Prizes for 1st 2nd and 3rd I'll be serving BBQ -chicken and sauages. WOR will provide all the condiments. Last name begin with A - L side dish Last name begin with: M-Z Dessert Any non flying games-bocce ball, horseshoes are always welcome. Lets make this a fun day. Have your order your Women's world t-shirt yet? I will put out a donation jar and if you want this to be tax deduction then best to send in a donation to the Free flight foundation. My plan would be to have WOR send a check towards the t-shirt fund. Hopefully will generate some extra funds for the Women's world team. CarmDiscuss

New tweaks and mods released New tweaks and mods released I've been pushing some tweaks and bug fixes. Sorry for all the hiccups. #1 Added a "Member List" in the main menu #2 Added "Who's Online" in the main menu #3 Fixed the DIGEST bug which doesnt allow you to set it to NONE #4 Put back the JUMPBOX at the bottom of TOPIC and FORUM pages Other recent changes: #5 Searching done by google now - huge performance boost #6 Posting message speed an order of magnitude faster #7 New guest home page with nice graphics and links to lessons, FAQ and HG facts -SGDiscuss

HG.org shirts re-order has been placed! Ok, shelled out another $740 in advance for the t-shirt order. http://www.printmojo.com/HGShirts I talked to them about the thick/rubbery feel of the big logo on the back. They told me they put an extra layer of white down on the back before putting the blue ink down because the ink from BLACK t-shirts starts to bleed through over time. They said they could do a thinner layer of white on this batch so they are not quite as thick/rubbery Tallied up all the shirt requests from the topics and padded them with a couple of shirts each. This order should get printed a lot faster since they already have the screens setup. Discuss

HG.org's LEAD GEN version 2.0 goes live Lead Gen 2.0 is now live. Instructors who want free leads for potential HG students should sign up here http://www.hanggliding.org/marketing/instructorsignup.php We have sent 75 leads to instructors all over the country so far. Instructors are now capable of requesting to get ALL leads for US/Canada, or registering interest in specific states or provinces. Here is a list of active instructors who are currently part of the program. http://www.hanggliding.org/marketing/activeinstructors.php If your instructor is not on this list, email or call them, and get them to sign up! Read more about the program and how YOU can help generate students for the sport of hang glider...(more)Discuss

Idaho, Pickle Butte site has a problem - PLEASE HELP FROM JOHN BARSNESS: My fellow pilots: I just received the following information from my cousin, a fellow pilot. There is a move afoot to erect a huge 745 foot guy wire supported tower at Pickle Butte. This would be the largest tower in the state of Idaho. There would be three sets of guy wires extending away from the tower. At this time, I am not sure exactly where on the Butte to tower would be placed; I believe it would be near the highest part of the Butte at the easterly end of our flying area. There is a link below with the spot indicated on the map, but I have not fully reviewed it yet. Regardless, between the tower and the guy wires, this would be a very dangerous obstacle. I phoned Lew Sanders at the Boise flight standards District safety office. Lew...(more)Discuss

MAJOR SOFTWARE UPGRADE! The new architecture is installed. Please REPORT all bugs here. People should experience FASTER load times now (especially if you are on a slow connection) I hope I don't run into anymore little issues. These upgrades drive me crazy. So many little side effects and they are difficult to find and fix. We have been experiencing some EXTREMELY high loads in the last week. So I took the time to really tune up the server, and make it far more crash proof. Let's see how it goes. Discuss