Newcastle Hang Gliding Club recent posts:

Gentlemen, we have a postponement.

The planets next align on the 17th and 18th of APRIL.
The reserve dates are the fortnight following (1st & 2nd May), which coincides nicely with the Upper Hunter Food & Wine Fair. An added reason to cancel that back-waxing appointment and come along .
Postponing will no doubt bring back the sunshine but hey, that's hang gliding.
Remember, we are but flotsam on the spittoon of life - how dare we expect more?

UPDATE!!! Due to damp weather possibility we may have to postpone. Check this forum Friday evening (5th) for details.
Every comp needs waypoints and Stingfest is no different.

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Thursday 25-02-2010 another tough day on the coast.

After launching from Strezzie and floating around for an hour or so I decided to land at Dixon Park. I heard that there was strong roof suck at Empire Park so thought it best to give it a wide berth ;-)

In the 16Kn ESE landing ontop at Dicko was a breeze.

The conditions seemed to get better and better and after a couple more flights and watching Conrad put my fun through its paces, it was time to wind down with some mates at the pub.

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Alf has decided to get a FUN and stick to the coast so he's selling his Sting 2 for $1500. There is also a GPS and a car UHF radio that are negotiable. You can contact Alf on 0404037225 or flyflyfly@bigpond.com

Read about it here;

http://williamolive.com/fly/node/726

Check forums for update closer to the date.

Judging from the Manilla results, I'd guess that there are a number of pilots in the club who've flown qalifying flights for FAI Badges recently.

I've been working with the HGFA to get the FAI Badge applicatoin form updated. This is still a work in progress, but hopefully, we're very nearly done.

If anyone wants help with downloading their flight from their GPS, or with logging it on an Online Competition, bring your GPS along to the meeting this week, and I'll see if I can help you out. If your GPS came with cables for connecting it to a computer, then bring those as well.

Dawson

We got 5 days flying out of 7 and each day was a bit better. Newcastle pilots did well including Conrad who came second in the open class and Dustan who one "Best of The Rest" and Rob Larkin and Allan McMillan who came first and second in the floater class.

Everyone got high and flew far and we only did the Borah shuffle once.

Two days in a row!!! tooo good to be true!!

After watching Kieran Black give his fun a workout above the restaurant I was keen for a fly myself.

At strezzie launch Gary P was eyeing out the conditions as well. It was blowing 18 to 23 Kn from the SE and I thought it wiser to go to Dixon Park. Gary needed a pit stop and decided Dixon Park was as good a place as any, off we went.

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It wasn't quite a dawn expedition but the morning air was brilliant. The light was good and the whole thing was worthy of recording.

So Here t'is

http://vimeo.com/9545533