Newsletter: March 2003
BARBEQUE!!
If the wind and sun gods smile upon us we're going to have a club barbeque for family and friends!
Date: Sunday 30 March 03, alternative day if postponed - Sunday 6 April 03.
Time: sometime in the afternoon, dependant on flying!
Venue: to be decided on Saturday night, dependant on weather/conditions. Possibilities are: Paekakariki beach/reserve, Pukerua Bay beach, Kaitoke Regional Park, The Plateau Park (if you're keen enough to land there!), Kourarau, Bull Hill, Western Lake, Whangamoana. Other suggestions more then welcome. Venue will be advised via the message on the Paekakariki weather station - call 239 9159 on Sunday morning to find out where and when we're meeting. An email will also be sent out.....
BYO meat and drink.
$45 of club funds be used for purchase of salads, breads, butter etc, for the club barbeque.
Request: anyone with a smallish barbeque that can be taken along, let Grant know, please? He has a medium size one, but we really need one or two more.
Prizes:. A small entry fee will be collected from everyone for spotprizes - spot landing, best/worst takeoff, etc.
Flying News
Gary Steele and Barry Baxter went to Manilla, NSW, in February, for three weeks flying. However, the weather gods only smiled on them for six days. Gary did, however, manage to do a 100km flight.
Andy Maloney, Colin Iles and Kris Ericksen also headed off to Manilla in late February also for three weeks. The first week Andy and Kris took part in Craig Collins' XC Clinic and the second week they participated in the Australian Open, then in the final week they all participated in the NZ Open. Heather Cook, a former WHGPC hang glider member, who moved to Australia a couple of years ago, has taken up paragliding and also took part in the competition. Photos will eventually appear on this web site....
Laurie Ross set a new site record for Heights Road of 29 km on 22 February on his second ever flight on his new wing! Congratulations! - & certainly a nominee for the Ice Eagle award! He flew over Ricky Windus who had just landed setting the site record at 25km! That must deserve a prize for the shortest lived site record.....
Laurie Ross must also be in the running for a Dunny Seat Award - having put his new wing into trees twice within four days - once at Heights Road and then again at Dalefield.....
Barry Baxter flew 22.9km from Dalefield on Tuesday 25 March down to Cross Creek.
Mark Bailey has returned from Zimbabwe and is currently living in Napier.
Hang Gliding news: if you don't tell me I can't write anything! Email the editor at skf@paradise.net.nz
Minutes: February meeting
Next Meeting: Tuesday 1 April @ Valley Club, Lower Hutt, from 7:30pm
