Hi,

I have just bought a couple of folders for use at the field to track training.

A disgusting green one now holds the operator training record / task sign-off sheet

A luminous pink one holds the Pilot task sign-off sheet

Both will live in the back of the winch.  Suggest the pink one is kept at launch end for you to refer to so can progress through your tasks.  Also somewhere convenient to put the radios on!

I've also got another clipboard to hold the winch records, tame blue

Richard.

Get it for free at:

http://mycloudbase.com/google/

This interrogates the air information website, retrieves the notam, and displays in Google Earth.  You can also view the amended (for easier reading) html results if you like.

BHPA notice for restricted airspace. Probably won't affect most of you......

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Dear All,
I am copying this to all UK BHPA Schools and Clubs (it’s a lot easier than selecting out those in the area) - please note that it only applies to flying South of a line drawn between Preston and Hull. It requires your urgent attention! There will also be an item on the BHPA web site.

Tony Mitchell,  Technical Administrator
British Hang Gliding & Paragliding Association
The Old Schoolroom, Loughborough Road, Leicester, LE4 5PJ

Tel. O116 261 1322    Fax. 0116 261 1323      www.bhpa.co.uk


British Hang Gliding and Paragliding Association Limited.
A company limited by guarantee and registered in England no 2618166    
Registered office: 340 Melton Road, Leicester, LE4 7SL


------ Forwarded Message
> From: Tom Hardie <tom@primarysolution.co.uk>
> Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 15:38:50 +0100
> To: "'satco@brizenorton.raf.mod.uk'" <satco@brizenorton.raf.mod.uk>
> Cc: 'Joe Schofield' <skywings@bhpa.co.uk>, 'Mark Turner'
> <mark-turner@bhpa.co.uk>, "'Tony Mitchell (tony-mitchell@bhpa.co.uk)'"
> <tony-mitchell@bhpa.co.uk>
> Subject: RIAT 2008 & FLY PAST RESTRICTED AIRSPACE
>
> Sqn Ldr Muir,
>
> Thank you for your letter dated 27th May 2008 about this year's RIAT at
> Fairford 07-14 July 2008 and the mid-week Fly Past, copy attached.
> Unfortunately this arrived too late for us to publish the details in the
> appropriate edition of our house magazine Skywings.  This is regrettable as
> not only is it that Skywings is the only publication that reaches well over
> 90% of all active UK participants, but in general our pilots do not access
> other aviation magazines.
>
> These large areas of Restricted airspace will have a direct detrimental
> effect by effectively shutting down all cross country flying in the areas
> from Monday 07th July to Monday 14th July.  We are extremely disappointed
> not to have been consulted prior to their establishment, particularly the
> Fly Past airspace, and wonder why this was not done?
>
> We will copy this e-mail to all those Clubs within the 100 mile radius of
> those who could be affected, for them to disseminate the information as much
> as they can.  It needs to be remembered that whilst the BHPA has a strong
> club basis there are very few fixed base (i.e. club house type) operations
> and so information dissemination is not as straight forward as it might be
> once Skywings is taken out of the equation.
> (Tony - please send this e-mail and the attachment to all BHPA Competition
> Committees and to all English and Welsh Clubs located below a line drawn
> between Preston and Hull)
>
> We note that, in addition to being for considerably less airspace, the
> letter for last year's event was dated nearly four weeks earlier and so we
> were able to publish details in Skywings, maybe this should be a
> consideration for next year's RIAT?
>
> Yours
>
> Tom Hardie
> ALO
> BHPA
> _____________________________________________
> Burnbank, Rafford, FORRES, Moray, IV36 2PT
> Office: 01309 696 333
> Home: 01309 69 69 19
> Fax: upon request
> E-mail: tom@primarysolution.co.uk
> Please also telephone if sending an URGENT e-mail
>
>

------ End of Forwarded Message

I would like to bring to everyone's attention that there is a club handbook, available electronically on this site and also some paper copies in the hangar.

It covers both our tow operations and also a sites guide for the coastal sites.  Please open and have a read if you haven't done so.  It's coverage of some of the hazards / avoidance areas for Mundesley are particularly worth drawing to people's attention following the recent outbreak of aviation.

Oh, and any recommendations for changes to Ian McCormick, tasked I believe to update it at some point .

You will find it under Club Info > Documents, then click on Handbook.

All,

The BHPA seem to have appointed a 'chief examiner'. His name is Ken Raines and he wants to 'take a look at our activities' next week.

He is not just inspecting schools and I pointed out that we don't train, but his remit includes clubs, hence he wants to take a look. I think he may be looking at Norfolk on the same weekend.

I need someone to volunteer to meet him next weekend - Any offers? Needs to be someone who can describe all acrtivities in overview. It may be easier if more than one person is available.

He said he wants to see the club active, so if no one out, he may have to come and see when there is. He did not make clear the scope of the inspection but it would seem sensible to let him see we comply with the TM regarding towing ops, and that the nessecary people are on site (tow coaches, winch ops, ect, and they are demonstrably trained to do what they are doing). He said that he won't be hitting us hard, and unless things have changed since I last flew there, I would not think we had anything to worry about.

Please help with this as I need to get back to him.

Keith W - You may want to warn Dunstable this is happening. He used to fly there so is familiar with that club.

Further details will be available as they are confirmed at the show website www.theflyingshow.co.uk

British Hang Gliding and Paragliding Association
The Old Schoolroom
Loughborough Road
Leicester
LE4 5PJ
Tel 0116 261 1322
Fax 0116 261 1323

Feedback from Keith W for the Lasham meeting............... Not looking good really is it?

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Hi all just recieved this from a friend who went to the meeting.
About 200 hundred seats were set up for the event, and probably twice that many attended. About 40 people couldnt even get inside the building.The moodwas fairly hostile. theCAA men in suits did a presentation (on CD).

The sailplane pilots are more affected than us; the proposals now are for transponder use above FL100. But the sting in the tail is that there will be transponder mandatory zones(TMZs) where everyone must use a transponder.The CAA could not say where these might be, but two caseswere mentioned;Airspace around London airports and around wind farms.

It will be difficult to respondto the TMZ issue without actually knowing where they will put.
Once the goverment is empowered of course, they can put them wherever they please.The CAA man (who does fly GA, by the way) stated that the process of introducing TMZs would be democratic but the feeling of the room was that it might be less democratic than the CAA state.

CAA stated that they had modelled the glider problem but then admitted that they didnt actually have any data to use in the model, because there had been no incidents with gliders in the last 5 years.Several pertinent questions were asked, but got politcal answers, ie no answers.

The format of the meeting was slighly disappointing, in that questions had been filterd by the Lasham people, and were formalised so it wasnt possible to ask individual questions.

PLEASE MAKE SURE THAT YOU READ THE CAA CASE AND EVERYONE RESPONDS TO IT BEFORE THE 31st MAY , THIS  IS OUR LAST CHANCE TO GET A WORD IN
                                   regards KeithW.

Suffolk Coastal Floaters
Hang Gliding Club

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