Newcastle Hang Gliding Club

Hey y'all,

Kiero Brown's back in town Thursday-ish.

That means a few drinks and a meal somewhere from 4:30 on Thursday at some place to be decided, stay tuned and come along.

Cheers
Stuie

Whe I woke up, the BOM's radar showed heavy raid right over launch and up to Newcastle. The rain was moving inland. Seabreeze was showing 8 knots from the south. It had been consistently over 15 knots SSE all night until the last half hour or so. There were no other storms around, so I figured that the drop in wind was just a temporary thing associated with the shower that was moving through, and shuld have passed by the time I got to launch. Sure enough, I got to launch, having driven through some very heavy rain near Speers Point to find that the rain had passed.

For those of us fortunate enough to get away for some play, what a day!!!

Here is a bit of footage from the air and some landings I caught on camera

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Cheers

Adriaan

Meeting this Wednesday at Souths, 7:30pm. I'll have the projector and a recording of Jonny's Red Bull mini doco. Feel free to bring your own media. Regards, Simon.

Ricky Evans just sent me this video of a take off and landing at Manilla. On the day we were both in Stings and caught a screamer of a thermal right out in front and flew west for about 60km together. Rick's family followed him and took the video as Rick followed me into the same paddock.

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A bit more insight into the mechanics of the accident and what has happened since. Its all good.

http://adam-parer.blogspot.com/2010/01/surviving.html

Usually the 25th of December ends up giving the best present of all with a good day of flying. Have a merry christmas everyone.

Would like to wish every 1, and their families a very merry chrismas and a happy new year. Drive safe, Fly safe, Play safe. And look forward to flying with you all. . . . next year.

Regards: Gary Peterson & Family.

The mind is like a parachute, it's only effective when its open.....!

Had a nice flight on Saturday with just about everyone else. I figured it was time for me to learn to land, so after watching Donny, Garry H, Tony & Adrian land a bunch of times, I spent half an hour or more almost making it, then finally down, safely thanks to a couple of good catchers.

Now I just need to do it again, and again and.....

As promised Adrian, here's the warts:

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Here's a few thousand words: