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SHPF-Meeting-Minutes_December-2009.pdf

Labels: 2009, committee, December, meeting, minutes, SHPF

Seasons greetings to you.

Please find below a collection of links to websites as featured in the latest BHPA Skywings Dec 09 magazine.

The first thing to bring your attention to is that the first few back issues of Skywings are now available electronically and if you are a BHPA member you can subscribe here ...

BHPA Safety notices.
BHPA licensed reserve parachute re-packers.

Morillas at 7800m paramotor video
St Hilaire (2009) photos by Ilan Ginzburg
Acrox air games 3rd - 6th June 2010 - Manisa Turkey
A little on Ozone`s Baby HPP
CAA Future Airspace Strategy 5.45Mb pdf
Link to interactive Airband radio guide 9+ mb
Formal investigation reports including that for Gordon MacGregor
USHPA 2010 Calendars
Hang gliding calendar from the Netherlands
New Zealand Paragliding Open - Nelson Round 1 and Rotorua Round 2
Video - The Birdman of the Karakorum - On John Silvester`s website - £22.95 and Youtube trailer
Adrenaline & Turbulence £22.95 video.
French 3D GPS moving map Airspace software
"My brilliant idea" - Squash Falconer - more details from her trip and techical info from Irwyn Jehu.
"Paragliding photography explained" - which I came across having searched on Felix Woelk who wrote the article on flying the Marmolada.

Labels: 2009, bhpa, December, links, Skywings

For all files below the best way to work with them is probably to right click and save as ...

KMZ files
Adrian Smith
David Thomson
Iain Wallace
Mark Robson
Paul Myerscough
Scott Rigg
Steve Nash

GPX files
Adrian Smith
David Thomson
Iain Wallace
Mark Robson
Paul Myerscough
Scott Rigg
Steve Nash

IGC files
George Mcghee
Nick Ogden
Adrian Smith
Text
Bob Matthews
David Thomson
Iain Wallace
Mark Robson flight 1
Mark Robson flight 2
Mark Robson flight 3
Mark Robson
Paul Myerscough flight Tarmachan
Paul Myerscough
Scott Rigg
Steve Nash

Labels: 2009, gpx, igc, kml, kmz, tracks, x-scotia

Please find here a link to the most recent committe meeting minutes.

Labels: 2009, committee, meeting, minutes, SHPF

X-Scotia 2009 Matt Church	X-Scotia 2009 by Mark Robson
X-Scotia 2009 R Veitch

Labels: 2009, Mark Robson, Matt Church, photos, Robert Veitch, SHPF, x-scotia

The winner of X-Scotia 2009 the incredible Steve Nash. From 07:33 until 21:14 on the 30th May 2009 Steve left from The Watersports Centre and then ran/ flew round Meall nan Tarmchan, Ben More and Ben Vorlich - 2.5 hours faster than last year and in completely different conditions.

Well done Steve - more details to come later ....

Labels: 2009, Steve Nash, winner, x-scotia

Pilot No.	Pilot	Pack weight Kg
3	Julian Robinson	12.5
7	Iain Wallace	18.87
8	Paul Myerscough	11.95
9	Nick Ogden	11.4
12	Adrian Smith	15.54
16	Paul Midgely	16.5
18	Scott Rigg	12.48
19	Bob Matthews	15
20	Mark Robson	12.57
21	Steve Nash	9.3
22	Gordon Smyth	20.2
23	George McGhee	20.91
24	Dave Thomson	16.97
25	Jitka Polechova	16.94

Labels: 2009, list, pack, paragliding, pilots, weight, x-scotia

X-Scotia 2009 photos by Matt Church

Labels: 2009, Matt Church, photos, x-scotia

The second ever X-Scotia event is happening this weekend the 30th and 31st May 09. This is a Paragliding and hiking adventure race, based at Loch Earnhead and involving rounding the 3 Munros of Ben Vorlich, Ben More and Meall nan Tarmachan.

The prize list has been mounting and we are really grateful to the following
for their support of of this event:-

Basse Beaumettes - Ruth and Ulric Jessop
Border Crossings - Dave and Beth Thomson
Northern Paragliding - Neil Cruikshank
Cross Country - Bob Drury

The main (but not all) of the prizes for this event are ....



1st Overall - Week in Les Basse Beaumettes

2nd Overall - Weekend with Border Crossings

Northern Paragliding are supplying a raft of prizes:-
3rd Overall - Charly Hotliner Flying Gloves, 1st Female - Ozone Saucisse Sack and for the Longest Flight - Jetboil Personal Cooking system.

Heaviest Pack - Cross Country Magazine Subscription

Red Bull will also be there with rocket fuel and their inflatable start
arch, so no-one can miss the start or finish.

Labels: 2009, basse, beaumettes, borders, crossings, Earnhead, Loch, May, northern, paragliding, prizes, sponsor, x-scotia

Apologies for the delay in getting this information relayed out - however...
Sundays brilliant task to Hawick 46km was won by Chris Harland with another 15 pilots getting into goal. Full results and track logs etc should all be available in due course here.

Monday - no task set as winds too strong for local hills though. Group decision made to not travel further North where it would have been epic.

Labels: 2009, 9th May, BPC, paragliding, status, Tibbieshiels

12:00 Window opened for a race (starting at 12:30) to Goal which is a 3km cylinder around Hawick from a 2km cylinder around Broughton.

Labels: 2009, 9th May, BPC, broughton, hawick, race to goal, task

Well there was a quick briefing and advised leaving from here at Tibbieshiels base camp at 08:45 heading for Broughton.

Labels: 2009, BPC, May, status, Tibbieshiels

Just to advise that the above page has been updated with some more detail on what is happening over the coming week. Various media organisations have also been advised of what is happening with a short press release etc copied below...

Flying high over Tibbieshiels

Have you ever fancied flying high in the sky like a bird, well this week (9th - 16th May) you may well see some world class paragliding pilots doing just this. They will be up in the air just above Tibbieshiels by St Mary's Loch and maybe flying 50Km or more over the Borders. The British Paragliding Cup/Scottish Open and British Open Championships will be taking place from 9th -16th May. These top championships are weather dependent and so if the wind is too strong then these human birds may not fly. However here is hoping that there will be a very competitive and enjoyable event, with some spectacular flying. The Borders will be well represented with some excellent pilots who hope to do well in these competitions. You never know you may well be inspired to join these top fliers in the future.


For more information

What:
British Paragliding Cup (BPC) and Scottish Open 9-12th May, followed by the British Open Paragliding Championships13-16th May 09

Where:
Based at the Tibbieshiels Inn at the end of St Mary`s Loch

More detail :
The BPC is held at various locations throughout the UK during the year but this is the only round being held in Scotland this year. For more details please see http://www.bpcup.co.uk/borders.php or http://www.shpf.co.uk/shpf-British-Championships-09.php Scottish pilots competing in this competition can also opt to be considered for the Scottish Open. Currently there are 104 pilots registered for this event http://www.bpcup.co.uk/pilotlist.php

Some photos and links from last year :-
http://groups.google.co.uk/group/LLSC/browse_thread/thread/93817c7ee02b9b5e/cad783b2abc45b29?lnk=gst&q=scottish+open#cad783b2abc45b29
http://picasaweb.google.com/BobVeitch/BPCBordersRoundScottishOpenJuly13th2008#
http://picasaweb.google.com/BobVeitch/ByRikMcHargBPCScottishOpenParaglidingBroughton13thJuly08#
http://picasaweb.google.com/BobVeitch/BPCBordersRoundScottishOpenJuly12th2008#

British Open Paragliding Championships
This is the highest level free flying competition to come to Scotland for 12 years - (a FAI Category II competition) where pilots are competing for World ranking points. A competition of 3 rounds with the other rounds being held this year in July: Piedrahita - Spain and in August: St Jean de Montclar in France.
Currently there are over 50 pilots registered for this event.
http://www.pgcomps.org.uk/

There are a number of Scottish Pilots from the Borders area - perhaps one of the most significant being David Thomson who will be heavily involved in both events especially with respect to weather and flying site choice each day.

As paragliding is such a weather dependent activity if it is bad then all these people will be looking for other activities to do in the Tibbieshiels area - if you have a website to which you might want a link then please feel free to email it to webmaster@shpf.co.uk

To learn to paraglide in Scotland there are 2 schools to choose from - Cloudbusters and Flying Fever links here :-
http://www.cloudbusters.co.uk/
http://www.flyingfever.net/index.html

A Borders pilot who will be heavily involved in the site selection and or weather related decision making activities during these competitions will be David Thomson at http://www.bordercrossings.co.uk/

Regards,

Robert Veitch for the SHPF

Labels: 2009, borders, BPC, championship, May, paragliding, SHPF, St Marys, Tibbieshiels

By clicking the above title you can get to the list of entrants to the X-Scotia Paragliding and Hiking Adventure 2009 event as of 5th April.
Applications for entry will still be accepted despite what some application forms may say.
More details on the event are available here and an application form is available here.

Labels: 2009, entries, entry, hiking, list, paragliding, pilot, race, The Adventure Show, x-scotia

I am looking to prepare an "uber gallery" consisting of your best 3 to 5 photos from all time related to free flying. To help in this endevour please send an email with your name and a short description if applicable to webmaster@shpf.co.uk
Thankyou in advance.

Labels: 2009, gallery, request, SHPF

23-24th May - SMPC
20-21st June - Borders
4-5th July - Arran
11-12th July - Highland
25-26th July - Aberdeen
5-6th September - Ochils

Labels: 2009, dates, nationals, paragliding, Scottish, series

Entries have now opened for the Scottish Paragliding Open. This will be held within the Borders round of the BP Cup based at Tibbie Shiels Inn, at St Marys Loch in the Borders.

It will be a 4 day competition and costs GBP 70 (or GBP 60 if you are a newcomer to the BP Cup ), and requires Pilot Rating.

Full details and Entry Form are available by clicking the above link.

As of 23:00 on Feb 17 there are already 50 entries for the competiton, so its pretty clear that there isn't much time - If you are interested, get your entry in quick !

This info courtesy of David

Labels: 2009, details, entry, form, open, paragliding, Scottish

To open the minutes from the Scottish Hang-gliding and Paragliding Federation AGM, held at the EICA, Ratho on 24th January 2009 in a new window click here.

Labels: 2009, agm, hang-gliding, minutes, paragliding, SHPF

We anticipate more than 50 people using the zipline on Saturday - a great turn out but it does mean we'll all have to be slick and quick on the turn around.

Gordon has assembled the list with approximate timings and this can be found here.

Remember Aerofix will be providing a professional repack service from about midday.

John Silvester is psyching himself up for his first chat north of the Border. Please encourage friends (especially climbers or anyone interested in the Himalayas) to come along for this talk.

On the Sunday there may be a comp simulation session, with tasks around Ratho to show what happens at a comp - downloading tasks and uploading logs etc. Please bring your GPS and any associated cables.

See you at Ratho

Cheers

Mike

Labels: 2009, Gathering, repack, reserve, SHPF

The Chogo Lungma Crossing - 150km across the high Karakorum .... from Hunza to Skardu, by paraglider (with an extra fleece)

An illustrated talk by John Silvester as part of the SHPF Gathering on Saturday 24th January 2009, Edinburgh International Climbing Arena.

Where is this - well here is a Google Earth KML file which takes you to roughly the Chogo-Lungma area.

Labels: 2009, Chogo Lungma, EICA, Hunza, January, John Silvester, SHPF, Skardu, talk