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Please find below links to the various videos Robert Veitch took at the recent SHPF Gathering 2010. These show paragliding reserve deployments in the afternoon of the 16th January 2010.
All videos were taken from the top of the facility - nearly 100 feet up. This is probably as close as it is possible to get to being the perfect setup for testing out paragliding and Hang-gliding (though none this year) reserve deployments. Missed it this year then why not pencil this into your diary now for a similar weekend in January 2011 when it should next be run.

The SHPF Gathering consists of a mixture of acitivities - obviosly starting with the deployments shown here, followed by repacking in a large heated space below launch!. This is then followed by the SHPF AGM and a talk by a sky god - last year John Sillvester and this year Eddie Colfox. The Sunday - following some more social activities - usually consists of more technical talks and activities. This year talks were by Dave Thomson, Tony Spirling - really excellent re pyschology, and Cliff Smith re avalanches - especially pertinent as one of the pilots present had been caught in one very recently in the nearby Pentlands .....

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21.2 Mb Steve Durkin

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17.3 Mb Cliff Smith

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16.6 Mb Richard Vereker

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13.9 Mb Julian Robinson

Labels: 2010, deployment, parachute, paraglider, Ratho, reserve, Robert Veitch, route, SHPF, videos

	12.9 Mb	Orange wing landing
	60.3 Mb	2 More TTB landings
	39 Mb	Steve Durkin and Pilot review route
	8.8 Mb	Richard V?.
	13.9 Mb	Pilot landing near landing field
	4 Mb	Steve Nash walking with his bunched glider
	23.4 Mb	Jitka (and Cliff) just shortly after arriving in Goal
	23.4 Mb	Jitka chat
	39.3 Mb	Jitka + Paul Ogden discussing ..
	108 Mb	Jitka - "interview" however very windy so cannot actually hear very well at all - sorry Jitka
	30.7 Mb	Andy McGregor interview and short story?.
	25.1 Mb	Just before prize giving ceremony ?.
	16.6 Mb	Part of Cliffs Speech
	8.5 Mb	Steve Nash receiving the 1st X-Scotia Trophy, 11th May 2008

Labels: 2008, event, May, paraglider, paragliding, paragliding event 2008 scotland, Scottish, videos, x-scotia

Just a bit of fun but I took the previously posted data on X-Scotia pilots and their pack weights and generated this - interesting ?.

Labels: pack, paraglider, paragliding, scotland, weight, x-scotia

At about 23:20 this evening Steve Nash arrived at the finish line and between 1 and 2 minutes later Paul Myerscough also arrived . There was a little consternation when Paul arrived as race control hadnt realised that he had completed all the turnpoints on a different route to Steve a stunning achievement from them both. They professed to be tired but my opinion would be that they looked amazingly good. After the welcome and the deserved congratulations some of the stories are becoming out, 2 short examples....
Steve only just managed to get a flight in from the Tarmachan with what sounds like the very last chance before the weather closed in...
Paul it seems may have had the longest flight of the competition .. all to be confirmed with the GPS / picture data tomorrow...

Labels: 2008, competition, paraglider, paragliding, Paul Myerscough, SHPF, Steve Nash, winner, x-scotia

Early this morning prior to race start there was a fun competition to find glider weights for the participating paragliding pilots to the X-Scotia event. Here are the results of the pilots who agreed to be weighed and in no particular order ...

All up weight Kg / Without Paraglider / Paraglider + kit weight Kg / Name

92.5 / 73.0 / 19.5 / Andy
106.5 / 82.5 / 24.0 / Paddy
112.0 / 87.5 / 24.5 / Gordon
106.5 / 82.5 / 24.0 / Ian Wall
109.5 / 84.0 / 25.5 / Peter
115.0 / 91.5 / 23.5 / Dave Hutchinson,
94.0 / 77.0 / 17.0 / Dave Thomson
114.0 / 99.5 / 14.5 / Julian Robinson
80.0 / 63.0 / 17.0 / Scott
96.5 / 81.5 / 15.0 / Paul M
92.5 / 72.0 / 20.5 / Jitka
82.0 / 64.0 / 18.0 / Johann
109.5 / 87.0 / 22.5 / Crawford
114.0 / 91.5 / 22.5 / John - 5
89.0 / 78.5 / 10.5 / Steve Nash
109.5 / 89.5 / 20.0 / Adrian Smith
101.576.5 / 25.0 / Matt Church
83.5 / 63.5 / 20.0 / Helen

Labels: paraglider, scotland, weight, x-scotia