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Air Spring 2001 AIR S p r i n g In the Air Department’s 3 President’s Message 4 Editor’s Message 6 AirBuzz 13 AirTech 14 AirEvents 15 Transport Canada 16 AirSafety Air Feature’s 23 AirBag 9 Tow Nationals 2000 19 Triangular Madness by Dean & Margaret Lutz by Tomas Suchanek 31 AirImages 37 AirTech 10 From Hero to Zero 24 HPAC 38 HPAC Membership By Chris Muller By Andre Nadeau 39 AirTraffic 12 Golden Airtime 29 Radio’s &Wizardry by John Janssen by Peter Bowle-Evans Air is printed four times yearly and is a publication of the Hang Gliding and Paragliding AGM 2001 SOGA Updates Association Of Canada / Association 17 32 Canadienne de Vol Libre. by Andre Nadeau by Mike Gates Designed and produced using an Apple G4, Imac and G3 Laptop Powerbook. Air design, editorial and Rescues at MT 7 Iparaglide.com production completed by 18 40 Tony P. McGowan. by Peter Bowle-Evans All views expressed in this publication are not necessarily those of HPAC / ACVL, it’s directors or editor. Printed by Winnipeg Web Press. Cover: Chris Muller wangs it over Cochrane. Above: Jayson Biggins takes advantage of the coastal winds. YOUR DEALER FOR : Flex Wings: Wills, Aeros, Airwave, North Wing Fast Service Rigid Wings: Flight Design, AIR High Quality Varios: Flytec, Ball, Suunto Hang Gliders and Trikes Low Prices Harnesses: Woody Valley, High Energy, C of G Support Chutes: High Energy, Free Flight, BRS Satisfaction Helmets: Charley Insider Ultralights: North Wing, Rotax, Wasp Harness Aero-Towing Flight Park FREE SHIPPING WITH ALL MAIL ORDERS Now in Central CANADA Wasp Motor Harness (in stock) - $7400 - Platform, and Aero Towing to 2,500 feet! - Grass Runway 4000’ - wide open LZ’s! - Excellent XC potential - Record 100 miles! North Wing Illusion & Tandem 2 - Motel, restaurant, and camping on site! - Golf, beaches, & tourist attractions nearby. - Available 24/7 year-round by appointment. Flytec GPS Access $995 FLYTEC INSTRUMENTS - Excellent prices starting at $475. 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Winnipeg, MB, R2X 1G4 Sur Vol Editor - Line Turcotte If you do not see your article or submis- Advertising Rates [email protected] sion please be patient. I will make every Rates can be viewed on the web at: 850 Claude de Ramezay, attempt to get your article printed in the http://www.hpac.ca/hpacsop/air/ Marieville, Québec J3M 1E8 upcoming issue. backissues.htm Deadlines: Feb. May, Aug and Nov 15th. Spring www hpac ca Presidential Address or Peter’s Way From the President here are parts of Ottawa that have a certain comfort level and character that can explain to me why it may be a desirable place Tto reside. Alas, the resources of the HPAC are not sufficiently embellished to permit me such luxury, or I too could become ensconced in that same reverie. Rather, I know what I cannot have, and that I am bound by duty, conscience and plain lack of sur- plus funds, to get a job done. "Presidential Address". My oath, it sounds as though I should be fat and well rounded, which I patently am not, and pompous and insufferably boring, which I pray that I do not become. Look, you can go to the web site at http://www.hpac.ca/ , and under a but- ton that says Link to Presidents Page, you will find your way to where I have to express myself more formally for the world to read. Further, between this AIR and the web site, there are enough details to satisfy the most ardent beauracratics and political enthusiast. Now the web site, like any web site, is a living animal, so the buttons could be arranged a little differently when you get there. Under many, many more buttons you will find just about anything that ever was done or ever, ever happened in the name of the HPAC. I said ‘just about’. That’s my out for anyone who rushes in there to furiously ferret out some pristine jewel of data only to find it miss- ing, and fearsomely point The Finger at me and declare massively, "Peter did not know..........!" Like all things, the more you learn, the more you realise you do not know. Being The Pin, as I sometimes call it, of the HPAC, is no exception. So when I set off to Ottawa, knowing that from a little stirring of interest on the eGroups mail, that at least noone was openly declaring, "Ugh!" in relation to me, I did have a little feeling about things. After participating in the weekend’s proceedings, I had once again been impressed by the stirling qualities of the group. There are some very, and I mean very excellent people in this group that shepherd the HPAC on its way, and yes, it does feel like an honor to have this group promote you to its leader. This is a challenge, and I have accepted it. Now there is much detail of where we are going elsewhere in this publication, assembled by Andre Nadeau, aided by Kevin Thomson, and adjusted very recently from input from the BoD (Board of Directors - one of the keys is not to become the Bored of Directors - I do hope this translates the emotion in French). Now that I have met Andre, and along with the others have exchanged a little shop about our personal lives, I can relate with confidence to where his energies are focused. So I will attempt to provide you with what I like to call a translation of where you are going. That’s right, you. This is about you, not me. YOU are the pilots, you are the members, and you are the association. I and the famous board and its many officers and associates like to think that we are each individually one of you too, but we are not IT - You are! As I write, what follows is still up in the air - inevitable pun - as this is still being fraught with in terms of voting motions, Vs the AIR deadline. If it flies, this is how it will go. You will become members of the HPAC. OK, conceivably the name may have to change slightly. There will be 7 regional directors, one from each region. The regions currently are the same as the provincial associations. The provincial associations, by the way, although they will no longer be members of the HPAC - remember you are now the members - will be free to proceed as they wish. Persons standing for directorships will state their cases, most likely via the web site. You will vote, on a national basis, for these direc- tors. They become a Board of Directors (BoD), from which they will elect a President, Vice President, and a Secretary, who will still be voting members of the BoD, and will be known as Executive Officers. There will be two other officers, a Treasurer and a Safety Officer, who will be appointed by the BoD. They will not be members of the BoD, and so they will not have votes on the BoD. Then, and here is a very big item, there will be a Business Manager. Think of it as a hugely expanded version of the present administra- tor job. This person will be paid. How much is yet to be determined, but there will be a budget, and it will be setup to balance, or better. I will say here though, that without memberships, none of this will fly. The directors will be there to take input from you, the members, and make policy and decisions, rather than being workers. The President heads up the Board, assisted by the other two executive officers. The President will coordinate with the Business Manager, the Treasurer and the Safety Officer. Since you will be directly members of this HPAC, all business relating to its membership will be your business, and a great deal of this will be readily available, and up to date, within the web site. In fact, much of this is not new. If you go to the website and find your way to AIR back issues, Dec 96 p27, the similarity between that and what is happening now is uncanny. Once the big AGM was over, the work began. I now know better what was behind Kevin’s little smile as we said goodbye at the airport. HE was off the hook! We have had 6 motions, and more emotions about them. One of these is pivotal. To do the easy stuff first, we had a couple about the AGM minutes, then set about setting instructor fees at $65 per year, really as an alternate to school fees - this one is still voting, but I think it will have gone through by the time you read this.
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