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Hello! I think its a great idea!

Do you know if you can get tickets quite last minute or do they sell out quickly? We won't know Ians November shifts for weeks yet.......

Hope to make it!

Naomi

It was my pleasure John!

Had a great day on Saturday catching up with everyone - hope to see you all again soon!

That would illustrate my thoughts perfectly!

Hello!

Has anyone got any good SIV photos / video from the famous NHPC SIV trip to Olu Deniz 2007?

The LLSC club night on monday are having an SIV discussion and I am to give my low airtimer not-very-brave-pilot (!) perspective.

Cheers

Naomi

High Flyin Bird - Jefferson Airplane

(I am stuck in front of the computer until the end of January trying to write a thesis, so thank you Alastair for this distraction!)

Congratulations Paul! Second place in the 2009 X-Scotia in very hot weather with windy conditions not allowing much flying - so a pretty hard slog round. Only 5 finishers this year, so he done really well.

X-Scotia blog at www.shpf.co.uk if anyone is interested.

Try Sunsoaring Paragliding insurance - link off the Northern Paragliding website. We've got an annual policy with them and they got me home ok from France in March following a ski accident. Still sorting out the claim for medical expenses but no complaints so far! They include paragliding as standar...

Sorry to hear that Gary. You are even more accident prone than me!

Wishing you a speedy recovery

Naomi

Arrggghhh! I'm so jealous!
Shes lovely!

Do me a favour and tell Ian its no hassle at all having a dog.........

Hello! Having been to John Silvesters talk at the SHPF Gathering last night I would recommend that if you can get along to the one run by the CSC on 6th March then do so! I wish I had the guts to do even a fraction of what he has, but being as I haven't it was fascinating to hear his tales and see t...

oops forgot attachment!

Me again! Just another reminder about the SHPF gathering 24th / 25th January. Attcached is a flyer for the John Silvester talk. A couple of local pilots are having folk back to theirs after the talk and should be able to provide accomodation depending on numbers (probably floorspace, but should be a...

Hi Everyone

Attached is a booking form for the SHPF Gathering. I am not clear on the evening arrangements yet, but there is likely to be something happening, possibly hosted by Gordon and Tina, who some of you will know from Olu Deniz. I'll post soon when I know more.

Happy New Year!

Naomi

Happy Christmas Jill & Stuart - and have a lovely holiday!

XXX

Hello! The SHPF are having a weekend 'gathering' in January (24/25) - for details please see link below. All welcome. http://www.aviabird.net/public/09_shpf_gathering.pdf Highlight is the talk by John Silvester about his epic flying trip in the Karakorum. Further info including booking info to follo...

Thats so cool - Gary you gotta get one!!

Oh and some gossip....

Steve & Dee got officially engaged today - romantic airbourne proposal...

Hope you had a good day in the Cheviots. We ended up at the Ochils. Really nasty long steep walk up Alva Glen in the sun! We decided to take the tandem up - my first flight with Ian. It was excellent - launched straight into a thermal - up to cloudbase and over the back........no messing. That would...

Oops - think it was supposed to be Ian and I taking over looking after the club library. Unless I dreamt it as I never did anything about it..........Unfortunately we're moving to Scotland so it won't be practical for us - any volunteers to look after it?

Hi Gary! Glad to hear you are making good progress - sounds like hard work, but if anyone can get better in record time then I reckon you can. I was going to see if you wanted a visitor but I've got a really bad cold at the moment so I'll wait til its gone cus I guess that would the last thing you n...

An exert from LLSC forum Not sure Tinto is great in a NNE.... Hi Theo, A glider bag is something new for the Tinto lost property office - it should stand out amongst all the radios and mobile phones ! I guess from your comment about it being "interesting " that you were in the bowl. The Me...

Its a good point. From a novice point of view it can be difficult to judge when a cloud stops being a friendly cloud and starts being a nasty one. I was left on my own last saturday and landed because i didn't like the look of a cloud and was asking Ian about it afterwards, because i was probably be...

Wayne - check out the link to Escape on the nhpc home page for more info

Thanks for that account of Cross Fell John....interesting place even aside from the flying...

never knew it had such a spooky past though - remind me never to be there after dark for any reason

so how was it????

I use Select insurance (link off Northern Paragliding website). Pretty cheap and I've tested them!! and they were pretty reasonable

The exam was longer than I thought - but that was probably something I should have known beforehand (bad preparation!). Some of the questions were harder than I thought they would be or phrased differently. The interpretation of synoptic charts etc was more in depth than I anticipated - but then I d...