It's pretty bad...I have to turn to online video games to get some airtime. I hadn't played Flight Club in ages so I looked it up. It looks like the game has moved from the late Dan Burton's old site to this Urban75 site.

Upon Googling for it, I also find this blog post from Dan's brother. I like the quote he posted of Dan's - "Remember, the best pilot is the one that is having the most fun."

I love track servers - I use it now as my log book as I make sure I always fly with a GPS recording my flight. I lost interest long ago in writing down my flights in my log book...I'm not sure why as I used to enjoy that. I guess now I just love to share my flights with the rest of the World...well...if anyone cares that is!

Don't get your PG feathers too ruffled....I fly both HG and PG (or I used to fly PGs anyways)

The weather sucks over here in Ontario....so I gotta get my hang gliding fix somehow!

My mom found these at the dollar store:

The thing really goes well - amazing what you can find at the dollar store.

But I can never get a chance to fly it myself....Brody always wants to give it a whirl. I figure, I better teach him hang gliding early!

As of May 1st, it looks like there is an entire new category of World Records....labeled "Free Distance" records.

From the Sporting Code:
1.6.5.8 Free Distance Flight
The way point(s) of free distance record flight performances may be declared post flight. The free distance
record types are:
• Free distance: a flight from a start point to a finish point with no turn points.
• Free out and return distance: a closed course flight having one turn point.

Now for the good part of day 1 at the Miles in May....they had a 103km task to the SE of Vulcan. Apparently the day took a while to get good. Ross Hunter was the only one to make goal. I talked to Rob Clarkson and he made it 20km short of goal.

Today (holiday Monday) brings overcast skies and a not-so-good forecast for today and the next two days look rather rainy.

Calgary Sun article

May 19, 2008
Man injured in hang glider competition
STARS called to Vulcan scene
By KATIE SCHNEIDER, SUN MEDIA

Crashing a hang glider during a competition near Vulcan yesterday sent a 52-year-old man to hospital with serious injuries.

The accident happened about 9 km west of Vulcan, 75 km southeast of Calgary, about 2:30 p.m., when the competitor suddenly descended some 15 metres to the ground for unknown reasons, said Vulcan EMS director Dean Hartunt.

They've added the Arizona scores already to the WPRS World rankings

Brett regains his #1 ranking in Canada.
Rob moves into the top six.
Tyler's out of retirement and back in the top 10

1 (76) Brett Hazlett
2 (94) Bernard Winkelmann
3 (100) Scott Gravelle
4 (156) Mark Dowsett
5 (205) Ross Hunter
6 (227) Rob Clarkson
7 (299) Jon Orders
8 (316) Jeff Rempel
9 (412) Tyler Borrdaile
10 (503) Jim Scoles

I just found this on YouTube - good luck next week with the event.

I've been planning to do so for a while and have just been urged to put up a donations system to support my endeavors thru this site. Thanks to my first contributor for testing the system.

Most of the site is free to use for all. The only thing that is charged for is advertising (and I don't have a formal charging system in place quite yet). The site offers a lot for the world wide hang gliding and paragliding communities:

• News
• Personal Blogs