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Minutes |
2/7/01 |
| For the general membership meeting held on the
above date At the following location: |
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| Bill & Christine Bailey's House 540 Vista Vallejo Santa Barbara, CA 93105 |
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| The meeting opened about 7:25 pm | |
| Welcome Guest & New Members: Chad Bastian, Mark Pratt, Marcos Chaippe | |
| Bylaw & Website Notation | |
| Minutes from last months meeting ratified | |
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Flight Stories |
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Dan Keyser |
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Hawaii, 1,500 vertical cliff, 500 over launch |
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Benson Lamb |
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Good flights have been elusive, will report next meeting |
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Chad Bastian |
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Palm Springs, Tow up 1,500 agl with payout
winch, climb to 28 agl, 38 msl, good potential. |
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Hesham Ghobarah |
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First unsupervised flight from the Skyport, Hitched up to launch, no other paraglider pilots present, evaluated and laid out, other pilots showed up, was wind dummy, climbed in thermal off launch to 650 over |
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Zvi Eshel |
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Pass |
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Bill Bailey |
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Climbed the nut house for the first time with a touch of the flu, launched last and got to 43, landed in field next to own house near Thatcher |
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Kristi Bechtold |
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Mexico weekend. |
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Claud Fiest |
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New launch off the Ojai Valley Foundation, 400 vertical, kids cleared launch for him, did several tandems, working to establish relationship with Foundation to utilize hill for training, climb out potential in right conditions |
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Marcos Chaippe |
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Flew with Hans and Alberto from the VOR to the Morgan Ranch, getting to cloud base |
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Brendan Pegg |
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First flight from the Nut House, skeptical, wind dummies weren't encouraging, got up right away off launch, flew for an hour + and landed at the High School, likes the technical nature of the site, XC required |
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Mark Pratt |
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Oat Mountain with Ron G and Tim S a couple of years ago, cloud suck & big ears |
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Edward Skow |
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Flying wing, big, fast, heavy, and it will be spending the night in the tree tops off 33 |
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Ron Faoro |
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Posted flights on web site, first pilot to launch twice from the Nut House in one day (Benson previously had the first top landing but didn't relaunch) |
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Bob Hurlbett |
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Up to 4,300 off the Nut House, got to 43 at Pyramid Peak, glide out across Nordhoff High with 1,000 to spare, continued across next hill and landed in the school yard next to 33 south of the HS |
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Tom Truax |
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Crossed the pass on 3 consecutive weekends. Landed on launch at Chiefs in snow, quiet and peaceful |
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Tom Beidler |
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Got to launch late a couple of times. A good mid week flight, up at launch head to the factory, 42 and on course for first XC in SB, land at the Polo Fields |
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Reports |
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Treasurer, Bob Santoro |
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Bob wasn't present, sent notice that we have
$775.80 in bank + collections at meeting: |
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IS Director / Casey Rogers with Tom Truax & Tom Beidler |
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Casey not present, discussion page protocol,
progress on member info |
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Old Business |
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The Rock |
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Dan Keyser research the county records and it
looks like Cory owns all the way to the North Side of the Road |
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Logo |
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New logo's were circulated, feedback was limited and no formal discussion, no action taken |
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Picture |
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Zvi brought framed picture from Chiefs Peak for all to sign, picture will be given to the Ranger Station in appreciation of work done on road |
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Frank |
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Card and cactus were delivered to Frank by Dan Keyser for holidays, cactus was planted in Frank's front yard |
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| New Business | |
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Radio License |
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Dan Keyser suggest pilots get a license, test
2nd Saturday of Odd Months, link: |
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Radio Frequency |
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Discussion about having an XC frequency, tasked
out to committee, |
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Contest / Barbeque |
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Bob Hurlbett will head committee, may have fly in at Bill's Place in Ojai this Fall |
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Contributing Member |
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Edward Skow was voted to the position of contributing member and his dues were wavied |
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Bylaws |
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Amendments to the bylaws as noticed on the discussion page were passed |
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A Suggestion was made to give a letter
of appreciation to the Ventura County Helicopter Rescue Department |
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Announcements |
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Cotes Cliff / Mexico |
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Weather looks iffy, so... will decide by Friday |
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Turkey |
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June 5-17, Zvi is coordinating trip |
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Next Meeting |
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7 PM, Wednesday, April 11 |
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Tony Deleo's House |
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Summary & Close about 9:20 |
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| Entertainment | |
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Zvi gave a presentation about trip to Turkey with pictures on the TV monitor |
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| Hospitality | |
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Bill supplied his house and made enough curry, rice, and dessert for 20 |
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