Jacket Left at Wether Fell
If anyone finds or knows the whereabouts of a black and green North Face jacket that was left on the wall at Wether Fell, please can they contact me: alexcolbeck@gmail.com
Thanks.
Catch up with Tony Blacker
Congratulations to DHPC members Tony Blacker & Andrew Webster for getting selected on the British Paragliding Accuracy team. They will be competing in the World Championships in Trakai, Lithuania from 8th-19th February 2007. The comptetion takes place on a frozen lake, with well organised tow winches. For a report on the 2006 pre-world competition, see www.bhpa-accuracy.org.uk. Also on the site are details of the rest of the team and photos from previous competitions.
Accuracy competitions involve precision flying, and sometimes extreme climate conditions. Anyone interested in these competitions please contact tony@blacker.org or just book in for a local comp as advertised on the accuracy site or Skywings. If anyone knows of potential sponsors for the team, please pass on their details to Tony.
As always, a full report will be available in the Dead Centre section of Skywings after the event.
BHPA Club Coach Course 20-21/01/07
The Sir George Cayley Sailwing Club will be hosting a BHPA Club Coach course for anyone rated CP with 10 hours and above. This is the essential course to become a Club coach who’s role is to provide encouragement, education and guidance to Club Pilots, especially those fresh from flying school. Coaches are a valuable asset to any Club in helping newly qualified pilots find their feet once training is over and passing on their knowledge. If you think you could fill this role and climb to the next step in your flying “career” then contact Andy Berzins of the Cayley club:
Phone: 01964 535 436
Email: berzins1@aol.com
Further info:
The course will be held on the 20th and 21st of January 2007 at Pocklington near York.
Anyone can go but only CP pilots with 10 hours airtime can be awarded their Club Coach rating.
Accomodation can be provided.
The cost of the course is £25 (payable on the day.)
Vacant Committee Post
The position that wasn’t filled at the AGM was the Sites Officer post for the southern Dales sites (everything south of Kettlewell). Anyone in the 
club is welcome to put themselves forward for this. All we ask is a bit of your time.
The job is to handle any sites incidents (very infrequent) to maintain good relations with the land owners, search out new sites if your inclined and deliver farmer’s Christmas whisky.
Martin Baxter has the Northern Sites officer job well under control and can give advice and help to get you started.
This really is one of the crucial positions in the club since the main job of the club is to provide and maintain sites for the members to safely fly.
To find out more or stand for this post let me know on contacts@dhpc.org.uk
Cheers
Pete
Competition News
We now have a new category for all the latest Dales competition news!
More info to follow.
Dales Pilots and Club top the National XC League
Saturday the 2nd December saw the BHPA presenting the awards for the National XC League 2006. DHPC Member and CFI at ActiveEedge Dean Crosby collected the trophy for the Number One place with a massive total of 636km for his best 6 flights of 2006. Dean also collected the award for the longest straight line flight of 147km from Wether Fell and the 54 Degrees North Cup – Highest Scoring Flight North of 54 Degrees Latitude. Well done Dean for that superb winning haul!
DHPC Library – Borrow a new title at the club night
The DHPC library is available FREE to club members at the club nights. Come along and you can dip into Liz the Librarians’s bulging box and take one of the following titles;
JUST IN!
PERFORMANCE FLYING – Jockey Sanderson And the Ozone team in XC, SIV and Acro.
PARAGLIDING LEARNING TO FLY – speaks for its self?
Other new titles;
