We have 21 Members plus one Guest who've posted here at least once.
- Two of those Members plus the Guest are banned and another Member should've been.
- One of the two banned Members is dead - most likely from an opioid drug overdose.
- Five Members are non US.
Ten US Kite Strings Members also are or have been the Bob Show Emperor or Bob Show Members.
- Emperor Bob:
-- characterized one of those as an Unrepentant Child Molester, arbitrarily banned him or her out of a fake concern for the safety of his fake Subjects of Varying Ages - and had his Fake Board of Directors legitimize his action with a despicable pretense of review and process.
-- permanently locked another of those in His Basement and crippled his forum access for attacking Emperor Bob and one or two of his favorite Ass Kissers on the pretense of not knowing his actual identity (Nobody / Steve Davy - as Emperor Bob and everyone else and his dog very well know).
So that leaves on Kite Strings:
- Unrepentant Child Molester
- Dave Gills
- Larry West
- Alan Sparks
- Garrett Speeter
Unrepentant Child Molester wants nothing to do with active participation in the sport and despises the dregs who constitute over 99 percent of its participants.
Dave Gills - Pittsburg area
Larry West - Albuquerque
Alan Sparks - Denver area
Garrett Speeter - Fairbanks - got nuthin' to say to him
Think we have some critical mass potential here, Bob?
In this neck of the woods...
Biggest site ever been, ever will be - Ridgely Airpark. Public airport operated with manager's blessing/complicity as Highland Aerosports' private enterprise as far as all things hang gliding were concerned. Tandem thrill ride operation with legitimate recreational hang gliding treated as crumbs. (See Torrey Pines Gliderport / Air California Adventures.) Arrogant incompetent shit owners, operators, staffers; carnage; change of Airpark Management - collapse, extinct, never coming back; crew scattered to the winds and extinct from everything aviation.
High Rock. County owned. Backs up on Camp David, could never legally fly over the back. Secret Service went berserk in wake of 9/11. Pain-in-the-ass restrictions, McConnellsburg is available the next ridge upwind.
McConnellsburg. CHGA/MHGA owned, u$hPa insured.
Woodstock. US Forest Service.
Shenandoah National Park. Several Skyline Drive launches that don't see much action.
Daniels. Privately owned by hang glider pilot - Roger Ritenour.
Manquin. Steve Wendt owned Blue Sky Hang Gliding. Steve is exceptionally knowledgeable. Hell, he's the one that signed off Jim Keen-Intellect Rooney's instructor rating.
Training hills. Taylor, Smithsburg. Private farms, not problems.
Gonna say that there's way less than zero Mid Atlantic interest in Breaking USHPA's Monopoly Control of Flying Sites. They're all dinosaurs who've had their Threes and Fours for decades, the flying sites are all in remote mountain areas, the ridge lift bands are limitless for all practical purposes, traffic is light, hang/para conflicts are nonexistent, the only two individuals who ever made any stinks about u$hPa control - Vic Powell (an early President) and T** at K*** S****** - are gone. Vic dropped out after losing in the waiver controversy and Tad was suspended from the forum for (about) three months a bit shy of nine years ago for being disrespectful of 130 pound Greenspot Fishing Line and its High Priests.
I think the very small victory you scored with Dockweiler was the result of a Perfect Storm of special circumstances:
- extremely:
-- non towed foot launch friendly geography
-- high density population
- astronomical real estate values which translates to dearth of potential tow sites
- restricted soaring airspace which translates to:
-- high conflict between:
--- hang and para
--- commercial and recreational
-- abuse of public resources by commercial interests and corruption of government agencies
Show me somewhere else in the US with an environment like Southern California and I'll show you an environment in which you might find two or three individuals who give flying fucks. My neck of the woods... They're all u$hPa operatives and clones with nothing to worry about other than wind direction and strength.
The ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES of all the Regions in the country voted unanimously with zilch in the way of reservation to expel you for conducting yourself in a manner contrary to the Interests of The Corporation.
And here's what I had:
http://www.chgpa.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2467
weak links
Jim Rooney - 2007/07/22 22:30:28 UTC
I've heard it a million times before from comp pilots insisting on towing with even doubled up weaklinks (some want no weaklink). I tell them the same thing I'm telling you... suck it up. You're not the only one on the line. I didn't ask to be a test pilot. I can live with your inconvenience.
ONE MILLION COMP PILOTS with me on the issue which got me permanently expelled for all intents and not one of the useless goddam motherfuckers whispered a word in my defense - let alone support. And not one of them surfaced anywhere when Team Kite Strings PERMANENTLY DEMOLISHED the Standard Aerotow Weak Link and its Priesthood in the wake of the 2013/02/02 Zack Marzec inconvenience fatality.
Find some forum traffic from anywhere outside of SoCal in which anybody's making any noises like you and your guys are and concentrate you fire accordingly to have a snowball's chance in hell of accomplishing anything along the lines of your Dockweiler Crumb Days victory.
And also note that we never got, and never will get, what we wanted - which was:
- an accurate definition of the weak link (the weak link (and not the towing operation safety increaser))
- sane, legal implementation of aerotow weak links, compliant with the FAA regs under which hang gliders have been covered since 2004
But what we DID get... The weak link is the Official u$hPa Focal Point of a Safe Towing System. And since early 2013 NOBODY can tell anybody what:
- strengths anybody should be using for any implementations
- the Official u$hPa Focal Point of a Safe Towing System is supposed to do for anyone.
And that will NEVER change. The Official u$hPa Focal Point of a Safe Towing System now has a value to a tow identical to that of a four-leafed clover or lucky rabbit's foot. And the credibility of the douchebags who insisted on definitions, made claims about weak links beyond their sole purpose and specs in sailplaning?