The weekend is coming - yippee!
The weekend is coming, the weekend is coming - yippee!
This weekend is the first annual "Golden Glassoff" for paragliding and hang gliding pilots. I'm SO looking forward to it. It's a costume party, plus friendly flying competition out in, you guessed it, Golden, BC.
After stressing over finding a half-decent costume I never did find, I decided to settle for something less than ideal. Oh well, whatever. 5 years from now, nobody's going to be like "Oh yeah, you were that chick who wore that crappy costume in Golden".
Too bad I haven't flown for a couple weeks now - I'd love to get some practice in. I truly have been busy lately, and combined with the still crappy weather, there have been very few opportunities to fly. Everytime it seems like a decently flyable day, the windtalker out in Cochrane reminds me that the wind is blowing out of the Northwest. And when I look at the mountains, there's snow on them...I still have SOME hope of flying off Prairie this season yet. We'll see.
Over the last week or so, what I have been doing is researching how and where to take the HAGAR (hang gliding air regulations exam). Being a requirement for intermediate paragliding pilots, I figure now's as good as time as any to get it. Unfortunately there are so many friggen politics with Transport Canada involved, that it's just silly. Long story short, there are some local flying centres (for airplane pilots) which offer the exam. It costs about a hundred bucks, and all you get is the exam - no prepping material, no nothing.
I don't want to put 100 of my hard-earned dollars on the line attempting to pass an exam I don't have much of a chance doing. I need to study! HPAC (the Hang gliding and Paragliding Association of Canada) is trying to smoothen this ridiculous and expensive test-taking process, as it was only changed recently. Apparently Transport Canada administered the exam in the past, and it was about $35. HPAC did develop a study guide that's available online though - at least this is a start. http://www.hpac.ca/pub/?pid=95
A couple of us might try to round up some other pilots interested in taking the exam, and try to get a group test-taking rate or something. Maybe we could all share the knowledge we do have about the material on the exam, and make sure everybody passes. I can't wait until I pass this exam, and I can't wait too until this weekend!
Crappy weather, or beautiful weather, this weekend will kick ass!
This weekend is the first annual "Golden Glassoff" for paragliding and hang gliding pilots. I'm SO looking forward to it. It's a costume party, plus friendly flying competition out in, you guessed it, Golden, BC.
After stressing over finding a half-decent costume I never did find, I decided to settle for something less than ideal. Oh well, whatever. 5 years from now, nobody's going to be like "Oh yeah, you were that chick who wore that crappy costume in Golden".
Too bad I haven't flown for a couple weeks now - I'd love to get some practice in. I truly have been busy lately, and combined with the still crappy weather, there have been very few opportunities to fly. Everytime it seems like a decently flyable day, the windtalker out in Cochrane reminds me that the wind is blowing out of the Northwest. And when I look at the mountains, there's snow on them...I still have SOME hope of flying off Prairie this season yet. We'll see.
Over the last week or so, what I have been doing is researching how and where to take the HAGAR (hang gliding air regulations exam). Being a requirement for intermediate paragliding pilots, I figure now's as good as time as any to get it. Unfortunately there are so many friggen politics with Transport Canada involved, that it's just silly. Long story short, there are some local flying centres (for airplane pilots) which offer the exam. It costs about a hundred bucks, and all you get is the exam - no prepping material, no nothing.
I don't want to put 100 of my hard-earned dollars on the line attempting to pass an exam I don't have much of a chance doing. I need to study! HPAC (the Hang gliding and Paragliding Association of Canada) is trying to smoothen this ridiculous and expensive test-taking process, as it was only changed recently. Apparently Transport Canada administered the exam in the past, and it was about $35. HPAC did develop a study guide that's available online though - at least this is a start. http://www.hpac.ca/pub/?pid=95
A couple of us might try to round up some other pilots interested in taking the exam, and try to get a group test-taking rate or something. Maybe we could all share the knowledge we do have about the material on the exam, and make sure everybody passes. I can't wait until I pass this exam, and I can't wait too until this weekend!
Crappy weather, or beautiful weather, this weekend will kick ass!
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