I was not planning to post on the Hawks again. But I will, one last time. Red is and has been for many years an example for hang glider pilots to look up to. Like other accomplished individuals who have recently left the Hawks, he offered a lot of deep knowledge and promise toward making hang glidin...

"Rick Masters wrote: Rick Rick Rick..... Look at me... I'm having a fit." This isn't true. I didn't write that. This is exactly what happened on Paragliding Forum. The worthless moderators let false quotes stand by uniting in tribal behavior because they did not share my opinion. I saw it ...

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Bill Cummings wrote: Rick Masters wrote: Bob, Neither Bill nor I post on the site you give unceasing publicity toward. We have both given our reasons. Demanding others again and again to post somewhere else is not appropriate behavior. Driving off a good Director and bringing him to the point of no...

I'd like to offer my apologies to those whom I assured this problem had been resolved.
I was wrong.
I have no interest in participating in a laughingstock.
I will review my options.

I've always wanted to fly a hang glider with a big hydrogen banana attached to the top of the keel.
Wouldn't want to turn around and see my glider flying off without me, though, like Jim Bede's inflatable helium wing.
(Why not use hydrogen? Are you smoking something?)

Can't someone tow recreationally?

Sure. Once you release, of course, you are hang gliding. If it works.

Can't someone tandem recreationally?

No. Under FAR 103 tandem requires an exemption for instruction purposes only.

Of course, I support Joe Faust as an Advisory Director of the US Hawks. YES Joe, we are not real directors at this time. We are just a group offering formal opinions in private. There's been a lot of discussion about making the Hawks 501c3. It may not be the best route. A visionary (not me) had a br...

You raise a good point about ratings. FAR 103 expects hang glider pilots to regulate themselves. While not explicitly requiring a rating system, ratings are evidence of competence under FAR 103. Under FAR 103, Joe's USHGRS http://www.USHGA.AERO is absolutely equivelent to that of USHPA. Joe knows th...

The smaller BOD proposal https://media1.tenor.com/images/253c675f032218f2c0e5bbc32c3d8ecf/tenor.gif?itemid=5863726 USHPA has turned into a circus with the clowns running in circles trying to put out the fire in the bigtop with their seltzer bottles. When you have a large, well-functioning organizat...