USHPA renewal help?

[Bill Cummings]

Can anyone help me out here?
I don’t have a Smart Phone or a printer.
(click on attachment to see full membership card if scroll bar appears to the right.)

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[wingspan33]

What are you hoping to do, Bill?

[Bill Cummings]

What are you hoping to do, Bill?

Have one of my RGSA/Hawks members with a printer print me a wallet card
so that I have proof of waiver and insurance at a controlled site.

[wingspan33]

Okay.

But wait a minute, . . . If you don't have an internet connection, or a printer, you can't (effectively) prove you're a u$hPa member - even if you are?

[Bill Cummings]

Okay.

But wait a minute, . . . If you don't have an internet connection, or a printer, you can't (effectively) prove you're a u$hPa member - even if you are?

I was thinking before expulsion proceeding for Bob K., that I would just rely on the innocent until proven guilty doctrine that anyone trying to bar me from a controlled site would have to prove I’m not a member of USHPA but I can see that’s not going to work.

[wingspan33]

Bill,

I could print it up for you and then mail it to you, if you'd like. Is the image file directly from u$hPa or is it a snap shot (or other type of copy) of the image? The printed out "card" should be a "first generation" version.

Also, do they give you directions for printing it up? If I do this for you, I should do it right. You'd think that they'd suggest printing it on card stock - not plain paper. Let me know.

WS

PS - You could PM me your address.

[Bill Cummings]

Thanks for the offer. Robin and I were going to open my email at his house because his printer works. We went flying today at Magdalena Rim NNW of Las Cruces NM and forgot about it until your post. So If we don't forget after flying at Dry Canyon Alamogordo tomorrow evening we'll bring up the original copy from USHPA and print as per their directions. Thanks again. I think I'm good.

[wingspan33]

Bill,

I recently picked up a used HTC tablet and just downloaded the app for reading bar (and QR) codes. I "scanned" your above QR Code thingy and what do you know? It works! Really surprising!

My tablet showed me all your info - and even had a link to the u$hPa's web site to boot.

What'll they think of next?

[Bill Cummings]

Bill,

I recently picked up a used HTC tablet and just downloaded the app for reading bar (and QR) codes. I "scanned" your above QR Code thingy and what do you know? It works! Really surprising!

My tablet showed me all your info - and even had a link to the u$hPa's web site to boot.

What'll they think of next?

WS,
I know! It is simply amazing this technology movement in the USHPA!
How easy this information can be accessed if you have a Smart Phone or a printer. (Which I don’t.)

Oh, and hey --- If I had some bacon I could have bacon and eggs--- if I had the eggs. (which I don’t.)

Robin Hastings printed up my download (sounds like some kind of double reverse huh?) from the USHPA after we returned from flying at Dry Canyon today.

I folded the cutout membership card (paper) and with some 3M clear packaging tape I made a water proof laminate. The two inch wide packaging tape wasn’t quite wide enough so I had to overlap in the middle vertically which left a slightly less than classy appearance together with some trapped air bubbles. The diagonal crinkle of tape slightly obscures some of my extensive signoffs.

I used my last issued rating card and my FAA Exemption No. 4144 card (for being towed with ultralights) as sandwich stiffeners so that my print out doesn’t get wrinkled in my wallet.

Interesting find here, I was able to confirm the 4144 numbers on the exemption card by looking backwards through one side of Zephyr 7 X 35 binoculars. (Don't anyone try and tell us that USHPA doesn't have class.)

At the end of the day I still don’t remember the last time I actually flashed my prestigious rating card to fly somewhere away from home so most likely I’ll never be embarrassed by my wallet card. I expect that I'll be able to sit on that information.