THE GREAT SITE EXPLORER COMPETITON - Back again for this season
If you look at the site guide, you will see over 30 launch sites listed.
How many have YOU flown?
Here is you chance to seek out and explore, and let everyone else know about it.
The Site Explorer Competition is open to all pilots HG and PG and those under instruction.
All you have to do is:
- Fly as many different launch sites from the Site Guide as you can between the 1st of September 2011 and the 1st of May 2012
- Record the site you have flown on the Site Explorer Competition Page.
Simple!
Only one flight per site counts, so you can't go crazy flying Kario, although there are a number of launch sites you can tick off at Kario in one day ;-).
The Site Explorer Leader board will show who is currently in the lead. The winner will receive a suitable prize and kudos at the end of season party.
This competition is only open to AHGPC members so you have to login first. If you can't access the competition page even after logging on contact the website admin.
So, where the bloody hell are ya?
Cheers.
Comments
Zoom Zoom
It states flights between 1st Oct to 1st May is counted. Zoom Zoom gets a headstart for some reason why?
You're not in Canungra yet
You're not in Canungra yet Anand, save it for the real competition pal...
Dates corrected
There was a typo on the date, the correct start date is 1st September.
Typo error
I would have flown at least 20 sites in Sept if I had know it was 1st Sept, .........bummer I missed it!!! may be next year.
Distinguishing PG from HG pilots
Unless you know who is who, I can't tell by the name alone who is an HG and who is a PG pilot, nor can I tell what their rating is (whether or not this really matters is another point). To heap more work on the poor webmaster, I wonder if the names can be colourised to help separate the HG from the PG pilots, say pink for PG and blue for HG.
What about Black and Blue?
Carmighty suits, by the way. Uhm...is this is my official contact to web admin...I must still be too inexperienced and unauthorized to have a look at ya sicompage. Can you do something? Thanks, Andy. Second thoughts, I'll try paying my subs first on Monday...
Lots of good things are Pink.
Wouldn't HG be yellow.
Yellow is hard to read
Gee,
As a person in the printing trade, you should know that yellow-on-white is hard to read. We could settle for baby-vomit green, perhaps.
Nice come back
But I'm not in the printing trade. Unless you count footprints.
I agree with the green, as blue on this web-page indicates a hyperlink.
But I still like Yellow.
"back again" for 2012?
If the competition is "back again" and last year was the first time it was run (that I know of), then surely it must be between the 1st of September and the 1st of May 2012 -- not "2011," or am I missing something?
Back for 2011-2012
Thanks for pointing that out John. I have updated the dates.
On a sort of related note,
On a sort of related note, there are some sites that people are flying regularly that aren't on the site guide. How does an official site come to be?
What makes a site "official"
I don't know, but common sense would suggest that:
1. We have physical/legal access to the site
2. Safety officers have checked out the site for hazards
3. Pilots regularly fly there, without incident
4. There is a site monitor
2011/12 Combined Sites Review
There are a number of Sites listed that should be on the doubtful to delete list. e.g. Private ownership that has changed many times, overgrown, in private ownership that general club members will not fly, too marginal for novice or recent PG2’s, contact for access requirements but site monitors long since departed, etc…
Monitors? As Auckland Council is now the amalgamation of several Local Councils at some stage they may become interested in paragliding cliff activities in public areas, with some sites and the occasional gap to launch worth preserving in perpetuity. There are a lot of Pohutukawa being planted.
Does the almighty Committee have any strategy on this?
Rimmer Road
Not sure if "Rimmer Road" is a Site or a Destination? The dunes are in good shape for a long fun cruise on the bar though!
And wot about....
.... landing and taking off at O'neill Bay ridge south of Maori Bay.... fair suck'o'th'sav, mate... And i formally advance your name as site monitor for consideration by 'ti committee... cool sepia photo btw