Newcastle Hang Gliding Club Meeting 28/10/2020 (at Bar Beach Bowlo and Zoom).

Meeting commenced 730pm

Attendees: Adriaan Mulder, Jamie Oorschot, Gary ???, Harry Daniels, Donny Gardner, John Dingle, Ian Ladyman, Foxy, Cara, Al Giles, Ken Harris, Billo Olive, Matt Olive, Kyle Boyd, Tony Barton, Patrick Sheenan, Andreas.

Attendees by Zoom: John Harriot, Allan McMillan,

Apologies: JOD, Craig Hand, Karl Kindle, Rory Duncan, Fraser Vickers

Last Minutes Moved: 1st Ian, 2nd Matt.

A big welcome to new member Patrick Sheenan.  Patrick is a novice HG pilot learned 6 months ago with Tony.  He is also 737 pilot with the RAAF.

Welcome also Andreas.  Andreas is a PG pilot from Columbia.  He learned in 2006.

Flying:

• Adriaan and Donny had great fly in the Trike at Denman.  Adriaan impressed how well Microsoft flight simulator depicts the area.
• Billo flew with Atmo.
• Billo suggested we do some aerotowing from the Gloucester airstrip this summer.

 

Business from last minutes:

  The temporary sign for Hickson st launch was put on display.  No objections.  One suggestion was to replace “Fly Zone Today” with simply “Fly Zone”.  We will implement this the next opportunity.

Incident reports: none.

General Business: 

• Denman towing weekend was postponed due to poor weather.  Pete’s airstrip was flooded so no flying operations could take place.  We will keep you posted when we are advised of a new date.
• Site ratings are difficult to find on the internet/NHGC website.  Adriaan going to look into adding a site guide to the website covering our local sites.
• We are waiting for Karl/Forestry to finalize Watagans so we can update the signs for them.
• Adriaan will no longer email/sms the minutes.  He is only putting them on the club website where you find them after you log in!

New Business: None.

Comps:  15 booked for Barraba.  We expect more if the borders open.  Paypal is working if you would like to pay using it.

 

 

Financial Report:

Outgoing

-$239.17

Refund to Adriaan for payments to crazy domains and zoom

Main Account

$22,394.17

Working Account

$139.60

Paypal

$286.80

Nett position

$22,581.40

 

 

Meeting ended ±20:10pm