NHGC Meeting 31/8/2022
Location: Bar Beach Bowling Club, Meeting start 7:30pm
Attendees: Kieren Black, Craig Hand, Craig Flannagan, Jamie Oorschot, John O’donohue, Harry Daniels, Ken Harris, Gary Herman, Adriaan Mulder.
Zoom: Brad Patfield, John Harriot, Tony O’Conner
Apologies: Karl Kindle, Dustin Hansen, Rod Moore, John Dingle, Billo
Last Minutes Accepted: 1st Craig Hand, 2nd Ken Harris
~1 min silence to acknowledge death of Adam Parer 8 years ago on this day.
Flying:
Sunday- Jamie, Rod, Craig F, Bill Payne & Scott Colliers had a lovely fly at Booti Booti. Same day was an epic fly at Dudley, Cameron’s first time. Hope to see some 360 footage from Cameron soon.
Incidents: Kieren tried to fly Seal Rocks dunes in 30kn. Needed assistance by general public to stop glider going backwards. Classic case of “Too Keen”!
Old Business
Cameron Evans happy to take on role as clubs Social Media Officer. He has created a Club Facebook page and Instagram Page. Cameron met with Adriaan, Jamie, Franz and Kieren to discuss all the club social media accounts, how to connect them to the club website, ideas to get more young people and women into the sport. Presented Cameron with INSTA360 one X2 camera. This is a club asset (like the president’s laptop). Hopefully Cameron will get some good footage and post on Social Media.
New Business
Idea to get 5 local social media “influencers” a tandem flight to help boost the sports profile. Tony tried in the past with no success. To do again Tony will charge $180 each, Ward ok to do for free.
Sites (nominated person gives update)
Hunter – Rod Moore ok to be main contact. Rod gets on really well with Elisha and Peter (new bombout landowners). Jamie nearly sorted out an old hang glider to help train Anna’s horse. Craig H, Kieren, Rod and Brad have offered to help. Had another flying incident where two HG pilots scared her horse. Main issue was that Anna was not notified anybody was flying. Anna’s comments via sms with Jamie;
“Hi Jamie, not happy. About to ride the horse and can see a glider in the sky.”
“Not happy at all! Horse is getting used to them but still dangerous given they still swoop down low over our paddocks to land.”
“We will be building an arena on the near future and will also have our kids riding so wont be happy if this continues!”
“Is there a governing body for hang gliding? I’d like to make myself more aware of what the rules are regarding the sport.”
Correct procedure would have been for the pilot on the day to let Anna know of their intention to fly. Usually Anna will coordinate her horse activities around flying activities. The sooner we get out there to help train her horse the better - before another incident.
Lake st Claire – (John Harriot – request for new caretaker). Weather station still not done. Jamie hope to make in ~2 weeks?
Hooley Dooleys – Patto. Weatherstation needs a new battery but still working ok during the day.
Bombala – Ian Ladyman? Working bee at launch cleared much vegetation and dead trees either side of launch.
Merewether – ? New windsock up by Jamie and Craig Flanagan.
Heaton Launches – Royce & Jamie. No update.
Carmel’s – Alan McMillan? No update.
Booti Booti – Bill Payne. Launch looking great. Needs more work down the front to remove large stumps and high bushes on the cliff edge.
Comps – No Update. 4 people signed up.
Treasurers Report
Main Account 17,667.81
Second Account 510.35
Paypal 1,440.70
Total 19,618.86
Main expense this month is $892 for Insta360 one X2 camera (inc 256GB card and spare battery).
Meeting ended ~830pm
