Meeting Minutes

February 2005

NTHGA meeting  2/8/05

 
Pugsley's Library;  7:25 PM
7 members present.
January meeting minutes read and accepted
Tony Estrada paid his dues to Abe

Old Business:

Awards were given out to those present: 

• Mr. Meet Director: Tony Estrada
• XC King– Greg Chastain
• Airtime King – Abe Hutchins
• Aluminum Statue Artist – Keith Brown
• Hang Gliding Rookie Award – Rob McQuirk
• Paragliding Bagwing Award – Andy
• Instructor Award – Dave Broyles
• Permanent Honorary Member / Gonna’ Miss Him Award – John Russell
• Phoenix Award – Warren Puckett 

 
Parachute clinic still on schedule for March 18-19.  Betty Pfiefer will be here.   Clinic at Story Elementary in Allen.   Contact Dave.   $50.00
Presidents Holiday fly in at Guads.   Tony, Greg and Kent are going.

New Business:

Visitor for 2nd year in a row from Canada:  Fred Wilson.  He is the Canadian Accident Analyst.   He is also an USHGA member because he is retired and flies extensively in the USA.   He and Dave are working on a web site for accident reporting for the USA / N. America.   Also brought a visitation site report on his computer for the evening’s entertainment.  Beautiful pictures of British Colombia’s many flying sites.   He has invited our club up to fly them all.    Dave made a motion to extend our thanks to Fred by giving him honorary membership in the club.   The motion passed.

New meeting night:   Due to 3 scheduling conflicts with rooms at Pugsley's  we checked with management and found the 1st Thursday to be the most available and compatible with the member’s schedules.    So the Meeting is moving in March and will be on March 3rd at 7:00 PM at Pugsley's.

Fred Wilson suggested and we discussed different meeting formats to bring out more pilots.   He suggested we have campouts / meetings at different flying sites each month on the weekends.   We had trouble finding more than one local site.   We also discussed advertising hg and pg on local TV  / Newspapers.   Further discussion next month.

Buffalo Mtn work weekend on March 26th.   Try and be there to help clean up and fly.

Tony said he would plan another Texas Shootout this year… date undetermined so far.

The Texas Open is scheduled to be at Leakey again.

Dave is going to the BOD meeting next month.   Let him know what's on your mind for the national organization.