Welcome to Bollington Paragliding Club.

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Welcome
to
Bollington Paragliding Club
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BPC welcome CD Issue 3.4
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Bollington Paragliding Club

• We are a small group of enthusiastic paragliding
  pilots who are able to share the opportunity for
  excitement, thrills, pleasure and challenge,
  offered by the sport of paragliding. We operate
  at Barton Aerodrome, Manchester.
• Usually.
• Thats because sometimes we actually do fly
  elsewhere, some of our members get together, and
  take a flying holiday abroad. We also fly at
  other UK sites. Sometimes, they all come back!
• Being a BHPA member usually means it is very cost
  effective to simply join other clubs on a day
  ticket (if available), or annually.
• Thats straight from our website, which is
  www.bollingtonpc.org.uk

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Barton airfield

• We normally fly from Barton airfield, which,
  since Peel Holdings bought it, is now a CAP700
  airfield. This means that there are now full time
  staff, and a host of rules and regulations. Some
  of which, actually apply to us!

Here we are! (The car park is at
refSJ7431997077)
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Barton Airfield layout.
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Car park
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Pilot Training

• The training schedule with us, is standard BHPA
  fare (at BHPA.co.uk). This is NOT to be confused
  with any other BHPA! (some other money-making
  groups try to use the goodwill good name of our
  national governing body to line their pockets).
• We are not a profit making club, all we charge
  club members is enough to keep us flying. For
  example, our annual subs have stayed the same for
  the last three years!
• This makes us a very cost effective way into the
  sport. If the weather is not ideal, then you
  dont have to slog back down the hill, you get
  driven off the field! All your skills learned
  with us are applicable to hill flying (youd need
  a suitable crossover course).
• We need to fuel the Landrover and replace any kit
  that needs replacing (includes state of the art
  gliders).
• You need no equipment to join, other than stout
  boots, without hooked eyes. And some form of
  overall, is a very good idea. In the morning, the
  grass can be very wet.

We are an officially recognised BHPA school. We
are agents for Windtech paragliders
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Pilot Training

• The levels of pilot rating are
• Elementary Pilot (EP)
• The first level of progression
• Club Pilot (CP)
• This means that you may fly without the
  supervision of an Instructor
• Pilot (P)
• Now arent you getting carried away?
• Advanced Pilot (AP)
• Whats next, the Himalayas?

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The Parachute Landing Fall (PLF)
The first thing you'll be taught is the PLF. This
needs to be demonstrated on the ground (we have a
large plastic sheet, to keep those nice new
overalls clean!). This is a skill that will be
with you for life. It is used to dissipate excess
energy from a hard landing. The Parachute Landing
Fall consists of five points of contact1)
Balls of the feet.2) Calf muscle.3) Thigh
muscle.4) Buttocks.5) Lat's.
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And heres how it looks in practice
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Your first flight

• Will be using our Waterbird round canopy. You may
  have seen this type of canopy on holiday.
• Once youve mastered the PLF, and have more
  experience of flying, you will be progressed onto
  our training square, the famous pink blamanche
  (next slide)!

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Hey, lookit that handsome fella! Feet together,
hands on rear risers.
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Your first square canopy flight.

• This is the first type of canopy you can actually
  steer effectively.
• And off you go on your first square flight!
• Great fun.

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Stevie M. on our GQ360 (10/6/07)
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Other squares may come next.
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But, you will soon be shown the benefit of high
performance, modern gliders
This is the type you may have seen on hills. This
canopy is our Windtech Tonic club canopy. We have
two, a small and a medium (how many pies do you
eat?)
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• We get the occasional visitor

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And we do get out from time to time
Videos
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Faz at Luffenham on SkyLincs winch.
Glen at Beyond Extreme on Russs winch.
Loadsa fun
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Not forgetting the star of our show
The Landrover, that is!
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On this CD, there are a lot offiles to
browseenjoy.

• An MP4 file, called Stevo.MP4 is an especially
  fun movie, a flight in our New Wave 350 from the
  pilots viewpoint. (Dont have the software to
  trim it, nor to insert it into this
  presentation.) It just came out really well.
• Shame the pilot missed the spot on landing
• A couple more for your delectation

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The take off
The landing
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How (much), where when?

• First of all, we try to keep our costs at a
  minimum, so it changes every year. Talk to our
  Chief Flying Instructor (better yet, get on his
  right side, and buy him a cup of tea!)
• At Barton Aerodrome (Google maps)
• On Saturday Sunday morning, 0645hrs in the car
  park (bank holidays, too, usually). Through
  summer only (usually runs from April to September
  ish, check our website). Look for our Landrover.
  After that, look up. Before 0800, you may just
  walk over to us onto the airfield for a chat,
  wed love to meet you.
• Disclaimer We reserve the right to refuse
  membership, to change the rules at anytime, and
  to otherwise do as we see fit, in the interests
  of everyones safety, and the sport in general!
  So there!

Show put together by Pete B 10/6/2007
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