[Aus-soaring] Gliding Queensland Meeting - quick report

2005-05-22 Thread Robert Hart
Hi I am just home from the QG meeting. Ralph Henderson was re-elected as president and Rob Murphy (who was elected to the GQ VP role) replaces Ralph as GFA councillor. It is going to be very important that we provide Rob Murphy with as much support as possible so that he is an effective repre

Re: [Aus-soaring] Boring

2005-05-22 Thread JR
You lucky lucky bugga, on the bright side, at least you were flying.JR - Original Message - From: "simon holding" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia.'" Sent: Sunday, May 22, 2005 11:41 AM Subject: RE: [Aus-soaring] Boring > Alice Springs -

[Aus-soaring] /juniorteam/ updated..

2005-05-22 Thread Adam Woolley
G'day All, Thought I'd let you all know that I've updated www.joeyglide.com/juniorteam/ with around 5 posts on last weekend been. Dave and I took this weekend off to save some pennies for the up-and-coming trip. We'll be back into it again this coming weekend! 180hrs since October! Adam ___

Re: [Aus-soaring] satellite imaging

2005-05-22 Thread Jason Armistead
All While the US military may have such grand plans to keep the civilian population in the dark, there are a number of commercial, non-US companies who are quite happy to sell high resolution satellite imagery to whoever is prepared to pay for it. The French had a company (SPOT ?) who have be

Re: [Aus-soaring] Gliding Queensland Meeting - quick report

2005-05-22 Thread Peter Stephenson
Hi Robert (Hart), You omitted to mention that it was a very well attended AGM by not only by SEQ clubs, proving that Gliding Queensland is a very active organisation and worthwhile supporting. This interest was undoubtedly led by your and others passion for improvement which is to be commended

Re: [Aus-soaring] Boring at Balak' ...

2005-05-22 Thread Leigh Bunting
Terry Neumann wrote: stared with the despair and disbelief at the now empty bottle. Yes, it was a right-royal tragedy that will take therapy to overcome. I will be suggesting to the committee that nothing short of a Royal Commission will be satisfactory to sort out how this could possibly ha

RE: [Aus-soaring] satellite imaging

2005-05-22 Thread Derek Ruddock
Take a look at http://meteo.deltafox.net/landsat.html This is an interface to the incredibly user-unfriendly NGA raster roam page. One advantage is that it provides the see you alibration information, rather than having to calculate it yourself. There is also a discussion forum on satellite image

Re: [Aus-soaring] Boring at Balak' ...

2005-05-22 Thread Patching
Depends whether it was core or non core. Ian P. Kookaburra Precision Soaring Team - Original Message - From: "Leigh Bunting" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia." Sent: Sunday, May 22, 2005 10:25 PM Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Boring at Balak'

Re: [Aus-soaring] state associations

2005-05-22 Thread Robert Hart
Emilis Prelgauskas wrote: Depends on how you see an administrative structure working. To the incumbent GFA President's own words, it can be a top down drivenorganisation where edicts issued from on high are faithfully promoted, cajoled and enforced by the individual pilot/club/region represe

Re: [Aus-soaring] state associations

2005-05-22 Thread Christopher Mc Donnell
Oh well! If it all gets too hard you can always vote with your feet and go gliding under CAO 95.4 para 4.1. I have been doing so since December 2002 and am very content with my decision. Christopher McDonnell - Original Message - From: "Robert Hart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Discussi

Re: [Aus-soaring] state associations

2005-05-22 Thread Robert Hart
Christopher Mc Donnell wrote: Oh well! If it all gets too hard you can always vote with your feet and go gliding under CAO 95.4 para 4.1. I have been doing so since December 2002 and am very content with my decision. Interesting - do you (or does anyone else on the list) know how many peopl

RE: [Aus-soaring] state associations

2005-05-22 Thread Brett Kettle
'walked with their feet', Robert? For a guy so careful with his words ;-) Cheers Brett Kettle -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Hart Sent: Monday, 23 May 2005 3:11 PM To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia. Subjec