I have a few answers and questions for you mr or Mrs Rated pg person...
You wrote: I hear about how you guys like to slash each others tires, call cops on each others, threaten lives and lawsuits. This is the fine people in your club. Then you have other people like Urs Kellenberger threatening to get pilots ratings pulled. Don't want any part of your clubs nonsense. Some of the stories we hear make you guys seem psychotic. Purposely buzzing dog walkers, pedestrians and paragliders. Police arresting people at your meetings
Yep.... a lot of that has happened in the past but we have cleaned up our club and its not happening now, if you went to our meetings or flew at funston you would know that...Our club is a better place.
You wrote: -- Keep screwing things up by pissing off the paraglider pilots with your nonsense about where we can fly or not fly, and park dept with your recklessness and arrogance, and Funston will be next. No amount of "we were here first" will stop it from happening.
I'm not sure how long you have been flying in the area but yes, the hang gliding club came first, its been at funston for many years and unfortunately its not a safe ridge ( 1/4 mile long) for HG's and PG's to mix. if you don't believe that then learn to fly a HG and come on out, I'll have a few PGs fly with you and you can see first hand why its a bad idea.... And the reason it works down at the dumps is obvious, the lift band is hundreds of feet wide and high, lots of room to play...not the case at funston.
I don't see where you get the idea that "we stared this" assuming we want to impose rules on your flying site. Personally speaking I don't care what you do at your site as long as pilots don't fly into funston so I'm not sure where you get that idea from.. and you say it doesn't matter that we were here first? actually it makes all the difference, we were here first, formed the club and as a club we have decided that PGs wont launch or land here and that its not safe to mix on the ridge. why isn't that being respected?
Ill just cut to the chase and answer that for you... a number of PG pilots are getting tired of walking down to the dumps, launching and landing and then walking back up to the parking lot, I get it... its probably a pain in the ass and its not fun..
So the only place around aside from the stables launch is funston, Drive up, walk 100 ft on flat ground and go.... Perfect place for the guy or girl that cant walk up a hill.....I cant speak for everyone in the club but that's my observation.
So... steve has offered to talk to you on the phone and answer questions, I will offer the same because the negative tone, name calling and assumptions in your posts are just not what we engage in anymore, it goes nowhere fast..
Your call...
Rob Johnson
VP @ Fellow Feathers fort funston
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