2010
By Dizzy at 2010-07-22 11:31
The July event for the Northern California Cross Country League will be held at Dunlap on 24th and 25th July. Please meet at the Community center in Dunlap at 9.30am on Saturday morning ready to go up the hill.
The league is open to all pilots- hang glider and paraglider pilots are all welcome to attend. It is designed to train pilots in cross country flying by flying fixed routes with more abled pilots (aka Joshneric). There is a mentoring program to assist the more junior pilots.
We are excited to announce the 1st Annual Crestline Flying Stuff Swap Meet!
All Day July 10th at the Fly In.
Bring anything you want to sell that is related to hang gliding, paragliding or RC’ing.
Gliders, harnesses, helmets, electronics, parts and pieces are all welcome, even old T-shirts would be fun.
You price it, you sell it, you are responsible for it.
10% of the profits from your sales are donated to CSS up to a max of $50.
I met the Airsites tower owner, Bill Cody, this morning at Crestline launch and installed the replacement temperature/humidity sensor for Simba, so we now have temperature data in our wind graph again. Rebar Dan went up the other tower and cleaned the clear dome on the PTZ cam, so the views are clearer now. Airsites had a new dish installed on the tower with the cams and anemometers, and the Windtalker anemometer was sort of in the wind shadow (for SW) of the new dish, so I raised that up a foot or so to be in the clear.
Have any pilots or others mentioned to you that they simply can't get to this website from certain locations?
A few weeks back there was an attack on the server our website shares with a bunch of other websites and many IP addresses were blocked from accessing any websites on that server. For instance, the connection address of the XC Ranch house was blocked, so there was no way to access our website from the house or the LZ, if using the XC Ranch wireless access point.
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The CSS Spring 2010 General Meeting will be at the landing zone as the flying day ends, 24 April, 2010.
This is one of two General Meetings held each year by the Board, as directed by the club by-laws. Any member may raise any topic for discussion and vote at the general meeting.
See CSS President Megret Olewiler's blog to get an idea of the hot topics.
The CSS rented a bulldozer with a 4-Way scoop for some more work at the XC Ranch. Pilot Gene Embry plans to run the dozer Fri-Mon. The first task is to reroute the drainage from above the house so that it goes east of the house and the LZ. Currently it wraps west around the house and between the training hill and the NE corner of the LZ. They'll also be running a road from Via Testes up to the 'mesa' above the training hill and grading the pads for the RV hook-ups.
 Climbs the road with ease loaded with four pilots. Very stable, smooth, and secure-feeling.
 Gene's on the dozer at the upper right, Mike Zeller's running Gracie at the lower left.
 The CSS rented a bulldozer with a 4-Way scoop for some more work at the XC Ranch. Pilot Gene Embry plans to run the dozer Fri-Mon. The first task is to reroute the drainage from above the house so that it goes east of the house and the LZ. Currently it wraps west around the house and between the training hill and the NE corner of the LZ.
Simba is hooked up to the weather station and the internet, so the weather graph and table are working again!
Bill Cody, the tower owner, made a special trip out to Crestline (2 hour drive for him) today so I could get in the building and put the computer back into the system. A couple of days ago I found that the internet settings had inadvertently gotten screwed up while the box was in for service, which was why it wouldn't connect with the LAN. Discovering and fixing this problem required connecting to Simba via a serial terminal, which I'd not had to do previously.
The CSS MarshallCam is back online! I got the DSL settings at the new tower location sorted out and the camera started posting automatically, as it's supposed to. I can't get a response from the Simba weather computer from outside the locked building so there's no weather data as yet. Perhaps that problem is something as simple as a bad ethernet cable.
4/11/10: UpdateIt turns out the little computer, Simba, that connects to the weather station isn't connecting to the LAN. This is what they 'repaired' in December, at no charge. I'd gladly pay actual money to have an actual repair! I hadn't tried it before now because the weather station equipment was down.
I just got a phone call from Paul Montville telling me that the recall vote was 52% in favor of the recall and 42% against.
Leading up to the close of the election, a friend said that if I were recalled it would be like getting a divorce ... from someone I really really hated. I certainly don't hate USHPA, but I have felt from the very beginning that I was asking the Board to do things that were just against their nature.
The results of the recall are in. Bob K.
recalled. Bill Helliwell is elected as new Region 3 Director.
Spent the day installing the CSS weather station, webcam, and windtalker at the antenna towers next to Crestline launch. Best location for them yet - no obstructions or terrain issues of any kind in any direction. The windtalker no longer requires 'interpretation' - what she says is what it is. (909)-338-3362 for the wind report.
The DSL line wasn't connecting to the internet, but the weather station and webcam are ready to go when the phone company sorts that out. Dan's aimable PTZ camera is up there and will also be available soon. The static webcam now looks southeast, to see Marshall Peak, so we won't see what's coming from L.A. with it (like the smog front) but Dan's cam will handle that, plus views of Crestline launch and more.
 Webcams and wind sensors installed on the towers next to Crestline launch, 4/3/2010.
 Rain gauge and humidity/temperature sensors installed on the towers next to Crestline launch, 4/3/2010.
 Webcams and wind sensors installed on the towers next to Crestline launch, 4/3/2010.
 Here's the new gate on 2N40, installed for the USFS by Crestline Soaring Society members.
Having this gate will benefit pilots because the USFS now has the option to close the road, if needed, ABOVE the 750 launch site.
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