Manifesto

Tad Eareckson · Post by **Tad Eareckson** » 2014/03/13 19:05:43 UTC

http://ozreport.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=30971
Zach Marzec

Kinsley Sykes - 2013/02/17 16:04:16 UTC

Deltaman and Zach seem to be jumping on Jim for not using facts.. while not using RELEVANT facts to make their case.. When these guys agree with themselves on a forum where they all talk to each other, (http://www.kitestrings.org/forum2.html) no big deal, but I worry that folks will read the lack of response as some sort of endorsement of these positions. Actually, if you are on the fence, but think maybe these "strong weaklink" guys have a point, please go to that forum and read through it. Then see if you want to trust your life to their theories..

s Did anybody ever stop YOU from entering the conversation? The way Davis, Jack, Bob, Cragin, Peter, all the other cowardly internet shits have stopped me from participating in conversations?

- What's the theory to which you're trusting your life now? The one that's proffered by sleazebags too paranoid to allow people with critical positions into the conversations?

-- Jim Keen-Intellect Rooney...

http://ozreport.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=24846
Is this a joke ?

Jim Rooney - 2011/08/25 04:55:25 UTC

It always amazes to hear know it all pilots arguing with the professional pilots.
I mean seriously, this is our job.
We do more tows in a day than they do in a month (year for most).

We *might* have an idea of how this stuff works.

...*might* have an idea of how this stuff works even though...

Jim Rooney - 2013/02/13 19:09:33 UTC

It was already worked out by the time I arrived.
The reason it sticks?
Trail and error.

...it was already worked out by the time he arrived and things stick because of quite literally hundreds of thousands of tows worth of trail and error using the same fishing line.

-- HOW it was worked out before Jim Keen-Intellect Rooney arrived...

http://www.questairforce.com/aero.html
Aerotow FAQ

Weak Link

The strength of the weak link is crucial to a safe tow. It should be weak enough so that it will break before the pressure of the towline reaches a level that compromises the handling of the glider but strong enough so that it doesn't break every time you fly into a bit of rough air. A good rule of thumb for the optimum strength is one G, or in other words, equal to the total wing load of the glider. Most flight parks use 130 lb. braided Dacron line, so that one loop (which is the equivalent to two strands) is about 260 lb. strong - about the average wing load of a single pilot on a typical glider. For tandems, either two loops (four strands) of the same line or one loop of a stronger line is usually used to compensate for nearly twice the wing loading. When attaching the weak link to the bridle, position the knot so that it's hidden from the main tension in the link and excluded altogether from the equation.

IMPORTANT - It should never be assumed that the weak link will break in a lockout.
ALWAYS RELEASE THE TOWLINE before there is a problem.

...using only 130 pound Greenspot which:

--- SHOULD break before the pressure of the towline reaches a level that compromises the handling of the glider but fucking obviously...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27yFcEMpfMk

...DOESN'T - so you're dead anyway if you're locking out low and can't blow your release in time

--- SHOULDN'T break every time you fly into a bit of rough...

0:50
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JR_4jKLqrus

...or perfectly smooth air but fucking obviously DOES...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTKIAvqd7GI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYe3YmdIQTM

...and frequently inconveniences people, often seriously, sometimes fatally

If you go to The Flight Park Tad Runs, weak link theory is:

Tost Flugzeuggerätebau

Weak links protect your aircraft against overloading.

- The weak link protects your aircraft against overloading.

- Gliders:

http://vimeo.com/26210217

-- are very strong so don't need much protection against overloading

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1LbRj-NN9U

-- stall when weak links break

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bRrpHNa68iY/UQ6Pv9gRZyI/AAAAAAAAjTg/Hc22bx5122Q/s2048/20943781_BG1.jpg

- Stalls are dangerous - so don't use weak links that break when the glider's not being stressed.

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- Gliders can get very dangerously locked out on very dangerously understrength weak links - so it's a monumentally stupid idea to try to make lockouts less dangerous by making weak links more dangerous.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_n5B3-MIC4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9fQuDzFuCE

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9Ek9_lFeSII/UZ4KuB0MUSI/AAAAAAAAGyU/eWfhGo4QeqY/s1024/GOPR5278.JPG
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3725/9665623251_612b921d70_o.png

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Xh_NfnOcUns/UZ4Lm0HvXnI/AAAAAAAAGyk/0PlgrHfc__M/s1024/GOPR5279.JPG

- Glider's typically drop like bricks for long distances after lockouts - regardless of whether they're released by a pilot or popped off by a Rooney Link - so don't expect to be able to get into a low level lockout and come out alive regardless of what equipment you're using or whether or not you've been at an around all this plenty long enough to understand what's what and who's who.

- If you're really good at flying locked out gliders with one hand...

01-001

04-200

05-215

07-300

10-307

11-311

15-413

...it's acceptable to fly with a release actuator within easy reach. Otherwise...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rh3-uZptNw0

...use a release that ISN'T totally useless in an emergency.

- Whenever somebody boasts of the long track record of a piece of equipment ask him how many people have been killed in the course of establishing it.

The theory from The Flight Park Tad Runs tells you that you need:
- two hands on the basetube at all times - especially when your life is dependent upon you aborting the tow
- very good release equipment with very good bench test results and very short track records
- to:
-- fully comply with:
--- FAA aerotowing regulations
--- the laws of physics
-- watch enough lockout videos to get a grip on reality
-- function as Pilot In Command
-- be able to function as Pilot In Command
-- use a:
--- weak link:
---- two to three times as heavy as what everybody else is using
---- proportional to the load capacity of your glider
--- two point bridle rather than a loop of 130 pound fishing line to keep the glider from attaining dangerously high pitch attitudes
--- tug pilot who:
---- can't fix whatever's going on back there by giving you the rope
---- won't ever make a good decision in the interest of your safety
-- accept the facts that:
--- if you lock out low you'll be just as dead as you would if you locked out coming off a mountain launch ramp
--- the greatest dangers are a rope break or a premature release
-- abandon your concept of a loop of fishing line as a benevolent supernatural entity:
--- concerned solely with your personal safety
--- qualified to always instantly execute the best decision in the interest of your safety
--- that won't fatally inconvenience you in a New York minute if the towline tension exceeds the breaking point at the wrong time
-- discount as the sleazebags they are assholes who tell you that fatal tow crashes:
--- are the consequences of muppets thinking that they can fix bad things and not wanting to start over
--- will never be understood when the guy who's just died doing what he loved was one of their hotshot buddies

So c'mon, OP... You've obviously got a pretty strong interest in the weak link issue...

http://ozreport.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=31432
Free* weak link tensile testing.

...along with a deep passion for advancing safer free flight. Kinsley here is a bit confused on the issue but in danger of falling prey to the forces of...

http://ozreport.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=30971
Zach Marzec

Kinsley Sykes - 2013/02/18 14:32:01 UTC

Overall this actually makes some sense...

...Tad's Hole In The Ground. Give him some guidance. Help get him back on track before he starts using one of these Tad-O-Links:

like the one that didn't break when Paul Tjaden wanted it to and allowed him to lock out while he was flying his topless with one hand in violent thermal conditions.

Tad Eareckson · Post by **Tad Eareckson** » 2014/03/13 20:39:54 UTC

Hey OP...

Here's what it says in all the relevant Wills Wing owners' manuals regarding the suspension spreader:

Verify that the main hang loop spreader bar is positioned just below the bottom surface.

And here's what one typically finds a huge chunk of the assholes in this sport doing:

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1504

That means:
- These individuals have ZERO:
-- ability to follow simple written instructions
-- understanding of the function of kingpost suspension
-- advantage in roll control authority resulting from the kingpost suspension design
- Their dealers - who are all instructors from Wills Wing approved schools - suck at their jobs.
- The largest glider manufacturer in the world sucks at its job of qualifying their dealers.
- There's not enough critical mass in the IQ department in the hang gliding "community" to get this issue fixed.

And while this issue in and of itself is no big fucking deal it's symptomatic of the problem that less than one percent of hang gliding participants are able to understand:

- what: "just prior to launch" means in the universal USHGA foot launch regulation:

With each flight, demonstrates a method of establishing that the pilot is hooked in just prior to launch.

- the purpose of the weak link:

Tost Flugzeuggerätebau

Weak links protect your aircraft against overloading.

And those issues DO translate to a helluva lot of death and destruction.

So...

http://www.hanggliding.org/viewtopic.php?t=28581
How to get banned from kitestrings.org ((tad drama)lol)

Orion Price - 2013/03/12 15:20:37 UTC

Wow, that was the weirdest thing I've ever seen. 71 pages of .... well you can see what it is. The ignorant building an obelisk to the unknown. Weird world out there.

As you can plainly see from the schematic below:

Why? Who would spend the time to make this shit.

Like... NOBODY. These total fucking morons are incapable of understanding that the purpose of the spreader is not to keep the tops of their carabiners from being crushed and sliding them up to the point at which they serve an actual positive function so...

Orion Price - 2014/03/07

I have reason to believe he is not an engineer; as his designs are unsafe, untested, and his method is against our purpose of safe free flight.

How come you're so terrified of the idea that somebody's gonna spend the time to make my shit, put it in the air, and kill himself when the evidence is that in the seven or eight years since I've been making my designs available only one other person on the planet - in France - has actually spent the time to make this shit and put it in the air - and so far he's much less dead than a lot of people who've gone up on the crap that Bobby Bailey has "designed"?

Do you frequently hear voices that nobody else does?

Tad Eareckson · Post by **Tad Eareckson** » 2014/03/22 10:19:54 UTC

http://www.energykitesystems.net/Lift/hgh/TadEareckson/index.html

Orion Price - 2014/03/07

Next week, when I have time, I will address all of your enumerated points. You have good questions and I feel I can address them all.

But, big surprise, you didn't address ANY of his enumerated points in the next week - or the week after that. Addressing points isn't something sleazy little parasites like you...

http://ozreport.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=31052
Poll on weaklinks

Zack C - 2013/03/05 21:11:09 UTC

You've repeatedly assigned sentiments to me I never expressed, ignored my questions, and asked me questions I've already answered.

...ever do. 'Cause the instant you pin yourselves down to anything specific you're toast.

You haven't even bothered to...

Joe Faust

~Author-permission-not-yet-granted (APNYG), March 7, 2014

...publicly identify yourself.

And here's what you HAVE been prioritizing:

http://www.shga.com/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=4354
Bad Launch at Kagel

Orion Price - 2014/03/21 04:29:28 UTC

I'm just looking for reasons to post .gifs
http://postimg.org/image/u42vyzq9p/
http://s13.postimg.org/yv2pnj9zp/aaaaaaa.gif

At least a couple of your club/local guys try to address an incident and attitude they felt could have had very serious consequences and you piss all over their concerns and sabotage the message they're trying to deliver.

Orion Price - 2014/03/07

I want to advance safer free flight.

If you really mean that and want to do something really positive within the range of your capabilities then become a statistic - the way Zack Marzec did.

Short of that walk away from the sport and stay away.

Tad Eareckson · Post by **Tad Eareckson** » 2014/03/24 03:21:33 UTC

http://www.ushawks.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1531
As a HG pilot looking at Torrey...

Orion Price - 2014/03/20 04:40:35 UTC

I'm a crazy high hour H3 HG pilot.

With two whole Special Skills signoffs...

Orion Price - 88538 - H3 - Joe Greblo - 2011/04/03 - FL 360

Foot Launch and 360.

Many flights in the owens, funston, Utah-xc, Nevada-xc, Illinois tow, Wisconsin tow, Texas nationals and world record encampment WRE; mostly so-cal (sylmar).

So where's your AT signoff? You're gonna save the world from all my batshit AT equipment "engineering" and you can't even get one of those Hang Two level merit badges?

How do I go about flying torrey?

Get a paraglider.

I can't make it straight how to exactly fly there. If I can rock funston on a light day to westlake and back, can I handle torrey?

I dunno. Can you:

- figure out how to handle an aerotow...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjRrYAOnqqw

...and follow a flight plan to release altitude without having a piece of fishing line telling you what to do?

- handle the situation Ben Dunn encountered...

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9Ek9_lFeSII/UZ4KuB0MUSI/AAAAAAAAGyU/eWfhGo4QeqY/s1024/GOPR5278.JPG
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3725/9665623251_612b921d70_o.png

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Xh_NfnOcUns/UZ4Lm0HvXnI/AAAAAAAAGyk/0PlgrHfc__M/s1024/GOPR5279.JPG

...and come out any better?

- pull off a brain dead easy landing in a Happy Acres putting green....

...without doing seventy thousand dollars worth of damage to an arm?

Sam Kellner - 2014/03/21 02:27:49 UTC

Oh boy, OP! As a younger person trying to keep safe free flight alive here's your big chance! You can ask this off the scale stupid ol' pigfucker what happened to...

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8143/7462005802_bbc0ac66ac_o.jpg

...Uncle Terry here. Maybe you can even get Sam...

http://www.ushawks.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=1081
Platform towing /risk mitigation / accident

Sam Kellner - 2012/07/03 02:25:58 UTC

No, you don't get an accident report.

...to join in your crusade!

With your skills, you should have been flying Torrey long ago.

You may have a bit of trouble communicating at first though. Try not to use any sentences with less than two smilies in them.

I learned to HG at Torrey back in 1975 BC. Before Concessionaire.

Where'd you learn to tow?

It was my first ridge soaring flight and first flight at Torrey. 5 or 6 passes on the north face, followed the suggested landing pattern and top landed.

I remained in the upright position for the entire flight.

Yeah. You get a lot better roll control authority that way. Right...

Bob Kuczewski - 2012/01/17 19:31:28 UTC

I believe pitch authority is greater on the base tube, but roll authority is much quicker and more authoritative when upright. No doubt about it.

...Bob? Keep it up, Sam. Spend as much time flying upright as possible.

Granted, there wern't any PG to dodge. But in those days you could fly north to the point and south of the pier.

If it's too cross, wait. Don't worry about some special skill that's needed to fly Torrey.

P-0 fly there right?

What's the hold up on your H-4?

He's had to spend a lot of time on his weak link testing project and trying to get stuff Tad's written taken down from the web to protect all the innocent young minds out there.

Bob Kuczewski - 2014/03/22 02:08:19 UTC

I agree with everything Sam has said.

When HAVEN'T you agreed with everything Sam has said?

Torrey should probably be an H3 site with a windy cliff launch sign-off. Many paraglider pilots make their first flights there ... P0!!

With your experience, I suggest contacting someone to sign off your H4. Please send me a PM if you want any suggestions.

He's Joe Greblo's student...

http://www.ushawks.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=811
FTHI

Bob Kuczewski - 2011/10/25 06:28:43 UTC

Joe knows far more about hang gliding than I probably ever will.

How come he needs any of YOUR suggestions?

If you didn't have so many hours...

How many hours is that, Bob? I don't recall him specifying a number. I never hear the motherfucker being very specific about much of anything - ESPECIALLY when actual NUMBERS are involved.

I might suggest going through Steve Stackable.

Signoff instructor for NMERider and Tad Hurst. He won't make you comply with the hook-in check regulation either.

You'd end up taking lessons from Steve which would eventually end up getting you an H4 (some call it a "Torrey 4").

What makes you think he needs any lessons? I got the distinct impression that he already knows everything about everything. You've said:

http://www.ushawks.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=463
Davis Straub's "Oz Report" Conflict of Interest

Bob Kuczewski - 2011/02/18 03:17:00 UTC

Tad, you're very prolific, and you make lots of good points. I'm not surprised that anyone who disagrees with you would want to ban you ... rather than actually debate you. That's the price of being too competent.

OP's said...

http://www.shga.com/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=3840
[TIL] About Tad Eareckson

...I'm a demented old lunatic with no testicles and you haven't taken any issue with any of his charges. If there had been anything wrong with his charges...

http://www.ushawks.org/forum/faq.php
Frequently Asked Questions

Bob Kuczewski

If you see something that's not being done correctly, then it's your duty to speak out.

...surely you'd have taken issue with him. So what could Steve Stackable possibly know about hang gliding that OP wasn't already bored out of his skull with at age six?

But with your experience, you should be able to just get your H4 (as Sam has also suggested).

This asshole doesn't even know how to use a shift key. But he says he's done a lot of flying in a bunch of high testosterone venues so that automatically qualifies him for an Advanced rating? How 'bout this asshole?:

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Was he really qualified to have an AT rating - let alone tandem aerotow instructor certification? How much of a favor did the asshole who signed his AT rating actually do him?

Then you can come fly with us whenever you want.

- Yeah. You'll be one of "US". Another big advocate of individual freedom and free exchange of ideas.

- And, as a younger person trying to keep safe free flight alive, you needn't worry about T** at K*** S******. Bob has gone to tremendous effort to make The Bob Show a safe place for people of varying ages to visit. And rest assured that he'll do everything possible to make anywhere anybody flies or discusses flying safe places for people of varying ages to visit. Right, Bob?

Orion Price - 2014/03/22 04:31:38 UTC

Word up Bob and Sam.

Dear friends Bob and Sam...

Basically at Sylmar the H3 requirements are doubled. Time is so easy, you must have double the flight time and # of launches to get a H3 rating.

Goddam right. All those rating requirements were written by Southern Cal assholes who could rack up the all the air and thermal time they needed for a Four in their backyards over the course of half a dozen reasonably good weekends.

Total fucking bitch here on the east coast with all the mountains facing northwest and a couple hours away.

And then when aerotowing finally arrived in this neck of the woods...

http://ozreport.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=24846
Is this a joke ?

Jim Rooney - 2011/08/28 19:39:17 UTC

Weak links break for all kinds of reasons.
Some obvious, some not.

The general consensus is the age old adage... "err on the side of caution".

The frustration of a weaklink break is just that, frustration.
And it can be very frustrating for sure. Especially on a good day, which they tend to be. It seems to be a Murphy favourite. You'll be in a long tug line on a stellar day just itching to fly. The stars are all lining up when *bam*, out of nowhere your trip to happy XC land goes up in a flash. Now you've got to hike it all the way back to the back of the line and wait as the "perfect" window drifts on by.

I get it.
It can be a pisser.

But the "other side"... the not cautions one... is not one of frustration, it's one of very real danger.
Better to be frustrated than in a hospital, or worse.
No exaggeration... this is the fire that the "other side" is made of. Best not to play with it.

...our sacred fishing line wouldn't permit us to exploit any actual soaring conditions.

So now your local dictators have determined that the requirements written with that environment as a model were inadequate? So maybe they're doubling the time and deliberately giving you crappy instruction to extend your periods of dependency and viability as paying customers?

If 75 Southern Cal hours are only worth 32.5 rating hours shouldn't my 373.4 East Coast hours be worth 746.8 rating hours? Shouldn't I have been able to score my Five on 1993/05/09?

We've got a tiny LZ carved into a dense urban area.

Bullshit. You have a smallish putting green to aim for but it's totally unobstructed and you have wheel landable riverbed that runs forever to use for your final approach leg. The putting green is two hundred feet long and a Hang Two's supposed to be able to get within a hundred feet of a spot three times in a row. People who have fucking clues aren't getting trashed because of your tiny LZ carved into a dense urban area.

For the H4 they want you to complete the observation requirements on the most complicated glider they've seen you fly.

That's APPALLING!

http://www.hanggliding.org/viewtopic.php?t=11497
Aerotow release options?

Paul Hurless - 2009/05/01 16:35:30 UTC

Adding more parts like pulleys and internally routed components makes it that much more likely that a device will fail. Simple is best.

http://www.shga.com/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=3840
[TIL] About Tad Eareckson

Orion Price - 2013/03/11 15:12:28 UTC

He is a self proclaimed "engineer" and inventor of Rube Goldberg tow bridles. As you can see his elegant designs are a huge commercial success sweeping the industry. His explanation of how his bridles work indicated he doesn't have any education on the subject.

Complicated stuff is all doomed to failure. The more parts the more likely you're likely to have a failure that'll kill you. Try to sneak some parts off when nobody's watching you. Start with the sprogs and then start removing nylocks.

I rock an early T2-nonC. Some have called it a boat. I'm sure I could complete the landing observations on this machine, but I haven't even begun the process yet.

It's just weird that at Funston I can just chat with a local about my experience, and i'm stickered. Fly the entire deal make 20 landings per day at the site. 5 + days there. Fly almost to the Zoo to down past the mussel rock.

Yet I can't fly Torrey.

Real bummer...

http://www.ushawks.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=463
Davis Straub's "Oz Report" Conflict of Interest

Bob Kuczewski - 2011/02/12 06:56:36 UTC

A third Director (who I'll call "Mr. X") chimed in that same day with this:

Mr. X wrote:
Perhaps a strongly worded letter from Tim will do the trick. We can't force Tad to work within the USHPA framework but we can make it unpleasant and expensive for him if he chooses to makes derogatory and false statements about USHPA to the FAA he can't back up.

http://ozreport.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=24846
Is this a joke ?

Jim Rooney - 2011/08/25 04:55:25 UTC

Don't even get me started on Tad. That obnoxious blow hard has gotten himself banned from every flying site that he used to visit... he doesn't fly anymore... because he has no where to fly. His theories were annoying at best and downright dangerous most of the time. Good riddance.

I can't fly anywhere because I chose to make derogatory and true statements about USHPA to the FAA I could back up.

I guess it's all on me. I've got to get that H4 from my local crew.

You got a Three from those dickheads. Can't see that a Four would be any problem.

tl;dr I guess I'm just complaining.

I can't imagine much of anything that's short enough for a Price/Kellner caliber attention span.

Go ahead, Bob. Welcome this cowardly little motherfucker into your cult with open arms. Just makes you assholes bigger and easier targets.

Tad Eareckson · Post by **Tad Eareckson** » 2014/04/21 01:09:44 UTC

Tad Eareckson · Post by **Tad Eareckson** » 2014/07/09 01:11:29 UTC

http://www.energykitesystems.net/Lift/hgh/TadEareckson/index.html

Orion Price - 2014/03/07

Next week, when I have time, I will address all of your enumerated points.

And that was four months ago yesterday and, to date, you've addressed ZERO of Joe's enumerated points.

You have good questions and I feel I can address them all.

Apparently not. I think you have way too much confidence in your abilities.

http://www.shga.com/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=3840
[TIL] About Tad Eareckson

Orion Price - 2013/03/10 05:57:24 UTC

(Today I learned) There is a guy who reads our forum every and does detailed analysis on all our comments. This guy has Rafferty amounts of extra time to just be an idiot and not fly/work/live.

In place of adding to our discourse he bought a website in which he makes comments about our comments. That's just weird. Apparently we are all we are all suicidal idiots and destroying the sport. Also he apparently really doesn't like NME_RIDER/LA Glide. JD to him is apparently Satan with a glider and a youtube account.

And yet NMERider / LA Glide / JD / Satan with a Glider and a YouTube Account is now registered, activated, and welcomed and free to post as he pleases. And guess a couple of sleazy scheming motherfuckers...

Bob Kuczewski - 2013/03/10 18:20:34 UTC

I first learned about Tad Eareckson when I was Regional Director and the USHPA Board circulated a letter he had written (with intention to send?) to the FAA about some dangerous practices in hang gliding.

...who NEVER will be.

Tad Eareckson · Post by **Tad Eareckson** » 2014/09/23 04:05:06 UTC

http://ozreport.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=39287
Tad Eareckson's latest tow release

Orion Price - 2014/09/23 02:39:17 UTC

http://www.flickr.com/photos/aerotowrelease/8334801125/

The only way Tad will say you are not "insane."

"Tad Eareckson's"... Yes.

"latest"... No. That's a photo I took 2006/01/26 15:36:18 UTC.

"tow release"... No. It's a component for suspending a balloon drop system I developed close to 22 years ago and used once over Milton, Delaware on 1993/04/29 - during your potty training era.

The only insane person who comes to mind from the ranks of the participants in this sport would be your buddy Bob - dangerous delusional megalomaniacal psychopath.

Run of the mill folk are just off the scale stupid.

And then you have your scummy parasitic power junkies - brains just slightly larger than walnuts - capitalizing on that stupidity to gain control of the sport and help speed it on towards the extinction it's been heading for since the late Eighties. That's your category.

http://www.ushawks.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1041
"Sharing" of Hang Gliding Information ?!?

Merlin - 2012/05/26 13:22:30 UTC

I confess to previously having a bit of an Oz Report habit, but the forced login thing has turned me off permanently, and I am in fact grateful. Frankly, the site had pretty much been reduced to a few dedicated sycophants in any case.

Have fun over there - and remember to take breaks from sucking Davis's dick every now and then so your oxygen intake doesn't get any lower than it is already.

Come out in the open sometime and I'll take your fuckin' head off.

Tad Eareckson · Post by **Tad Eareckson** » 2014/09/23 11:24:53 UTC

Ya know, OP...

I noticed that in your post you didn't use the actual links to my photos as I edited in for my post of your post. You copied my photo, cropped it a bit, put it up at:

http://i.imgur.com/QyBOw5k.jpg

and used that address. And I was thinking about why you'd do that. And the thinking didn't take long.

You wanted to take the photo completely out of context and totally lie about what it was. Same tactic your buddy Bob uses for quotes. (Fuck you, Bob.)

Well, it's been up for the better part of nine hours now, scored 62 hits, no responses. Can't even muster any Tad hate stuff from within that sewer?

Tad Eareckson · Post by **Tad Eareckson** » 2014/09/23 13:33:02 UTC

http://www.shga.com/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=4547
Videos of landings at Kagel bailout LZs

Mike Bastan - 2014/09/23 00:19:27 UTC

At some point I'm going to have to land somewhere besides the Kagel LZ...

Try the ever popular boulder field in the wash just short of the Kagel LZ. Make sure you come in upright so there's no chance of you pulling a Jeff Craig.

...and hopefully that somewhere is a bailout LZ with an uneventful landing.

Keep perfecting those spot no steppers. You'll be fine.

Whilst I've walked most of them, I think it would be really useful to have videos of good approaches and landings...

I find it SO MUCH more useful - and fun - to have videos of really bad approaches...

06-1128

08-1324

13-1624

15-1729

16-1805

18-1817

32-1901

...and landings.

...and I think other pilots would benefit too. So please post what you have here of the good ones.

And the bad ones. You usually need to post about fifty of them in order to get through to one person stuff to NOT do - like landing in narrow dry riverbed with large rocks strewn all over the place as bailouts.

21-1600
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5531/14549409703_202a2333d8_o.png

25-1612
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3911/14506189236_fbafa0fd23_o.png

31-1814

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3918/14527833984_05422db816_o.png

http://www.shga.com/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=3858
Landing in the Big T wash

NMERider - 2013/04/05 21:09:27 UTC

There have been a number of bad landing incidents in the wash by a variety of experienced pilots because it is a dangerous bailout, period. It is NOT the club's landing zone either. It is a bailout and when it's hot on the surface it can and will bite you in the ass.

Orion Price - 2014/09/23 01:26:02 UTC

Wouldn't be nice if we could have such a video repository?

I would be ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL! People with no fuckin' clues how to do approaches and landings would be able to watch the videos and then be able to do approaches and landings!

All the video already exists. We could all enjoy seeing several video setups and patterns of the various land out locations. However there is a single limiting constraint.

We can't both have an open forum and these videos.

Obviously. You've just said so and that makes it indisputable fact.

It would make it look we are openly and notoriously trespassing at these locations.

Oh my God! I hadn't thought of that. If we had an open forum where the public could see these videos it would make it look we are openly and notoriously trespassing at these locations! That would put an end to XC flying in the LA Basin. Most other places where XC flights end on private property - pretty much all of them - as well. It would be a global catastrophe!

Solution: Make the forum only visible to those whom make simple accounts.

Yes! Hide from the public what you're actually doing and other people you don't like. That strategy has never failed before. And just look at the way the sport's been booming since we've locked into that path!

Talk to D. Str*ub of the O.Report.

Sure. What harm could there possibly be in engage one more lying piece of shit in conversation?

There are 101 problems that are associated with allowing web crawlers to catalog our posts.

Yeah. People can see what's actually going on...

...and compare it to the magazine infomercial crap.

This is only one, and a minor problem of open forums in general.

Doesn't seem to be a problem with Kite Strings. But, of course, Kite Strings seems to be something of a problem for SHGA.

Mike Bastan - 2014/09/23 01:36:15 UTC

Thanks for the vid. A member's only forum would be ideal but if that's too much to do how about a private Facebook group?

http://ozreport.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=30971
Zach Marzec

Jim Rooney - 2013/03/07 18:24:58 UTC

Go back to Tad's hole in the ground.

Ironic, isn't it?

Orion Price - 2014/09/23 02:00:09 UTC

The guy running ozreport ends up having continuous flame wars, law suits, Tad Eareckson s, and the like; just to be subpoenaed about his forum.

Really?

http://www.ushawks.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1041
"Sharing" of Hang Gliding Information ?!?

Merlin - 2012/05/26 13:22:30 UTC

I confess to previously having a bit of an Oz Report habit, but the forced login thing has turned me off permanently, and I am in fact grateful. Frankly, the site had pretty much been reduced to a few dedicated sycophants in any case.

Does this have the slightest basis in reality or are you just pulling it out of your ass like you do everything else you commit to print?

Continuous flame wars? When a place has been reduced to a few dedicated sycophants it becomes so mind numbingly boring that it's an odious task just to click to see if anything of the slightest interest has been posted. Whenever there's any actual controversy Davis and his few dedicated sycophants will invariably be on the losing side and he'll lock threads, delete posts, and ban opposition people to make sure his tiny little balls stay intact.

Lawsuits? Subpoenas? BULLSHIT.

Tad Earecksons?

Orion Price - 2014/09/23 02:39:17 UTC

http://ozreport.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=39287
Tad Eareckson's latest tow release

Who's been posting about Tad Earecksons since shortly after the Zack Marzec Davis Link inconvenience fatality at the beginning of last year besides you?

http://ozreport.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=27494
The exciting bits

Steve Davy - 2012/04/27 01:55:17 UTC

Why did you delete my post?

Davis Straub - 2012/04/27 02:42:02 UTC

Tad's name.

Davis bans Tad Eareckson when he and his dedicated sycophants are getting their balls torn off by him, supports attacks on him, and deletes supportive posts. Where's the problem?

By simply limiting web crawlers like google from our posts, this is almost entirely eliminated.

Which is another way of saying you want as few people as possible hearing what you have to say. While people who actually HAVE anything to say invariably want the precise opposite.

But go ahead. All you hopelessly inbred parasitic cowardly shitheads crawl farther under your rock and lock things down. The more you do that and the less you have to say the more clicks we're gonna get here at Kite Strings. There's no question whatsoever that that's how things are trending. Nature abhors vacuums - and vacuous people.

Tad Eareckson · Post by **Tad Eareckson** » 2014/09/23 18:02:02 UTC

http://www.shga.com/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=4547
Videos of landings at Kagel bailout LZs

Mike Bastan - 2014/09/23 15:59:04 UTC

OP - If that's what Davis Straub has to put up with...

If that's what Davis Straub has to put up with don't you think you'd have heard about it long before this total crap from this lying total piece of shit? At least half the Grebloville motherfuckers know this is total rot and aren't saying anything.

...a private, closed non-SHGA affiliated group would be the best.

Well yeah, obviously. That would take care of all these serious problems OP's telling you you're having that you aren't and never have had - just like the problems all other clubs aren't having and never have had.

Anyone can join the ozreport...

Anyone Davis approves anyway. Anyone Davis hasn't identified as a major threat to his scams.

...and see everything...

Everything Davis hasn't deleted and has been written by people he hasn't banned for kicking his sleazy ass.

...same as here...

Yeah, same as there I'm sure. Ask Greblo to post the report on the Jeff Craig fatality.

...even if it was closed to web-crawlers.

Close it to crawlers. Google:

"hang glider" "weak link"
"failure to hook in"

See where The Davis Show forum comes up relative to Kite Strings. If you want as few people as possible listening to what you have to say and being positively influenced by it then follow Davis's lead. Hell, make Davis your model for everything.

http://ozreport.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=18695
How could this accident happen?

Davis Straub - 2010/01/28 06:10:17 UTC

I have tried to launch unhooked on aerotow and scooter tow.

Might as well, you have no substance of your own.

If anyone subpoenas SHGA a separate closed group would have nothing to do with it, and they would have to know of the existence of the group in the first place.

That sure would go a long way to deal with this big subpoena problem all these forums are having.

Probably a bit too extreme a measure for some HG pilots just doing their thing but you never know!

Yeah just never know! Can't be too careful! Don't worry about the chronic unhooked launch issue...

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5492/14666057035_1786a4e18c_o.jpg

http://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5566/14704620965_ce30a874b7_o.png

...you assholes are having - your discussion on the SHGA safety mascot selection should've taken care of most of that. Just get that subpoena issue dealt with.

http://www.questairforce.com/aero.html
Quest Air Aerotow FAQ

Weak Link

ALWAYS RELEASE THE TOWLINE before there is a problem.

Idiots.

P.S. My five thousandth post.

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