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The CHGA's June meeting is scheduled for next Tuesday, June 3rd at 7pm at George's Pizza in Unionville, CT. THIS IS AN IMPORTANT MEETING! We have important decisions to make regarding the future of hang gliding at Talcott Mountain. As discussed in my previous email dated May 23rd, the Aquarion Water Company who owns the LZ is now requiring us to comply with a specific set of rules including the purchase of expensive insurance. If you have not read my previous email regarding our use of the Talcott LZ, I have included a copy/paste of the email below. Please read it and come to the meeting prepared to discuss. I also attached a copy of the new lease agreement Aquarion is requiring us to comply with. Please familiarize yourself with it so we can discuss at the meeting. We also have a proposal to purchase a new motor for the tractor that pulls the megamower. The current motor is no longer functioning. I hope to see you all at George's Pizza next Tuesday, June 3rd. Greg Copy of my email from May 23rd: As discussed at our May meeting, The Aquarion Water Company - owner of the Talcott LZ - is now requiring us to acquire formal permission in writing to use their land. Since then, Aquarion presented us with a document specifying terms & conditions that we are required to agree to if we are to continue using their land. All their requirements are reasonable and we are already in compliance with most of them simply by virtue of the common decency and respect with which we have always treated their land. HOWEVER... one of their requirements is that we carry a $1M body/$1M property insurance policy with Aquarion specifically listed as an additional insured on the policy. If we purchase this insurance policy through the RRRG it will cost us $800/year. This is in addition to the $299 it currently costs to maintain our chapter status with USHPA - a new cost now that USHPA stopped subsidizing liability insurance for chapters and officers, and something I only learned about myself a few weeks ago. In my experience researching insurance for Good Hill Airport several years ago, the RRRG is by far the least expensive insurance we will find. It is CHGA policy to table decisions on major expenditures for one month so members have time to think about the issue prior to voting. However, Aquarion does not want us using their land until they have a copy of that policy in hand. So delaying a vote until our July meeting delays our ability to use the LZ for an additional thirty days. I am therefore presenting the issue to the membership now so everyone has time to think about it prior to the meeting so we can vote on June 3rd. Think about it and I will see you all at our next meeting on Tuesday June 3rd at 7pm. Greg Saracino ReplyForward

Our June Meeting is TONIGHT, Tuesday June 3rd, at George's Pizza at 7pm. As I said in the previous emails, this is an IMPORTANT meeting and we have important decisions to make regarding the future of hang gliding at Talcott Mountain. I won't restate the situation here since I have explained it in two previous emails, however please make an effort to attend this important meeting. I'll see you there! Greg

Rhett will be towing at Hiller tomorrow, Tuesday, June 2.

I would put this on WhatsApp Talcott but it would take me 5 minutes to type it and there is no way to put tables in there as far as I can tell! Data from Oxford airport. Note that the cloudbase jumped only 200 feet from noon to 1pm but from 5000 to 6000 between 2pm and 3pm! That is probably because the Canadian wildfire smoke cleared out around 2pm. It's all about the solar heating. Deane Date Time (edt) Wind (mph) Vis. (mi.) Weather Sky Cond. Temperature (?F) Relative Humidity Wind Chill (°F) Heat Index (°F) Pressure Precipitation (in) Air Dwpt 6 hour altimeter (in) sea level (mb) 1 hr 3 hr 6 hr Max. Min. 02 14:56 SW 8 10.00 Mostly Cloudy BKN060 66.9 46 47% 29.97 1015.8 02 13:56 Vrbl 3 10.00 Mostly Cloudy BKN050 64 48 66 53.1 56% 29.98 1016.3 02 12:56 Vrbl 3 10.00 A Few Clouds FEW045 63 46.9 56% 29.99 1016.6 02 11:56 W 5 10.00 Partly Cloudy SCT043 62.1 48.9 62% 30 1016.9

As discussed at our May meeting, The Aquarion Water Company - owner of the Talcott LZ - is now requiring us to acquire formal permission in writing to use their land. Since then, Aquarion presented us with a document specifying terms & conditions that we are required to agree to if we are to continue using their land. All their requirements are reasonable and we are already in compliance with most of them simply by virtue of the common decency and respect with which we have always treated their land. HOWEVER... one of their requirements is that we carry a $1M body/$1M property insurance policy with Aquarion specifically listed as an additional insured on the policy. If we purchase this insurance policy through the RRRG it will cost us $800/year. This is in addition to the $299 it currently costs to maintain our chapter status with USHPA - a new cost now that USHPA stopped subsidizing liability insurance for chapters and officers, and something I only learned about myself a few weeks ago. In my experience researching insurance for Good Hill Airport several years ago, the RRRG is by far the least expensive insurance we will find. It is CHGA policy to table decisions on major expenditures for one month so members have time to think about the issue prior to voting. However, Aquarion does not want us using their land until they have a copy of that policy in hand. So delaying a vote until our July meeting delays our ability to use the LZ for an additional thirty days. I am therefore presenting the issue to the membership now so everyone has time to think about it prior to the meeting so we can vote on June 3rd. Think about it and I will see you all at our next meeting on Tuesday June 3rd at 7pm. Greg Saracino

The first from our group to go to Wallaby was Peter Pfeiffer. Rick and I went the following year and joined him and his family during a Christmas break and for several years after that. We also had Tom Johnston and family come down. I’m not sure when Tom Nejame started but it was before the CT crew started heading down. Thank you, Rick and Bridget

Minutes of the May 6th 2025 CHGA meeting Meeting called to order at 8:05 PM by President Greg Saracino at Georges restaurant. > Greg announced that Al Moore, an old HG pilot from Bethyl, CT passed away in December 2024 while watching TV at home. His brother was getting ready to sell his house and discovered he owned a Northwing Freedom single surface glider in good condition, missing only the base tube. It comes with a High Energy brand pod harness. Please contact Greg if you are interested in buying it. Greg has it. >The HG instructor known as "G" is opening a flight park in Turkey and welcomes pilots to visit him there. >Chapter renewal for RRRG (Insurance org) is complete. For next year they want us to incorporate and to begin having annual waivers signed by each pilot. This is because of the wealthy person that has sued many individual pilots at the Plymouth, MA beach soaring site. If they were all members of a corporation then it would be much easier to fight in court. >The Aquarian water company, owner of the Talcott LZ, contacted Greg to see if he had any permission letter to use that area. Greg responded with the CT Land Use Act which lists hang gliding as one of the activities that are free from lawsuits if the land owner does not accept any money for use of the land. Woz took over as our liaison in dealing with the woman at Aquarian. She looked into it and decided they will issue a 30 year permission letter. >500 acres of Wallaby ranch: The legendary "It's another world." place will be no more when Malcolm Jones moves out at the end of September. The company is building small cottages on hummocks in the swamp. Hope the new tenants like skeeters and gators. Plenty of both. CHGA members have been traveling to Wallaby since 1995. I believe Mark Herman was the first from our group to go there on his Christmas break and then we all went down every April after that, Conditions were often good 5 out of 7 days. Wow, 30 years of soarable fun. Meeting adjourned 8:50. Submitted by Deane (co-secretary)

I spoke with Rhett today regarding the status of Tanner-Hiller. His personal feeling is that it's not going well in spite of the lawyers saying they were confident we would win in the end. But that's just his gut feeling. However, I noticed today that Tanner-Hiller has been remove from aeronautical charts, removed from Airnav's airport directory, and is listed as "permanently closed" on Google Maps. Rhett said we are welcome at Gardener Airport which is about 12 miles straight-line distance north of Tanner-Hiller. It's higher volume than Tanner and has no hangars available, so it's less than ideal, but we may end up there temporarily. But he encourages all of us to keep looking for a place to settle in permanently. He recommends rustic low-volume airports with old, rusty hangars. It does not necessarily have to be an airport - can even just be a large field, preferably with a place to store the Dragonfly and other equipment. Staying hopeful, Greg

The CHGA May Meeting is TONIGHT Tuesday May 6th at 7pm at George's Pizza in Unionville. Agenda: ? Sensitive developments regarding our permission to use the LZ ? ? New chapter requirements for next year - we need to incorporate and we will need a waiver ? ? Bylaw revisions ?? ? Interesting news and updates from around the HG community ? We have some important issues to discuss and important plans to make so I hope you can make it. See you there! Greg

The CHGA May Meeting will be next Tuesday, May 6th at 7pm at George's Pizza in Unionville. Agenda: ? Sensitive developments regarding the LZ ? New chapter requirements for next year - we need to incorporate and we will need a waiver ? Bylaw revisions ? Interesting news and updates from around the HG community We have some important issues to discuss and important plans to make so I hope you can make it. See you there! Greg

At the April meeting Carol mentioned she heard on the news that the airport has been sold. I looked it up today and it was sold to some local pilots (Jim Ouellette who lives on the north end) and others. The new group is called NForty1 LLC. Price was listed as $1 million which is what Ken told me he would sell it for. I called Ken this morning and left a message. I will also try to get in touch with Jim to see what plans or changes they might have in mind, if any. At least we know it will definitely remain as an airport. Deane

Minutes of CHGA meeting – March 4, 2025 George’s Pizza Unionville, CT Called to order at 8:02 pm Attending: Greg, Tim, Woz, Stella, Carol, Peter, Larry, Richard and Cindy, Donna and Deane, Ian and → REMINDER: DUES ARE DUE!! Use this PayPal address to send in your $50 membership: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/carolcomrie → Annual chapter renewal with USHGPA has been completed and we are waiting to hear it has been accepted. → Good news from Greg: There will be a Vortex electric winch at Randall airport in Middletown, NY and it will be a primary teaching tool. Tows could be up to 3000 feet. $20 a tow. → There is a rumor that Greg Black has retired and his training hill can be used by students. → Women in Flight is offically happening on March 8th Greg has recruited 3 women, Stella, Jane (NY) and Collette (NH). We had 2 TV’s playing videos and Stella created a nice color handout. She also created a 20 min video for use. Erica Kline sent Greg some good video clips of her. → The WhatsApp group for Talcott. We have created a group with Stella’s tech assistance. We are switching out of Discord into WhatsApp because it is more user frendly and many other HG sites around the country are using it. Greg made a motion to switch and motion passed. Greg will send out the details to everyone and have Mike Strother update the website. → Risk management plan: Remove Holcomb field off site guide. Greg has removed mention of this field. It is listed as a closed site for emergency use only. Reason is towing related equipment is not covered under insurance. → Bylaws are outdated and need to be revised. Greg is continuing to update and review them for club approval. Greg handed out copies of proposed bylaw changes. We should be requesting all pilots using our site(s) to fill out a liability waiver → There was a discussion on the need for a permission form for minors but it was decided this is unlikely to be needed. → There was a discussion about the possibility of offering free membership for H1 pilots. → Deane’s action item was to send out a link for the movie which our club owns: The Hawk and John McNeely. John was an active member of our club and lived at the bottom of a soarable ridge in Lime Rock, CT, Red Rocks. He was a naturalist and came up with the idea of flying with a hawk. Here is a link to the 13 minute film that documents this amazing feat. https://archive.org/details/TheHawkJohnMcNeely Meeting Adjourned at 8:50 pm. Donna Williams, secretary

Happy Spring! The gate at Talcott Mountain is now OPEN, marking the beginning of the 2025 season! ? Our April meeting is scheduled for THIS TUESDAY, APRIL 1ST at 7pm, George's Pizza in Unionville, CT. ?? ? Paragliding at Talcott Mountain ? ? Bylaws revisions ? ? Tanner-Hiller update ?? ? Report on Women Take Flight Day at the New England Air Museum ??? ? Update on Stella & Greg's outreach plans ? This is an important meeting! We have lots to talk about! Don't miss it! I'll see you there! Greg

Is anyone going to Florida this April? I am planning on going and would like to coordinate the flying. I have a glider at Paradise and would mostly be interested in flying there. Let me know. Regards Peter

The CHGA is changing its streaming communications platform from Discord to WhatsApp. The new WhatsApp group will be primarily for coordinating flying activities, pilot reports, site news, and all things pertaining to hang gliding at Talcott Mountain. This will put us inline with the other clubs and flying sites throughout the northeast, as most/?all of them have WhatsApp groups as well. You can join the new Talcott WhatsApp group by clicking this link: https://chat.whatsapp.com/CNI43dAUEaw0aW4aMTDGFQ Special thanks to Mike Abdullah for creating and managing the Discord group these last five years. Greg

Our MARCH meeting is TONIGHT, Tuesday March 4th at 7pm, at George's Pizza in Unionville, CT ?? Agenda: ? Women Take Flight @ The New England Air Museum ??♀? ? Stella & Greg making plans and making progress! This is exciting! ? ? Bylaws revisions ? ? Mayyybeeee some other news bits of interest I'll see you there!! ? Greg

Minutes of CHGA meeting – February 4, 2025 George’s Pizza Unionville, CT Called to order at 8:10 pm Attending: Greg, Tim, Stella, Carol, Peter, Richard and Cindy, Donna and Deane → Annual chapter renewal with USHGPA has been completed and submitted. An upgraded photo of the LZ has been included as requested showing power lines and seasonal water “hazard”. We need to get photo into our website. → The USHGPA wants us to revise the Talcott site guide by putting all the important info at the top. A disclaimer should be on the resource page where we link to all other sites. → Risk management plan: Remove Holcomb field from the site guide. Greg has removed mention of this field. It is listed as a closed site for emergency use only. Reason is towing related equipment/location is not covered under insurance. → Bylaws are outdated and need to be revised. We will talk about this at the March meeting. A mention was made that we should make up a waiver to fly Talcott. Revised by-laws will be distributed to all members. → Women in Flight: This event will be at the New England Air Museum in Windsor Locks, CT on March 8th from 10am to 3pm. Members Deane and Kevin have volunteered TVs and Greg has a computer with HTML output to show videos. Female pilots attending – Stella. Also invited were Carol, Jane, Collette, Giselle, Stacy and Jessica Parsons. We need to bring the CHGA Banner and we mentioned possibly handing out business cards and/or pens. → We voted to put John McNeely’s movies and send the link out to everyone. (Deane’s action item.) → Legal support for Tanner-Hiller airport recovery: Collette Carlson is in charge of fund-raising for this effort. Our club donation is awaiting further info. → Stella and Greg are working to reach out to local colleges to promote people who may want to get into the sport. There was some discussion that the costs of $250 a flight or even Rhett’s $185 for a tandem are a bit too much for many students. Greg noted that a serious student pilot would be charged $125. Their advertising efforts will continue. Meeting Adjourned at 8:55 pm. Donna Williams, secretary