Panorama Meet


Panorama flying Meet A fun, get- together for Paraglider Pilot's, Families, Friends and Spectators with great prizes to win at the Panorama Resort. Pilots tasks will be target landings, long airtimes and x-country flights to Lake Windermere.
	Flying at Panorama

April 10th, 11th and 12th 2009

Daily Schedule:

	9:00 to 10:00 Pilots Meeting at the day lodge for registration, briefing and weather check.
	10:00 to 3:00 Open window to fly tasks
	4:00 to 5:00 Meet at the day lodge for rounding up the day

Tasks:

	Competition will be to tell and fly the estimated airtime and land on target. You have to estimate your airtime before your take off and make a target landing.
	Additional points can be made by dropping a big Easter egg (shopping-bag filled with snow) into a nest (approx. 30feet diameter) close to the landing site.

Requirements:

	Paragliding Novice License
	Liability Insurance
	Signing a Waiver
	Skis or Snow-Blades (Great rental deals at Panorama Resort)
	Bring a little carabineer or quick link for attaching your Easter Egg onto your harness.

Registration and Lift Tickets:

	$25.00 Entry-Fee
	Day Lift Ticket: $20 plus tax

Looking for accommodation at the Resort? Check out this great accommodation deals on the Mountain.

Launch:
We have 2 launch sites.
Follow this link for more info about flying at Panorama
Summit Launch (1200m vertical) steep take off site.
Cappuccino Hut (870m vertical) is right on top of the second chair lift and we can have at least 5 gliders to get ready on a shallow slope.
You need to have skies in both situations but you can rent either skies or snow-blades from the rental shop

Landing:
Is right at the end of "Little Dipper" (name of ski run)

Landingsite at Driving Range

This event will be spectacular to watch and will be fun
for friends and family as well.

Please fill out the enclosed form to help us to know
how many people are coming

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Results of 2008 Easter Meet

I was not sure, but based on my notes, this was the 10th annual Easter meet. Wow, time just flies when you have fun.

Anyhow, everyone who did not come, missed a great weekend. Friday some pilots had up to 6 flights.
Saturday was like in the picture book. Most people had about 3 flights and a lot of people made it up to plus 9000 feet. Only 6 flew out into the valley and others decided to land due cold hands.
Saturday evening we had Pizza and then went to the Pup. The party started slow, got into Boat races, then to our annual "Tray" race and than a great 80th music and dance night.
For the Tray race we had great conditions on the hill but after 2 races on food trays security shut us down for out own safety.
Sunday morning the weather was ok but you could see that snow was coming in. We got about 4 flights in total and then stopped due snowfall. At noon we handed out the prices and then we finally could go for a couple ski runs.
Overall it was just picture perfect and everyone had a great time.

By the way, we forgot to clean up the landing site with all the attempts to hit the Easter Nest. So Penny and I send the kids to friends for a couple hours and headed up the mountain to clean up. We where looking everywhere and could not find any. We even looked at Taintan Bowl without any luck. Eventually we went home as we had a hard time to find any under 25 cm of new snow.

Here are the winners and participants.

Top Row (left to right)
Andy Gamp (2nd) Mark Tarrant (1st) Greg Solvbjerk (3rd)

2nd Row (left to right)
Dominic Hughes, Mike Wadington, Andy Besserer, Bob Gardner, Bruce Busby, Chris Wilson, Frank Kernick.

3rd Row (left to right)
Oscar Skold, Glenn Comfort, Thomas Kubli, Dale Osmond, Jeff Grieve, Jan Morris, Deryk Yuill, Penny Powers, Max & Katia Fanderl, Lucille, Dave Corbin

Not in picture
Ron Ford, Craig Wessner, Stewart Midwinter, Greg Hemmingway, Nicolas Gabarrou .

Box 564
Invermere, B.C.
V0A 1K0
Canada

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