Steve Forslund wrote:So the question was asked and answered. The answer was not what Ben Masters wanted so he has ignored it
We all know there are way more paraglider pilots and they fly way more often. Ben why dont you talk to Dustin Martin about paragliding, you certainly dont respect anyone here who doesn't agree with you.
I had a reply written a few days ago and it got wiped by some error..
Steve, it is not a matter of respect. That is a dumb reference..
I certainly respect Dustin.. I don’t agree with him or you regarding PG’s.
Your saying I don’t respect people who buy a blue car because I buy a white one..
The cars are exactly the same except color..
PG’s and HG’s are not the same. I am sick and tired of you and others
stuffing them in the same box..
Will talking to Dustin redesign the PG into a safe canopy craft?
You and everyone else singing your tune are in denial of facts..
You and those like you are responsible for a continuing parade of
death and injury that cannot be mitigated…
By not disclosing the truth about PG’s true dangers, you put the sport
of HG at risk because it is locked in the “Dead Zone†with PG by the grip of USHPA..
Congratulations Steve, you have won.
I have not renewed my membership and I am seriously thinking about selling my wings.
I have other aviation choices available to me with the company of more honest pilots.
Sure I can fly without USHPA but the places I love to fly are closed to non USHPA
members..
The latest drama with Reform Vote and our 1st meeting being closed to members
was a complete disappointment… You deserve it… Way to go…
Enjoy the funerals and helicopter rides..
Congratulate yourselves after you grovel to the FAA for a Tandem Exemption, that
pretends to be an instruction flight, when it is not! This last one took 2 years and
USHPA has no explanation as to why?
What an embarrassment…
Watch more sites like Torrey get swallowed up by commercial bullies feeding USHPA.
This sport is built on a house of cards and ignorant individuals who are to lazy
to clean it up..
Those that try are banned and maligned by a litany of special interests…
Throw in a truck load of mis-management and you get exactly what you got..
HG cannot be saved under USHPA while being strangled by PG mis-information..
Frankly it is criminal…
PG will survive outside USA.
But here in the States there will be a lawsuit that has every
PG manufacturer fleeing this country..
I don’t want to be part of that, nor have my name associated with an Org
doomed to extinct itself and betray its members…
Because I have said these things, you will blame me for them when
they come to pass..
You don’t have the maturity, honesty and resolve to solve these problems
among yourselves. Those people like myself abandon you…
But even though I belevive this and don’t have faith in your ranks, I hope
you do survive and fix the gaping holes in your ignorant ship…
Prove my warnings a cry of Wolf…
Without me..
B R