Flying at Buzzard Club sites during the NC stay at home order

[zwei...@aol.com]

See below from USHPA:

I personally will not be out there enjoying one of my hobbies in this crazy times. I would discourage all other pilots to do the same. Especially note the first point below about the local community!

What ever you guys do out there, please stay healthy and be save.

Vince

USHPA strongly encourages compliance with all CDC, federal, state, local, and landowner restrictions. With that in mind, we strongly discourage solo and tandem instruction at this time in order to to protect everyone involved from the spread of COVID-19.

While solo hang gliding and paragliding may be the ultimate in social distancing, they can still have wide-reaching consequences. Please carefully consider the following when evaluating your decision to suspend flying:

• In areas with active shelter-in-place orders, flying may be viewed negatively by the community, particularly if it results in an accident. Please use your best judgement as this could affect our sports in the future.
• Shared car rides to launch or for emergency situations do not maintain CDC guidelines for social distancing.
• Flying (especially aerobatics and XC) can have a high level of risk and likelihood of requiring emergency care if an accident occurs. Pilots should consider their risk threshold and if it is appropriate under the current circumstances.
• An accident would further burden already overextended health and emergency services. This may not only affect your care but reduce the resources being used to fight COVID-19, putting others at risk. First responders may also be less available due to these circumstances.
• Should you need to go to the hospital, you put yourself at a higher risk of being exposed to—and spreading—COVID-19. Furthermore, surgeries or other procedures may be delayed. Elective surgeries (including a broken collarbone) have been postponed in many states.

First responders and the medical community have always been there for us; now is the time for us to support them in return. Nationally, we see notifications of free flight accidents and incidents occurring weekly. With hospitals projected to soon be overwhelmed, each of us avoiding flying for the time being can make a difference and help save lives. Prominent pilots around the world, such as Chrigel Maurer, are pledging not to fly in light of recent circumstances. Cloudbase Mayhem also has a recent podcast worth hearing on this topic.m.

[Eric Kriner]

I will take minimal risks. If anything is questionable I will bag it for the day.

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[Jimmy Griffin]

Well we'll miss a good day it's a good idea but if something happened and we had to have EMS people up there fire department all that they got more important things to do right now I'm with the the rest of buzzard is smart and Smart & best if we stay home I hate It 2 will look for a better day love you guys

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