🚀 go-pugleaf

Please drop the proposals for US PG (and HG?) pilots to maintain currency.
Focus on something to help the membership, instead of burdening the
responsible ones with new hoops to jump thru.  How many will send in dues
once USHGA starts yanking ratings?  Who will be glad when some get hurt on
Dec 30th dangerous conditions getting those needed minutes in?  If you have
an issue of site preservation - make currency a SITE requirement; don't drag
the rest of the country down with you.

To see the consequence of bureaucratically anticipating every possible way
some knucklehead can find an outlet for recklessness, keep up with British
Skywings magazine.  Besides the s_u_p_e_r_b articles, there are many GLOOMY
newsclips showing the short leash pilots there are kept on.  Reminds me of
the railings along some sidewalks in London where even dawn on Sunday you're
stimied from jaywalking.  In the new world we don't want such heavy handed
treatment of folks as idiot riff-raff that need protection from themselves.

If you want to fight injury due to scatterbrain American individualism,
there are more urgent areas like girl scouts selling cookies being mauled by
guard dogs or shotguns.  Or to bring regulatory benefit to PG pilots, make
the ratings more bite-size in parallel to HG ratings.  That's how D. Pagen's
1990 book "Paragliding Flight" had it in appendix 1.  I have the PG magazine
archives on why this was derailed, if helpful (possibly to match the DHV 3
classes of canopy safety ratings).    John Thorvaldson, Austin, Texas, USA