Hi FlyinBrian,
It's good to see another new Chapter created within the US Hawks!
One question (or maybe a few) I have is in connection with:
. . . our club decided that liability issues had become too great for us to continue our involvement at the site . . .
I'm wondering what the "issues" were? Were people flying that were not club or USHPA members? Did the Forrest Service want greater liability coverage?
Since the USHPA seems to have done nothing (or not enough?) to help, it sounds like a fairly significant set of problems.
Not that different from an accident investigation, knowing as much as possible about the reasons a club finds itself abandoning a long term flying site makes it more likely that solutions may be found. Also, it becomes more likely that other clubs may avoid a similar result. And who knows, perhaps another group has found solutions to similar problems as you are experiencing.
As they say: Knowledge Is Power!
