IN THE CORE

USHPA Members Pilots in the USA have raised a healthy $2.25m in their campaign to become self-insuring. As reported in a previous issue, at the end of last year the US Hang and Paragliding Association was left in the lurch when their insurers suddenly pulled out. In a model campaign USHPA then set about raising a target $2m so they could insure themselves – thus securing the sport’s future in the USA. Without it schools would have had to shut down and many sites would have been lost. Ten donors gave $10,000 or more, 13 gave $5,000 or more, and around 200 gave $1,000+. Hundreds more pilots donated to the cause – earning themselves a place in US free flight history, and a namecheck on the Free Flight Forever campaign…

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Cross Country (Digital) - 1 Issue, May 2016

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