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Thanks for your support

Thu, May 26 2022, 5:27:52 pm MDT

Oz Report contributors

Mathew Thoreson|Oz Report|Rod Regier|Rudolf G. Sauer

  • Rod Regier
  • Rudolf G. Sauer
  • Mathew Thoreson

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Oz Report support

Fri, May 6 2022, 3:30:19 pm MDT

Thanks to all who have contributed

Ken Cobb|Oz Report|supporters

Thanks to Ken Cobb for his donation today. Thanks to all of you who contributed. I was able to send Scare $5,200 for his server and technical support. That amount is about 95% of your contributions since January 2022.

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How to support the Oz Report

Mon, Mar 28 2022, 6:52:16 pm MDT

Using PayPal, Venmo, a credit card, or by the mail

Davis Straub|Oz Report|PayPal|Venmo

  1. You can support/subscribe to the Oz Report if you have a PayPal account by clicking here: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/davisstraub. Your PayPal account either needs money in it or it needs to be connected to your bank account.
  2. If your PayPal account is connected to a credit card: https://paypal.me/ozreport?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US
  3. If you want to donate using your credit card:

    Donate with PayPal button

  4. To donate via Venmo, go to venmo.com, log in to your account, and send money to "davis@davisstraub.com".
    Donate with Venmo button
  5. If you’d rather send a check for $20 or more (US Dollars only, please), please feel free to do so.

    Payable to:

    Davis Straub (Not to the Oz Report)
    6548 Groveland Airport Road
    Groveland, FL, 34736

Thanks for helping to support the Oz Report.

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How to support the Oz Report

Sat, Mar 26 2022, 5:59:20 pm MDT

Using PayPal, Venmo, a credit card, or by the mail

Davis Straub|Oz Report|PayPal|Venmo

  1. You can support/subscribe to the Oz Report if you have a PayPal account by clicking here: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/davisstraub. Your PayPal account either needs money in it or it needs to be connected to your bank account.
  2. If your PayPal account is connected to a credit card: https://paypal.me/ozreport?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US
  3. If you want to donate using your credit card:

    Donate with PayPal button

  4. To donate via Venmo, go to venmo.com, log in to your account, and send money to "davis@davisstraub.com".
    Donate with Venmo button
  5. If you’d rather send a check for $20 or more (US Dollars only, please), please feel free to do so.

    Payable to:

    Davis Straub (Not to the Oz Report)
    6548 Groveland Airport Road
    Groveland, FL, 34736

Thanks for helping to support the Oz Report.

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How to support the Oz Report

Thu, Mar 24 2022, 3:09:27 pm MDT

Using PayPal, Venmo, a credit card, or by the mail

Davis Straub|Oz Report|PayPal|Venmo

  1. You can support/subscribe to the Oz Report if you have a PayPal account by clicking here: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/davisstraub. Your PayPal account either needs money in it or it needs to be connected to your bank account.
  2. If your PayPal account is connected to a credit card: https://paypal.me/ozreport?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US
  3. If you want to donate using your credit card:

    Donate with PayPal button

  4. To donate via Venmo, go to venmo.com, log in to your account, and send money to "davis@davisstraub.com".
    Donate with Venmo button
  5. If you’d rather send a check for $20 or more (US Dollars only, please), please feel free to do so.

    Payable to:

    Davis Straub (Not to the Oz Report)
    6548 Groveland Airport Road
    Groveland, FL, 34736

Thanks for helping to support the Oz Report.

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How to support the Oz Report

Wed, Mar 23 2022, 3:53:50 pm MDT

Using PayPal, Venmo, a credit card, or by the mail

Davis Straub|Oz Report|PayPal|Venmo

  1. You can support/subscribe to the Oz Report if you have a PayPal account by clicking here: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/davisstraub. Your PayPal account either needs money in it or it needs to be connected to your bank account.
  2. If your PayPal account is connected to a credit card: https://paypal.me/ozreport?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US
  3. If you want to donate using your credit card:

    Donate with PayPal button

  4. To donate via Venmo, go to venmo.com, log in to your account, and send money to "davis@davisstraub.com".
    Donate with Venmo button
  5. If you’d rather send a check for $20 or more (US Dollars only, please), please feel free to do so.

    Payable to:

    Davis Straub (Not to the Oz Report)
    6548 Groveland Airport Road
    Groveland, FL, 34736

Thanks for helping to support the Oz Report.

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How to support the Oz Report

Tue, Mar 22 2022, 8:34:06 pm MDT

Using PayPal, Venmo, a credit card, or by the mail

Davis Straub|Oz Report|PayPal|Venmo

  1. You can support/subscribe to the Oz Report if you have a PayPal account by clicking here: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/davisstraub. Your PayPal account either needs money in it or it needs to be connected to your bank account.
  2. If your PayPal account is connected to a credit card: https://paypal.me/ozreport?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US
  3. If you want to donate using your credit card:

    Donate with PayPal button

  4. To donate via Venmo, go to venmo.com, log in to your account, and send money to "davis@davisstraub.com".
    Donate with Venmo button
  5. If you’d rather send a check for $20 or more (US Dollars only, please), please feel free to do so.

    Payable to:

    Davis Straub (Not to the Oz Report)
    6548 Groveland Airport Road
    Groveland, FL, 34736

Thanks for helping to support the Oz Report.

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How to support the Oz Report

Sun, Mar 20 2022, 8:16:52 am MDT

Using PayPal, Venmo, a credit card, or by the mail

Davis Straub|Oz Report|PayPal|Venmo

  1. You can support/subscribe to the Oz Report if you have a PayPal account by clicking here: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/davisstraub. Your PayPal account either needs money in it or it needs to be connected to your bank account.
  2. If your PayPal account is connected to a credit card: https://paypal.me/ozreport?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US
  3. If you want to donate using your credit card:

    Donate with PayPal button

  4. To donate via Venmo, go to venmo.com, log in to your account, and send money to "davis@davisstraub.com".
    Donate with Venmo button
  5. If you’d rather send a check for $20 or more (US Dollars only, please), please feel free to do so.

    Payable to:

    Davis Straub (Not to the Oz Report)
    6548 Groveland Airport Road
    Groveland, FL, 34736

Thanks for helping to support the Oz Report.

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How to support the Oz Report

Wed, Mar 16 2022, 9:15:28 am MDT

Using PayPal, Venmo, a credit card, or by the mail

Davis Straub|Oz Report|PayPal|Venmo

  1. You can support/subscribe to the Oz Report if you have a PayPal account by clicking here: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/davisstraub. Your PayPal account either needs money in it or it needs to be connected to your bank account.
  2. If your PayPal account is connected to a credit card: https://paypal.me/ozreport?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US
  3. If you want to donate using your credit card:

    Donate with PayPal button

  4. To donate via Venmo, go to venmo.com, log in to your account, and send money to "davis@davisstraub.com".
    Donate with Venmo button
  5. If you’d rather send a check for $20 or more (US Dollars only, please), please feel free to do so.

    Payable to:

    Davis Straub (Not to the Oz Report)
    6548 Groveland Airport Road
    Groveland, FL, 34736

Thanks for helping to support the Oz Report.

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How to support the Oz Report

Tue, Mar 15 2022, 8:36:38 pm MDT

Using PayPal, A credit card, or by the mail

Davis Straub|Oz Report|PayPal

  1. You can support/subscribe to the Oz Report if you have a PayPal account by clicking here: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/davisstraub. Your PayPal account either needs money in it or it needs to be connected to your bank account.
  2. If your PayPal account is connected to a credit card: https://paypal.me/ozreport?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US
  3. If you want to donate using your credit card:

    Donate with PayPal button

  4. If you’d rather send a check for $20 or more (US Dollars only, please), please feel free to do so.

    Payable to:

    Davis Straub (Not to the Oz Report)
    6548 Groveland Airport Road
    Groveland, FL, 34736

Thanks for helping to support the Oz Report

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How to support the Oz Report

Mon, Mar 14 2022, 7:07:39 pm MDT

Using PayPal, A credit card, or by the mail

Davis Straub|Oz Report|PayPal

  1. You can support/subscribe to the Oz Report if you have a PayPal account by clicking here: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/davisstraub. Your PayPal account either needs money in it or it needs to be connected to your bank account.
  2. If your PayPal account is connected to a credit card: https://paypal.me/ozreport?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US
  3. If you want to donate using your credit card:

    Donate with PayPal button

  4. If you’d rather send a check for $20 or more (US Dollars only, please), please feel free to do so.

    Payable to:

    Davis Straub (Not to the Oz Report)
    6548 Groveland Airport Road
    Groveland, FL, 34736

Thanks for helping to support the Oz Report

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How to support the Oz Report

Fri, Mar 11 2022, 7:19:22 pm MST

Using PayPal, a credit card, or by the mail

Davis Straub|Oz Report|PayPal

  1. You can support/subscribe to the Oz Report if you have a PayPal account by clicking here: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/davisstraub. Your PayPal account either needs money in it or it needs to be connected to your bank account.
  2. If your PayPal account is connected to a credit card: https://paypal.me/ozreport?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US
  3. If you want to donate using your credit card:

    Donate with PayPal button

  4. If you’d rather send a check for $20 or more (US Dollars only, please), please feel free to do so.

    Payable to:

    Davis Straub (Not to the Oz Report)
    6548 Groveland Airport Road
    Groveland, FL, 34736

Thanks for helping to support the Oz Report

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Thanks for your support

Thu, Mar 10 2022, 8:01:40 pm MST

We have received many encouraging comments

donations|Facebook|Florida|Oz Report|travel

Along with donations many of you have written comments thanking us for continuing the Oz Report. At one time it looked like that wouldn't happen. Two years of pandemic. Lots of cancelled competitions. Lots of restrictions on travel. Reductions in postings from pilots except on Facebook.

With three competitions coming up very soon in Florida, we're looking forward to many new stories that will encourage you to get out there and enjoy yourselves in the air.

Thanks again.

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How to support the Oz Report

Thu, Mar 10 2022, 8:01:14 pm MST

Using PayPal, A credit card, or by the mail

Davis Straub|Oz Report|PayPal

  1. You can support/subscribe to the Oz Report if you have a PayPal account by clicking here: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/davisstraub. Your PayPal account either needs money in it or it needs to be connected to your bank account.
  2. If your PayPal account is connected to a credit card: https://paypal.me/ozreport?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US
  3. If you want to donate using your credit card:

    Donate with PayPal button

  4. If you’d rather send a check for $20 or more (US Dollars only, please), please feel free to do so.

    Payable to:

    Davis Straub (Not to the Oz Report)
    6548 Groveland Airport Road
    Groveland, FL, 34736

Thanks for helping to support the Oz Report

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How to support the Oz Report

Wed, Mar 9 2022, 11:33:51 am MST

Using PayPal, A credit card, or by the mail

Davis Straub|Oz Report|PayPal

  1. You can support/subscribe to the Oz Report if you have a PayPal account by clicking here: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/davisstraub. Your PayPal account either needs money in it or it needs to be connected to your bank account.
  2. If your PayPal account is connected to a credit card: https://paypal.me/ozreport?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US
  3. If you want to donate using your credit card:

    Donate with PayPal button

  4. If you’d rather send a check for $20 or more (US Dollars only, please), please feel free to do so.

    Payable to:

    Davis Straub (Not to the Oz Report)
    6548 Groveland Airport Road
    Groveland, FL, 34736

Thanks for helping to support the Oz Report.

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How to support the Oz Report

Tue, Mar 8 2022, 5:18:37 am MST

More ways

Davis Straub|Oz Report|PayPal

  1. You can support/subscribe to the Oz Report if you have a PayPal account by clicking here: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/davisstraub. Your PayPal account either needs money in it or it needs to be connected to your bank account.
  2. If your PayPal account is connected to a credit card: https://paypal.me/ozreport?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US
  3. If you want to donate using your credit card:

    Donate with PayPal button

  4. If you’d rather send a check for $20 or more (US Dollars only, please), please feel free to do so.

    Payable to:

    Davis Straub (Not to the Oz Report)
    6548 Groveland Airport Road
    Groveland, FL, 34736

Thanks for helping to support the Oz Report.

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How to support the Oz Report

Mon, Mar 7 2022, 7:20:42 am MST

More ways

Davis Straub|Oz Report|PayPal

  1. You can support/subscribe to the Oz Report if you have a PayPal account by clicking here: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/davisstraub. Your PayPal account either needs money in it or it needs to be connected to your bank account.
  2. If your PayPal account is connected to a credit card: https://paypal.me/ozreport?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US
  3. If you want to donate using your credit card:

  4. If you’d rather send a check for $20 or more (US Dollars only, please), please feel free to do so.

    Payable to:

    Davis Straub (Not to the Oz Report)
    6548 Groveland Airport Road
    Groveland, FL, 34736

Thanks for helping to support the Oz Report.

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How to support the Oz Report

Fri, Mar 4 2022, 4:32:50 pm MST

Two ways so far, more coming

Oz Report|PayPal

You can support/subscribe to the Oz Report if you have a PayPal account by clicking here: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/davisstraub. Your PayPal account either needs money in it or it needs to be connected to your bank account.

If your PayPal account is connected to a credit card: https://paypal.me/ozreport?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US

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You are not being sold (at least not here)

Fri, Mar 4 2022, 10:29:49 am MST

Facebook is free to use

Facebook|news|Oz Report

Those of us who use Facebook realize that our profiles are being sold to advertisers. We are the product. In exchange we get to use the Facebook services.

Unlike Facebook, we do not collect your profile and we don't share or sell your email address. The only information that we have about you is your name, your email address, and the list of contributors. Nothing is shared with anyone.

The Oz Report has a Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/ozreport. This is done for two reasons. One as a service to Oz Report readers who use Facebook. Second, because there are numerous Facebook posts from hang glider (and paraglider) pilots that can be collected and shared with Oz Report readers on Facebook.

In the dark distant past I would receive lots of email and messages about hang gliding news. Now almost all of that comes via Facebook. I'm more than happy to take the Facebook posts that are the most relevant and report them here, but it is much easier just to link to them on Facebook. So I will not report everything I see on Facebook here.

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The Oz Report support Ukrainian and Russian hang glider pilots

Thu, Mar 3 2022, 8:23:27 pm MST

With our logo

Oz Report|war

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The Oz Report Commercial Account

Thu, Mar 3 2022, 8:20:59 pm MST

If your PayPal account is linked to a credit card

Oz Report|PayPal

https://paypal.me/ozreport?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US

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A note from your editor

Wed, Mar 2 2022, 7:30:09 pm MST

March is the month for subscribing to the Oz Report.

Gerry "Scare!" Grossnegger|job|Oz Report|PayPal

It's hard for me to write about this little publication so it will take me a few days to tell the full story.

First, in 2021 we moved everything over to a new web hosting server under the control of our Winnipeg, Canada IT department, i.e. Gerry Grossnegger, know as Scare, reached at «gerry». This did not go smoothly. It took Scare quite a while, often while we were off line, to iron out all the wrinkles. He did a great job and we are much happier with the new setup. Almost all of this is of course behind the scenes.

Second, all our March 2021 income (which is almost all our income) went to Scare. Previously, half went to Scare for IT support (much needed) and half went to pay our third party web hosting service. We basically get a few hundred dollars a year for producing and the editing the content. In 2022, all the March income will go to Scare for server maintenance and IT support.

I will have a lot more to say later this month. First, one way of supporting us (there are other means which might work for you).

You can support/subscribe to the Oz Report if you have a PayPal account by clicking here: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/davisstraub. Your PayPal account either needs money in it or it needs to be connected to your bank account. This won't work if your PayPal account is connected to your credit card.

Here's what you'll see:

Click Send. You'll see this:

Enter the amount and click Continue. You'll see:


Click Personal then Continue. If all that works, you should be able to send us a donation/subscription.

If you are paying with a credit card, well, we'll get into that later this month. It's a long story.

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Where have the Oz Report stories come from? »

September 8, 2021, 9:30:14 pm MDT

Over the years

https://OzReport.com/toc.php?volume=0&full&locations=byCount

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Oz Report forum is back up »

April 1, 2021, 8:28:43 pm EDT

Oz Report forum is back up

On the new server

https://ozreport.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=2&blog=1617323323

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Supporting the Oz Report »

March 30, 2021, 11:01:53 EDT

Supporting the Oz Report

Thanks for the help this month. It's been a difficult situation to get the web site and emails working

Davis Straub|Oz Report

Thanks to all of you who have contributed.

Here are our supporters: http://ozreport.com/supporters.php

As you know, all we are asking for is a subscription payment of $20/year.

Seems simple enough. Like most content on the internet, you get to read the Oz Report for free. The trouble for us, not you, is that there are not enough hang glider pilots in this world to make advertising pay for our web hosting costs.

Please, help us out. Support something that you find useful so that it can continue to be there for you.

Options:

1) Click paypal.me/davisstraub.

You should see this:

Type in the amount that you want to send in for your subscription.

Click "Next"

You should see something like this:

If you can contribute from your PayPal Balance or from your bank account that is connected to your PayPal account, please do as this incurs no PayPal fee.

2) If instead you are using a credit card to make this contribution, click this button:

3) Another way to do this is, click here: https://www.paypal.com

With this option please click the "Send&Request" tab.

Type in my email address which you can discern from "davis" and I'm at "davisstraub.com". (I have to write it this way as we hide email addresses here at the Oz Report.

Click "Next."

You'll see:


If you consider me a friend then click the "Sending to a friend" button as long as you aren't paying by a credit card, otherwise click the other option.

Enter the amount here:

If you’d rather just send a check for $20 or more (US Dollars only, please), please feel free to do so.

Payable to:

Davis Straub (Not to the Oz Report)
6548 Groveland Airport Road
Groveland, FL 34736

If you send a physical check, be sure to send me your email address so that I can register you as a subscriber.

These are our supporters (if you are not on the list and have donated to the Oz Report, email me and I'll make sure that you are recognized): http://ozreport.com/supporters.php. Some of you who I've missed in the past did write to me and made sure I knew just how important the Oz Report was to them. If I've missed you, please do tell me.

4) This last option. Come over to the Oz Report support web page and sign up to support us: http://ozreport.com/support.php. Or click here:

Thanks to all our supporters: http://ozreport.com/supporters.php who have kept us going and paying our bills over the last twenty five years.

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Supporting the Oz Report »

March 29, 2021, 9:37:05 pm EDT

Supporting the Oz Report

Bringing good stuff from Facebook also.

Davis Straub|Facebook|Oz Report

Nothing wrong with Facebook if you have someone curating it for you.

Here are our supporters: http://ozreport.com/supporters.php

As you know, all we are asking for is a subscription payment of $20/year.

Seems simple enough. Like most content on the internet, you get to read the Oz Report for free. The trouble for us, not you, is that there are not enough hang glider pilots in this world to make advertising pay for our web hosting costs.

Please, help us out. Support something that you find useful so that it can continue to be there for you.

Options:

1) Click paypal.me/davisstraub.

You should see this:

Type in the amount that you want to send in for your subscription.

Click "Next"

You should see something like this:

If you can contribute from your PayPal Balance or from your bank account that is connected to your PayPal account, please do as this incurs no PayPal fee.

2) If instead you are using a credit card to make this contribution, click this button:

3) Another way to do this is, click here: https://www.paypal.com

With this option please click the "Send&Request" tab.

Type in my email address which you can discern from "davis" and I'm at "davisstraub.com". (I have to write it this way as we hide email addresses here at the Oz Report.

Click "Next."

You'll see:


If you consider me a friend then click the "Sending to a friend" button as long as you aren't paying by a credit card, otherwise click the other option.

Enter the amount here:

If you’d rather just send a check for $20 or more (US Dollars only, please), please feel free to do so.

Payable to:

Davis Straub (Not to the Oz Report)
6548 Groveland Airport Road
Groveland, FL 34736

If you send a physical check, be sure to send me your email address so that I can register you as a subscriber.

These are our supporters (if you are not on the list and have donated to the Oz Report, email me and I'll make sure that you are recognized): http://ozreport.com/supporters.php. Some of you who I've missed in the past did write to me and made sure I knew just how important the Oz Report was to them. If I've missed you, please do tell me.

4) This last option. Come over to the Oz Report support web page and sign up to support us: http://ozreport.com/support.php. Or click here:

Thanks to all our supporters: http://ozreport.com/supporters.php who have kept us going and paying our bills over the last twenty five years.

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Supporting the Oz Report »

March 26, 2021, 8:54:20 pm EDT

Supporting the Oz Report

We'll soon be at the end of our fund raising period

Davis Straub|Oz Report

Maybe I should raise funds in February when there is less flying going on. I'm exhausted.

Here are our supporters: http://ozreport.com/supporters.php

As you know, all we are asking for is a subscription payment of $20/year.

Seems simple enough. Like most content on the internet, you get to read the Oz Report for free. The trouble for us, not you, is that there are not enough hang glider pilots in this world to make advertising pay for our web hosting costs.

Please, help us out. Support something that you find useful so that it can continue to be there for you.

Options:

1) Click paypal.me/davisstraub.

You should see this:

Type in the amount that you want to send in for your subscription.

Click "Next"

You should see something like this:

If you can contribute from your PayPal Balance or from your bank account that is connected to your PayPal account, please do as this incurs no PayPal fee.

2) If instead you are using a credit card to make this contribution, click this button:

3) Another way to do this is, click here: https://www.paypal.com

With this option please click the "Send&Request" tab.

Type in my email address which you can discern from "davis" and I'm at "davisstraub.com". (I have to write it this way as we hide email addresses here at the Oz Report.

Click "Next."

You'll see:


If you consider me a friend then click the "Sending to a friend" button as long as you aren't paying by a credit card, otherwise click the other option.

Enter the amount here:

If you’d rather just send a check for $20 or more (US Dollars only, please), please feel free to do so.

Payable to:

Davis Straub (Not to the Oz Report)
6548 Groveland Airport Road
Groveland, FL 34736

If you send a physical check, be sure to send me your email address so that I can register you as a subscriber.

These are our supporters (if you are not on the list and have donated to the Oz Report, email me and I'll make sure that you are recognized): http://ozreport.com/supporters.php. Some of you who I've missed in the past did write to me and made sure I knew just how important the Oz Report was to them. If I've missed you, please do tell me.

4) This last option. Come over to the Oz Report support web page and sign up to support us: http://ozreport.com/support.php. Or click here:

Thanks to all our supporters: http://ozreport.com/supporters.php who have kept us going and paying our bills over the last twenty five years.

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Supporting the Oz Report »

March 25, 2021, 10:23:45 pm EDT

Supporting the Oz Report

The subscriptions keep arriving

Special thanks to Charlie Allen.

Here are our supporters: http://ozreport.com/supporters.php

As you know, all we are asking for is a subscription payment of $20/year.

Seems simple enough.  Like most content on the internet, you get to read the Oz Report for free.  The trouble for us, not you, is that there are not enough hang glider pilots in this world to make advertising pay for our web hosting costs.

Please, help us out.  Support something that you find useful so that it can continue to be there for you.

Options:

1) Click paypal.me/davisstraub.

You should see this:

Type in the amount that you want to send in for your subscription.

Click "Next"

You should see something like this:

If you can contribute from your PayPal Balance or from your bank account that is connected to your PayPal account, please do as this incurs no PayPal fee.

2) If instead you are using a credit card to make this contribution, click this button:

3) Another way to do this is, click here: https://www.paypal.com

With this option please click the "Send&Request" tab.

Type in my email address which you can discern from "davis" and I'm at "davisstraub.com".  (I have to write it this way as we hide email addresses here at the Oz Report.

Click "Next."

You'll see:


If you consider me a friend then click the "Sending to a friend" button as long as you aren't paying by a credit card, otherwise click the other option.

Enter the amount here:

If you’d rather just send a check for $20 or more (US Dollars only, please), please feel free to do so.

Payable to:

Davis Straub (Not to the Oz Report)
6548 Groveland Airport Road
Groveland, FL 34736

If you send a physical check, be sure to send me your email address so that I can register you as a subscriber.

These are our supporters (if you are not on the list and have donated to the Oz Report, email me and I'll make sure that you are recognized): http://ozreport.com/supporters.php.  Some of you who I've missed in the past did write to me and made sure I knew just how important the Oz Report was to them.  If I've missed you, please do tell me.

4) This last option.  Come over to the Oz Report support web page and sign up to support us: http://ozreport.com/support.php.  Or click here:

Thanks to all our supporters: http://ozreport.com/supporters.php who have kept us going and paying our bills over the last twenty five years.

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March 24, 2021, 7:51:01 pm EDT

Supporting the Oz Report

Rebuilding the Oz Report piece by piece

Davis Straub|Oz Report

Special thanks to Keith Barghahn.

Here are our supporters: http://ozreport.com/supporters.php

As you know, all we are asking for is a subscription payment of $20/year.

Seems simple enough. Like most content on the internet, you get to read the Oz Report for free. The trouble for us, not you, is that there are not enough hang glider pilots in this world to make advertising pay for our web hosting costs.

Please, help us out. Support something that you find useful so that it can continue to be there for you.

Options:

1) Click paypal.me/davisstraub.

You should see this:

Type in the amount that you want to send in for your subscription.

Click "Next"

You should see something like this:

If you can contribute from your PayPal Balance or from your bank account that is connected to your PayPal account, please do as this incurs no PayPal fee.

2) If instead you are using a credit card to make this contribution, click this button:

3) Another way to do this is, click here: https://www.paypal.com

With this option please click the "Send&Request" tab.

Type in my email address which you can discern from "davis" and I'm at "davisstraub.com". (I have to write it this way as we hide email addresses here at the Oz Report.

Click "Next."

You'll see:


If you consider me a friend then click the "Sending to a friend" button as long as you aren't paying by a credit card, otherwise click the other option.

Enter the amount here:

If you’d rather just send a check for $20 or more (US Dollars only, please), please feel free to do so.

Payable to:

Davis Straub (Not to the Oz Report)
6548 Groveland Airport Road
Groveland, FL 34736

If you send a physical check, be sure to send me your email address so that I can register you as a subscriber.

These are our supporters (if you are not on the list and have donated to the Oz Report, email me and I'll make sure that you are recognized): http://ozreport.com/supporters.php. Some of you who I've missed in the past did write to me and made sure I knew just how important the Oz Report was to them. If I've missed you, please do tell me.

4) This last option. Come over to the Oz Report support web page and sign up to support us: http://ozreport.com/support.php. Or click here:

Thanks to all our supporters: http://ozreport.com/supporters.php who have kept us going and paying our bills over the last twenty five years.

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March 23, 2021, 8:54:26 EDT

Supporting the Oz Report

When will the Oz Report forum be back?

Davis Straub|Oz Report

It is amazing to me that despite all the difficulties that we are having delivering the Oz Report readers are still supporting us. Hopefully we won't get into these issues again.

Here are our supporters: http://ozreport.com/supporters.php

As you know, all we are asking for is a subscription payment of $20/year.

Seems simple enough. Like most content on the internet, you get to read the Oz Report for free. The trouble for us, not you, is that there are not enough hang glider pilots in this world to make advertising pay for our web hosting costs.

Please, help us out. Support something that you find useful so that it can continue to be there for you.

Options:

1) Click paypal.me/davisstraub.

You should see this:

Type in the amount that you want to send in for your subscription.

Click "Next"

You should see something like this:

If you can contribute from your PayPal Balance or from your bank account that is connected to your PayPal account, please do as this incurs no PayPal fee.

2) If instead you are using a credit card to make this contribution, click this button:

3) Another way to do this is, click here: https://www.paypal.com

With this option please click the "Send&Request" tab.

Type in my email address which you can discern from "davis" and I'm at "davisstraub.com". (I have to write it this way as we hide email addresses here at the Oz Report.

Click "Next."

You'll see:


If you consider me a friend then click the "Sending to a friend" button as long as you aren't paying by a credit card, otherwise click the other option.

Enter the amount here:

If you’d rather just send a check for $20 or more (US Dollars only, please), please feel free to do so.

Payable to:

Davis Straub (Not to the Oz Report)
6548 Groveland Airport Road
Groveland, FL 34736

If you send a physical check, be sure to send me your email address so that I can register you as a subscriber.

These are our supporters (if you are not on the list and have donated to the Oz Report, email me and I'll make sure that you are recognized): http://ozreport.com/supporters.php. Some of you who I've missed in the past did write to me and made sure I knew just how important the Oz Report was to them. If I've missed you, please do tell me.

4) This last option. Come over to the Oz Report support web page and sign up to support us: http://ozreport.com/support.php. Or click here:

Thanks to all our supporters: http://ozreport.com/supporters.php who have kept us going and paying our bills over the last twenty five years.

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March 22, 2021, 10:07:18 EDT

Supporting the Oz Report

The Oz Report web site has returned

Davis Straub|Oz Report

PHP is now working for us again, but the changes to MySQL are still causing issues so the forum is not back up

Here are our supporters: http://ozreport.com/supporters.php

As you know, all we are asking for is a subscription payment of $20/year.

Seems simple enough. Like most content on the internet, you get to read the Oz Report for free. The trouble for us, not you, is that there are not enough hang glider pilots in this world to make advertising pay for our web hosting costs.

Please, help us out. Support something that you find useful so that it can continue to be there for you.

Options:

1) Click paypal.me/davisstraub.

You should see this:

Type in the amount that you want to send in for your subscription.

Click "Next"

You should see something like this:

If you can contribute from your PayPal Balance or from your bank account that is connected to your PayPal account, please do as this incurs no PayPal fee.

2) If instead you are using a credit card to make this contribution, click this button:

3) Another way to do this is, click here: https://www.paypal.com

With this option please click the "Send&Request" tab.

Type in my email address which you can discern from "davis" and I'm at "davisstraub.com". (I have to write it this way as we hide email addresses here at the Oz Report.

Click "Next."

You'll see:


If you consider me a friend then click the "Sending to a friend" button as long as you aren't paying by a credit card, otherwise click the other option.

Enter the amount here:

If you’d rather just send a check for $20 or more (US Dollars only, please), please feel free to do so.

Payable to:

Davis Straub (Not to the Oz Report)
6548 Groveland Airport Road
Groveland, FL 34736

If you send a physical check, be sure to send me your email address so that I can register you as a subscriber.

These are our supporters (if you are not on the list and have donated to the Oz Report, email me and I'll make sure that you are recognized): http://ozreport.com/supporters.php. Some of you who I've missed in the past did write to me and made sure I knew just how important the Oz Report was to them. If I've missed you, please do tell me.

4) This last option. Come over to the Oz Report support web page and sign up to support us: http://ozreport.com/support.php. Or click here:

Thanks to all our supporters: http://ozreport.com/supporters.php who have kept us going and paying our bills over the last twenty five years.

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March 20, 2021, 8:37:03 EDT

Supporting the Oz Report

The Oz Report web site was dead for a while there.

Davis Straub|Oz Report

We are still working out the bugs that have invaded us.

Here are our supporters: http://ozreport.com/supporters.php

As you know, all we are asking for is a subscription payment of $20/year.

Seems simple enough. Like most content on the internet, you get to read the Oz Report for free. The trouble for us, not you, is that there are not enough hang glider pilots in this world to make advertising pay for our web hosting costs.

Please, help us out. Support something that you find useful so that it can continue to be there for you.

Options:

1) Click paypal.me/davisstraub.

You should see this:

Type in the amount that you want to send in for your subscription.

Click "Next"

You should see something like this:

If you can contribute from your PayPal Balance or from your bank account that is connected to your PayPal account, please do as this incurs no PayPal fee.

2) If instead you are using a credit card to make this contribution, click this button:

3) Another way to do this is, click here: https://www.paypal.com

With this option please click the "Send&Request" tab.

Type in my email address which you can discern from "davis" and I'm at "davisstraub.com". (I have to write it this way as we hide email addresses here at the Oz Report.

Click "Next."

You'll see:


If you consider me a friend then click the "Sending to a friend" button as long as you aren't paying by a credit card, otherwise click the other option.

Enter the amount here:

If you’d rather just send a check for $20 or more (US Dollars only, please), please feel free to do so.

Payable to:

Davis Straub (Not to the Oz Report)
6548 Groveland Airport Road
Groveland, FL 34736

If you send a physical check, be sure to send me your email address so that I can register you as a subscriber.

These are our supporters (if you are not on the list and have donated to the Oz Report, email me and I'll make sure that you are recognized): http://ozreport.com/supporters.php. Some of you who I've missed in the past did write to me and made sure I knew just how important the Oz Report was to them. If I've missed you, please do tell me.

4) This last option. Come over to the Oz Report support web page and sign up to support us: http://ozreport.com/support.php. Or click here:

Thanks to all our supporters: http://ozreport.com/supporters.php who have kept us going and paying our bills over the last twenty five years.

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March 19, 2021, 8:08:13 EDT

Supporting the Oz Report

Too new PHP causing Oz Report problems.

Davis Straub|Gary McIntire|Glen Volk|Oz Report

Davis Straub|Gary McIntire|Glen Volk|Greg Kendall|Oz Report

Thanks to Tom Nejames, Jean-Pierre Delage, Doug Engler, John Clendenon, and Barney Hallin.

Thanks to Gary McIntire, Mike Harrington, Glen Volk, Greg Kendall and Bernard Garvey who all sent money in the mail.

Here are our supporters: http://ozreport.com/supporters.php

As you know, all we are asking for is a subscription payment of $20/year.

Seems simple enough. Like most content on the internet, you get to read the Oz Report for free. The trouble for us, not you, is that there are not enough hang glider pilots in this world to make advertising pay for our web hosting costs.

Please, help us out. Support something that you find useful so that it can continue to be there for you.

Options:

1) Click paypal.me/davisstraub.

You should see this:

Type in the amount that you want to send in for your subscription.

Click "Next"

You should see something like this:

If you can contribute from your PayPal Balance or from your bank account that is connected to your PayPal account, please do as this incurs no PayPal fee.

2) If instead you are using a credit card to make this contribution, click this button:

3) Another way to do this is, click here: https://www.paypal.com

With this option please click the "Send&Request" tab.

Type in my email address which you can discern from "davis" and I'm at "davisstraub.com". (I have to write it this way as we hide email addresses here at the Oz Report.

Click "Next."

You'll see:


If you consider me a friend then click the "Sending to a friend" button as long as you aren't paying by a credit card, otherwise click the other option.

Enter the amount here:

If you’d rather just send a check for $20 or more (US Dollars only, please), please feel free to do so.

Payable to:

Davis Straub (Not to the Oz Report)
6548 Groveland Airport Road
Groveland, FL 34736

If you send a physical check, be sure to send me your email address so that I can register you as a subscriber.

These are our supporters (if you are not on the list and have donated to the Oz Report, email me and I'll make sure that you are recognized): http://ozreport.com/supporters.php. Some of you who I've missed in the past did write to me and made sure I knew just how important the Oz Report was to them. If I've missed you, please do tell me.

4) This last option. Come over to the Oz Report support web page and sign up to support us: http://ozreport.com/support.php. Or click here:

Thanks to all our supporters: http://ozreport.com/supporters.php who have kept us going and paying our bills over the last twenty five years.

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March 12, 2021, 7:12:21 EST

Supporting the Oz Report

Getting Answers about our RRRG Insurance

Davis Straub|Oz Report|Risk Retention Group

It's been a long while since I've been able to do any investigative reporting. There just hasn't been much going on so what's to investigate. Well, the dam broke with the issues of insurance coverage at the Tennessee Tree Toppers. I just asked a few questions and got very detailed answers as I posted in the previous Oz Report. That lead to more questions (see below).

Here are our supporters: http://ozreport.com/supporters.php

As you know, all we are asking for is a subscription payment of $20/year.

Seems simple enough. Like most content on the internet, you get to read the Oz Report for free. The trouble for us, not you, is that there are not enough hang glider pilots in this world to make advertising pay for our web hosting costs.

Please, help us out. Support something that you find useful so that it can continue to be there for you.

Options:

1) Click paypal.me/davisstraub.

You should see this:

Type in the amount that you want to send in for your subscription.

Click "Next"

You should see something like this:

If you can contribute from your PayPal Balance or from your bank account that is connected to your PayPal account, please do as this incurs no PayPal fee.

2) If instead you are using a credit card to make this contribution, click this button:

3) Another way to do this is, click here: https://www.paypal.com

With this option please click the "Send&Request" tab.

Type in my email address which you can discern from "davis" and I'm at "davisstraub.com". (I have to write it this way as we hide email addresses here at the Oz Report.

Click "Next."

You'll see:


If you consider me a friend then click the "Sending to a friend" button as long as you aren't paying by a credit card, otherwise click the other option.

Enter the amount here:

If you’d rather just send a check for $20 or more (US Dollars only, please), please feel free to do so.

Payable to:

Davis Straub (Not to the Oz Report)
6548 Groveland Airport Road
Groveland, FL 34736

If you send a physical check, be sure to send me your email address so that I can register you as a subscriber.

These are our supporters (if you are not on the list and have donated to the Oz Report, email me and I'll make sure that you are recognized): http://ozreport.com/supporters.php. Some of you who I've missed in the past did write to me and made sure I knew just how important the Oz Report was to them. If I've missed you, please do tell me.

4) This last option. Come over to the Oz Report support web page and sign up to support us: http://ozreport.com/support.php. Or click here:

Thanks to all our supporters: http://ozreport.com/supporters.php who have kept us going and paying our bills over the last twenty five years.

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March 11, 2021, 7:51:15 EST

Supporting the Oz Report

Careful

Belinda Boulter|Davis Straub|Oz Report

Belinda, my dear wife, continues to be shocked that all you pilots keep sending us and Scare subscriptions for the Oz Report. She finds you all very loyal. She continues after 25 years to be amazed. Me, too.

Here are our supporters: http://ozreport.com/supporters.php

As you know, all we are asking for is a subscription payment of $20/year.

Seems simple enough. Like most content on the internet, you get to read the Oz Report for free. The trouble for us, not you, is that there are not enough hang glider pilots in this world to make advertising pay for our web hosting costs.

Please, help us out. Support something that you find useful so that it can continue to be there for you.

Options:

1) Click paypal.me/davisstraub.

You should see this:

Type in the amount that you want to send in for your subscription.

Click "Next"

You should see something like this:

If you can contribute from your PayPal Balance or from your bank account that is connected to your PayPal account, please do as this incurs no PayPal fee.

2) If instead you are using a credit card to make this contribution, click this button:

3) Another way to do this is, click here: https://www.paypal.com

With this option please click the "Send&Request" tab.

Type in my email address which you can discern from "davis" and I'm at "davisstraub.com". (I have to write it this way as we hide email addresses here at the Oz Report.

Click "Next."

You'll see:


If you consider me a friend then click the "Sending to a friend" button as long as you aren't paying by a credit card, otherwise click the other option.

Enter the amount here:

If you’d rather just send a check for $20 or more (US Dollars only, please), please feel free to do so.

Payable to:

Davis Straub (Not to the Oz Report)
6548 Groveland Airport Road
Groveland, FL 34736

If you send a physical check, be sure to send me your email address so that I can register you as a subscriber.

These are our supporters (if you are not on the list and have donated to the Oz Report, email me and I'll make sure that you are recognized): http://ozreport.com/supporters.php. Some of you who I've missed in the past did write to me and made sure I knew just how important the Oz Report was to them. If I've missed you, please do tell me.

4) This last option. Come over to the Oz Report support web page and sign up to support us: http://ozreport.com/support.php. Or click here:

Thanks to all our supporters: http://ozreport.com/supporters.php who have kept us going and paying our bills over the last twenty five years.

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March 10, 2021, 8:12:28 EST

Supporting the Oz Report

Thankful

Davis Straub|Facebook|Oz Report

Thankfully things have slowed down a little and I have the opportunity to get caught up with all the support that pilots have been sending in and this especially includes the encouraging messages. One nice aspect of FB is that you get lots of feedback. That's missing a bit from email issues, a forum and a web page.

So the Oz Report really has a two track path now (like other organizations). For those of you who who rather not read your news feed on Facebook, you can just go here: https://www.facebook.com/ozreport.

Special thanks to the generous Patrick Halfhill, Peter Owens, Doug Brown, and James (Dennis) Yeomans.

Here are our supporters: http://ozreport.com/supporters.php

As you know, all we are asking for is a subscription payment of $20/year.

Seems simple enough. Like most content on the internet, you get to read the Oz Report for free. The trouble for us, not you, is that there are not enough hang glider pilots in this world to make advertising pay for our web hosting costs.

Please, help us out. Support something that you find useful so that it can continue to be there for you.

Options:

1) Click paypal.me/davisstraub.

You should see this:

Type in the amount that you want to send in for your subscription.

Click "Next"

You should see something like this:

If you can contribute from your PayPal Balance or from your bank account that is connected to your PayPal account, please do as this incurs no PayPal fee.

2) If instead you are using a credit card to make this contribution, click this button:

3) Another way to do this is, click here: https://www.paypal.com

With this option please click the "Send&Request" tab.

Type in my email address which you can discern from "davis" and I'm at "davisstraub.com". (I have to write it this way as we hide email addresses here at the Oz Report.

Click "Next."

You'll see:


If you consider me a friend then click the "Sending to a friend" button.

Enter the amount here:

If you’d rather just send a check for $20 or more (US Dollars only, please), please feel free to do so.

Payable to:

Davis Straub (Not to the Oz Report)
6548 Groveland Airport Road
Groveland, FL 34736

If you send a physical check, be sure to send me your email address so that I can register you as a subscriber.

These are our supporters (if you are not on the list and have donated to the Oz Report, email me and I'll make sure that you are recognized): http://ozreport.com/supporters.php. Some of you who I've missed in the past did write to me and made sure I knew just how important the Oz Report was to them. If I've missed you, please do tell me.

4) This last option. Come over to the Oz Report support web page and sign up to support us: http://ozreport.com/support.php. Or click here:

Thanks to all our supporters: http://ozreport.com/supporters.php who have kept us going and paying our bills over the last twenty five years.

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March 9, 2021, 8:28:29 EST

Supporting the Oz Report

Overwhelmed

Davis Straub|John Simon|Larry Bunner|Mitchell "Mitch" Shipley|Oz Report|Scott Weiner|Wilotree Park

I'm working here making sure that everyone gets acknowledged for their contribution to supporting the Oz Report. With every day windy since Friday evening, I've been working on making Wilotree Park look the best that it can as well as riding the bike (today with Mitch Shipley as he continues his recovery). This evening I have the opportunity to again call out those who have been extra helpful in providing support, but I must say I appreciate every thing that I get from my readers.

Special thanks to Larry Bunner (who is not here right now but went home to visit his wife and will be back soon), Michael Tryon, John Simon (he's here and wants to fly), John Dullahan, Scott Weiner (who sold a lot of gear on the Oz Report Classifieds), Ronald P Gleason, Bill Belcourt, Mick Howard, and Vincent Collins.

Here are our supporters: http://ozreport.com/supporters.php

As you know, all we are asking for is a subscription payment of $20/year.

Seems simple enough. Like most content on the internet, you get to read the Oz Report for free. The trouble for us, not you, is that there are not enough hang glider pilots in this world to make advertising pay for our web hosting costs.

Please, help us out. Support something that you find useful so that it can continue to be there for you.

Options:

1) Click paypal.me/davisstraub.

You should see this:

Type in the amount that you want to send in for your subscription.

Click "Next"

You should see something like this:

If you can contribute from your PayPal Balance or from your bank account that is connected to your PayPal account, please do as this incurs no PayPal fee.

2) If instead you are using a credit card to make this contribution, click this button:

3) Another way to do this is, click here: https://www.paypal.com

With this option please click the "Send&Request" tab.

Type in my email address which you can discern from "davis" and I'm at "davisstraub.com". (I have to write it this way as we hide email addresses here at the Oz Report.

Click "Next."

You'll see:


If you consider me a friend then click the "Sending to a friend" button.

Enter the amount here:

If you’d rather just send a check for $20 or more (US Dollars only, please), please feel free to do so.

Payable to:

Davis Straub (Not to the Oz Report)
6548 Groveland Airport Road
Groveland,FL 34736

If you send a physical check, be sure to send me your email address so that I can register you as a subscriber.

These are our supporters (if you are not on the list and have donated to the Oz Report, email me and I'll make sure that you are recognized): http://ozreport.com/supporters.php. Some of you who I've missed in the past did write to me and made sure I knew just how important the Oz Report was to them. If I've missed you, please do tell me.

4) This last option. Come over to the Oz Report support web page and sign up to support us: http://ozreport.com/support.php. Or click here:

Thanks to all our supporters: http://ozreport.com/supporters.php who have kept us going and paying our bills over the last twenty five years.

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March 8, 2021, 7:58:02 EST

Supporting the Oz Report

Overwhelmed

Davis Straub|Oz Report

Please forgive me if I haven't gotten right back to you with a personal note of thanks for your support of the Oz Report. You've all been so generous and responsive that I have a big backlog that I'm chipping away at, but first I've got to get this issue ready.

Here are our supporters: http://ozreport.com/supporters.php

As you know, all we are asking for is a subscription payment of $20/year.

Seems simple enough. Like most content on the internet, you get to read the Oz Report for free. The trouble for us, not you, is that there are not enough hang glider pilots in this world to make advertising pay for our web hosting costs.

Please, help us out. Support something that you find useful so that it can continue to be there for you.

Options:

1) Click paypal.me/davisstraub.

You should see this:

Type in the amount that you want to send in for your subscription.

Click "Next"

You should see something like this:

If you can contribute from your PayPal Balance or from your bank account that is connected to your PayPal account, please do as this incurs no PayPal fee.

2) If instead you are using a credit card to make this contribution, click this button:

3) Another way to do this is, click here: https://www.paypal.com

With this option please click the "Send&Request" tab.

Type in my email address which you can discern from "davis" and I'm at "davisstraub.com". (I have to write it this way as we hide email addresses here at the Oz Report.

Click "Next."

You'll see:


If you consider me a friend then click the "Sending to a friend" button.

Enter the amount here:

If you’d rather just send a check for $20 or more (US Dollars only, please), please feel free to do so.

Payable to:

Davis Straub (Not to the Oz Report)
6548 Groveland Airport Road
Groveland, FL 34736

If you send a physical check, be sure to send me your email address so that I can register you as a subscriber.

These are our supporters (if you are not on the list and have donated to the Oz Report, email me and I'll make sure that you are recognized): http://ozreport.com/supporters.php. Some of you who I've missed in the past did write to me and made sure I knew just how important the Oz Report was to them. If I've missed you, please do tell me.

4) This last option. Come over to the Oz Report support web page and sign up to support us: http://ozreport.com/support.php. Or click here:

Thanks to all our supporters: http://ozreport.com/supporters.php who have kept us going and paying our bills over the last twenty five years.

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Supporting the Oz Report »

March 5, 2021, 7:54:02 EST

Supporting the Oz Report

Many supporters

Davis Straub|Mitchell "Mitch" Shipley|Mitch Shipley|Owen Morse|Oz Report

Davis Straub|Mitchell "Mitch" Shipley|Owen Morse|Oz Report

Davis Straub|Mitchell "Mitch" Shipley|Owen Morse|Oz Report

Thanks to the very, extremely even, strong support from Stephan Mentler, Daniel Lukaszewicz (making up for a couple of free riders - what do they think this is, Freebook?), Mitch Shipley, Knut Ryerson, Owen Morse, the Passing Zone, Kip Stone, Jostein Vorkinn, Oded Kalir, LakeShore Hang Gliding, Gregg & Kimberly, and Moyes Delta Gliders Pty Ltd.

Here are our supporters: http://ozreport.com/supporters.php

As you know, all we are asking for is a subscription payment of $20/year.

Seems simple enough. Like most content on the internet, you get to read the Oz Report for free. The trouble for us, not you, is that there are not enough hang glider pilots in this world to make advertising pay for our web hosting costs.

Please, help us out. Support something that you find useful so that it can continue to be there for you.

Options:

1) Click paypal.me/davisstraub.

You should see this:

Type in the amount that you want to send in for your subscription.

Click "Next"

You should see something like this:

If you can contribute from your PayPal Balance or from your bank account that is connected to your PayPal account, please do as this incurs no PayPal fee.

2) If instead you are using a credit card to make this contribution, click this button:

3) Another way to do this is, click here: https://www.paypal.com

With this option please click the "Send&Request" tab.

Type in my email address which you can discern from "davis" and I'm at "davisstraub.com". (I have to write it this way as we hide email addresses here at the Oz Report.

Click "Next."

You'll see:


If you consider me a friend then click the "Sending to a friend" button.

Enter the amount here:

If you’d rather just send a check for $20 or more (US Dollars only, please), please feel free to do so.

Payable to:

Davis Straub (Not to the Oz Report)
6548 Groveland Airport Road
Groveland, FL 34736

If you send a physical check, be sure to send me your email address so that I can register you as a subscriber.

These are our supporters (if you are not on the list and have donated to the Oz Report, email me and I'll make sure that you are recognized): http://ozreport.com/supporters.php. Some of you who I've missed in the past did write to me and made sure I knew just how important the Oz Report was to them. If I've missed you, please do tell me.

4) This last option. Come over to the Oz Report support web page and sign up to support us: http://ozreport.com/support.php. Or click here:

Thanks to all our supporters: http://ozreport.com/supporters.php who have kept us going and paying our bills over the last twenty five years.

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Supporting the Oz Report »

March 4, 2021, 8:02:16 EST

Supporting the Oz Report

Many supporters

Davis Straub|Oz Report

A whole bunch of folks responded yesterday to our request for support. So many that it will take me a while to go through everyone and thank them personally. I know that you can be patient.

I'm still publishing Lori's art work though, but no real news yet.

Here are our supporters: http://ozreport.com/supporters.php

As you know, all we are asking for is a subscription payment of $20/year.

Seems simple enough. Like most content on the internet, you get to read the Oz Report for free. The trouble for us, not you, is that there are not enough hang glider pilots in this world to make advertising pay for our web hosting costs.

Please, help us out. Support something that you find useful so that it can continue to be there for you.

Options:

1) Click paypal.me/davisstraub.

You should see this:

Type in the amount that you want to send in for your subscription.

Click "Next"

You should see something like this:

If you can contribute from your PayPal Balance or from your bank account that is connected to your PayPal account, please do as this incurs no PayPal fee.

2) If instead you are using a credit card to make this contribution, click this button:

3) Another way to do this is, click here: https://www.paypal.com

With this option please click the "Send&Request" tab.

Type in my email address which you can discern from "davis" and I'm at "davisstraub.com". (I have to write it this way as we hide email addresses here at the Oz Report.

Click "Next."

You'll see:


If you consider me a friend then click the "Sending to a friend" button.

Enter the amount here:

If you’d rather just send a check for $20 or more (US Dollars only, please), please feel free to do so.

Payable to:

Davis Straub (Not to the Oz Report)
6548 Groveland Airport Road
Groveland, FL 34736

If you send a physical check, be sure to send me your email address so that I can register you as a subscriber.

These are our supporters (if you are not on the list and have donated to the Oz Report, email me and I'll make sure that you are recognized): http://ozreport.com/supporters.php. Some of you who I've missed in the past did write to me and made sure I knew just how important the Oz Report was to them. If I've missed you, please do tell me.

4) This last option. Come over to the Oz Report support web page and sign up to support us: http://ozreport.com/support.php. Or click here:

Thanks to all our supporters: http://ozreport.com/supporters.php who have kept us going and paying our bills over the last twenty five years.

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Supporting the Oz Report »

March 3, 2021, 8:24:10 EST

Supporting the Oz Report

Hang Gliding, still here

Davis Straub|Oz Report

Here are our supporters: http://ozreport.com/supporters.php

As you know, all we are asking for is a subscription payment of $20/year.

Seems simple enough. Like most content on the internet, you get to read the Oz Report for free. The trouble for us, not you, is that there are not enough hang glider pilots in this world to make advertising pay for our web hosting costs.

Please, help us out. Support something that you find useful so that it can continue to be there for you.

Options:

1) Click paypal.me/davisstraub.

You should see this:

Type in the amount that you want to send in for your subscription.

Click "Next"

You should see something like this:

If you can contribute from your PayPal Balance or from your bank account that is connected to your PayPal account, please do as this incurs no PayPal fee.

2) If instead you are using a credit card to make this contribution, click this button:

3) Another way to do this is, click here: https://www.paypal.com

With this option please click the "Send&Request" tab.

Type in my email address which you can discern from "davis" and I'm at "davisstraub.com". (I have to write it this way as we hide email addresses here at the Oz Report.

Click "Next."

You'll see:


If you consider me a friend then click the "Sending to a friend" button.

Enter the amount here:

If you’d rather just send a check for $20 or more (US Dollars only, please), please feel free to do so.

Payable to:

Davis Straub (Not to the Oz Report)
6548 Groveland Airport Road
Groveland, FL 34736

If you send a physical check, be sure to send me your email address so that I can register you as a subscriber.

These are our supporters (if you are not on the list and have donated to the Oz Report, email me and I'll make sure that you are recognized): http://ozreport.com/supporters.php. Some of you who I've missed in the past did write to me and made sure I knew just how important the Oz Report was to them. If I've missed you, please do tell me.

4) This last option. Come over to the Oz Report support web page and sign up to support us: http://ozreport.com/support.php. Or click here:

Thanks to all our supporters: http://ozreport.com/supporters.php who have kept us going and paying our bills over the last twenty five years.

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A Near Cyber Death Experience

Wed, Mar 3 2021, 8:23:21 am EST

We almost lost it

COVID|Facebook|Oz Report|Paradise Airsports Nationals 2021|Wilotree Park|Wilotree Park Nationals 2021

You might have noticed that it's been a tough year for most of us. Hang gliding continued without many competitions which would have lead to gatherings which were either frowned upon or completely forbidden by the authorities. Here in Florida we continued life outside where it is is 19 times safer (https://bestlifeonline.com/coronavirus-indoors/). Due to travel restrictions we canceled the Sport Class, Rigid Wing and Women's Worlds as well as all the Nationals competitions. Same for Big Spring.

Now a year later we are planning for the 2021 Paradise Airsports and Wilotree Park Nationals in April to be run under COVID protocols with continued international travel restrictions: https://airtribune.com/2021-paradise-airsports-nationals/info and https://airtribune.com/2021-wilotree-park-nationals/info.

During the year of crises mode we also decided to move to a new web server to reduce our costs. This transition has not been without numerous glitches as the Oz Report is a complex web site. For example, yesterday the host automatically updated PHP which caused all sorts of problems for Scare. Hopefully over time the situation will stabilize.

At one point we considered just going strictly on Facebook which would relieve us of all the web hosting issues (the high cost being the primary concern). We also were getting most of our content via Facebook posts, so it made sense to go to our Facebook version of the Oz Report.

This would mean that we would drop our email push of Oz Report issues. Also, those who find Facebook objectionable would no longer get to see our content. After a few disappointing experiments we decided to leave well enough alone. There is a Facebook version of the Oz Report and a stand-alone version. Sometimes content from the Facebook version comes over to the stand-alone version.

You can just go to the Oz Report on Facebook and ignore your news feed: https://www.facebook.com/ozreport

We don't know where things stand with our readers. We've decided not to publish every weekday unless there is news every weekday. Before it was publish or perish five days a week for 24 years. Now we are taking a bit more relaxed attitude and publishing when something interesting is happening, and hopefully with a new year and good changes to our pandemic situation coming, there will be more interesting things happening.

Thanks to all the Oz Report readers for their support over the years.

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Oz Report Email »

January 12, 2021, 9:09:20 pm EST

Oz Report Email

We're still working on it

We've gone to a different email program on our new server. Maybe it's working for you. I'm not getting any of the emails, but it's indicating that email versions of the Oz Report are being sent out. Hopefully over the next few days it will get sorted out. Change is always interesting.

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Oz Report Email issues - not working yet »

January 7, 2021, 10:41:23 pm EST

Oz Report Email issues - not working yet

After moving to the new server

Scare is attempting to get Mailman working on the new server so that we can post the Oz Report issues to the Oz Report subscribers. We're working on it.

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The Oz Report Continues Onward »

December 24, 2020, 9:24:16 EST

The Oz Report Continues Onward

With some changes

The Oz Report will continue as a variant of its previous self on a new server that Scare has complete access to (without going through another set of service techs). We are figuring out how to get around the limitation of only 300 emails sent out each hour. We still have the limitation that it is not trivially easy for readers to unsubscribe.

We're thinking that the Oz Report doesn't necessarily have to come out every day.

We'll still continue with the Oz Report on FB as we have for the last three years.

We may be able to automatically copy the Oz Report FB posts to the Oz Report web site and email, but maybe not.

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The Oz Report Continues

December 17, 2020, 9:06:16 pm EST

The Oz Report Continues

https://ozreport.com

Facebook|Oz Report

We are, of course, aware of the concerns around Facebook. But that is where pilots are posting in all sorts of different places that we can curate. We can definitely email out new Oz Reports in 2021, but we need to have content, not just my little write ups.

We need a way to easily, very easily, transfer FB posts that go to the Oz Report FB page to the Oz Report web page (so that they can be emailed later). We don't have a way to do this other than manually now. If you have some suggestions, please help us out with them.

Thanks.

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Changes Coming to the Oz Report

December 16, 2020, 8:44:09 pm EST

Changes Coming to the Oz Report

Moving to a new server and to Facebook

Facebook|Oz Report

Over the weekend Scare moved the Oz Report to a new server (keeping it also going on the old one at PAIR for a while). Scare has direct access to this server and it is where he hosts other accounts. There were a few minor glitches, but it seems to work now with a little manual help from Scare (moving over pictures).

The PAIR server will still be operating through December and then the Oz Report will no longer be up on PAIR, but just on the new host.

This is in anticipation of focusing the Oz Report on its Facebook page. That basically means that at least starting in January there won't be five days a week emails coming out from the Oz Report. Also the Oz Report on the new server won't be updated. All new updates will happen on the Oz Report on Facebook.

I've been running the Oz Report on Facebook for a couple of years now and it has been more and more the case that I am curating (collecting) content from Facebook instead of receiving content by email. This is how pilots are communicating now.

Unfortunately, the downside is that the push of email goes away with Facebook. The upside is that is is much easier for me to share content and I get a lot more feedback. So we'll see what the future brings.

The Oz Report forum is still operational, as are the classified ads.

We won't we asking for donations in the future as the costs of the new server are greatly reduced (due to the reduced server load).

Feel free to respond or comment.

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The Oz Report is Back »

July 23, 2020, 11:38:30 pm MDT

The Oz Report is Back

After a short break the web site has been resurrected

Our web hosting service shut down the Oz Report web site because some malicious person or entity had used one of our scripts to send out devious material. Pair.com tracked it and took us off line.

Scare got on the case and finally tracked down the vulnerability. So we are back in business. For those interested, here are the technical details:

I've fixed that vulnerability. It turns out that a superglobal variable, which the web server supplies to the PHP interpreter which may then be accessed by PHP scripts, and is supposed to contain the filename of the currently executing script, will also include the rest of the malformed request if it continues after the script filename with an immediate "/". In the case here, that stuff was included into the environment that was evaluating which of our advertisements should be displayed on that page, and since it was inside double-quotes, variable substitution was done for a part of the request, resulting in the included command being executed by PHP.

I've prevented this exploit from working by doing the following:
- the contents of the supergobal variable is sanitized before use, to include only the filename
- the filename environment variable is single-quoted (no variable substitution)
- the access file routes any request similar to those into a dead-end script which does nothing but add a "deny" rule for that address

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Supporting the Oz Report »

March 26, 2020, 7:46:35 EDT

Supporting the Oz Report

Support from Italy

Oz Report|Tullio Gervasoni

Special thanks to Tulio Gervasoni from Italy. Hard to imagine how things are going there.

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Supporting the Oz Report »

March 25, 2020, 8:40:22 EDT

Supporting the Oz Report

Pilots are still sending in subscriptions

Oz Report|Vicki Cain

We wrote in the last issue that we didn't think it was fair to ask people for money for the Oz Report because we are facing the possibility of a second Great Depression (at least according the head of the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank). But unfortunately we didn't send that issue out until Tuesday evening. So lots of pilots sent in money during the day.

Thanks to all of you who have supported the Oz Report. We hope to be around to encourage and inform the hang gliding community for many years to come. Things will change (with the technology) but hopefully for the better.

Thanks especially to Vicki Cain at Moyes Gliders.

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Supporting the Oz Report »

March 24, 2020, 8:51:55 pm EDT

Supporting the Oz Report

Time to rethink this asking for money thing

Big thanks to Oded Kalir for his generous support. He didn't get to fly in the competitions here at Wilotree, as there aren't any in 2020.

We're apparently about to enter the second great depression in addition to a pandemic. We don't feel that it is right to ask for any more financial support given what appears to be ahead for all of us. We thought at first it was the second Great Recession. That would be nice relatively speaking.

We want you all to keep your distance and let's see if we can not overload the hospitals that will be called upon to save us.

https://thehill.com/policy/finance/economy/488924-st-louis-fed-chair-says-us-unemployment-rate-could-hit-30-percent

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Supporting the Oz Report »

March 23, 2020, 8:12:38 EDT

Supporting the Oz Report

We're still reporting

John Hesch|Oz Report

Thanks to John Hesch, Alan Crouse, and those who helped us out on Friday. It's pasta night and there is still rice pasta at the store.

This is the month where I ask Oz Report readers for their support.  Your contribution pays for hosting our web site and for Gerry's technical support to keep it running.

Here are our supporters: http://ozreport.com/supporters.php

As you know, all we are asking for is a subscription payment of $20/year.

Seems simple enough.  Like most content on the internet, you get to read the Oz Report for free.  The trouble for us, not you, is that there are not enough hang glider pilots in this world to make advertising pay for our web hosting costs.

Please, help us out.  Support something that you find useful so that it can continue to be there for you.

Options:

1) Click paypal.me/davisstraub.

You should see this:

Type in the amount that you want to send in for your subscription.

Click "Next"

You should see something like this:

If you can contribute from your PayPal Balance or from your bank account that is connected to your PayPal account, please do as this incurs no PayPal fee.

2) If instead you are using a credit card to make this contribution, click this button:

3) Another way to do this is, click here: https://www.paypal.com

With this option please click the "Send&Request" tab.

Type in my email address which you can discern from "davis" and I'm at "davisstraub.com".  (I have to write it this way as we hide email addresses here at the Oz Report.

Click "Next."

You'll see:


If you consider me a friend then click the "Sending to a friend" button.

Enter the amount here:

If you’d rather just send a check for $20 or more (US Dollars only, please), please feel free to do so.

Payable to:

Davis Straub (Not to the Oz Report)
6548 Groveland Airport Road
Groveland, FL 34736

If you send a physical check, be sure to send me your email address so that I can register you as a subscriber.

These are our supporters (if you are not on the list and have donated to the Oz Report, email me and I'll make sure that you are recognized): http://ozreport.com/supporters.php.  Some of you who I've missed in the past did write to me and made sure I knew just how important the Oz Report was to them.  If I've missed you, please do tell me.

4) This last option.  Come over to the Oz Report support web page and sign up to support us: http://ozreport.com/support.php.  Or click here:

Thanks to all our supporters: http://ozreport.com/supporters.php who have kept us going and paying our bills over the last twenty four years.

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Supporting the Oz Report »

March 20, 2020, 8:29:00 EDT

Supporting the Oz Report

Going the distance

Well, California closes down. We fly far but keep our distance. The Oz Report as a virtual publican is still operating.

This is the month where I ask Oz Report readers for their support.  Your contribution pays for hosting our web site and for Gerry's technical support to keep it running.

Here are our supporters: http://ozreport.com/supporters.php

As you know, all we are asking for is a subscription payment of $20/year.

Seems simple enough.  Like most content on the internet, you get to read the Oz Report for free.  The trouble for us, not you, is that there are not enough hang glider pilots in this world to make advertising pay for our web hosting costs.

Please, help us out.  Support something that you find useful so that it can continue to be there for you.

Options:

1) Click paypal.me/davisstraub.

You should see this:

Type in the amount that you want to send in for your subscription.

Click "Next"

You should see something like this:

If you can contribute from your PayPal Balance or from your bank account that is connected to your PayPal account, please do as this incurs no PayPal fee.

2) If instead you are using a credit card to make this contribution, click this button:

3) Another way to do this is, click here: https://www.paypal.com

With this option please click the "Send&Request" tab.

Type in my email address which you can discern from "davis" and I'm at "davisstraub.com".  (I have to write it this way as we hide email addresses here at the Oz Report.

Click "Next."

You'll see:


If you consider me a friend then click the "Sending to a friend" button.

Enter the amount here:

If you’d rather just send a check for $20 or more (US Dollars only, please), please feel free to do so.

Payable to:

Davis Straub (Not to the Oz Report)
6548 Groveland Airport Road
Groveland, FL 34736

If you send a physical check, be sure to send me your email address so that I can register you as a subscriber.

These are our supporters (if you are not on the list and have donated to the Oz Report, email me and I'll make sure that you are recognized): http://ozreport.com/supporters.php.  Some of you who I've missed in the past did write to me and made sure I knew just how important the Oz Report was to them.  If I've missed you, please do tell me.

4) This last option.  Come over to the Oz Report support web page and sign up to support us: http://ozreport.com/support.php.  Or click here:

Thanks to all our supporters: http://ozreport.com/supporters.php who have kept us going and paying our bills over the last twenty four years.

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Supporting the Oz Report »

March 19, 2020, 9:08:59 EDT

Supporting the Oz Report

Keeping our distance

Jim Lamb|Ken Howells|Oz Report

Thanks to our old friend Jim Lamb for his generous support. Thanks also to Ken Howells.

This is the month where I ask Oz Report readers for their support.  Your contribution pays for hosting our web site and for Gerry's technical support to keep it running.

Here are our supporters: http://ozreport.com/supporters.php

As you know, all we are asking for is a subscription payment of $20/year.

Seems simple enough.  Like most content on the internet, you get to read the Oz Report for free.  The trouble for us, not you, is that there are not enough hang glider pilots in this world to make advertising pay for our web hosting costs.

Please, help us out.  Support something that you find useful so that it can continue to be there for you.

Options:

1) Click paypal.me/davisstraub.

You should see this:

Type in the amount that you want to send in for your subscription.

Click "Next"

You should see something like this:

If you can contribute from your PayPal Balance or from your bank account that is connected to your PayPal account, please do as this incurs no PayPal fee.

2) If instead you are using a credit card to make this contribution, click this button:

3) Another way to do this is, click here: https://www.paypal.com

With this option please click the "Send&Request" tab.

Type in my email address which you can discern from "davis" and I'm at "davisstraub.com".  (I have to write it this way as we hide email addresses here at the Oz Report.

Click "Next."

You'll see:


If you consider me a friend then click the "Sending to a friend" button.

Enter the amount here:

If you’d rather just send a check for $20 or more (US Dollars only, please), please feel free to do so.

Payable to:

Davis Straub (Not to the Oz Report)
6548 Groveland Airport Road
Groveland, FL 34736

If you send a physical check, be sure to send me your email address so that I can register you as a subscriber.

These are our supporters (if you are not on the list and have donated to the Oz Report, email me and I'll make sure that you are recognized): http://ozreport.com/supporters.php.  Some of you who I've missed in the past did write to me and made sure I knew just how important the Oz Report was to them.  If I've missed you, please do tell me.

4) This last option.  Come over to the Oz Report support web page and sign up to support us: http://ozreport.com/support.php.  Or click here:

Thanks to all our supporters: http://ozreport.com/supporters.php who have kept us going and paying our bills over the last twenty four years.

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Supporting the Oz Report »

March 18, 2020, 8:02:59 EDT

Supporting the Oz Report

Keeping positive, er negative

Daniel Gravage|Oz Report

Special thanks to Peter Owens, Daniel Gravage and Allen R Sparks.

With the Second Great Recession staring us in the face, we are very appreciative of the financial support that we have received from so many readers. We want you all to take care and husband your resources. Don't worry about sending us any money if you have any money worries. We would rather that you not worry.

This is the month where I ask Oz Report readers for their support.  Your contribution pays for hosting our web site and for Gerry's technical support to keep it running.

Here are our supporters: http://ozreport.com/supporters.php

As you know, all we are asking for is a subscription payment of $20/year.

Seems simple enough.  Like most content on the internet, you get to read the Oz Report for free.  The trouble for us, not you, is that there are not enough hang glider pilots in this world to make advertising pay for our web hosting costs.

Please, help us out.  Support something that you find useful so that it can continue to be there for you.

Options:

1) Click paypal.me/davisstraub.

You should see this:

Type in the amount that you want to send in for your subscription.

Click "Next"

You should see something like this:

If you can contribute from your PayPal Balance or from your bank account that is connected to your PayPal account, please do as this incurs no PayPal fee.

2) If instead you are using a credit card to make this contribution, click this button:

3) Another way to do this is, click here: https://www.paypal.com

With this option please click the "Send&Request" tab.

Type in my email address which you can discern from "davis" and I'm at "davisstraub.com".  (I have to write it this way as we hide email addresses here at the Oz Report.

Click "Next."

You'll see:


If you consider me a friend then click the "Sending to a friend" button.

Enter the amount here:

If you’d rather just send a check for $20 or more (US Dollars only, please), please feel free to do so.

Payable to:

Davis Straub (Not to the Oz Report)
6548 Groveland Airport Road
Groveland, FL 34736

If you send a physical check, be sure to send me your email address so that I can register you as a subscriber.

These are our supporters (if you are not on the list and have donated to the Oz Report, email me and I'll make sure that you are recognized): http://ozreport.com/supporters.php.  Some of you who I've missed in the past did write to me and made sure I knew just how important the Oz Report was to them.  If I've missed you, please do tell me.

4) This last option.  Come over to the Oz Report support web page and sign up to support us: http://ozreport.com/support.php.  Or click here:

Thanks to all our supporters: http://ozreport.com/supporters.php who have kept us going and paying our bills over the last twenty four years.

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Supporting the Oz Report »

March 17, 2020, 10:06:55 EDT

Supporting the Oz Report

Hang Gliding, the ultimate self isolation

Stay safe out there. Special thanks to Ken Cobb and Ken Seligman.

This is the month where I ask Oz Report readers for their support.  Your contribution pays for hosting our web site and for Gerry's technical support to keep it running.

Here are our supporters: http://ozreport.com/supporters.php

As you know, all we are asking for is a subscription payment of $20/year.

Seems simple enough.  Like most content on the internet, you get to read the Oz Report for free.  The trouble for us, not you, is that there are not enough hang glider pilots in this world to make advertising pay for our web hosting costs.

Please, help us out.  Support something that you find useful so that it can continue to be there for you.

Options:

1) Click paypal.me/davisstraub.

You should see this:

Type in the amount that you want to send in for your subscription.

Click "Next"

You should see something like this:

If you can contribute from your PayPal Balance or from your bank account that is connected to your PayPal account, please do as this incurs no PayPal fee.

2) If instead you are using a credit card to make this contribution, click this button:

3) Another way to do this is, click here: https://www.paypal.com

With this option please click the "Send&Request" tab.

Type in my email address which you can discern from "davis" and I'm at "davisstraub.com".  (I have to write it this way as we hide email addresses here at the Oz Report.

Click "Next."

You'll see:


If you consider me a friend then click the "Sending to a friend" button.

Enter the amount here:

If you’d rather just send a check for $20 or more (US Dollars only, please), please feel free to do so.

Payable to:

Davis Straub (Not to the Oz Report)
6548 Groveland Airport Road
Groveland, FL 34736

If you send a physical check, be sure to send me your email address so that I can register you as a subscriber.

These are our supporters (if you are not on the list and have donated to the Oz Report, email me and I'll make sure that you are recognized): http://ozreport.com/supporters.php.  Some of you who I've missed in the past did write to me and made sure I knew just how important the Oz Report was to them.  If I've missed you, please do tell me.

4) This last option.  Come over to the Oz Report support web page and sign up to support us: http://ozreport.com/support.php.  Or click here:

Thanks to all our supporters: http://ozreport.com/supporters.php who have kept us going and paying our bills over the last twenty four years.

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March 16, 2020, 8:46:48 EDT

Supporting the Oz Report

It's been a weird week, 'eh?

I hope that you are all social distancing, trying to bend the curve down. Since we send this out as email or as a web page, there is no person to person physical contact. Perfect for this time.

We've cancelled all our competitions except the Pan-Americans in August. We'll know more about whether we should continue with that competition or not later, probably by June.

This is the month where I ask Oz Report readers for their support.  Your contribution pays for hosting our web site and for Gerry's technical support to keep it running.

Here are our supporters: http://ozreport.com/supporters.php

As you know, all we are asking for is a subscription payment of $20/year.

Seems simple enough.  Like most content on the internet, you get to read the Oz Report for free.  The trouble for us, not you, is that there are not enough hang glider pilots in this world to make advertising pay for our web hosting costs.

Please, help us out.  Support something that you find useful so that it can continue to be there for you.

Options:

1) Click paypal.me/davisstraub.

You should see this:

Type in the amount that you want to send in for your subscription.

Click "Next"

You should see something like this:

If you can contribute from your PayPal Balance or from your bank account that is connected to your PayPal account, please do as this incurs no PayPal fee.

2) If instead you are using a credit card to make this contribution, click this button:

3) Another way to do this is, click here: https://www.paypal.com

With this option please click the "Send&Request" tab.

Type in my email address which you can discern from "davis" and I'm at "davisstraub.com".  (I have to write it this way as we hide email addresses here at the Oz Report.

Click "Next."

You'll see:


If you consider me a friend then click the "Sending to a friend" button.

Enter the amount here:

If you’d rather just send a check for $20 or more (US Dollars only, please), please feel free to do so.

Payable to:

Davis Straub (Not to the Oz Report)
6548 Groveland Airport Road
Groveland, FL 34736

If you send a physical check, be sure to send me your email address so that I can register you as a subscriber.

These are our supporters (if you are not on the list and have donated to the Oz Report, email me and I'll make sure that you are recognized): http://ozreport.com/supporters.php.  Some of you who I've missed in the past did write to me and made sure I knew just how important the Oz Report was to them.  If I've missed you, please do tell me.

4) This last option.  Come over to the Oz Report support web page and sign up to support us: http://ozreport.com/support.php.  Or click here:

Thanks to all our supporters: http://ozreport.com/supporters.php who have kept us going and paying our bills over the last twenty four years.

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March 13, 2020, 7:41:36 EDT

Supporting the Oz Report

We are all hanging in there together..

Oz Report|Tiki Mashy

Eric Beckman|Oz Report|Tiki Mashy

Eric Beckman|Oz Report|Tiki Mashy

Thanks especially to Cowboy Up with Tiki Mashy, Wayne Devilbiss, Keith Barghahn, and Eric Beckman.

This is the month where I ask Oz Report readers for their support.  Your contribution pays for hosting our web site and for Gerry's technical support to keep it running.

Here are our supporters: http://ozreport.com/supporters.php

As you know, all we are asking for is a subscription payment of $20/year.

Seems simple enough.  Like most content on the internet, you get to read the Oz Report for free.  The trouble for us, not you, is that there are not enough hang glider pilots in this world to make advertising pay for our web hosting costs.

Please, help us out.  Support something that you find useful so that it can continue to be there for you.

Options:

1) Click paypal.me/davisstraub.

You should see this:

Type in the amount that you want to send in for your subscription.

Click "Next"

You should see something like this:

If you can contribute from your PayPal Balance or from your bank account that is connected to your PayPal account, please do as this incurs no PayPal fee.

2) If instead you are using a credit card to make this contribution, click this button:

3) Another way to do this is, click here: https://www.paypal.com

With this option please click the "Send&Request" tab.

Type in my email address which you can discern from "davis" and I'm at "davisstraub.com".  (I have to write it this way as we hide email addresses here at the Oz Report.

Click "Next."

You'll see:


If you consider me a friend then click the "Sending to a friend" button.

Enter the amount here:

If you’d rather just send a check for $20 or more (US Dollars only, please), please feel free to do so.

Payable to:

Davis Straub (Not to the Oz Report)
6548 Groveland Airport Road
Groveland, FL 34736

If you send a physical check, be sure to send me your email address so that I can register you as a subscriber.

These are our supporters (if you are not on the list and have donated to the Oz Report, email me and I'll make sure that you are recognized): http://ozreport.com/supporters.php.  Some of you who I've missed in the past did write to me and made sure I knew just how important the Oz Report was to them.  If I've missed you, please do tell me.

4) This last option.  Come over to the Oz Report support web page and sign up to support us: http://ozreport.com/support.php.  Or click here:

Thanks to all our supporters: http://ozreport.com/supporters.php who have kept us going and paying our bills over the last twenty four years.

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Supporting the Oz Report »

March 12, 2020, 7:10:06 EDT

Supporting the Oz Report

In a time of coronavirus, we appreciate your support.

Dennis Yeomans|Oz Report

Thanks especially to Patrick Halfhill, Peter Kelley, and Dennis Yeomans.

This is the month where I ask Oz Report readers for their support.  Your contribution pays for hosting our web site and for Gerry's technical support to keep it running.

Here are our supporters: http://ozreport.com/supporters.php

As you know, all we are asking for is a subscription payment of $20/year.

Seems simple enough.  Like most content on the internet, you get to read the Oz Report for free.  The trouble for us, not you, is that there are not enough hang glider pilots in this world to make advertising pay for our web hosting costs.

Please, help us out.  Support something that you find useful so that it can continue to be there for you.

Options:

1) Click paypal.me/davisstraub.

You should see this:

Type in the amount that you want to send in for your subscription.

Click "Next"

You should see something like this:

If you can contribute from your PayPal Balance or from your bank account that is connected to your PayPal account, please do as this incurs no PayPal fee.

2) If instead you are using a credit card to make this contribution, click this button:

3) Another way to do this is, click here: https://www.paypal.com

With this option please click the "Send&Request" tab.

Type in my email address which you can discern from "davis" and I'm at "davisstraub.com".  (I have to write it this way as we hide email addresses here at the Oz Report.

Click "Next."

You'll see:


If you consider me a friend then click the "Sending to a friend" button.

Enter the amount here:

If you’d rather just send a check for $20 or more (US Dollars only, please), please feel free to do so.

Payable to:

Davis Straub (Not to the Oz Report)
6548 Groveland Airport Road
Groveland, FL 34736

If you send a physical check, be sure to send me your email address so that I can register you as a subscriber.

These are our supporters (if you are not on the list and have donated to the Oz Report, email me and I'll make sure that you are recognized): http://ozreport.com/supporters.php.  Some of you who I've missed in the past did write to me and made sure I knew just how important the Oz Report was to them.  If I've missed you, please do tell me.

4) This last option.  Come over to the Oz Report support web page and sign up to support us: http://ozreport.com/support.php.  Or click here:

Thanks to all our supporters: http://ozreport.com/supporters.php who have kept us going and paying our bills over the last twenty four years.

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Supporting the Oz Report »

March 11, 2020, 8:38:19 EDT

Supporting the Oz Report

There is a lot to be thankful for.

Oz Report|Tom McGowan

Thanks to all 154 contributors including those who gave some extra contribution: Craig Carlson, Huw Parsons, and Tom McGowan.

This is the month where I ask Oz Report readers for their support.  Your contribution pays for hosting our web site and for Gerry's technical support to keep it running.

Here are our supporters: http://ozreport.com/supporters.php

As you know, all we are asking for is a subscription payment of $20/year.

Seems simple enough.  Like most content on the internet, you get to read the Oz Report for free.  The trouble for us, not you, is that there are not enough hang glider pilots in this world to make advertising pay for our web hosting costs.

Please, help us out.  Support something that you find useful so that it can continue to be there for you.

Options:

1) Click paypal.me/davisstraub.

You should see this:

Type in the amount that you want to send in for your subscription.

Click "Next"

You should see something like this:

If you can contribute from your PayPal Balance or from your bank account that is connected to your PayPal account, please do as this incurs no PayPal fee.

2) If instead you are using a credit card to make this contribution, click this button:

3) Another way to do this is, click here: https://www.paypal.com

With this option please click the "Send&Request" tab.

Type in my email address which you can discern from "davis" and I'm at "davisstraub.com".  (I have to write it this way as we hide email addresses here at the Oz Report.

Click "Next."

You'll see:


If you consider me a friend then click the "Sending to a friend" button.

Enter the amount here:

If you’d rather just send a check for $20 or more (US Dollars only, please), please feel free to do so.

Payable to:

Davis Straub (Not to the Oz Report)
6548 Groveland Airport Road
Groveland, FL 34736

If you send a physical check, be sure to send me your email address so that I can register you as a subscriber.

These are our supporters (if you are not on the list and have donated to the Oz Report, email me and I'll make sure that you are recognized): http://ozreport.com/supporters.php.  Some of you who I've missed in the past did write to me and made sure I knew just how important the Oz Report was to them.  If I've missed you, please do tell me.

4) This last option.  Come over to the Oz Report support web page and sign up to support us: http://ozreport.com/support.php.  Or click here:

Thanks to all our supporters: http://ozreport.com/supporters.php who have kept us going and paying our bills over the last twenty four years.

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Supporting the Oz Report »

March 10, 2020, 7:15:04 EDT

Supporting the Oz Report

Thinking about the future

David Williamson|Oz Report

Thanks to everyone who has contributed to the Oz Report. Thanks to these special contributors: Gary McIntire, Mathew Thoreson, David Williamson, and William Synder. We already have over 140 contributors. By the end of the month we normally get over 200.

This is the month where I ask Oz Report readers for their support.  Your contribution pays for hosting our web site and for Gerry's technical support to keep it running.

Here are our supporters: http://ozreport.com/supporters.php

As you know, all we are asking for is a subscription payment of $20/year.

Seems simple enough.  Like most content on the internet, you get to read the Oz Report for free.  The trouble for us, not you, is that there are not enough hang glider pilots in this world to make advertising pay for our web hosting costs.

Please, help us out.  Support something that you find useful so that it can continue to be there for you.

Options:

1) Click paypal.me/davisstraub.

You should see this:

Type in the amount that you want to send in for your subscription.

Click "Next"

You should see something like this:

If you can contribute from your PayPal Balance or from your bank account that is connected to your PayPal account, please do as this incurs no PayPal fee.

2) If instead you are using a credit card to make this contribution, click this button:

3) Another way to do this is, click here: https://www.paypal.com

With this option please click the "Send&Request" tab.

Type in my email address which you can discern from "davis" and I'm at "davisstraub.com".  (I have to write it this way as we hide email addresses here at the Oz Report.

Click "Next."

You'll see:


If you consider me a friend then click the "Sending to a friend" button.

Enter the amount here:

If you’d rather just send a check for $20 or more (US Dollars only, please), please feel free to do so.

Payable to:

Davis Straub (Not to the Oz Report)
6548 Groveland Airport Road
Groveland, FL 34736

If you send a physical check, be sure to send me your email address so that I can register you as a subscriber.

These are our supporters (if you are not on the list and have donated to the Oz Report, email me and I'll make sure that you are recognized): http://ozreport.com/supporters.php.  Some of you who I've missed in the past did write to me and made sure I knew just how important the Oz Report was to them.  If I've missed you, please do tell me.

4) This last option.  Come over to the Oz Report support web page and sign up to support us: http://ozreport.com/support.php.  Or click here:

Thanks to all our supporters: http://ozreport.com/supporters.php who have kept us going and paying our bills over the last twenty four years.

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Supporting the Oz Report »

March 9, 2020, 8:48:25 EDT

Supporting the Oz Report

Thinking about the future

Facebook|Oz Report

Starting next year I'm thinking about only using Facebook at the https://www.facebook.com/ozreport/. Your thoughts?

This is the month where I ask Oz Report readers for their support.  Your contribution pays for hosting our web site and for Gerry's technical support to keep it running.

Here are our supporters: http://ozreport.com/supporters.php

As you know, all we are asking for is a subscription payment of $20/year.

Seems simple enough.  Like most content on the internet, you get to read the Oz Report for free.  The trouble for us, not you, is that there are not enough hang glider pilots in this world to make advertising pay for our web hosting costs.

Please, help us out.  Support something that you find useful so that it can continue to be there for you.

Options:

1) Click paypal.me/davisstraub.

You should see this:

Type in the amount that you want to send in for your subscription.

Click "Next"

You should see something like this:

If you can contribute from your PayPal Balance or from your bank account that is connected to your PayPal account, please do as this incurs no PayPal fee.

2) If instead you are using a credit card to make this contribution, click this button:

3) Another way to do this is, click here: https://www.paypal.com

With this option please click the "Send&Request" tab.

Type in my email address which you can discern from "davis" and I'm at "davisstraub.com".  (I have to write it this way as we hide email addresses here at the Oz Report.

Click "Next."

You'll see:


If you consider me a friend then click the "Sending to a friend" button.

Enter the amount here:

If you’d rather just send a check for $20 or more (US Dollars only, please), please feel free to do so.

Payable to:

Davis Straub (Not to the Oz Report)
6548 Groveland Airport Road
Groveland, FL 34736

If you send a physical check, be sure to send me your email address so that I can register you as a subscriber.

These are our supporters (if you are not on the list and have donated to the Oz Report, email me and I'll make sure that you are recognized): http://ozreport.com/supporters.php.  Some of you who I've missed in the past did write to me and made sure I knew just how important the Oz Report was to them.  If I've missed you, please do tell me.

4) This last option.  Come over to the Oz Report support web page and sign up to support us: http://ozreport.com/support.php.  Or click here:

Thanks to all our supporters: http://ozreport.com/supporters.php who have kept us going and paying our bills over the last twenty four years.

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Supporting the Oz Report »

Fri, Mar 6 2020, 8:02:44 am EST

Pilots are generous people

Alan Deikman|Charles Allen|Larry Bunner|Martin Henry|Oz Report|Vince Furrer|Vincene Muller

TThanks to these special contributors: Ken Lightsey, Benjamin Friedrich, David I McAnally, Collard Collard, Alan Deikman, Larry Bunner, Charles Allen, Martin Henry, Indasky, Vince Furrer, Karl Allmendinger, Vincene Muller, Daniel Guido, and Nicholas Palmer.

This is the month where I ask Oz Report readers for their support. Your contribution pays for hosting our web site and for Gerry's technical support to keep it running.

Here are our supporters: https://OzReport.com/supporters.php

As you know, all we are asking for is a subscription payment of $20/year.

Seems simple enough. Like most content on the internet, you get to read the Oz Report for free. The trouble for us, not you, is that there are not enough hang glider pilots in this world to make advertising pay for our web hosting costs.

Please, help us out. Support something that you find useful so that it can continue to be there for you.

Options:

1) Click paypal.me/davisstraub.

You should see this:

Type in the amount that you want to send in for your subscription.

Click "Next"

You should see something like this:

If you can contribute from your PayPal Balance or from your bank account that is connected to your PayPal account, please do as this incurs no PayPal fee.

2) If instead you are using a credit card to make this contribution, click this button:

3) Another way to do this is, click here: https://www.paypal.com

With this option please click the "Send&Request" tab.

Type in my email address which you can discern from "davis" and I'm at "davisstraub.com". (I have to write it this way as we hide email addresses here at the Oz Report.

Click "Next."

You'll see:


If you consider me a friend then click the "Sending to a friend" button.

Enter the amount here:

If you’d rather just send a check for $20 or more (US Dollars only, please), please feel free to do so.

Payable to:

Davis Straub (Not to the Oz Report)
6548 Groveland Airport Road
Groveland, FL 34736

If you send a physical check, be sure to send me your email address so that I can register you as a subscriber.

These are our supporters (if you are not on the list and have donated to the Oz Report, email me and I'll make sure that you are recognized): https://OzReport.com/supporters.php. Some of you who I've missed in the past did write to me and made sure I knew just how important the Oz Report was to them. If I've missed you, please do tell me.

4) This last option. Come over to the Oz Report support web page and sign up to support us: https://OzReport.com/support.php. Or click here:

Thanks to all our supporters: https://OzReport.com/supporters.php who have kept us going and paying our bills over the last twenty four years.

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Supporting the Oz Report »

March 5, 2020, 8:09:06 EST

Supporting the Oz Report

Once again thanking those who have been especially generous

Ben Dunn|Glen Volk|Oz Report|Paul Voight|Scott Weiner

Ben Dunn|Glen Volk|Oz Report|Paul Voight|Robin Hamilton|Scott Weiner

Thanks to these special contributors: Paul Voight, Michael Duffy, Robin Hamilton, Luis Fernando Arias Restrepo, Glen Volk, Scott Weiner, Gregory Angsten, Koos De Keijzer, Ben Dunn, and Mick Howard.

This is the month where I ask Oz Report readers for their support.  Your contribution pays for hosting our web site and for Gerry's technical support to keep it running.

Here are our supporters: http://ozreport.com/supporters.php

As you know, all we are asking for is a subscription payment of $20/year.

Seems simple enough.  Like most content on the internet, you get to read the Oz Report for free.  The trouble for us, not you, is that there are not enough hang glider pilots in this world to make advertising pay for our web hosting costs.

Please, help us out.  Support something that you find useful so that it can continue to be there for you.

Options:

1) Click paypal.me/davisstraub.

You should see this:

Type in the amount that you want to send in for your subscription.

Click "Next"

You should see something like this:

If you can contribute from your PayPal Balance or from your bank account that is connected to your PayPal account, please do as this incurs no PayPal fee.

2) If instead you are using a credit card to make this contribution, click this button:

3) Another way to do this is, click here: https://www.paypal.com

With this option please click the "Send&Request" tab.

Type in my email address which you can discern from "davis" and I'm at "davisstraub.com".  (I have to write it this way as we hide email addresses here at the Oz Report.

Click "Next."

You'll see:


If you consider me a friend then click the "Sending to a friend" button.

Enter the amount here:

If you’d rather just send a check for $20 or more (US Dollars only, please), please feel free to do so.

Payable to:

Davis Straub (Not to the Oz Report)
6548 Groveland Airport Road
Groveland, FL 34736

If you send a physical check, be sure to send me your email address so that I can register you as a subscriber.

These are our supporters (if you are not on the list and have donated to the Oz Report, email me and I'll make sure that you are recognized): http://ozreport.com/supporters.php.  Some of you who I've missed in the past did write to me and made sure I knew just how important the Oz Report was to them.  If I've missed you, please do tell me.

4) This last option.  Come over to the Oz Report support web page and sign up to support us: http://ozreport.com/support.php.  Or click here:

Thanks to all our supporters: http://ozreport.com/supporters.php who have kept us going and paying our bills over the last twenty four years.

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Behind the Scenes

Wed, Mar 4 2020, 7:56:03 am EST

I wish to thank everyone who helps support the Oz Report

Oz Report

If you've donated to the Oz Report you'll note that you receive a thank you from Davis. We have always sent thank you's to those who have supported us. We believe that it is important to tell supporters that we very much appreciate their support. We couldn't afford to pay for the server and technical support without your contributions.

So how do we get all these thank you's out the door?

1) Open up eM Cient, local email client software.

2) Clear out the InBox so that only emails coming from PayPal stating that "You've Got Money" are displayed.

3) Open up our PayPal account in Firefox and display the recent activity, going to the donation that corresponds to the earliest email from the day that has the subject line, "You've Got Money."

4) Open up the transaction on Paypal for the earliest email and copy the person's name to the contributor's spread sheet, which we have already opened in a window on the computer. So far three windows. The text format of the name is correct if we copy from PayPal web page of transactions.

5) Copy the person's email address from the PayPal transaction and click on the email that PayPal sent regarding their contribution. Click Reply and change the email address from PayPal's to the person's email address.

6) Click on another window which is a text window that has the message thanking the pilot. Copy and paste the thank you to the email that we're going to send to them.

7) Add additional notes and their name to the thank you.

8) If they have made a special contribution, open up the Microsoft FrontPage window (really old software) and add their name to the list of pilots with special contributions. So many windows.

9) Repeated for all contributions for the day.

10) Upload the contributor's updated list to the Oz Report server.

Thanks for all your support.

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March 4, 2020, 7:54:52 EST

Supporting the Oz Report

Again thanking those who have been especially generous

Dave Embertson|Gregg "Kim" Ludwig|John Simon|Oz Report|Scott Seebass

Thanks to these special contributors: Christopher Zimmerman, Thomas Curbishley, John Simon, Kinsley Sykes, Scott Seebass, Keven Morlang, Barney Hallin, Dave Embertson, Lake Shore Hang Gliding, and Gregg Ludwig.

This is the month where I ask Oz Report readers for their support.  Your contribution pays for hosting our web site and for Gerry's technical support to keep it running.

Here are our supporters: http://ozreport.com/supporters.php

As you know, all we are asking for is a subscription payment of $20/year.

Seems simple enough.  Like most content on the internet, you get to read the Oz Report for free.  The trouble for us, not you, is that there are not enough hang glider pilots in this world to make advertising pay for our web hosting costs.

Please, help us out.  Support something that you find useful so that it can continue to be there for you.

Options:

1) Click paypal.me/davisstraub.

You should see this:

Type in the amount that you want to send in for your subscription.

Click "Next"

You should see something like this:

If you can contribute from your PayPal Balance or from your bank account that is connected to your PayPal account, please do as this incurs no PayPal fee.

2) If instead you are using a credit card to make this contribution, click this button:

3) Another way to do this is, click here: https://www.paypal.com

With this option please click the "Send&Request" tab.

Type in my email address which you can discern from "davis" and I'm at "davisstraub.com".  (I have to write it this way as we hide email addresses here at the Oz Report.

Click "Next."

You'll see:


If you consider me a friend then click the "Sending to a friend" button.

Enter the amount here:

If you’d rather just send a check for $20 or more (US Dollars only, please), please feel free to do so.

Payable to:

Davis Straub (Not to the Oz Report)
6548 Groveland Airport Road
Groveland, FL 34736

If you send a physical check, be sure to send me your email address so that I can register you as a subscriber.

These are our supporters (if you are not on the list and have donated to the Oz Report, email me and I'll make sure that you are recognized): http://ozreport.com/supporters.php.  Some of you who I've missed in the past did write to me and made sure I knew just how important the Oz Report was to them.  If I've missed you, please do tell me.

4) This last option.  Come over to the Oz Report support web page and sign up to support us: http://ozreport.com/support.php.  Or click here:

Thanks to all our supporters: http://ozreport.com/supporters.php who have kept us going and paying our bills over the last twenty four years.

Supporting the Oz Report »

March 3, 2020, 10:10:48 EST

Supporting the Oz Report

Thanking those who have been especially generous

John Kennedy|Orlando Stephenson|Oz Report

Some Oz Report readers have been extra helpful in their support of the Oz Report. We like to highlight their generosity. We especially thank Rob Lesser, Stephan Mentler, Thomas C Ide, John Dullahan, Koos de Keijzer, Daniel Lukaszewicz, Knut Ryerson, Orlando Stephenson, Timothy Delaney, Jean-Pierre DELAGE, Luther Thompson, and John Kennedy,

This is the month where I ask Oz Report readers for their support.  Your contribution pays for hosting our web site and for Gerry's technical support to keep it running.

Here are our supporters: http://ozreport.com/supporters.php

As you know, all we are asking for is a subscription payment of $20/year.

Seems simple enough.  Like most content on the internet, you get to read the Oz Report for free.  The trouble for us, not you, is that there are not enough hang glider pilots in this world to make advertising pay for our web hosting costs.

Please, help us out.  Support something that you find useful so that it can continue to be there for you.

Options:

1) Click paypal.me/davisstraub.

You should see this:

Type in the amount that you want to send in for your subscription.

Click "Next"

You should see something like this:

If you can contribute from your PayPal Balance or from your bank account that is connected to your PayPal account, please do as this incurs no PayPal fee.

2) If instead you are using a credit card to make this contribution, click this button:

3) Another way to do this is, click here: https://www.paypal.com

With this option please click the "Send&Request" tab.

Type in my email address which you can discern from "davis" and I'm at "davisstraub.com".  (I have to write it this way as we hide email addresses here at the Oz Report.

Click "Next."

You'll see:


If you consider me a friend then click the "Sending to a friend" button.

Enter the amount here:

If you’d rather just send a check for $20 or more (US Dollars only, please), please feel free to do so.

Payable to:

Davis Straub (Not to the Oz Report)
6548 Groveland Airport Road
Groveland, FL 34736

If you send a physical check, be sure to send me your email address so that I can register you as a subscriber.

These are our supporters (if you are not on the list and have donated to the Oz Report, email me and I'll make sure that you are recognized): http://ozreport.com/supporters.php.  Some of you who I've missed in the past did write to me and made sure I knew just how important the Oz Report was to them.  If I've missed you, please do tell me.

4) This last option.  Come over to the Oz Report support web page and sign up to support us: http://ozreport.com/support.php.  Or click here:

Thanks to all our supporters: http://ozreport.com/supporters.php who have kept us going and paying our bills over the last twenty four years.

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Supporting the Oz Report »

March 2, 2020, 7:45:33 EST

Supporting the Oz Report

There is a transition coming by the end of the year

The Oz Report will not totally end, but it will become something different. More on this later. You will no longer be asked to pay for it, which is both a good thing, and not a good thing.

This is the month where I ask Oz Report readers for their support.  Your contribution pays for hosting our web site and for Gerry's technical support to keep it running.

Here are our supporters: http://ozreport.com/supporters.php

As you know, all we are asking for is a subscription payment of $20/year.

Seems simple enough.  Like most content on the internet, you get to read the Oz Report for free.  The trouble for us, not you, is that there are not enough hang glider pilots in this world to make advertising pay for our web hosting costs.

Please, help us out.  Support something that you find useful so that it can continue to be there for you.

Options:

1) Click paypal.me/davisstraub.

You should see this:

Type in the amount that you want to send in for your subscription.

Click "Next"

You should see something like this:

If you can contribute from your PayPal Balance or from your bank account that is connected to your PayPal account, please do as this incurs no PayPal fee.

2) If instead you are using a credit card to make this contribution, click this button:

3) Another way to do this is, click here: https://www.paypal.com

With this option please click the "Send&Request" tab.

Type in my email address which you can discern from "davis" and I'm at "davisstraub.com".  (I have to write it this way as we hide email addresses here at the Oz Report.

Click "Next."

You'll see:


If you consider me a friend then click the "Sending to a friend" button.

Enter the amount here:

If you’d rather just send a check for $20 or more (US Dollars only, please), please feel free to do so.

Payable to:

Davis Straub (Not to the Oz Report)
6548 Groveland Airport Road
Groveland, FL 34736

If you send a physical check, be sure to send me your email address so that I can register you as a subscriber.

These are our supporters (if you are not on the list and have donated to the Oz Report, email me and I'll make sure that you are recognized): http://ozreport.com/supporters.php.  Some of you who I've missed in the past did write to me and made sure I knew just how important the Oz Report was to them.  If I've missed you, please do tell me.

4) This last option.  Come over to the Oz Report support web page and sign up to support us: http://ozreport.com/support.php.  Or click here:

Thanks to all our supporters: http://ozreport.com/supporters.php who have kept us going and paying our bills over the last twenty four years.

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Supporting the Oz Report »

March 1, 2020, 9:24:34 pm EST

Supporting the Oz Report

This is the lat year that I will be publishing the Oz Report

More about that later during the month

This is the month where I ask Oz Report readers for their support.  Your contribution pays for hosting our web site and for Gerry's technical support to keep it running.

Here are our supporters: http://ozreport.com/supporters.php

As you know, all we are asking for is a subscription payment of $20/year.

Seems simple enough.  Like most content on the internet, you get to read the Oz Report for free.  The trouble for us, not you, is that there are not enough hang glider pilots in this world to make advertising pay for our web hosting costs.

Please, help us out.  Support something that you find useful so that it can continue to be there for you.

Options:

1) Click paypal.me/davisstraub.

You should see this:

Type in the amount that you want to send in for your subscription.

Click "Next"

You should see something like this:

If you can contribute from your PayPal Balance or from your bank account that is connected to your PayPal account, please do as this incurs no PayPal fee.

2) If instead you are using a credit card to make this contribution, click this button:

3) Another way to do this is, click here: https://www.paypal.com

With this option please click the "Send&Request" tab.

Type in my email address which you can discern from "davis" and I'm at "davisstraub.com".  (I have to write it this way as we hide email addresses here at the Oz Report.

Click "Next."

You'll see:


If you consider me a friend then click the "Sending to a friend" button.

Enter the amount here:

If you’d rather just send a check for $20 or more (US Dollars only, please), please feel free to do so.

Payable to:

Davis Straub (Not to the Oz Report)
6548 Groveland Airport Road
Groveland, FL 34736

If you send a physical check, be sure to send me your email address so that I can register you as a subscriber.

These are our supporters (if you are not on the list and have donated to the Oz Report, email me and I'll make sure that you are recognized): http://ozreport.com/supporters.php.  Some of you who I've missed in the past did write to me and made sure I knew just how important the Oz Report was to them.  If I've missed you, please do tell me.

4) This last option.  Come over to the Oz Report support web page and sign up to support us: http://ozreport.com/support.php.  Or click here:

Thanks to all our supporters: http://ozreport.com/supporters.php who have kept us going and paying our bills over the last twenty four years.

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It's the Oz Report after all

July 1, 2019, 8:08:25 MDT

It's the Oz Report after all

Australia’s Bachelor and Spinster Balls

Oz Report|photo

Surreal photos from a two-year odyssey experiencing rural Australia’s Bachelor and Spinster Balls.

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The results of the Oz Report March Fund Raiser

Wed, Apr 3 2019, 7:59:32 am EDT

You contributed $8,501.20.

Oz Report

This is by far our best fund raiser ever. Thanks so much for your support. I just sent off $4,250.60 to Scare! in Winnipeg, Canada. He will again provide technical support to us and to Oz Report readers. The rest of the money will be used to pay for our web hosting service at www.pair.com.

You came through again for us and we really appreciate it. It means that the Oz Report will continue.

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Thanks for all your support of the Oz Report

April 1, 2019, 7:49:07 EDT

Thanks for all your support of the Oz Report

Our fund raiser was very successful.

Jeff Chipman|Oz Report

After we go through the PayPal account we will report on exactly how it all came out. Give us a few days. We are taking a deep breath between major competitions. Thanks for the generous support from Oded Kalir and Jeff Chipman.

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Oz Report's funniest videos

March 29, 2019, 7:56:45 EDT

Oz Report's funniest videos

Thanks to Fabiano Nahoum

Fabiano Nahoum|Oz Report|video

http://ozreport.com/pub/images/IMG_4054.MP4

http://ozreport.com/pub/images/IMG_4053.MP4

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Please support the Oz Report

March 29, 2019, 7:55:26 EDT

Please support the Oz Report

It's time for all you procrastinators to step up

Davis Straub|Dennis Yeomans|George Stebbins|Mark Dowsett|Oz Report|Wilotree Park

Davis Straub|Dennis Yeomans|George Stebbins|Greg Dinauer|Mark Dowsett|Oz Report|Wilotree Park

Davis Straub|Dennis Yeomans|George Stebbins|Greg Dinauer|Mark Dowsett|Oz Report|Wilotree Park

Thanks for the very generous support from Gary McIntire and also from Dennis Yeomans, Steven Rewolinski (Revo), Greg Dinauer, Mark Dowsett, George Stebbins, and Doug Litzenberger.

I've had it with this fund raiser. That's it. It's almost over. This issue goes out in the Monday morning mail and that officially ends the March, 2019 Oz Report fund raiser. We've had our little fun, but it's ending with a bang or a whimper. Either way it's ending. Every year we have a few readers who can sit through all this begging and still wait to the very end to cough up some dough. What fortitude.

So to continue...

This is the month where I ask Oz Report readers for their support.  Your contribution pays for hosting our web site and for Gerry's technical support to keep it running.

Here are our supporters: http://ozreport.com/supporters.php

As you know, all we are asking for is a subscription payment of $20/year.

Seems simple enough. Like most content on the internet, you get to read the Oz Report for free. The trouble for us, not you, is that there are not enough hang glider pilots in this world to make advertising pay for our web hosting costs.

Please, help us out. Support something that you find useful so that it can continue to be there for you.

Options:

1) Click paypal.me/davisstraub.

You should see this:

Type in the amount that you want to send in for your subscription.

Click "Next"

You should see something like this:

If you can contribute from your PayPal Balance or from your bank account that is connected to your PayPal account, please do, as this incurs no PayPal fee.

2)  If instead you are using a credit card to make this contribution, click this button:


3)  Another way to do this is, click here: https://www.paypal.com

With this option please click the "Send&Request" tab.

Type in my email address which you can discern from "davis" and I'm at "davisstraub.com." (I have to write it this way as we hide email addresses here at the Oz Report.

Click "Next."

You'll see:


If you consider me a friend then click the "Sending to a friend" button.

Enter the amount here:

4) If you’d rather just send a check for $20 or more (US Dollars only, please), please feel free to do so.

Payable to:

Davis Straub (Not to the Oz Report)
6548 Groveland Airport Road
Groveland, FL 34736

If you send a physical check, be sure to send me your email address so that I can register you as a subscriber.

These are our supporters (if you are not on the list and have donated to the Oz Report, email me and I'll make sure that you are recognized): http://ozreport.com/supporters.php. Some of you who I've missed in the past did write to me and made sure I knew just how important the Oz Report was to them. If I've missed you, please do tell me.

5) Another option. Come over to the Oz Report support web page and sign up to support us: http://ozreport.com/support.php. Or click here:

Thanks to all our supporters  http://ozreport.com/supporters.php who have kept us going and paying our bills over the last twenty three years.

6) If you use the "Cash" App, send to .

7) If you use Venmo, just click the "Subscribe" or "Recurring" button above from your Venmo App.

8) Come on over to the Oz Report World Headquarters situated at Wilotree Park, identify yourself, and "show me the money." We're in the brown Spartan 5th wheel facing the lake.

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Please support the Oz Report

March 28, 2019, 9:08:38 EDT

Please support the Oz Report

You are not the product

Davis Straub|Facebook|Mike Barber|Oz Report|Wilotree Park

Facebook is free to you. That's because you are being sold to the advertisers. You are the product.

The Oz Report also has a Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/ozreport. It is a supplement to the Oz Report web site and the Oz Report email. It's an easy way to display content because all I have to do is share other content found on Facebook from my thousands of hang gliding "friends." That's all I use it for. Often that content (if it is really good) gets transmitted over to the actual Oz Report.

The Oz Report also has advertisers, of course. You've seen their little buttons on the Oz Report. But we don't send any information about you out to anyone. The advertisers only know that you are interested in hang gliding. So Moyes, Wills Wing, Flytec, and Mike Barber choose to put ads up in the Oz Report.

We very much appreciate the support from these advertisers. They are interested in a healthy hang gliding community and wish to support the Oz Report as a means of communication among hang glider pilots. Without a strong hang gliding community they don't have a successful business.

Readers are the main source of our support. It's up to you to keep us going. Please support us.

So to continue...

This is the month where I ask Oz Report readers for their support.  Your contribution pays for hosting our web site and for Gerry's technical support to keep it running.

Here are our supporters: http://ozreport.com/supporters.php

As you know, all we are asking for is a subscription payment of $20/year.

Seems simple enough. Like most content on the internet, you get to read the Oz Report for free. The trouble for us, not you, is that there are not enough hang glider pilots in this world to make advertising pay for our web hosting costs.

Please, help us out. Support something that you find useful so that it can continue to be there for you.

Options:

1) Click paypal.me/davisstraub.

You should see this:

Type in the amount that you want to send in for your subscription.

Click "Next"

You should see something like this:

If you can contribute from your PayPal Balance or from your bank account that is connected to your PayPal account, please do, as this incurs no PayPal fee.

2)  If instead you are using a credit card to make this contribution, click this button:


3)  Another way to do this is, click here: https://www.paypal.com

With this option please click the "Send&Request" tab.

Type in my email address which you can discern from "davis" and I'm at "davisstraub.com." (I have to write it this way as we hide email addresses here at the Oz Report.

Click "Next."

You'll see:


If you consider me a friend then click the "Sending to a friend" button.

Enter the amount here:

4) If you’d rather just send a check for $20 or more (US Dollars only, please), please feel free to do so.

Payable to:

Davis Straub (Not to the Oz Report)
6548 Groveland Airport Road
Groveland, FL 34736

If you send a physical check, be sure to send me your email address so that I can register you as a subscriber.

These are our supporters (if you are not on the list and have donated to the Oz Report, email me and I'll make sure that you are recognized): http://ozreport.com/supporters.php. Some of you who I've missed in the past did write to me and made sure I knew just how important the Oz Report was to them. If I've missed you, please do tell me.

5) Another option. Come over to the Oz Report support web page and sign up to support us: http://ozreport.com/support.php. Or click here:

Thanks to all our supporters  http://ozreport.com/supporters.php who have kept us going and paying our bills over the last twenty three years.

6) If you use the "Cash" App, send to .

7) If you use Venmo, just click the "Subscribe" or "Recurring" button above from your Venmo App.

8) Come on over to the Oz Report World Headquarters situated at Wilotree Park, identify yourself, and "show me the money." We're in the brown Spartan 5th wheel facing the lake.

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Please support the Oz Report

March 27, 2019, 9:07:45 EDT

Please support the Oz Report

There is always room for one more

Belinda Boulter|Davis Straub|Oz Report|Wilotree Park

I don't know about you, but every day I get solicitations for donations to a worthy cause. Many many solicitations. Belinda and I set up a system to dole out funds to the various causes and charities to provide a minimum of control about how we respond to these requests. We often have a spontaneous request, say when a fellow pilot needs a little support after an injury, which we also respond to.

The Oz Report can be viewed as just another supplicant, but we are actually providing a service in exchange for your donation/subscription. While we may be a worthy cause, we are more like your electric bill, they also make you pay after the fact. But unlike the electric company we are not going to come after you if you don't pay up. That's freedom. That's personal choice. That's pilot responsibility.

If you read, maybe like or even love the Oz Report please support our web server and technical support costs (we don't pay ourselves to provide this service).

So to continue...

This is the month where I ask Oz Report readers for their support.  Your contribution pays for hosting our web site and for Gerry's technical support to keep it running.

Here are our supporters: http://ozreport.com/supporters.php

As you know, all we are asking for is a subscription payment of $20/year.

Seems simple enough. Like most content on the internet, you get to read the Oz Report for free. The trouble for us, not you, is that there are not enough hang glider pilots in this world to make advertising pay for our web hosting costs.

Please, help us out. Support something that you find useful so that it can continue to be there for you.

Options:

1) Click paypal.me/davisstraub.

You should see this:

Type in the amount that you want to send in for your subscription.

Click "Next"

You should see something like this:

If you can contribute from your PayPal Balance or from your bank account that is connected to your PayPal account, please do, as this incurs no PayPal fee.

2)  If instead you are using a credit card to make this contribution, click this button:


3)  Another way to do this is, click here: https://www.paypal.com

With this option please click the "Send&Request" tab.

Type in my email address which you can discern from "davis" and I'm at "davisstraub.com." (I have to write it this way as we hide email addresses here at the Oz Report.

Click "Next."

You'll see:


If you consider me a friend then click the "Sending to a friend" button.

Enter the amount here:

4) If you’d rather just send a check for $20 or more (US Dollars only, please), please feel free to do so.

Payable to:

Davis Straub (Not to the Oz Report)
6548 Groveland Airport Road
Groveland, FL 34736

If you send a physical check, be sure to send me your email address so that I can register you as a subscriber.

These are our supporters (if you are not on the list and have donated to the Oz Report, email me and I'll make sure that you are recognized): http://ozreport.com/supporters.php. Some of you who I've missed in the past did write to me and made sure I knew just how important the Oz Report was to them. If I've missed you, please do tell me.

5) Another option. Come over to the Oz Report support web page and sign up to support us: http://ozreport.com/support.php. Or click here:

Thanks to all our supporters  http://ozreport.com/supporters.php who have kept us going and paying our bills over the last twenty three years.

6) If you use the "Cash" App, send to .

7) If you use Venmo, just click the "Subscribe" or "Recurring" button above from your Venmo App.

8) Come on over to the Oz Report World Headquarters situated at Wilotree Park, identify yourself, and "show me the money." We're in the brown Spartan 5th wheel facing the lake.

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Please support the Oz Report

March 26, 2019, 7:51:46 EDT

Please support the Oz Report

Bringing new pilots into the sport

Davis Straub|Oz Report|Roger Irby|Wilotree Park

Thanks for the generous support from Roger Irby and Kinsley Sykes. We have over 230 subscribers/donators so far this year, which is a very pleasant number. There are 1500 pilots who receive the email version of the Oz Report.

Our Sport Class competition is producing great times for newer pilots and sport class in general is proving to be very successful. There were a lot of free flyers who came to stay at Wilotree Park just because the Green Swamp Sport Klassic is happening. It's a real party here with great food from Jeremie Hill.

So to continue...

This is the month where I ask Oz Report readers for their support.  Your contribution pays for hosting our web site and for Gerry's technical support to keep it running.

Here are our supporters: http://ozreport.com/supporters.php

As you know, all we are asking for is a subscription payment of $20/year.

Seems simple enough. Like most content on the internet, you get to read the Oz Report for free. The trouble for us, not you, is that there are not enough hang glider pilots in this world to make advertising pay for our web hosting costs.

Please, help us out. Support something that you find useful so that it can continue to be there for you.

Options:

1) Click paypal.me/davisstraub.

You should see this:

Type in the amount that you want to send in for your subscription.

Click "Next"

You should see something like this:

If you can contribute from your PayPal Balance or from your bank account that is connected to your PayPal account, please do, as this incurs no PayPal fee.

2)  If instead you are using a credit card to make this contribution, click this button:


3)  Another way to do this is, click here: https://www.paypal.com

With this option please click the "Send&Request" tab.

Type in my email address which you can discern from "davis" and I'm at "davisstraub.com." (I have to write it this way as we hide email addresses here at the Oz Report.

Click "Next."

You'll see:


If you consider me a friend then click the "Sending to a friend" button.

Enter the amount here:

4) If you’d rather just send a check for $20 or more (US Dollars only, please), please feel free to do so.

Payable to:

Davis Straub (Not to the Oz Report)
6548 Groveland Airport Road
Groveland, FL 34736

If you send a physical check, be sure to send me your email address so that I can register you as a subscriber.

These are our supporters (if you are not on the list and have donated to the Oz Report, email me and I'll make sure that you are recognized): http://ozreport.com/supporters.php. Some of you who I've missed in the past did write to me and made sure I knew just how important the Oz Report was to them. If I've missed you, please do tell me.

5) Another option. Come over to the Oz Report support web page and sign up to support us: http://ozreport.com/support.php. Or click here:

Thanks to all our supporters  http://ozreport.com/supporters.php who have kept us going and paying our bills over the last twenty three years.

6) If you use the "Cash" App, send to .

7) If you use Venmo, just click the "Subscribe" or "Recurring" button above from your Venmo App.

8) Come on over to the Oz Report World Headquarters situated at Wilotree Park, identify yourself, and "show me the money." We're in the brown Spartan 5th wheel facing the lake.

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Please support the Oz Report

March 25, 2019, 9:22:28 EDT

Please support the Oz Report

The start of the competition season

Davis Straub|Oz Report|Wilotree Park

More stories tonight after my day as meet director today, Monday

So to continue...

This is the month where I ask Oz Report readers for their support.  Your contribution pays for hosting our web site and for Gerry's technical support to keep it running.

Here are our supporters: http://ozreport.com/supporters.php

As you know, all we are asking for is a subscription payment of $20/year.

Seems simple enough. Like most content on the internet, you get to read the Oz Report for free. The trouble for us, not you, is that there are not enough hang glider pilots in this world to make advertising pay for our web hosting costs.

Please, help us out. Support something that you find useful so that it can continue to be there for you.

Options:

1) Click paypal.me/davisstraub.

You should see this:

Type in the amount that you want to send in for your subscription.

Click "Next"

You should see something like this:

If you can contribute from your PayPal Balance or from your bank account that is connected to your PayPal account, please do, as this incurs no PayPal fee.

2)  If instead you are using a credit card to make this contribution, click this button:


3)  Another way to do this is, click here: https://www.paypal.com

With this option please click the "Send&Request" tab.

Type in my email address which you can discern from "davis" and I'm at "davisstraub.com." (I have to write it this way as we hide email addresses here at the Oz Report.

Click "Next."

You'll see:


If you consider me a friend then click the "Sending to a friend" button.

Enter the amount here:

4) If you’d rather just send a check for $20 or more (US Dollars only, please), please feel free to do so.

Payable to:

Davis Straub (Not to the Oz Report)
6548 Groveland Airport Road
Groveland, FL 34736

If you send a physical check, be sure to send me your email address so that I can register you as a subscriber.

These are our supporters (if you are not on the list and have donated to the Oz Report, email me and I'll make sure that you are recognized): http://ozreport.com/supporters.php. Some of you who I've missed in the past did write to me and made sure I knew just how important the Oz Report was to them. If I've missed you, please do tell me.

5) Another option. Come over to the Oz Report support web page and sign up to support us: http://ozreport.com/support.php. Or click here:

Thanks to all our supporters  http://ozreport.com/supporters.php who have kept us going and paying our bills over the last twenty three years.

6) If you use the "Cash" App, send to .

7) If you use Venmo, just click the "Subscribe" or "Recurring" button above from your Venmo App.

8) Come on over to the Oz Report World Headquarters situated at Wilotree Park, identify yourself, and "show me the money." We're in the brown Spartan 5th wheel facing the lake.

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Please support the Oz Report

March 22, 2019, 8:09:55 EDT

Please support the Oz Report

Hopefully we are reporting on two races, the Aeros Winter Race and the Governador Valadares.

Davis Straub|Oz Report|record|Wilotree Park

The focus of the Oz Report is on competition, record setting, group flying.  We are very much in favor of flying together. I won't go flying unless I'm flying with some one else. It's no fun for me otherwise. I like helping other pilots fly and enjoy their help.

Turns out there was no flying on day 5 at Governador Valadares because of rain. No flying on Wednesday and Thursday at the Aeros Winter Race due to strong winds. No flying here at Wilotree Park on Thursday due to strong west winds. The Flymaster web site is not showing any activity for the Aero Winter Race on Friday at 1 PM (UTC 2).

So to continue...

This is the month where I ask Oz Report readers for their support.  Your contribution pays for hosting our web site and for Gerry's technical support to keep it running.

Here are our supporters: http://ozreport.com/supporters.php

As you know, all we are asking for is a subscription payment of $20/year.

Seems simple enough. Like most content on the internet, you get to read the Oz Report for free. The trouble for us, not you, is that there are not enough hang glider pilots in this world to make advertising pay for our web hosting costs.

Please, help us out. Support something that you find useful so that it can continue to be there for you.

Options:

1) Click paypal.me/davisstraub.

You should see this:

Type in the amount that you want to send in for your subscription.

Click "Next"

You should see something like this:

If you can contribute from your PayPal Balance or from your bank account that is connected to your PayPal account, please do, as this incurs no PayPal fee.

2)  If instead you are using a credit card to make this contribution, click this button:


3)  Another way to do this is, click here: https://www.paypal.com

With this option please click the "Send&Request" tab.

Type in my email address which you can discern from "davis" and I'm at "davisstraub.com." (I have to write it this way as we hide email addresses here at the Oz Report.

Click "Next."

You'll see:


If you consider me a friend then click the "Sending to a friend" button.

Enter the amount here:

4) If you’d rather just send a check for $20 or more (US Dollars only, please), please feel free to do so.

Payable to:

Davis Straub (Not to the Oz Report)
6548 Groveland Airport Road
Groveland, FL 34736

If you send a physical check, be sure to send me your email address so that I can register you as a subscriber.

These are our supporters (if you are not on the list and have donated to the Oz Report, email me and I'll make sure that you are recognized): http://ozreport.com/supporters.php. Some of you who I've missed in the past did write to me and made sure I knew just how important the Oz Report was to them. If I've missed you, please do tell me.

5) Another option. Come over to the Oz Report support web page and sign up to support us: http://ozreport.com/support.php. Or click here:

Thanks to all our supporters  http://ozreport.com/supporters.php who have kept us going and paying our bills over the last twenty three years.

6) If you use the "Cash" App, send to .

7) If you use Venmo, just click the "Subscribe" or "Recurring" button above from your Venmo App.

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March 21, 2019, 8:11:58 EDT

Please support the Oz Report

Getting off the couch

Davis Straub|Matthias Krause|Oz Report|PG|USHPA|Wilotree Park

Thanks to Matthias Krause for his generous support of the Oz Report.

A Oz Report reader writes:

Since I stopped flying hang gliders and paragliders years ago and let my USHPA membership lapse I sort of felt I was out of the community. I have however, continued to receive your daily blog every morning at 7am. Your dedication, hard work, and altruistic contributions to the community are not lost on at least this reader.

Embarrassingly, this feeling of being out of the community, some medical/work/financial setbacks, and my general laziness led me to not contributing to your efforts. I apologize as I enjoy your work very much.

The conversation you recently shared about Dickishness simply resonated enough for me to actually get off the couch, walk across the room, get my wallet, put the numbers in the computer, and subscribe again. In my world that's an aerobic activity. Right up there with losing the TV remote.

Anyway, the tinfoil hat wearing part of me won't let me give PayPal my financial info. I've also been hacked enough to rarely use my checking account/routing numbers on-line. Snail mail would mean I'd have to own a stamp. I was pleased to be able to just use the credit card function through PayPal.

That made me think I probably would have been contributing every year had it been a subscription that automatically debited yearly without me having to do anything. Just see the charge once a year. The PayPal site didn't allow me to choose a recurring option, at least not on Firefox.

From one Dick to another, that's my unsolicited two cents.

See recurring option below. Also: http://ozreport.com/support.php

So to continue...

This is the month where I ask Oz Report readers for their support.  Your contribution pays for hosting our web site and for Gerry's technical support to keep it running.

Here are our supporters: http://ozreport.com/supporters.php

As you know, all we are asking for is a subscription payment of $20/year.

Seems simple enough. Like most content on the internet, you get to read the Oz Report for free. The trouble for us, not you, is that there are not enough hang glider pilots in this world to make advertising pay for our web hosting costs.

Please, help us out. Support something that you find useful so that it can continue to be there for you.

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March 20, 2019, 10:25:59 EDT

Please support the Oz Report

The continuous update of the Flytec 6030 issue

Davis Straub|Johnny Thompson|Oz Report|Wilotree Park

Davis Straub|Flytec 6030|Johnny Thompson|Oz Report|Wilotree Park

We have received some very generous donations this month. The SYDNEY HANG GLIDING CLUB INCORPORATED, the Forbes Flatlands, sent in $250, a very nice contribution. Mike Duffy and Mike Harrington both have contributed $200. And we got a number of $100 contribution from pilots that I have already mentioned here in the Oz Report. It's amazing to me that some pilots have the means and the appreciation to give so much extra.

Thanks to Johnny Thompson for his generous support.

A huge innovation in helmet technology was announced yesterday. I purchased one of these helmets for cycling immediately. See below.

So to continue...

This is the month where I ask Oz Report readers for their support.  Your contribution pays for hosting our web site and for Gerry's technical support to keep it running.

Here are our supporters: http://ozreport.com/supporters.php

As you know, all we are asking for is a subscription payment of $20/year.

Seems simple enough. Like most content on the internet, you get to read the Oz Report for free. The trouble for us, not you, is that there are not enough hang glider pilots in this world to make advertising pay for our web hosting costs.

Please, help us out. Support something that you find useful so that it can continue to be there for you.

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Groveland, FL 34736

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These are our supporters (if you are not on the list and have donated to the Oz Report, email me and I'll make sure that you are recognized): http://ozreport.com/supporters.php. Some of you who I've missed in the past did write to me and made sure I knew just how important the Oz Report was to them. If I've missed you, please do tell me.

5) Another option. Come over to the Oz Report support web page and sign up to support us: http://ozreport.com/support.php. Or click here:

Thanks to all our supporters  http://ozreport.com/supporters.php who have kept us going and paying our bills over the last twenty three years.

6) If you use the "Cash" App, send to .

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March 19, 2019, 9:51:19 EDT

Please support the Oz Report

We are finally able to find with Felix's help, the daily results from Brazil

Davis Straub|Glen Volk|Manuel Sanchez|Oz Report|Wilotree Park

Davis Straub|Glen Volk|Manuel Sanchez|Oz Report|Wilotree Park

Thanks for the generous support from Ken Cobb and Tim Collard, who followed my instructions and sent their email addresses along with their snail mail checks so that I could thank them directly. Thanks to JOSE MANUEL SANCHEZ GARCIA (Juaki), Keith Barghahn, and Glen Volk for their generous support.

We are entering the home stretch with the March fund raiser and getting near what we hope to raise (about $6,000). Thanks to all the contributors. We've got over 200 supporters so far in 2019. That's really appreciated. It would be nice to get 50 more. We'll see if that happens.

So to continue...

This is the month where I ask Oz Report readers for their support.  Your contribution pays for hosting our web site and for Gerry's technical support to keep it running.

Here are our supporters: http://ozreport.com/supporters.php

As you know, all we are asking for is a subscription payment of $20/year.

Seems simple enough. Like most content on the internet, you get to read the Oz Report for free. The trouble for us, not you, is that there are not enough hang glider pilots in this world to make advertising pay for our web hosting costs.

Please, help us out. Support something that you find useful so that it can continue to be there for you.

Options:

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With this option please click the "Send&Request" tab.

Type in my email address which you can discern from "davis" and I'm at "davisstraub.com." (I have to write it this way as we hide email addresses here at the Oz Report.

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If you consider me a friend then click the "Sending to a friend" button.

Enter the amount here:

4) If you’d rather just send a check for $20 or more (US Dollars only, please), please feel free to do so.

Payable to:

Davis Straub (Not to the Oz Report)
6548 Groveland Airport Road
Groveland, FL 34736

If you send a physical check, be sure to send me your email address so that I can register you as a subscriber.

These are our supporters (if you are not on the list and have donated to the Oz Report, email me and I'll make sure that you are recognized): http://ozreport.com/supporters.php. Some of you who I've missed in the past did write to me and made sure I knew just how important the Oz Report was to them. If I've missed you, please do tell me.

5) Another option. Come over to the Oz Report support web page and sign up to support us: http://ozreport.com/support.php. Or click here:

Thanks to all our supporters  http://ozreport.com/supporters.php who have kept us going and paying our bills over the last twenty three years.

6) If you use the "Cash" App, send to .

7) If you use Venmo, just click the "Subscribe" or "Recurring" button above from your Venmo App.

8) Come on over to the Oz Report World Headquarters situated at Wilotree Park, identify yourself, and "show me the money." We're in the brown Spartan 5th wheel facing the lake.

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March 18, 2019, 8:04:35 EDT

Please support the Oz Report

The Oz Report begins its season of clinics and competition support

Davis Straub|Oz Report|Wilotree Park

Thanks for the very generous support from Knut Ryerson, Dean Engler, Rachel Allen, and Patrick Pannese.

Thanks to all the fans of the Oz Report in Norway. We don't know exactly what it is that causes us to have supporters from Norway. Is it their famous school system? The lack of entertainment during the long, sunless, cold winters? Maybe because they are such an open society. If you know, tell us.

So to continue...

This is the month where I ask Oz Report readers for their support.  Your contribution pays for hosting our web site and for Gerry's technical support to keep it running.

Here are our supporters: http://ozreport.com/supporters.php

As you know, all we are asking for is a subscription payment of $20/year.

Seems simple enough. Like most content on the internet, you get to read the Oz Report for free. The trouble for us, not you, is that there are not enough hang glider pilots in this world to make advertising pay for our web hosting costs.

Please, help us out. Support something that you find useful so that it can continue to be there for you.

Options:

1) Click paypal.me/davisstraub.

You should see this:

Type in the amount that you want to send in for your subscription.

Click "Next"

You should see something like this:

If you can contribute from your PayPal Balance or from your bank account that is connected to your PayPal account, please do, as this incurs no PayPal fee.

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With this option please click the "Send&Request" tab.

Type in my email address which you can discern from "davis" and I'm at "davisstraub.com." (I have to write it this way as we hide email addresses here at the Oz Report.

Click "Next."

You'll see:


If you consider me a friend then click the "Sending to a friend" button.

Enter the amount here:

4) If you’d rather just send a check for $20 or more (US Dollars only, please), please feel free to do so.

Payable to:

Davis Straub (Not to the Oz Report)
6548 Groveland Airport Road
Groveland, FL 34736

If you send a physical check, be sure to send me your email address so that I can register you as a subscriber.

These are our supporters (if you are not on the list and have donated to the Oz Report, email me and I'll make sure that you are recognized): http://ozreport.com/supporters.php. Some of you who I've missed in the past did write to me and made sure I knew just how important the Oz Report was to them. If I've missed you, please do tell me.

5) Another option. Come over to the Oz Report support web page and sign up to support us: http://ozreport.com/support.php. Or click here:

Thanks to all our supporters  http://ozreport.com/supporters.php who have kept us going and paying our bills over the last twenty three years.

6) If you use the "Cash" App, send to .

7) If you use Venmo, just click the "Subscribe" or "Recurring" button above from your Venmo App.

8) Come on over to the Oz Report World Headquarters situated at Wilotree Park, identify yourself, and "show me the money." We're in the brown Spartan 5th wheel facing the lake.

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March 15, 2019, 9:02:33 EDT

Please support the Oz Report

Some people go to extremes

Attila Bertok|Davis Straub|Oz Report|Wilotree Park

Attila Bertok|Davis Straub|Oz Report|Wilotree Park

Thanks for the extreme support from Mike Harrington of Santa Barbara and Attila Bertok, the Hungarian from Australia. Thanks also to David Lopez, partner in Wilotree Park for his generous support. Thanks to everyone who has donated and especially to those of you who have raised the bar by sending in a bit more than $20. We appreciate everyone's contributions.

So to continue...

This is the month where I ask Oz Report readers for their support.  Your contribution pays for hosting our web site and for Gerry's technical support to keep it running.

Here are our supporters: http://ozreport.com/supporters.php

As you know, all we are asking for is a subscription payment of $20/year.

Seems simple enough. Like most content on the internet, you get to read the Oz Report for free. The trouble for us, not you, is that there are not enough hang glider pilots in this world to make advertising pay for our web hosting costs.

Please, help us out. Support something that you find useful so that it can continue to be there for you.

Options:

1) Click paypal.me/davisstraub.

You should see this:

Type in the amount that you want to send in for your subscription.

Click "Next"

You should see something like this:

If you can contribute from your PayPal Balance or from your bank account that is connected to your PayPal account, please do, as this incurs no PayPal fee.

2)  If instead you are using a credit card to make this contribution, click this button:


3)  Another way to do this is, click here: https://www.paypal.com

With this option please click the "Send&Request" tab.

Type in my email address which you can discern from "davis" and I'm at "davisstraub.com." (I have to write it this way as we hide email addresses here at the Oz Report.

Click "Next."

You'll see:


If you consider me a friend then click the "Sending to a friend" button.

Enter the amount here:

4) If you’d rather just send a check for $20 or more (US Dollars only, please), please feel free to do so.

Payable to:

Davis Straub (Not to the Oz Report)
6548 Groveland Airport Road
Groveland, FL 34736

If you send a physical check, be sure to send me your email address so that I can register you as a subscriber.

These are our supporters (if you are not on the list and have donated to the Oz Report, email me and I'll make sure that you are recognized): http://ozreport.com/supporters.php. Some of you who I've missed in the past did write to me and made sure I knew just how important the Oz Report was to them. If I've missed you, please do tell me.

5) Another option. Come over to the Oz Report support web page and sign up to support us: http://ozreport.com/support.php. Or click here:

Thanks to all our supporters  http://ozreport.com/supporters.php who have kept us going and paying our bills over the last twenty three years.

6) If you use the "Cash" App, send to .

7) If you use Venmo, just click the "Subscribe" or "Recurring" button above from your Venmo App.

8) Come on over to the Oz Report World Headquarters situated at Wilotree Park, identify yourself, and "show me the money." We're in the brown Spartan 5th wheel facing the lake.

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March 14, 2019, 8:23:02 EDT

Please support the Oz Report

How many people donate to the Oz Report keep-us-going fund?

Davis Straub|Oz Report|Ron Gleason|Wilotree Park

Thanks for the generous support from Rob Hibbard, Ron Gleason, and Peter Holloway.

About 250 people send in donations over a year, more than 90% of them come during my little March fund raising appeals. About 160 have responded so far this year to my tin cup. Thankfully I'm not out on the street rattling the darn thing.

Our week long Cross Country 101 Clinic starts on Saturday and right after that the 2019 Green Swamp Sport Klassic for a week. How I'm going to balance doing the Oz Report and the Clinic and Klassic is a question. Hopefully I will be able to get out updated articles at a reasonable pace. Events always give me some inspiration to discuss hang gliding issues that come up.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/mar/11/how-i-accepted-im-an-introvert-and-learned-to-refuse-invitations-without-guilt

To me, there are few things more unendurable than counting down the minutes until you can reasonably leave a party without causing offence.

So to continue...

This is the month where I ask Oz Report readers for their support.  Your contribution pays for hosting our web site and for Gerry's technical support to keep it running.

Here are our supporters: http://ozreport.com/supporters.php

As you know, all we are asking for is a subscription payment of $20/year.

Seems simple enough. Like most content on the internet, you get to read the Oz Report for free. The trouble for us, not you, is that there are not enough hang glider pilots in this world to make advertising pay for our web hosting costs.

Please, help us out. Support something that you find useful so that it can continue to be there for you.

Options:

1) Click paypal.me/davisstraub.

You should see this:

Type in the amount that you want to send in for your subscription.

Click "Next"

You should see something like this:

If you can contribute from your PayPal Balance or from your bank account that is connected to your PayPal account, please do, as this incurs no PayPal fee.

2)  If instead you are using a credit card to make this contribution, click this button:


3)  Another way to do this is, click here: https://www.paypal.com

With this option please click the "Send&Request" tab.

Type in my email address which you can discern from "davis" and I'm at "davisstraub.com." (I have to write it this way as we hide email addresses here at the Oz Report.

Click "Next."

You'll see:


If you consider me a friend then click the "Sending to a friend" button.

Enter the amount here:

4) If you’d rather just send a check for $20 or more (US Dollars only, please), please feel free to do so.

Payable to:

Davis Straub (Not to the Oz Report)
6548 Groveland Airport Road
Groveland, FL 34736

If you send a physical check, be sure to send me your email address so that I can register you as a subscriber.

These are our supporters (if you are not on the list and have donated to the Oz Report, email me and I'll make sure that you are recognized): http://ozreport.com/supporters.php. Some of you who I've missed in the past did write to me and made sure I knew just how important the Oz Report was to them. If I've missed you, please do tell me.

5) Another option. Come over to the Oz Report support web page and sign up to support us: http://ozreport.com/support.php. Or click here:

Thanks to all our supporters  http://ozreport.com/supporters.php who have kept us going and paying our bills over the last twenty three years.

6) If you use the "Cash" App, send to .

7) If you use Venmo, just click the "Subscribe" or "Recurring" button above from your Venmo App.

8) Come on over to the Oz Report World Headquarters situated at Wilotree Park, identify yourself, and "show me the money." We're in the brown Spartan 5th wheel facing the lake.

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March 13, 2019, 8:38:41 EDT

Please support the Oz Report

Thanking everyone

Davis Straub|John Kennedy|Oz Report|Wilotree Park

Thanks to John Kennedy for his generous support.

You might notice that I send a thank you to everyone who sends in a donation/becomes a subscriber. This is not an automated function. My PayPal account doesn't just notice that you've sent in $20 or more. I'm actually opening up the account, opening up my subscriber list, opening up my email reader and using these three tools to properly send you a thank you.

It requires that I find your email address in PayPal if I don't have it here in my email reader. I also need to insert you in the proper alphabetical location on my subscriber list. I need to respond to the email notification that PayPal sends to me about your donation and erase the reply email address to PayPal and put in your email address.

I've got to upload the revised subscriber list to my server. If you were especially generous I need to note that and put in an additional thank you in the next issue of the Oz report.

None of this is particular onerous, but it does take time and effort. It is that effort that I make to thank everyone that is the reciprocation that I give for your thoughtfulness in donating. That and producing and sending out the Oz Report, of course.

So thanks again.

April writes:

Is Davis Straub a Jerk? Or Dick? No. I have known Davis and lived amongst him for years now. Davis is a unique character, that is how I would describe Davis. Davis is direct which at times, comes across as insensitive. Honestly, that is "just Davis". That being said, in my opinion, Davis is neither jerk or a dick just a guy who works hard to make our flying community a better place. I am grateful for all his hard work.

Stephane Mentler writes:

I wanted to provide my input regarding the Davis is a dick / jerk debate. I believe the best descriptor for you would be direct bordering on curt. As a former police officer, cavalry scout, infantryman, and parachutist, I appreciate this attribute and can tell you that most service members would too. For the folks that can’t handle it; Harden Up, as an infamous Australian used to say.

On a serious note, I recall when I was going to be stuck in Americus, GA after the conclusion of one of the last Flytec Race and Rallies. Someone recommended that I ask you for a ride, and I did. You didn’t know me, but said yes without hesitation. There are plenty of other examples that I have witnessed or know of in which you have exhibited a general kindheartedness anonymously without expectation of recognition.

So to continue...

This is the month where I ask Oz Report readers for their support.  Your contribution pays for hosting our web site and for Gerry's technical support to keep it running.

Here are our supporters: http://ozreport.com/supporters.php

As you know, all we are asking for is a subscription payment of $20/year.

Seems simple enough. Like most content on the internet, you get to read the Oz Report for free. The trouble for us, not you, is that there are not enough hang glider pilots in this world to make advertising pay for our web hosting costs.

Please, help us out. Support something that you find useful so that it can continue to be there for you.

Options:

1) Click paypal.me/davisstraub.

You should see this:

Type in the amount that you want to send in for your subscription.

Click "Next"

You should see something like this:

If you can contribute from your PayPal Balance or from your bank account that is connected to your PayPal account, please do, as this incurs no PayPal fee.

2)  If instead you are using a credit card to make this contribution, click this button:


3)  Another way to do this is, click here: https://www.paypal.com

With this option please click the "Send&Request" tab.

Type in my email address which you can discern from "davis" and I'm at "davisstraub.com." (I have to write it this way as we hide email addresses here at the Oz Report.

Click "Next."

You'll see:


If you consider me a friend then click the "Sending to a friend" button.

Enter the amount here:

4) If you’d rather just send a check for $20 or more (US Dollars only, please), please feel free to do so.

Payable to:

Davis Straub (Not to the Oz Report)
6548 Groveland Airport Road
Groveland, FL 34736

If you send a physical check, be sure to send me your email address so that I can register you as a subscriber.

These are our supporters (if you are not on the list and have donated to the Oz Report, email me and I'll make sure that you are recognized): http://ozreport.com/supporters.php. Some of you who I've missed in the past did write to me and made sure I knew just how important the Oz Report was to them. If I've missed you, please do tell me.

5) Another option. Come over to the Oz Report support web page and sign up to support us: http://ozreport.com/support.php. Or click here:

Thanks to all our supporters  http://ozreport.com/supporters.php who have kept us going and paying our bills over the last twenty three years.

6) If you use the "Cash" App, send to .

7) If you use Venmo, just click the "Subscribe" or "Recurring" button above from your Venmo App.

8) Come on over to the Oz Report World Headquarters situated at Wilotree Park, identify yourself, and "show me the money." We're in the brown Spartan 5th wheel facing the lake.

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March 12, 2019, 8:44:36 EDT

Please support the Oz Report

Davis Straub|Oz Report|video|Wilotree Park

Davis Straub|Oz Report|Robin Hamilton|video|Wilotree Park

Speaking of being a jerk

Thanks for the very generous support from Tom Nejames, who still thinks I'm a dick, but that apparently is because we disagree politically.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=n7zfnbdyAW8

Thanks also to Robin Hamilton.

I get controversial in the article on foot launching.

So to continue...

This is the month where I ask Oz Report readers for their support.  Your contribution pays for hosting our web site and for Gerry's technical support to keep it running.

Here are our supporters: http://ozreport.com/supporters.php

As you know, all we are asking for is a subscription payment of $20/year.

Seems simple enough. Like most content on the internet, you get to read the Oz Report for free. The trouble for us, not you, is that there are not enough hang glider pilots in this world to make advertising pay for our web hosting costs.

Please, help us out. Support something that you find useful so that it can continue to be there for you.

Options:

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You should see something like this:

If you can contribute from your PayPal Balance or from your bank account that is connected to your PayPal account, please do, as this incurs no PayPal fee.

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With this option please click the "Send&Request" tab.

Type in my email address which you can discern from "davis" and I'm at "davisstraub.com." (I have to write it this way as we hide email addresses here at the Oz Report.

Click "Next."

You'll see:


If you consider me a friend then click the "Sending to a friend" button.

Enter the amount here:

4) If you’d rather just send a check for $20 or more (US Dollars only, please), please feel free to do so.

Payable to:

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6548 Groveland Airport Road
Groveland, FL 34736

If you send a physical check, be sure to send me your email address so that I can register you as a subscriber.

These are our supporters (if you are not on the list and have donated to the Oz Report, email me and I'll make sure that you are recognized): http://ozreport.com/supporters.php. Some of you who I've missed in the past did write to me and made sure I knew just how important the Oz Report was to them. If I've missed you, please do tell me.

5) Another option. Come over to the Oz Report support web page and sign up to support us: http://ozreport.com/support.php. Or click here:

Thanks to all our supporters  http://ozreport.com/supporters.php who have kept us going and paying our bills over the last twenty three years.

6) If you use the "Cash" App, send to .

7) If you use Venmo, just click the "Subscribe" or "Recurring" button above from your Venmo App.

8) Come on over to the Oz Report World Headquarters situated at Wilotree Park, identify yourself, and "show me the money." We're in the brown Spartan 5th wheel facing the lake.

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Please support the Oz Report

March 11, 2019, 8:25:36 EDT

Please support the Oz Report

Davis Straub|Ken Kinzie|Mark Tulloch|Oz Report|Wilotree Park

Davis Straub|Ken Kinzie|Mark Tulloch|Oliver Gregory|Oz Report|Wilotree Park

Am I just a jerk?

Well someone else wrote in about my bad behavior. Then later that day I heard a story about another person who was being a dick. A real dick. I realized that I'm not a dick, just a jerk.

Thanks for the very generous support from Mark Tulloch, Efrain Garza, Oliver Gregory, Ben Reese, Ken Kinzie, and Carlos Schmitz.

So to continue...

This is the month where I ask Oz Report readers for their support. Your contribution pays for hosting our web site and for Gerry's technical support to keep it running.

Here are our supporters: http://ozreport.com/supporters.php

As you know, all we are asking for is a subscription payment of $20/year.

Seems simple enough. Like most content on the internet, you get to read the Oz Report for free. The trouble for us, not you, is that there are not enough hang glider pilots in this world to make advertising pay for our web hosting costs.

Please, help us out. Support something that you find useful so that it can continue to be there for you.

Options:

1) Click paypal.me/davisstraub.

You should see this:

Type in the amount that you want to send in for your subscription.

Click "Next"

You should see something like this:

If you can contribute from your PayPal Balance or from your bank account that is connected to your PayPal account, please do, as this incurs no PayPal fee.

2) If instead you are using a credit card to make this contribution, click this button:


3)  Another way to do this is, click here: https://www.paypal.com

With this option please click the "Send&Request" tab.

Type in my email address which you can discern from "davis" and I'm at "davisstraub.com." (I have to write it this way as we hide email addresses here at the Oz Report.

Click "Next."

You'll see:


If you consider me a friend then click the "Sending to a friend" button.

Enter the amount here:

4) If you’d rather just send a check for $20 or more (US Dollars only, please), please feel free to do so.

Payable to:

Davis Straub (Not to the Oz Report)
6548 Groveland Airport Road
Groveland, FL 34736

If you send a physical check, be sure to send me your email address so that I can register you as a subscriber.

These are our supporters (if you are not on the list and have donated to the Oz Report, email me and I'll make sure that you are recognized): http://ozreport.com/supporters.php. Some of you who I've missed in the past did write to me and made sure I knew just how important the Oz Report was to them. If I've missed you, please do tell me.

5) Another option. Come over to the Oz Report support web page and sign up to support us: http://ozreport.com/support.php. Or click here:

Thanks to all our supporters  http://ozreport.com/supporters.php who have kept us going and paying our bills over the last twenty three years.

6) If you use the "Cash" App, send to .

7) If you use Venmo, just click the "Subscribe" or "Recurring" button above from your Venmo App.

8) Come on over to the Oz Report World Headquarters situated at Wilotree Park, identify yourself, and "show me the money." We're in the brown Spartan 5th wheel facing the lake.

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Please support the Oz Report

Fri, Mar 8 2019, 8:21:28 am EST

Weather

Charles Allen|David Glover|Davis Straub|Oz Report|Tom McGowan|Vince Furrer|weather|Wilotree Park

First, thanks for the generous support from Charles Allen, Vince Furrer, David Glover, Tom McGowan, Benjamin Friedrich, and Cyndia Zumpft-Klein.

We look at the weather forecasts one to four days out and check them against what actually happens. Check out the articles below and our coverage over the weekend.

So to continue…

This is the month where I ask Oz Report readers for their support. Your contribution pays for hosting our web site and for Gerry's technical support to keep it running.

Here are our supporters: https://OzReport.com/supporters.php

As you know, all we are asking for is a subscription payment of $20/year.

Seems simple enough. Like most content on the internet, you get to read the Oz Report for free. The trouble for us, not you, is that there are not enough hang glider pilots in this world to make advertising pay for our web hosting costs.

Please, help us out. Support something that you find useful so that it can continue to be there for you.

Options:

1) Click paypal.me/davisstraub.

You should see this:

Type in the amount that you want to send in for your subscription.

Click "Next"

You should see something like this:

If you can contribute from your PayPal Balance or from your bank account that is connected to your PayPal account, please do, as this incurs no PayPal fee.

2) If instead you are using a credit card to make this contribution, click this button:


3) Another way to do this is, click here: https://www.paypal.com

With this option please click the "Send&Request" tab.

Type in my email address which you can discern from "davis" and I'm at "davisstraub.com." (I have to write it this way as we hide email addresses here at the Oz Report.

Click "Next."

You'll see:


If you consider me a friend then click the "Sending to a friend" button.

Enter the amount here:

4) If you’d rather just send a check for $20 or more (US Dollars only, please), please feel free to do so.

Payable to:

Davis Straub (Not to the Oz Report)
6548 Groveland Airport Road
Groveland, FL 34736

If you send a physical check, be sure to send me your email address so that I can register you as a subscriber.

These are our supporters (if you are not on the list and have donated to the Oz Report, email me and I'll make sure that you are recognized): https://OzReport.com/supporters.php. Some of you who I've missed in the past did write to me and made sure I knew just how important the Oz Report was to them. If I've missed you, please do tell me.

5) Another option. Come over to the Oz Report support web page and sign up to support us: https://OzReport.com/support.php. Or click here:

Thanks to all our supporters https://OzReport.com/supporters.php who have kept us going and paying our bills over the last twenty three years.

6) If you use the "Cash" App, send to .

7) If you use Venmo, just click the "Subscribe" or "Recurring" button above from your Venmo App.

8) Come on over to the Oz Report World Headquarters situated at Wilotree Park, identify yourself, and "show me the money." We're in the brown Spartan 5th wheel facing the lake.

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Please support the Oz Report

March 7, 2019, 8:41:49 EST

Please support the Oz Report

Yes, I am a dick

Davis Straub|Oz Report|Wilotree Park

First of all thanks for the very generous support from Karl Allmendinger and Michael Tryon.

A reader wrote:

I used to always support The Oz Report with a donation. That was, until I met you in person, and you were such a dick. I couldn't believe it. I was so polite, and considerate of your time. I even checked with your wife first before approaching you. I asked you, too, if it were OK to interrupt what you were doing. You said yes, and then were a 100% certified ass to me.

So no. No more money for you.

I wrote back:

I am a dick and almost completely anti-social. I very much want to keep to myself.

Glad you enjoy reading the Oz Report.

He responded:

Fair enough. I wish you're wife had warned me off. Or you had said, "No," when I asked if you had a moment.

Forewarned is forearmed

But I do want to thank you for your civil reply, and not just unloading curses on me as is the Internet norm.

I apologize for my earlier harsh words. I was very much looking forward to meeting you, which was part of the reason behind my six hour round trip drive.

Be well.

I responded:

No worries. It’s amazing to me that I can pull off doing the Oz Report and putting on multiple competitions and acting as a meet director given my handicap.

He wrote back:

Just to close up here, I'm glad I finally wrote. It's been bugging me since I met you. I like you better now I've had my say, and I'm impressed how you took it.

Thanks for your time. I do realize you're very busy. I won't impose further.

Happy and safe flying.

Perhaps this explains why not everyone has subscribed/donated to the Oz Report.

So to continue...

This is the month where I ask Oz Report readers for their support.  Your contribution pays for hosting our web site and for Gerry's technical support to keep it running.

Here are our supporters: http://ozreport.com/supporters.php

As you know, all we are asking for is a subscription payment of $20/year.

Seems simple enough. Like most content on the internet, you get to read the Oz Report for free. The trouble for us, not you, is that there are not enough hang glider pilots in this world to make advertising pay for our web hosting costs.

Please, help us out. Support something that you find useful so that it can continue to be there for you.

Options:

1) Click paypal.me/davisstraub.

You should see this:

Type in the amount that you want to send in for your subscription.

Click "Next"

You should see something like this:

If you can contribute from your PayPal Balance or from your bank account that is connected to your PayPal account, please do, as this incurs no PayPal fee.

2)  If instead you are using a credit card to make this contribution, click this button:


3)  Another way to do this is, click here: https://www.paypal.com

With this option please click the "Send&Request" tab.

Type in my email address which you can discern from "davis" and I'm at "davisstraub.com." (I have to write it this way as we hide email addresses here at the Oz Report.

Click "Next."

You'll see:


If you consider me a friend then click the "Sending to a friend" button.

Enter the amount here:

4) If you’d rather just send a check for $20 or more (US Dollars only, please), please feel free to do so.

Payable to:

Davis Straub (Not to the Oz Report)
6548 Groveland Airport Road
Groveland, FL 34736

If you send a physical check, be sure to send me your email address so that I can register you as a subscriber.

These are our supporters (if you are not on the list and have donated to the Oz Report, email me and I'll make sure that you are recognized): http://ozreport.com/supporters.php. Some of you who I've missed in the past did write to me and made sure I knew just how important the Oz Report was to them. If I've missed you, please do tell me.

5) Another option. Come over to the Oz Report support web page and sign up to support us: http://ozreport.com/support.php. Or click here:

Thanks to all our supporters  http://ozreport.com/supporters.php who have kept us going and paying our bills over the last twenty three years.

6) If you use the "Cash" App, send to .

7) If you use Venmo, just click the "Subscribe" or "Recurring" button above from your Venmo App.

8) Come on over to the Oz Report World Headquarters situated at Wilotree Park, identify yourself, and "show me the money." We're in the brown Spartan 5th wheel facing the lake.

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Please support the Oz Report

March 6, 2019, 8:45:57 EST

Please support the Oz Report

Some readers are overly generous

Davis Straub|Facebook|Oz Report|William Baker|Wilotree Park

We have received some big donation/subscriptions. Way more than $20/year. It's pretty embarrassing. We, of course, very much appreciate this generosity on the part of the few individuals who contribute these extraordinary amounts, but we wonder why it is that we need them to make up the pool of funds that supports our server costs and Scare's technical support (the funds are divided in half).

Thanks to William Baker for two donations and the generous support from Vincene Muller and Jean-Pierre DELAGE.

We have 1,500 people who receive the Oz Report by email. Others read it directly at the Oz Report web site. Some just read the portion of it that goes on Facebook. We assume that some readers find the Oz Report a great resource and so are eager to give us some extra support so that we can keep going. Others, well, perhaps it is okay to get it if it's free, but not if they have to send in a subscription payment.

With 1,500 readers $5/reader would cover our costs. At $20/reader, we would actually get paid for our time. Not holding out hope for that.

Of course, we are not alone in this funding situation. Public radio and television is another example where the few support the many. We assume that it will always be so. Be one of the few.

So to continue...

This is the month where I ask Oz Report readers for their support.  Your contribution pays for hosting our web site and for Gerry's technical support to keep it running.

Here are our supporters: http://ozreport.com/supporters.php

As you know, all we are asking for is a subscription payment of $20/year.

Seems simple enough. Like most content on the internet, you get to read the Oz Report for free. The trouble for us, not you, is that there are not enough hang glider pilots in this world to make advertising pay for our web hosting costs.

Please, help us out. Support something that you find useful so that it can continue to be there for you.

Options:

1) Click paypal.me/davisstraub.

You should see this:

Type in the amount that you want to send in for your subscription.

Click "Next"

You should see something like this:

If you can contribute from your PayPal Balance or from your bank account that is connected to your PayPal account, please do, as this incurs no PayPal fee.

2)  If instead you are using a credit card to make this contribution, click this button:


3)  Another way to do this is, click here: https://www.paypal.com

With this option please click the "Send&Request" tab.

Type in my email address which you can discern from "davis" and I'm at "davisstraub.com." (I have to write it this way as we hide email addresses here at the Oz Report.

Click "Next."

You'll see:


If you consider me a friend then click the "Sending to a friend" button.

Enter the amount here:

4) If you’d rather just send a check for $20 or more (US Dollars only, please), please feel free to do so.

Payable to:

Davis Straub (Not to the Oz Report)
6548 Groveland Airport Road
Groveland, FL 34736

If you send a physical check, be sure to send me your email address so that I can register you as a subscriber.

These are our supporters (if you are not on the list and have donated to the Oz Report, email me and I'll make sure that you are recognized): http://ozreport.com/supporters.php. Some of you who I've missed in the past did write to me and made sure I knew just how important the Oz Report was to them. If I've missed you, please do tell me.

5) Another option. Come over to the Oz Report support web page and sign up to support us: http://ozreport.com/support.php. Or click here:

Thanks to all our supporters  http://ozreport.com/supporters.php who have kept us going and paying our bills over the last twenty three years.

6) If you use the "Cash" App, send to .

7) If you use Venmo, just click the "Subscribe" or "Recurring" button above from your Venmo App.

8) Come on over to the Oz Report World Headquarters situated at Wilotree Park, identify yourself, and "show me the money." We're in the brown Spartan 5th wheel facing the lake.

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Please support the Oz Report

March 5, 2019, 8:04:47 EST

Please support the Oz Report

The "silent" appeal

Davis Straub|Gregg "Kim" Ludwig|John Simon|Oz Report|Wilotree Park

Our appeal for support of the Oz Report doesn't interrupt the delivery of the news unlike the case with a fund raiser on your local National Public Radio station.  It's just one of the other items on the menu of news items in our report.

Thanks for the very very generous support from Mike Duffy, Mick Howard, Rob Lesser, and Kip Stone, as well as John Simon, William Baker, Gregg Ludwig, and Thomas C Ide.

So to continue...

This is the month where I ask Oz Report readers for their support.  Your contribution pays for hosting our web site and for Gerry's technical support to keep it running.

Here are our supporters: http://ozreport.com/supporters.php

As you know, all we are asking for is a subscription payment of $20/year.

Seems simple enough. Like most content on the internet, you get to read the Oz Report for free. The trouble for us, not you, is that there are not enough hang glider pilots in this world to make advertising pay for our web hosting costs.

Please, help us out. Support something that you find useful so that it can continue to be there for you.

Options:

1) Click paypal.me/davisstraub.

You should see this:

Type in the amount that you want to send in for your subscription.

Click "Next"

You should see something like this:

If you can contribute from your PayPal Balance or from your bank account that is connected to your PayPal account, please do, as this incurs no PayPal fee.

2)  If instead you are using a credit card to make this contribution, click this button:


3)  Another way to do this is, click here: https://www.paypal.com

With this option please click the "Send&Request" tab.

Type in my email address which you can discern from "davis" and I'm at "davisstraub.com." (I have to write it this way as we hide email addresses here at the Oz Report.

Click "Next."

You'll see:


If you consider me a friend then click the "Sending to a friend" button.

Enter the amount here:

4) If you’d rather just send a check for $20 or more (US Dollars only, please), please feel free to do so.

Payable to:

Davis Straub (Not to the Oz Report)
6548 Groveland Airport Road
Groveland, FL 34736

If you send a physical check, be sure to send me your email address so that I can register you as a subscriber.

These are our supporters (if you are not on the list and have donated to the Oz Report, email me and I'll make sure that you are recognized): http://ozreport.com/supporters.php. Some of you who I've missed in the past did write to me and made sure I knew just how important the Oz Report was to them. If I've missed you, please do tell me.

5) Another option. Come over to the Oz Report support web page and sign up to support us: http://ozreport.com/support.php. Or click here:

Thanks to all our supporters  http://ozreport.com/supporters.php who have kept us going and paying our bills over the last twenty three years.

6) If you use the "Cash" App, send to .

7) If you use Venmo, just click the "Subscribe" or "Recurring" button above from your Venmo App.

8) Come on over to the Oz Report World Headquarters situated at Wilotree Park, identify yourself, and "show me the money." We're in the brown Spartan 5th wheel facing the lake.

Please support the Oz Report

March 4, 2019, 8:09:17 EST

Please support the Oz Report

Why do I do this in March?

Belinda Boulter|Davis Straub|Oz Report|Wilotree Park

It's crazy. This is a month that I have to lead the Cross Country 101 Clinic and the 2019 Green Swamp Sport Klassic. I should ask for your support in January. Of course, I'd have to give a little discount. Yah, right.

Belinda thinks I do this in March cause you're thinking about Spring coming and flying. In January you may be depressed, which is why I report on the Forbes Flatlands in January (that, and that's when they run it). Of course, the Oz Report started because of the competitions in Australia in the northern hemisphere winter.

Thanks for the very generous support from Stephan Mentler and John Dullahan.

So to continue...

This is the month where I ask Oz Report readers for their support.  Your contribution pays for hosting our web site and for Gerry's technical support to keep it running.

Here are our supporters: http://ozreport.com/supporters.php

As you know, all we are asking for is a subscription payment of $20/year.

Seems simple enough. Like most content on the internet, you get to read the Oz Report for free. The trouble for us, not you, is that there are not enough hang glider pilots in this world to make advertising pay for our web hosting costs.

Please, help us out. Support something that you find useful so that it can continue to be there for you.

Options:

1) Click paypal.me/davisstraub.

You should see this:

Type in the amount that you want to send in for your subscription.

Click "Next"

You should see something like this:

If you can contribute from your PayPal Balance or from your bank account that is connected to your PayPal account, please do, as this incurs no PayPal fee.

2)  If instead you are using a credit card to make this contribution, click this button:


3)  Another way to do this is, click here: https://www.paypal.com

With this option please click the "Send&Request" tab.

Type in my email address which you can discern from "davis" and I'm at "davisstraub.com." (I have to write it this way as we hide email addresses here at the Oz Report.

Click "Next."

You'll see:


If you consider me a friend then click the "Sending to a friend" button.

Enter the amount here:

4) If you’d rather just send a check for $20 or more (US Dollars only, please), please feel free to do so.

Payable to:

Davis Straub (Not to the Oz Report)
6548 Groveland Airport Road
Groveland, FL 34736

If you send a physical check, be sure to send me your email address so that I can register you as a subscriber.

These are our supporters (if you are not on the list and have donated to the Oz Report, email me and I'll make sure that you are recognized): http://ozreport.com/supporters.php. Some of you who I've missed in the past did write to me and made sure I knew just how important the Oz Report was to them. If I've missed you, please do tell me.

5) Another option. Come over to the Oz Report support web page and sign up to support us: http://ozreport.com/support.php. Or click here:

Thanks to all our supporters  http://ozreport.com/supporters.php who have kept us going and paying our bills over the last twenty three years.

6) If you use the "Cash" App, send to .

7) If you use Venmo, just click the "Subscribe" or "Recurring" button above from your Venmo App.

8) Come on over to the Oz Report World Headquarters situated at Wilotree Park, identify yourself, and "show me the money." We're in the brown Spartan 5th wheel facing the lake.

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Please support the Oz Report

March 1, 2019, 9:10:14 EST

Please support the Oz Report

Twenty three years of reporting

Davis Straub|Oz Report

This is the month where I ask Oz Report readers for their support. Your contribution pays for hosting our web site and for Gerry's technical support to keep it running.

Here are our supporters: http://ozreport.com/supporters.php

As you know, all we are asking for is a subscription payment of $20/year.

Seems simple enough. Like most content on the internet, you get to read the Oz Report for free. The trouble for us, not you, is that there are not enough hang glider pilots in this world to make advertising pay for our web hosting costs.

Please, help us out. Support something that you find useful so that it can continue to be there for you.

Options:

1) Click paypal.me/davisstraub.

You should see this:

Type in the amount that you want to send in for your subscription.

Click "Next"

You should see something like this:

If you can contribute from your PayPal Balance or from your bank account that is connected to your PayPal account, please do as this incurs no PayPal fee.

2) If instead you are using a credit card to make this contribution, click this button:

3) Another way to do this is, click here: https://www.paypal.com

With this option please click the "Send&Request" tab.

Type in my email address which you can discern from "davis" and I'm at "davisstraub.com". (I have to write it this way as we hide email addresses here at the Oz Report.

Click "Next."

You'll see:


If you consider me a friend then click the "Sending to a friend" button.

Enter the amount here:

If you’d rather just send a check for $20 or more (US Dollars only, please), please feel free to do so.

Payable to:

Davis Straub (Not to the Oz Report)
6548 Groveland Airport Road
Groveland, FL 34736

If you send a physical check, be sure to send me your email address so that I can register you as a subscriber.

These are our supporters (if you are not on the list and have donated to the Oz Report, email me and I'll make sure that you are recognized): http://ozreport.com/supporters.php. Some of you who I've missed in the past did write to me and made sure I knew just how important the Oz Report was to them. If I've missed you, please do tell me.

4) This last option. Come over to the Oz Report support web page and sign up to support us: http://ozreport.com/support.php. Or click here:

Thanks to all our supporters: http://ozreport.com/supporters.php who have kept us going and paying our bills over the last twenty three years.

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Oz Report supporters for 2018

April 2, 2018, 8:38:09 EDT

Oz Report supporters for 2018

Tell me if I missed you.

Alan Deikman|Allan Phillips|April Mackin|Ben Dunn|Bruce Kavanagh|Bubba Goodman|Chris Boyce|Cragin Shelton|Daniel Gravage|Dara Hogan|Dave Embertson|David Glover|David Williamson|Doug Keller|Dudley Mead|Eric Beckman|Gakuta Toba|Gary Solomon|Geoffrey Rutledge|Glen Volk|Gregg "Kim" Ludwig|Harald Steen|James Bradley|James Lamb|Jason Williams|John Armstrong|John Hesch|John Kennedy|John Simon|Jonathan Dietch|Justinas Pleikys|Ken Howells|Ken Kinzie|Krzysztof "Krys/Kris" Grzyb|Mark Stump|Martin Henry|Martin Jaeger|Maurice Wilson|Mike Barber|Miles Fagerlie|Mitchell "Mitch" Shipley|Niki Longshore|Oz Report|Patrick Schwitter|Paul Voight|Peter Bolton|Quest Air|Raef Mackay|Richard Williams|Riker Davis|Roger Irby|Scott Barrett|Scott Seebass|Scott Smith|Scott Weiner|Stewart Midwinter|supporters|Tom McGowan|Vince Furrer|Vincene Muller|Vrezh Tumanyan|Wayne Ripley|William "Billo" Olive|Wilotree Park|Winfried Oswald

Thanks to all who have helped us out. We could not afford to pay http://pair.com to host the Oz Report without your support. 

Adriel Kind Gregg Ludwig Miles Fagerlie
Alan Crouse Gregory Angsten Mitchell Shipley
Alan Deikman Gregory Pierson Nicholas Palmer
Alexandra Childs Hadewych van Kempen Nicole Longshore
Alf Oppoyen Harald Steen Patrick Halfhill
Allan Phillips Heinz Tagmann Patrick Kruise
Allen Ahl Hubert Jason Williams Patrick Pannese
Angelos Mantas J. Russell Locke Patrick Schwitter
Angry Penguin Inc. James (Dennis) Yeomans Paul Kelley
anonymous James Aden Paul Voight
Anthony Armstrong James Bradley Perry Jones
April Mackin James Gibson Peter Adams
Belcourt Industries James Lamb Peter Bolton
Ben Dunn Jan Snydr-Michal Peter Cairns
Bernard Garvey Jason Smith Peter Kelley
Bill Finn Jeffrey Curtis Peter Swanson
Bill Snyder Jim Kolynich Philip Morgan
Billo Jim Prahl Quest Air
Bruce Kavanagh Jim Ramsden Rachel Allen
Bubba Goodman John "Kip" Stone Raef Mackay
Carlos Alonso de Florida John Armstrong Richard Caylor
Carlos Schmitz John Blank Richard Eunice
Carol Sturtevant John Devorak Richard Larson
Catherine Hunter John Dullahan Richard Milla
Chris Boyce John Haig Thompson Richard Williams
Christian Schelb John Hesch Riker Davis
Christian Williams John Kennedy Robert Bay
Chuck and Gayle Warren John Middleton Robert Bradley
Claude Carlier John Simon Robert Caldwell
Cliff Rice Jon Lindburg Robert Dallas
Clive Beddall Jon Thompson Robert Goodman
Cragin Shelton Jonathan Dietch Roger Irby
Craig Carlson Jorge Cano Ronald P. Gleason
Craig DeMott Jostein Vorkinn Scott Barrett
Daniel Gravage Justin Elliott Scott Seebass
Daniel Lukaszewicz Justinas Pleikys Scott Smith
Danny Utinske Keith Barghahn Scott Weiner
Dara Hogan Ken Cobb Scott Westfall
Darrell Hambley Ken Durstine Scott Whittet
Dave Embertson Ken Howells secret admirer at Seminole
David Davenport Ken Kinzie Sky Sports Flying School Pty. Ltd.
David Fynn Kenneth Durrance Stefan Kern
David Glover Keven Morlang Stephan Mentler
David Goto Kinsley Sykes Stephen Parson
David Lopez Knut Ryerson Steven Blackler
David Stookey Koos de Keijzer Steven Boost
David Williamson Krzysztof Grzyb Stewart Midwinter
Dean Engler LakeShore Hang Gliding SvS Design
Doug Keller Larry Huffman Sydney Hang Gliding Centre
Douglas Brown Larry Omara The Passing Zone, Inc.
Dudley Mead Larry Robinson Thomas C. Ide
Edward Andrews Lee Silver Thomas Curbishley
Edward Saunier Luff Line Ltd. Thomas Eckstein
Elizabeth Rothman Luther Thompson Timothy Delaney
Emiel Jansen M. C. Campanella Toba Gakuta
Eric Beckman Marc Deschenes Tom McGowan
Fernando Milani Marcelo Silva Vince Furrer
Flytec USA Marco Gerber Vincene Muller
Frank Havermeyer Mario Manzo Vincent Collins
Fred Kramer Mark Stump Vrezh Tumanyan
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The Oz Report March Fund Raiser - it comes to an end for 2018 »

March 30, 2018, 7:57:28 EDT

The Oz Report March Fund Raiser

Hopefully you didn't miss your chance to support the Oz Report in March.

Bob "Skydog" Grant|Cragin Shelton|Davis Straub|Doug Keller|Eric Beckman|Glen Volk|Oz Report

This is the month where I ask Oz Report readers for their support.  Your contribution pays for hosting our web site and for Gerry's technical support to keep it running.

Thanks for all the support that you have sent in. I wanted to especially thank those who have been extra generous, including: Eric Beckman, Peter Swanson, Doug Keller, Cragin Shelton, GLen Volk, and Sky Sports Flying School Pty Ltd.

You know, all we are asking for is a subscription payment of $20/year, that is equal to 8 cents a copy of the Oz Report. Now surely while not every copy of the Oz Report is worth 8 cents, many are worth more than that to you. At least we hope so.

Seems simple enough. Like most content on the internet, you get to read the Oz Report for free. The trouble for us, not you, is that there are not enough hang glider pilots in this world to make advertising pay for our web hosting costs.

Please, help us out. Support something that you find useful so that it can continue to be there for you.

The purple people eater:

Photo by Bob Grant

Options:

1) If you have money in your PayPal account and you are in the US click here: paypal.me/davisstraub and send money as a friend

2) With a credit card click this button:


3) Click here: https://www.paypal.com

With this option please click the "Send&Request" tab to send the money and eliminate credit card fees by clicking  "Send to friends and family in the US," if your PayPal account is connected to your bank account, you are in the US, you have money in your PayPal account, and not just to a credit card:

The email address would be davis and I'm at davisstraub.com

If you’d rather just send a check for $20 or more (US Dollars only, please), please feel free to do so.

Payable to:

Davis Straub (Not to the Oz Report)
6548 Groveland Airport Road
Groveland, FL 34736

If you send a physical check, be sure to send me your email address so that I can register you as a subscriber.

These are our supporters (if you are not on the list and have donated to the Oz Report, email me and I'll make sure that you are recognized): http://ozreport.com/supporters.php. Some of you who I've missed in the past did write to me and made sure I knew just how important the Oz Report was to them. If I've missed you, please do tell me.

4) Come over to the Oz Report support web page and sign up to support us: http://ozreport.com/support.php. Or click here:

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The Oz Report March Fund Raiser - 8 cents an issue »

Thu, Mar 29 2018, 10:39:45 am EDT

The Oz Report March Fund Raiser

That's what it costs to get the Oz Report, if you actually pay for it.

Oz Report

This is the month where I ask Oz Report readers for their support. Your contribution pays for hosting our web site and for Scare's technical support to keep it running.

Thanks for all the support that you have sent in. I wanted to especially thank those who have been extra generous, including: Patrick Kruise.

You know, all we are asking for is a subscription payment of $20/year, that is equal to 8 cents a copy of the Oz Report. Now surely while not every copy of the Oz Report is worth 8 cents, many are worth more than that to you. At least we hope so.

Seems simple enough. Like most content on the internet, you get to read the Oz Report for free. The trouble for us, not you, is that there are not enough hang glider pilots in this world to make advertising pay for our web hosting costs.

Please, help us out. Support something that you find useful so that it can continue to be there for you.

Water tube just for show.

Options:

1) If you have money in your PayPal account and you are in the US click here: paypal.me/davisstraub and send money as a friend

2) With a credit card click this button:


3) Click here: https://www.paypal.com

With this option please click the "Send&Request" tab to send the money and eliminate credit card fees by clicking "Send to friends and family in the US," if your PayPal account is connected to your bank account, you are in the US, you have money in your PayPal account, and not just to a credit card:

The email address would be davis and I'm at davisstraub.com

If you’d rather just send a check for $20 or more (US Dollars only, please), please feel free to do so.

Payable to:

Davis Straub (Not to the Oz Report)
6548 Groveland Airport Road
Groveland, FL 34736

If you send a physical check, be sure to send me your email address so that I can register you as a subscriber.

These are our supporters (if you are not on the list and have donated to the Oz Report, email me and I'll make sure that you are recognized): https://OzReport.com/supporters.php. Some of you who I've missed in the past did write to me and made sure I knew just how important the Oz Report was to them. If I've missed you, please do tell me.

4) Come over to the Oz Report support web page and sign up to support us: https://OzReport.com/support.php. Or click here:

Discuss "The Oz Report March Fund Raiser - 8 cents an issue" at the Oz Report forum   link»  

The Oz Report March Fund Raiser - 8 cents an issue »

Wed, Mar 28 2018, 7:52:45 am EDT

The Oz Report March Fund Raiser

That's what it costs to get the Oz Report, if you actually pay for it.

Davis Straub|Jim Lamb|Larry Bunner|Oz Report|Zac Majors

This is the month where I ask Oz Report readers for their support. Your contribution pays for hosting our web site and for Scare's technical support to keep it running.

Thanks for all the support that you have sent in. I wanted to especially thank those who have been extra generous, including: Jim Lamb and Geoffrey Robertson.

You know, all we are asking for is a subscription payment of $20/year, that is equal to 8 cents a copy of the Oz Report. Now surely while not every copy of the Oz Report is worth 8 cents, many are worth more than that to you. At least we hope so.

Seems simple enough. Like most content on the internet, you get to read the Oz Report for free. The trouble for us, not you, is that there are not enough hang glider pilots in this world to make advertising pay for our web hosting costs.

Please, help us out. Support something that you find useful so that it can continue to be there for you.

Zac Majors and Larry Bunner (with hair):

Options:

1) If you have money in your PayPal account and you are in the US click here: paypal.me/davisstraub and send money as a friend

2) With a credit card click this button:


3) Click here: https://www.paypal.com

With this option please click the "Send&Request" tab to send the money and eliminate credit card fees by clicking "Send to friends and family in the US," if your PayPal account is connected to your bank account, you are in the US, you have money in your PayPal account, and not just to a credit card:

The email address would be davis and I'm at davisstraub.com

If you’d rather just send a check for $20 or more (US Dollars only, please), please feel free to do so.

Payable to:

Davis Straub (Not to the Oz Report)
6548 Groveland Airport Road
Groveland, FL 34736

If you send a physical check, be sure to send me your email address so that I can register you as a subscriber.

These are our supporters (if you are not on the list and have donated to the Oz Report, email me and I'll make sure that you are recognized): https://OzReport.com/supporters.php. Some of you who I've missed in the past did write to me and made sure I knew just how important the Oz Report was to them. If I've missed you, please do tell me.

4) Come over to the Oz Report support web page and sign up to support us: https://OzReport.com/support.php. Or click here:

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The Oz Report March Fund Raiser - 8 cents an issue »

March 27, 2018, 8:18:17 EDT

The Oz Report March Fund Raiser

That's what it costs to get the Oz Report, if you actually pay for it.

Davis Straub|Oz Report

This is the month where I ask Oz Report readers for their support.  Your contribution pays for hosting our web site and for Gerry's technical support to keep it running.

Thanks for all the support that you have sent in.  I wanted to especially thank those who have been extra generous, including: Danny Utinske.

You know, all we are asking for is a subscription payment of $20/year, that is equal to 8 cents a copy of the Oz Report. Now surely while not every copy of the Oz Report is worth 8 cents, many are worth more than that to you. At least we hope so.

Seems simple enough. Like most content on the internet, you get to read the Oz Report for free. The trouble for us, not you, is that there are not enough hang glider pilots in this world to make advertising pay for our web hosting costs.

Please, help us out. Support something that you find useful so that it can continue to be there for you.

Obviously, someone needed some help here.

Options:

1) If you have money in your PayPal account and you are in the US click here: paypal.me/davisstraub and send money as a friend

2) With a credit card click this button:


3) Click here: https://www.paypal.com

With this option please click the "Send&Request" tab to send the money and eliminate credit card fees by clicking  "Send to friends and family in the US," if your PayPal account is connected to your bank account, you are in the US, you have money in your PayPal account, and not just to a credit card:

The email address would be davis and I'm at davisstraub.com

If you’d rather just send a check for $20 or more (US Dollars only, please), please feel free to do so.

Payable to:

Davis Straub (Not to the Oz Report)
6548 Groveland Airport Road
Groveland, FL 34736

If you send a physical check, be sure to send me your email address so that I can register you as a subscriber.

These are our supporters (if you are not on the list and have donated to the Oz Report, email me and I'll make sure that you are recognized): http://ozreport.com/supporters.php. Some of you who I've missed in the past did write to me and made sure I knew just how important the Oz Report was to them. If I've missed you, please do tell me.

4) Come over to the Oz Report support web page and sign up to support us: http://ozreport.com/support.php. Or click here:

Discuss "The Oz Report March Fund Raiser" at the Oz Report forum   link»

The Oz Report March Fund Raiser - 8 cents an issue »

March 26, 2018, 8:02:53 EDT

The Oz Report March Fund Raiser

That's what it costs to get the Oz Report, if you actually pay for it.

Davis Straub|Oz Report|Riker Davis

This is the month where I ask Oz Report readers for their support.  Your contribution pays for hosting our web site and for Gerry's technical support to keep it running.

Thanks for all the support that you have sent in. I wanted to especially thank those who have been extra generous, including: Riker Davis and Matt Thoreson.

You know, all we are asking for is a subscription payment of $20/year, that is equal to 8 cents a copy of the Oz Report. Now surely while not every copy of the Oz Report is worth 8 cents, many are worth more than that to you. At least we hope so.

Seems simple enough. Like most content on the internet, you get to read the Oz Report for free. The trouble for us, not you, is that there are not enough hang glider pilots in this world to make advertising pay for our web hosting costs.

Please, help us out. Support something that you find useful so that it can continue to be there for you.

Options:

1) If you have money in your PayPal account and you are in the US click here: paypal.me/davisstraub and send money as a friend

2) With a credit card click this button:


3) Click here: https://www.paypal.com

With this option please click the "Send&Request" tab to send the money and eliminate credit card fees by clicking  "Send to friends and family in the US," if your PayPal account is connected to your bank account, you are in the US, you have money in your PayPal account, and not just to a credit card:

The email address would be davis and I'm at davisstraub.com

If you’d rather just send a check for $20 or more (US Dollars only, please), please feel free to do so.

Payable to:

Davis Straub (Not to the Oz Report)
6548 Groveland Airport Road
Groveland, FL 34736

If you send a physical check, be sure to send me your email address so that I can register you as a subscriber.

These are our supporters (if you are not on the list and have donated to the Oz Report, email me and I'll make sure that you are recognized): http://ozreport.com/supporters.php. Some of you who I've missed in the past did write to me and made sure I knew just how important the Oz Report was to them. If I've missed you, please do tell me.

4) Come over to the Oz Report support web page and sign up to support us: http://ozreport.com/support.php. Or click here:

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