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March 12, 2021, 7:13:18 EST

Are you covered for liability?

You pay a lot for liability insurance through the RRRG

Bill Bolosky|CIVL|insurance|Risk Retention Group|USHPA|Wilotree Park

After receiving the email from the RRRG regarding our liability insurance situation with regard to the Tennessee Tree Topper I had a few questions that I sent to Bill Bolosky and the RRRG board:

Your email from the RRRG BOD raises a series of questions for me. Perhaps you know the answers.

It is my understanding that none of the flight parks in Florida have any insurance whatsoever.

They certainly wouldn't have any insurance covering any of the thousands of land owners scattered through out the state where we might land.

They do own the flight park lands and most of the time pilots land there.

In competitions we ask pilots to land at designated airfields/goal, so we make sure to designate them so that we can be insured with a competition policy from the RRRG.

During a competition is the only time we have insurance at Wilotree Park and with Paradise Airsports.

Pilots are being towed up by Paradise Airsports on a daily basis. The pilots may land somewhere else. We had assumed that they were covered by their USHPA/RRRG individual pilot liability coverage. Is this not true because they are being launched by a commercial operation?

Is there any point for a pilot who is solely launching from a flight park to have USHPA membership (other than for USHPA and CIVL sanctioned competition)?

Does the USHPA/RRRG not defend any recreational hang glider pilot who launches from a commercial flight park for any liability that they may incur when landing on some unknown landowners property?

How does the SSA handle this with outlandings?

Have I completely misunderstood what the RRRG board has written?

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