CHGPA Membership Information

CHGPA memberships run from January 1st through December 31st and cost $40 per year. New memberships submitted after October 1 will include the following calendar year, which means October through December are basically free.

Club dues are applied toward CHGPA's annual operating expenses, including: site insurance at High Rock, The Pulpit, Fisher Road, and Bill's Hill; the CHGPA website; training-hill and site maintenance; land-owner gifts; and promotional events such as the annual Smithsonian Kite Festival on the National Mall and Become-A-Pilot-Day at the Udvar-Hazy aviation museum near Dulles airport.

Joining CHGPA with a flying membership grants privileges for The Pulpit, Bill's Hill and Fisher Road. Also, members of CHGPA who have registered to participate in the CHGPA forums have additional forum capabilities, such as uploading photos. So please remember to provide your forum username on the CHGPA Membership Information form (see below).

Through your dues, you support and promote the sports of hang gliding and paragliding at the local level. We hope you agree that it is money very well-spent!

• Step One (usually necessary only for new members) :

  Complete the CHGPA Membership Information Form, and send your contact information to us by clicking on the Submit button at the bottom of the form.

• Step Two (for both new and renewing members) :

  Use the CHGPA PayPal Dues Payment Form to pay your dues on-line. Both credit-card and PayPal-account transactions are supported.

We also provide a CHGPA Hard-Copy Dues Payment Form for those who don't wish to pay online. For the hard-copy version, fill out the various fields, print it from your web browser, and then send the printed form to the CHGPA Treasurer along with your payment. Checks for club dues should be made out to CHGPA.

Renewing CHGPA members can use the CHGPA PayPal Dues Payment Form to make limited changes to their contact information (new address; new phone number; etc). But for more than that, you might want to:

• Email the CHGPA Treasurer and describe what needs to be changed.
• Use the full-blown CHGPA Membership Information Form (if you don't mind re-supplying all of the required data fields).
• Describe the changes to your contact information in the 'free-text' section of the CHGPA Hard-Copy Dues Payment Form (if you aren't paying your club dues online).

• The CHGPA treasurer (treasurer@chgpa.org) handles club membership, and updates the club roster with any changes to your membership information. While the CHGPA does provide a summary of roster data to USHPA in order to maintain its chapter status, member information is not provided to any other outside person or organization. Ever!
• You may exclude yourself from the on-line versions of the CHGPA roster which are made available in the Members-Only area of the website. Simply check the appropriate box of the membership form.
• Addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses that you choose to provide will be available to all members via any hard-copy versions of the roster that the club might make available to its membership.

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