Director (Engagement)
Martin Zak
events@westcoastsoaringclub.com

Martin has started flying in 2019. Since then, paragliding has become his deep passion. Martin loves learning about the weather and technical aspects of flying. He believes that building an open, friendly community that allows sharing knowledge and provides education to new pilots is crucial to our sport.

Director (Fraser Valley Membership)
Pedro Pedersen
member@westcoastsoaringclub.com

Pedro started flying hang gliders in 1985. He loves the free flying community spirit and since early in his flying days, he understood that the best way to grow the sport, and at the same time make it safe and enjoyable is by supporting each other in the community. He believes that mentoring is key to building skills for a long safe free flying career, volunteering with WCSC is a fun and effective way of achieving this.

Director (Pemberton Membership)
Micky Mann
pemberton@westcoastsoaringclub.com

Micky comes from a cross discipline para background. He started Paragliding in 2018 in Pemberton and immediately fell in love with the sport. He spends his time with his lovely paragliding wife, Veronika, learning to fly and repair paragliders in Pemberton while helping others enjoy flight.

Volunteer Chairs

Webmaster
Pedro Pedersen
webmaster@westcoastsoaringclub.com

Membership (Grouse Mt.)
Tal Wolf

Sites (Grouse Mt.)
Bill Nikolai

Sites (Metro Vancouver)
Dion Vuk

The West Coast Soaring Club is registered as a Not-for-Profit Society in British Columbia. We’re beholden to the BC Societies Act. As such, we hold annual general meetings once a year – usually around November/December when there’s no decent flying!

The AGM is a chance to gather and reminisce. It’s also an opportunity for the directors to report on the state of the club: finances, what the club did through the year, reports on membership, flying sites, events, and more.

It’s also our chance to adjust our bylaws to keep them relevant, up-to-date, and make sure they’re set up to keep the club in great health. The bylaws are not written in stone, and the AGM is the [only] time and place to modify them.

Throughout the year, if members feel that the bylaws can be made better, please talk to us. We will have an open discussion, which may result in proposing ammendments to the bylaws for everyone to vote on at the AGM.

Proposed bylaw changes need to be thoughtfully explored, and carefully written well in advance of the AGM. Legally, any proposed ammendments need to be included in the notice of the AGM (minimum 14 days prior to a meeting being called). So, don’t wait until the AGM to point out deficiencies! Bring them to us in advance so we can craft the changes into ammendments that can be voted on.