The date has been set for the weekend of 27/28 October (weather permitting) for the LVVSA Fall Auto-Tow event. The location is Roach dry lake, off Interstate 15 just north of the California/Nevada border. Directions can be found on the LVVSA.org website. Auto and Aero tows, great food, lots of...

New airport and airspace data for the charting cycle effective 2012-11-15 as well as updated sectional charts have been posted on my website at http://www.soaringdata.info. I've posted this update a bit early because it contains the new Salt Lake City class B definition, which went into effect...

Hi The french,Federation Francaise de Vol a Voile, have a nice magazine on line, Le Journal, this edition, 3rd semester,has a very elogious review of the World in Uvalde. Go to ffvv.org/le journal. Many nice picture if you cannot read french! S6

Our club's LS4 canopy gas spring is getting weak. The information on the body is long since faded. The Maintenance Manual does not mention the "specs". Anybody out there with the information we need to replace it? Thanks

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I'm tossing around the idea of selling my S-Nav and GPS-Nav with the secure flight recorder, and the electric vario too. I'm not up-to-speed with the market on these things. Does anyone know what I can reasonably expect to sell them for? Or would anyone be interested in buying if I did decide to...

After doing an extensive panel upgrade, I have several instruments for sale: Cambridge 302 DDV and Cambridge 303 Display--$1000.00, including ground shipping within the USA. This includes all the bits to go along with the system--including a GPS antennae, OAT probe, and a serial to USB cable for...

I am puzzled by what was delivered with my brick. Flarm antenna ANT-916-MHW-RPS-y and another antenna ANT-916-MHW-SMA-y (this one came with a note that is was ADS-B antenna and it had a blue heat shrink close to the connector). I am puzzled that they both are for 916 MHz frequency. Is something...

I'd like to hear other people's experience of PCAS performance for the portable unit. I'm particularly interested in side by side comparison with ZAON MRX. Yesterday I flew my PA28-180 with both the ZAON MRX and the portable on the glareshield. Several times I saw traffic reported by the...

Dear All I am in the market for a used Sparrowhawk. If you have your ship for sale, please shoot me an email with a short description, a couple of good pictures, and your idea of the sales price. I am looking around for a ship in good condition, trailer would be nice too. Thanks, Heiri

Please see details on Wings and Wheels. SZ

Several popular glider flight training manuals are now available as ebooks. Glider Basics From First Flight To Solo After Solo The Glider Flying Handbook (2013 edition) Preventing Launching and Landing Accidents Go to vendors such as Amazon.com and enter "Knauff" in the search table.

Anyone else have problems with Segelflug.DE auto-translating? http://www.segelflug.de/wwwboard/index.html I'm using Google Chrome and perhaps that is the problem. Auto-translation is intermittent.

I once visited a flying club where all of the pilots routinely used parachutes for all flights. For instruction, personal flying, all flying. I found this to be a great safety initiative. However, I was horrified to see some of the experienced instructors get out of the gliders by unbelting the...

There were several long wave flights in Utah on Saturday. Dan Wrobel posted a flight of more than 700K in a Ventus B 16.6 to OLC and York Zentner flew over 1000K in LM (ASG-29) but appears to have had a logger failure. His spot trace will be around for a few...

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Andy McQuigg asked me to post this: He is hosting a fun meet at Seminole Lake GP Hi Frank, Please put on Rec Aviation Soaring our contest at Seminole Lake November 23,24,25.Sports Class Rules,and no entry fee.I ave 15 guys so far. Thanks Frank, Regards, Andy

Hi All, I'm fairly new to soaring, but thought it might be fun to test our clubs Standard Cirrus to see if it was getting advertised L/D. I jumped in with not enough understanding of all the factors that effect performance, other than reading how Dick Johnson does his tests. I took a tow to 6000...

A really cool site with backcountry flight retreats, training vids, and shows!!!! www.skypark.tv

I need to buy,lease,or borrow a small PW-5 panel. The panel will be used to prepare for and fly in the World Glider Contest in Chaves Argentina. I would perfer to buy so that I can cut up the panel to fit my needs. It does not need to be pretty. Bill Snead 6W