Should be a new world record for 1500km O&R: http://scottishglidingcentre.com/blog/ Way to go John ! PS: John also won overall European OLC championship in 2007: http://www.onlinecontest.org/olc-2.0/gliding/champion.html?st=olc&rt=olc&sp=2007&c=C5&sc=

Should fit earlier LS-1 models, not sure about the "F" model. This includes the metal arms, the beam across the top, and the fender. $50 including shipping. I have GOT to clean out the shop... Contact me offline if you want it, Best Regards, Dave

Hi All, After an extended absence (for a back injury and then work craziness), I have returned to RAS with a fresh batch of questions and opinions! In 2009 (prior to the back injury), I went to my first few contests and did passably well. And despite the back injury, I helped out at the 18m Nats...

This was posted on the Condor flight sim forums. I thought it was a rather well-done gliding video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eO6GJLDqnYY It is a compilation of a Swiss pilot's best video from the 2009 soaring season. Amazing landscape. Click the HD button and watch it full screen if your...

Ebay item number is 160385165347. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=160385165347

Hi, if you have a used LX 7000, LX7007 or LX8000 to sell, please contact me.

GLIDING INTERNATIONAL - JANUARY ISSUE - TO BE MAILED DECEMBER 22. GLIDER PILOT LICENSING The European Aviation Safety Authority (EASA) recently released a 650 page report on pilot licensing and instructing standards. A large portion of the report relates to glider pilot licensing. As 27...

I would also like to take this opportunity to announce my new vintage glider blog. Only time will tell whether I keep up with it. Yes, I know the full URL is quite a mouthful, so thanks to Oscar Alonso, I also have a tiny url. I have had the blog up for less than a 2 days. Here is the tiny url...

For those planning holiday soaring parties I found this on the web...any others known? http://www.grantstar.net/pdf/aviation/A%20CHRISTMAS%20LESSON%20poetry.pdf LT

For those who have experience with the ASW20L, how does it compare to the A, B and C models when flown without the 16.6m tips? Does it have the soft wing like the A and C, or is it stiffer like the B's? How does it fly with the tips on? Thanks much.

Hello Sailplane Racers; The Minutes of the annual SSA Competition Rules Subcommittee meeting held in November are available for review at SSA.org/sailplane racing/ rules & process/2010 process documents. Comments are welcome. Cheers UH RC Chair

Like many clubs mine blows hot and cold on using launchpoint logging software. At present we have a legacy system handling flight recording from paper records taken at the launch point with a link to our accounting system which was written by a club member who left some time ago and the system...

Last winter I had a thread documenting my Flight Club progress. A few others also included their best times. i found this link to the app for this year: http://www.vintagegliderclub.org/simulator/hg_popup.htm does anyone know where to find version 2? With the triangular course? That was...

The 2010 SSA Convention schedule has been posted at http://ssa.org/convention/schedule.asp. Charlie

A few months ago someone had asked about vario displays for the L- or S-NAV. Couldn't "search this group" for the post. Just found some CAI bits and put them in the Cumulus Soaring ads, best offer, no minimum. http://sites.google.com/site/soaringclassifieds/Home/instruments Jim

I am interested in entering my first contest. I am looking for recommendations of where to go. I currently reside in region 7. I am willing to travel just about anywhere. Most of my resent cross-country has been in and around MN. I have had minimal mountain flying, a week in Minden and learned in...

GLIDER PILOT LICENSING The European Aviation Safety Authority (EASA) recently released a 650 page report on pilot licensing and instructing standards. A large portion of the report relates to glider pilot licensing. As 27 gliding nations in Europe will be required to adopt their proposals, the...

Hi all, My commercial gliding operation (http://www.crosscountrysoaring.com) is moving to Florida for six weeks (Jan 14 - Feb 28th) with our winch (330HP and a mile of Spectra) and one Grob 103. If you would like to find out what a winch shot feels like, or get an endorsement (which satisfies a...

ILEC SN10 pilots - ILEC and Dave Nadler are developing FLARM support for the ILEC SN10. At this time of year, we're not able to test in Germany, so we are looking for pilots to help test the new software who are now flying with FLARM connected to an SN10. Testing will require periodic reload of...

Are there any glider ride operations in Mexico? Where would a person look to find the regs concerning soaring there, and what it would take to do business there? Someone here must know. Gary