The final results of the 2009 Free State Regionals are in at www.ggc.co.za/fsr2009 . By force of numbers, maybe, The JS-1s filled all podium places with ex- World Champion Oscar Goudriaan claiming top spot. Jonathan Cross of Magalies Gliding Club took the Club Class honours in the venerable Astir...

What happened to the SSA website? I keep getting "Bad Request (Invalid Hostname)"

Hi all, My checkride is a long way off, but this evening I read the PTS for Gliders for the first time. I noticed this section: "Use of Distractions During Practical Tests Numerous studies indicate that many accidents have occurred when the pilot has been distracted during critical phases of...

Hey does anyone have a high quality electronic version of the Schleicher Logo? I'd like to make a Vinyl decal for the tailgate on my Ka-6 trailer. Thanks Pete

I heard through the grapevine that there's a search going on for a two place motorglider that left Tonopah for somewhere in CA yesterday. Last contact in the area of Mono Lake. CAP was conducting search missions flying out of Minden today. Other than that, no corroboration or info to...

Has anyone received their $50 rebate from the pre-xmas offer? Is the envelope obvious enough to catch one's attention? The third party rebate status website SPOT uses continues to show mine as "processing". This is my last rebate purchase, too many bruises from kicking myself.

that's the title of 1938 documentary film production. It has gliding and soaring as its subject. The 15min long picture was shot at Dunstable with members of the London Gliding Club as "actors". Movie was made by D'arcCartwright and Graham Tharp and was distributed by Regal Marble Arch in March...

Hi Any user of Clearnav or Ultimate would care to comment on their experience. Regards S6

Anyone know of a source for a water meter that measures in liters? Thanks, J4

Hi all, Beginner student here again. :) The weather during my last training session was overcast with ceiling at 2,500 ft. Right after our last tow for the day to 2,000.....after the release and a turn or two....it started to rain, perhaps for just 5-10 seconds. I could see the rain drops on...

The soaring contest season is up and running. And this Texas contest site for 2009 has some facts to that will motivate you sign up now: 1. Preferential entry deadline is June 11 2. Texas soaring weather: August in Central Texas offers abundant lift across a large area 3. Very chick-friendly town....

I have a Cambridge LNAV and I want to replace my LX400, which is currently being used purely as a GPS receiver, with something else to provide a GPS feed to the LNAV, preferably without taking up a space on my instrument panel. Any suggestions?

I have developed a Spot data pull utility which will allow me to automatically 'pull' data from multiple spot tracker sites automatically and put them all on one KMl file to overlay on google. I'm looking for a couple of UK based spot equipped pilots to run some tests with.

Looks like another legend of soaring has passed :-http://www.streckenflug.at/

A catered (appetizers and beverages) social gathering is planned for May 9 from 5 - 6:45 pm at the Cordele Airport field, followed by "Charlie's Celebration of Life" at the Rainey Funeral Home at 7:00 pm. (we'll have directions). If inclement weather occurs, the catered social event will be in...

Kudo's to the people who made the Perry, South Carolina, USA contest (Region 5 North) enjoyable to follow. To Tom Kelly for his daily reports. To the photographers, Leigh Zimmerman, Leo Benetti-Longhini, Robin Clark, Doug Snyder and Chris Ruf. Great reading from Tom and some superb photos,...

I'm curious if anyone out there besides Mark and myself watched the real-time SPOT tracks from Perry? Mark and I (mostly Mark) are planning to do the same thing at the 15m Nats, so I'm looking for suggestions/comments from users. Regards, Frank

Just wanted to add my two pennys...my rebate was recieved on 2-2-09 and they still say it is beeing reviewed, its been twelve weeks I emailed to let them know I will be moving forward with legal action and thats where Im at.

Any beginners interested in chatting about their experiences thus far? I some time practicing various stalls, turning stalls, and turning stall with airbrakes, and it was lots of fun. Was also practicing take offs and landing approach, but due to the 15knt wind the instructor would take over just...

I have a question regarding XC-Soar and am running it on an iPAQ3850. I loaded the latest version 5.2.3F. When I first loaded the program everything worked as advertised, except I've never seen the landable fields show up as colored dots, well yesterday for one session they showed up as yellow...