A while back I posted that I had used Monokote trim to cover some of the larger holes in my Speed Astir fuselage. They did a nice neat job of covering the holes, but here's the follow-up. I removed one a couple weeks ago that had been in place for a couple months. The mylar pulled off cleanly,...

We are seeing an increasing level of offers for watches, shoes, Pay Pal and other SPAM showing up in our little corner of the Internet. There are a few things you can do to clean up the SPAM that is showing up on this news group. 1. Click the SPAM message 2. Select "More Options" from upper...

Here's something you don't see every day. http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/07/15/roland-cernats-energy-efficient-oriens-glider/ Although it seems like there may be a 'little work' left to bring this to fruition, it is still gets me all warm and fuzzy to see people reaching in directions like...

I am trying to download the OLC info for our club in Excel format. This I can do successfully. However, while the file is named ".XLS" it appears to be a delimited text file. When I load it into Excel, for every flight, I get 3 lines in the Excel Spreadsheet. The first line goes to the end...

I hope this is a quick question. I'd like to get my commercial rating, which requires 100 flights PIC. I bought a DG300 as a student pilot and was so happy flying it I took 47 flights before getting the private rating. Do those flights count? Thanks all, Brian

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I have a problem with my GPSNAV (model 20 I believe, with the external antenna). The GPSNAV output to the screen works fine, directs me to the waypoints etc. This shows that the GPS engine is working. However, the output to the PDA via the serial port, and the Datacom output to the L-Nav seems to...

I am new to the San Antonio and Boerne, Texas area and would like to make contact with any glider pilots flying at the Boerne Stage Airport. Thanks in advance, Mike Davis

Can just anyone be a witness to the 50km if you do a straight line distance and land at another airport? For example, if my wingrunner who is a commercial pilot, drags the trailer to a declared airport 50km away and then come to pick me up there, can he official witness this? Will this count? ...

Could any owner of a german registered glider shed a light on this subject: As a private owner, and sole operator of a self launcher (DG-808), I'm a bit confused as to what should be done concerning the: Application, Declaration and Approval of a Standardized Maintenance Programme (SIHP) in...

Checkride this Wed Afternoon... Prep: We'd covered everything, but we wanted a couple more rides to polish up. I'd done a mock checkride with another CFIG, and he didn't see any major problems. So...Last Sat: CFIG & I launched with WX coming from the West, planning to tow

Hi all in US-Gliderland, does anyone know of a Pfeiffer trailer that is being parted out? I am looking for a complete tow-bar with the surge brake. Any leads? Uli Neumann

Since taking delivery of my Apis MC, the Ilec Mcu has been intermittant on rpm. Lately it has just been "mittant" and I am getting no registration at all. The green-yellow-red rpm lights are out as well and usually the red "not charging" light is lit also, but the battery is charging just fine....

Hi, A few questions, on behalf of a friend, to the ASH26E owners. On the Wankel Mid-West AE50R engine: - Has anyone ever had any leaks problems in the cooling system ? There's quite a fair amount of cooling liquid being lost at every run. Further inspections did not show any leaks in the pipes,...

As a measure to stop the spamming hoards I turned off registration to Gliderforum a few months ago. I have now re-opened registration again so if you have sent me an email requesting a sign up please feel free to go to http://www.gliderforum.com and register now. Cheers Al

Hi, I'm bringing this topic to this forum because it appears to be a unique and strange issue that doesn't make any sense to me. I'm a big fan of the Cambridge 302 and yet I can't explain this issue.

Two recent incidents which all sounds too familiar and we can all learn from them: 1 - Another spoilers out/rudder waggle resulting in premature release - How many more of those we need till we conclude that the rudder waggle does NOT work? What happened to radio...

Hi all, I'm going to be on a road tour of Europe in August (South of France, Switzerland, Germany etc) and was thinking of stopping somewhere for a week to do a gliding course. My first question would be whether or not any training I do in Europe will be valid back in the UK? The second would be...

This year's Region 3 Contest will be held at Dansville, NY . Dates are Sunday, August 17th thru August 23rd. Parctice day will be on Saturday. More information to follow at the Finger Lakes Soaring website http://www.flsc.org/ Please register if you plan on attending.

Any body got a scanned copy Stuart KInnear