The LX8000 color flight computer has now been announced by LX Navigation and will be available soon.(February, 2008) It is now on the Craggy Aero website. The list price of the LX8000 US$ 5595. Richard www.craggyaero.com

The LX8000 color flight computer has now been announced by LX Navigation and will be available soon.(February, 2008) It is now on the Craggy Aero Website. US $ 5595. www.craggyaero.com Richard www.craggyaero.com

Anyone got a set of these from a wreck? Will consider repairable damaged ones. Regards Al

The Soaring Safety Foundation (safety affiliate of the SSA) will conduct a Glider Flight Instructor Recertification Clinic in Long Beach, CA on April 12 and 13, 2008 You need not be a CFI-Glider to attend. Clinic Hours: Saturday: 8:00 AM to 5:30 PM Sunday: 8 AM to 5 PM. For more information or to...

The Soaring Safety Foundation (safety affiliate of the SSA) will conduct a Glider Flight Instructor Recertification Clinic in Albuquerque, NM on February 12 and 13, 2008 You need not be a CFI-Glider to attend. Clinic Hours: Saturday: 8:00 AM to 5:30 PM Sunday: 8 AM to 5 PM. For more information or...

The Soaring Safety Foundation (safety affiliate of the SSA) will conduct a Glider Flight Instructor Recertification Clinic in Charlottesville VA January 12 and 13, 2008. You need not be a CFI-Glider to attend. Clinic Hours: Saturday: 8:00 AM to 5:30 PM Sunday: 8 AM to 5 PM. For more information or...

Hi, Details on the new LX8000 are now available on the LX web site he http://www.lxnavigation.si/avionics/products/lx8000.cfm It looks like a very interesting product. I will have a demo in my booth at the SSA Convention. I have started a waiting list, so let me know if you want to get on...

When I started soaring on mid 80's, everybody said that soaring is the safest aviation sport, almost safer than most 'real' sports. You can't brake your leg while flying :) Only when you hit the ground :D Though on a first year 4 pilots that I knew got killed with glider. Not a good start. And...

My wife loves animals and was watching the documentary "Life of Birds" (details below) which she had gotten from NetFlix (http:// netflix.com). On Disk 1, Episode #2 is "Mastery of Flight". Chapter 3 is entitled "Flying on Thermals" and has a very good sequence of David in the back of a glider...

The 2008 US Junior Team Calendar has just gone up for sale! These calendars are first class featuring soaring photographs taken by the Juniors themselves at legendary soaring sites around the globe. Your purchase of the 2008 Junior Team Calendar will help send the next Junior team to compete...

I knew the concept was valid from Schempp-Hirth instructions on how to heat up an early Cirrus wing and put in the twist that Cirrus's after s/n 175 had. I have a badly twisted gear door (corner stood proud a good 5mm), so I thought I'd give it a try on a much smaller scale. I held the gear door in...

Yesterday Matt Michael, in his Woodstock, and I, in the Cherokee, set out downwind from Ames municipal on a pretty nice soaring day, especially considering the time of year! we were greeted with about 300 fpm thermals, sometimes stronger, but with wide spacing. Often we had nearly 10 mile runs...

What's the solution to this question? What's a good first glider for someone transitioning from a CS77 and wanting the following: - automatic hookups - easy to rig - flaps - well behaved in terms of stall/spin, and - climbs well in weak conditions and runs reasonably well in average east coast...

See the advert page listing for 'Sailplane & Glider' for 7 years bound copies and 5 years unbound.

The annual pilot poll for the US contest rules is open at http://adamsfive.com/survey/surveys.php The poll is open to pilots on the SSA pilot ranking list and closes on Nov 14. The Rules Committee relies heavily on the poll input to steer the Rules making process, so please give us your...

Tow ball headed west on Wednesday Nov. 14 from the Western NY area to Minden NV. Experienced glider pilot. Contact Kevin Christner or 716-640-2779 if in need of something moved that way.

The Grob 103 "extension of service life" calls for a special 3000 hour inspection. I'm trying to locate the Grob specifications for this inspection. Does anyone have a copy or know where they might be found, online or otherwise? Thanks, Charlie Martin Soaring Society of Boulder

I would like to thank the people who spend the time and decide what questions to include in the SRA poll. Lots of hard work goes into the poll. I appreciate your efforts and dedication to soaring. I am concerned with the questions on the poll addressing the sports class. 7.0-7.3. All of the...

I had an ASW-24 for some 10 years but the landing flaps on the ASW-27B take my breath away. Truly powerful and make my all too frequent outlandings less exciting. For that I am grateful. But I would defer to UH since he has owned both with more time than I.

J a c k wrote: I think the Duo's airbrakes are better than many people think. The Duo is a big heavy glider with lots of inertia. It doesn't like to change direction quickly. That includes its behavior on sudden airbrake deployment. You don't get a lot of sink right away. ...